"Paul Scott (novelist) Paul Mark Scott (25 March 19201 March 1978) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy ""The Raj Quartet."" His novel ""Staying On"" won the Booker Prize for 1977. Paul Scott was born in Palmers Green, in Southgate, London, then in Middlesex, the younger of two sons. His father, Thomas (1870–1958), was a Yorkshireman who moved to London in the 1920s and was a commercial artist specializing in furs and lingerie. His mother, Frances, née Mark (1886–1969), the daughter of a labourer from south London, had artistic and social ambitions. In later"
"Holding On (TV series) Holding On is an eight-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Tony Marchant, that first broadcast on BBC2 on 8 September 1997. The series follows the life of a seemingly unconnected group of people living in London, whose lives are strangely affected by the murder of a young woman in the city. While some of the group are able to take a newfound hope from the remains of the tragic event, others including food critic Gary Rickey (Phil Daniels) simply watch on as despair begins to unravel in the light of the aftermath. Proving popular"
"and collectively, received with little enthusiasm on first publication. Only ""The Towers of Silence"" and ""Staying On"" achieved some success with the award of the ""Yorkshire Post"" Fiction Award and the Booker Prize in 1971 and 1977 respectively. Scott was too ill to attend the Booker presentation in November 1977. He died at the Middlesex Hospital, London, on 1 March 1978. Scott stated, ""For me, the British Raj is an extended metaphor [and] I don't think a writer chooses his metaphors. They choose him."" From his earliest experiences in north London, he felt himself an outsider in his own country."
"sole producer and director respectively. They mostly employed the same crew and a regular group of actors. The main cast predominantly featured Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas and Jim Dale. The ""Carry On""s comprise the largest number of films of any British series and, next to the ""James Bond"" films, are the second-longest continually-running UK film series (with a fourteen-year hiatus between 1978 and 1992). Between 1958 and 1992, there were seven writers, principally Norman Hudis (1958–62) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–74). The films"
"screenplay adaptation for ""Eleanor & Park"", which was originally with DreamWorks, although the rights have reverted. Rowell lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and two sons. Rainbow Rowell Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels ""Eleanor & Park"" (2013), ""Fangirl"" (2013) and ""Carry On"" (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim. She is currently the writer of the 2017 revival of Marvel Comics' ""Runaways"". Rowell was a columnist and ad copywriter at the ""Omaha World-Herald"" from 1995 to 2012. After leaving her position as a"
"The series was first released on DVD on 1 August 2005. After many years of being out-of-print, the series was finally re-released by Simply Media on 9 November 2015. Following the DVD release, the series drew comparisons to American drama series ""The Wire"", praising the similarities been the multi-layered complex storylines and character development. Holding On (TV series) Holding On is an eight-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Tony Marchant, that first broadcast on BBC2 on 8 September 1997. The series follows the life of a seemingly unconnected group of people living in London, whose lives are strangely"
"the bond that develops between the Langs and the Morgans from their first meeting in 1937 through their eventual separation on the occasion of Charity's death from cancer. Crossing to Safety Crossing to Safety is a 1987 semi-autobiographical novel by ""The Dean of Western Writers"", Wallace Stegner. It gained broad literary acclaim and commercial popularity. In ""Crossing to Safety"", Stegner explores the mysteries of friendship, and it extends Stegner's distinguished body of work that had already earned him a Pulitzer Prize (for 1971's ""Angle of Repose"") and the National Book Award (for 1976's ""The Spectator Bird""). ""Publishers Weekly"" described the"
"teacher, and a mysterious angel-like figure who survives a fire in the Blitz, ""The Paper Men"" (1984) which is about the conflict between a writer and his biographer, and a sea trilogy ""To the Ends of the Earth"", which includes the ""Rites of Passage"" (1980), ""Close Quarters"" (1987), and ""Fire Down Below"" (1989), the first book of which (originally intended as a stand-alone novel) won the Booker Prize. William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding, (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel ""Lord of the Flies"", he won a"
"Hold Tight (novel) Hold Tight is a Harlan Coben 2008 stand-alone thriller dealing with problems of parental controls, teenage suicide, children independence and abuse of prescribed drugs. It features several characters that are equally important. It was moderately well received by the critics. It debuted simultaneously as a No. 1 ""New York Times"" best seller and a Times of London best seller. The story is introduced with the characters Marianne, Nash and Pietra. Pietra tricks Marianne by drugging her which leads to Nash brutally beating Marianne to death, his last words to her being: ""Tell Cassandra I love her."" They"
"married the television writer and producer Richard Appel in 1993 and had two children, Gabriel and Grace. Appel, a writer for ""The Simpsons"", named the character Mona Simpson after his wife, beginning with the episode ""Mother Simpson."" They later divorced. Mona Simpson Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) is an American novelist. She has written six novels and studied English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Languages and Literature at Bard College. She won a Whiting Award for her first novel, ""Anywhere but Here"" (1986). It was a popular success and adapted as a film by"
"Fiction in 1968 for his novel ""The Confessions of Nat Turner"" and is well known for his 1979 novel ""Sophie's Choice."" Anne Tyler also received the Pulitzer Prize for her 1988 novel ""Breathing Lessons"". Additionally, Elizabeth A. Fenn won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2015. Other acclaimed writers include John W. Campbell and Reynolds Price. In the visual arts realm, Annabeth Gish (actress in the ""X-Files"" and ""The West Wing""), Ken Jeong (actor in ""The Hangover"" and ""Community""), Retta (actress and comedian), Jared Harris (actor in ""Mad Men""), Randall Wallace (screenwriter, producer, and director, ""Braveheart"", ""Pearl Harbor"", ""We Were"
"""Back on the Shelf"" and ""Mr Portway's Practice"", were written in the first person. Stay of Execution (short stories) Stay of Execution is a collection of mystery stories by the British thriller writer Michael Gilbert, first published in 1971 by Hodder & Stoughton. Gilbert, who was appointed CBE in 1980, was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association. The Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master in 1988 and in 1990 he was presented Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award. Unusually for a collection of stories, its reprint edition by House of Stratus in 2011 has no index detailing"
"Penny had supported him throughout the writing of ""The Raj Quartet"", despite his heavy drinking and sometimes violent behaviour, but once it was complete she left him and filed for divorce. Forced to reassess his life and options he turned to teaching, and in 1976 and 1977 he was a visiting professor at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His coda to ""The Raj Quartet"", ""Staying On"", was published in 1977, just before his second visit there. Soon after its publication and while he was in Tulsa, Scott was diagnosed with colon cancer. The novels of ""The Raj Quartet"" were, individually"
"Carry On (novel) Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is the third young adult novel written by Rainbow Rowell, published in 2015. The story follows the final year of magical schooling for Simon Snow, the ""Chosen One"" of the magical world prophesied to defeat the Insidious Humdrum, an evil force that has been wreaking havoc on the World of Mages for years. The novel is told through several narrative voices, including that of Simon, his roommate/enemy and later boyfriend Baz, his best friend Penelope, and his ex-girlfriend Agatha. The novel is a spinoff from Rowell's novel ""Fangirl""."
"his standoff with Garrett in Stinking Springs, his arrest and escape from Lincoln, New Mexico, his escape and the ensuing murder of James Bell and Robert Olinger, and finally his death at the hands of Garrett. The book was written by Ondaatje in the late 1960s in Canada, after he emigrated from Ceylon to England and further relocated to Quebec in order to attend college. It was initially published by Anansi Press in 1970, and reprinted in 1979 by Wingbow Press, the printing arm of the now-defunct distributor Bookpeople. Its most recent reprint was in 2009 by Vintage International. On"
"Sophie's Choice (novel) Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. It concerns the relationships between three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South who befriends the Jewish scientist Nathan Landau and his lover Sophie, a Polish Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps. ""Sophie's Choice"" won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980. The novel was the basis of a 1982 film of the same name. It was controversial for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust. Stingo, a novelist"
"were ever repeated on BBC television. ""Come Home Charlie, and Face Them"" was adapted as a mini-series by London Weekend Television in 1990. The first ""Carry On"" film, ""Carry On Sergeant"" (1958), was based on Delderfield's play ""The Bull Boys"". A 1961 film ""On the Fiddle"" starring Sean Connery was based on Delderfield's novel ""Stop at a Winner"". R. F. Delderfield Ronald Frederick Delderfield (12 February 1912 – 24 June 1972) was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television and film. He was born in Bermondsey, London, in 1912 to Alice and William"
"Remainders, a band of published authors whose 20-year stint ended in June 2012. The Return (""Kingdom Keepers"" Spin-Off) Ridley Pearson Ridley Pearson (born March 13, 1953 in Glen Cove, New York) is an American author of suspense and thriller novels for adults, and adventure books for children. Some of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Pearson became the first American to receive the Raymond Chandler-Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University in 1991. He received the Quill Award from the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame, its highest honor. This award serves as a reminder of the"
"Lorian Hemingway Lorian Hemingway (born December 15, 1951) is an American author and free-lance journalist. Her books include the memoir ""Walk on Water"", the novel ""Walking Into the River"", and the non-fiction book ""A World Turned Over"", about the devastation of her hometown of South Jackson, Mississippi, by the Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966. Her articles have appeared in ""GQ"", ""The New York Times Magazine"", ""Esquire"", ""The Seattle Times"", ""Seattle Post-Intelligencer"", and ""Rolling Stone"". In 1992, Hemingway was nominated for The Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Fiction for her debut novel ""Walking Into the River"". In 1999 she received"
"Minister Harold Wilson. (The book predates by 10 years the establishment by Tony Blair of his Strategy unit in 2001.) A Landing on the Sun A Landing On The Sun is a 1991 novel by Michael Frayn, and was the Sunday Express Book of the Year. It was adapted into a 1994 TV movie with a screenplay written by the author. Jessel, a British civil servant working in the Cabinet Office, has been asked to investigate the unexplained death of Summerchild, also a civil servant, whose body was found outside the Ministry of Defence some 15 years earlier, in 1974."
"Mona Simpson Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) is an American novelist. She has written six novels and studied English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Languages and Literature at Bard College. She won a Whiting Award for her first novel, ""Anywhere but Here"" (1986). It was a popular success and adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1999. She wrote a sequel, ""The Lost Father"" (1992). Critical recognition has included the ""Chicago Tribune"" Heartland Prize and making the shortlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel ""Off Keck Road"" (2000). Simpson is"
"in England. In 2008 Norman Hudis wrote his autobiography ""No Laughing Matter: How I Carried On"", published by Apex Publishing Ltd. Norman Hudis Norman Hudis (27 July 1922 – 8 February 2016) was an English writer for film, theatre and television, and is most closely associated with the first six of the ""Carry On..."" film series, for which he wrote the screenplays until he was replaced by Talbot Rothwell. Born in Stepney, London, Hudis began his writing career on a local newspaper, the ""Hampstead & Highgate Express"". When World War II broke out, Hudis joined the RAF and served in"
"1981. His last finished work was the screenwriting for the successful 1997 TV film Last Stand at Saber River starring Tom Selleck. He was in a relationship with actress Julie Adams. Ronald M. Cohen Ronald M. Cohen (December 23, 1939, Chicago, Illinois – April 21, 1998, Los Angeles, California) was a US American screen writer and film producer. His screenwriting career started in the 1960s and he studied Film at New York University. His screenwriting career encompassed Blue (1968 film), the 1977 film Twilight's Last Gleaming and the 1984 TV series Call to Glory. In 1977 he wrote a script"
"the crowdfunding publisher Unbound; funding was secured in 2017. The app is illustrated by the artist Pete Fowler. Taylor co-wrote (with Jeremy Sheldon) the screenplay of the 2015 film ""Writers Retreat"". Taylor's latest novel, ""Staying On"", is published by Duckworth in 2018 and described as a 'tragi-comic geriatric coming-of-age story and a deep, loving portrait of the English working class'. In 2014 he began a project with the British Library to document the creative process of writing the book. In a 2017 interview Taylor explained: 'They have put what is effectively a piece of spyware on a laptop on which"
"Carry On Loving Carry On Loving is the twentieth in the series of ""Carry On"" films to be made, and was released in 1970. It features series regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw alongside newcomers Richard O'Callaghan (in his first ""Carry On"") and Imogen Hassall (in her only ""Carry On"" role). The dialogue veers toward open bawdiness rather than the evasive innuendo characteristic of the earlier films in the series. There are fictitious locations named for their sexual innuendo, including 'Much-Snogging-On-The-Green', 'Rogerham Mansions' and 'Dunham Road'. Various events involve a"
"in panel discussions. She was on the panel ""Young Adult Fiction: Teens and Turmoil"" with Jandy Nelson, Cynthia Kadohata and moderator Sonya Sones. Gayle Forman Gayle Forman (born June 5, 1970) is an American young adult fiction author, best known for her novel ""If I Stay"", which topped the ""New York Times"" best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a film of the same name. Forman began her career writing for ""Seventeen"" magazine, with most of her articles focusing on young people and social concerns. Later she became a freelance journalist for ""Details"", ""Jane"", ""Glamour"", ""The"
"Wedding Ghost"" (1985), an original story by Leon Garfield; and ""The Lady of Shalott"" (1986), illustrating the 1833/1842 Arthurian poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. All were illustrated in evocative line and wash. The influence of Swedish illustrator John Bauer can most clearly be seen on ""Beowulf"". Keeping continued to produce colour picture books from time to time, including ""Railway Passage"", which was Highly Commended for the 1974 Greenaway Medal; ""Sammy Streetsinger"" (1984), about a subway busker's rise to fame as a pop star and subsequent return to happy obscurity; and his final book, ""Adam and Paradise Island"", another story of"
"""And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic"", published in 1987, won the Stonewall Book Award and brought him nationwide literary fame. ""And the Band Played On"" is an extensively researched account of the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The book was translated into seven languages, and was later made into an HBO film of the same name in 1993, with many big-name actors in starring or supporting roles, including Matthew Modine, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, Lily Tomlin, Ian McKellen, Steve Martin, and Alan Alda, among others. The film earned"
"as a novelist and playwright when the first book of his popular ""Wind On Fire"" trilogy won the Blue Peter best book award and the Smarties Gold Award for best children's book. He has written several novels and fantasy books. He married author Virginia Nicholson (née Bell) in 1988. He has twice been nominated for Tony Awards for best play, for ""Shadowlands"" and ""The Retreat from Moscow"". He also turned ""Shadowlands"", based on the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham, into a BBC-TV play in 1985, and an acclaimed film in 1993. The latter starred Anthony Hopkins and"
"was chosen as the inaugural book for the Tumblr book club, a Tumblr representative noted its themes of loving books and creating art, its appeal to readers of all ages, and Rowell's existing fan base on the social media platform as reasons for the choice. On October 6, 2015, Rowell published the novel ""Carry On"", which is a standalone story about Simon Snow and Baz Pitch, the characters from the fictional novel series that Cather obsesses about. It is a love story starring the two, as they try to seamlessly glide from enemies to lovers, all while fighting an evil"
"which represented humanists. Smith died of a brain tumour on 7 March 1971. Her last collection, ""Scorpion and other Poems"" was published posthumously in 1972, and the ""Collected Poems"" followed in 1975. Three novels were republished and there was a successful play based on her life, ""Stevie"", written by Hugh Whitemore. It was filmed in 1978 by Robert Enders and starred Glenda Jackson and Mona Washbourne. Smith wrote three novels, the first of which, ""Novel on Yellow Paper"", was published in 1936. Apart from death, common subjects in her writing include loneliness; myth and legend; absurd vignettes, usually drawn from"
"Rainbow Rowell Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels ""Eleanor & Park"" (2013), ""Fangirl"" (2013) and ""Carry On"" (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim. She is currently the writer of the 2017 revival of Marvel Comics' ""Runaways"". Rowell was a columnist and ad copywriter at the ""Omaha World-Herald"" from 1995 to 2012. After leaving her position as a columnist, Rowell began working for an ad agency and writing what would become her first published novel, ""Attachments"", as a pastime. Rowell had a baby during this"
"Delia Ephron Delia Ephron ( ; born July 12, 1944) is an American bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright. Ephron was born in New York City, the second eldest of four daughters of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron. She is Jewish. Her movies include ""You've Got Mail"", ""The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"", ""Hanging Up"" (based on her novel), and ""Michael"". She has written novels for adults (""Hanging Up"" and the recent ""The Lion Is In"") and teenagers (""Frannie in Pieces"" and ""The Girl with the Mermaid Hair""), books of humor, (""How to Eat Like a Child""), and essays. Her journalism"