"that people not profit are what matters. Whit (novel) Whit, or, Isis amongst the unsaved is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1995. Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help. Isis, otherwise The Blessed Very Reverend Gaia-Marie Isis Saraswati Minerva Mirza Whit of Luskentyre, Beloved Elect of God III, is the 19-year-old granddaughter and designated spiritual heir of Salvador Whit, patriarch of the Luskentyrians. They are a religious cult who live in"
"Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ""Tulku"" (1979) and ""City of Gold"" (1980), each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Through 2012 he is one of seven writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. He was also a highly commended runner-up for ""Eva"" (1988) and four times a commended runner-up. For his contributions as a"
"include ""Gordon's War"" (1973). He was the featured narrator of the Ballad of Little Jimmy Scott (PBS). He died of complications from Parkinson's disease. Nathan Heard Nathan Heard (November 7, 1936 – March 16, 2004), sometimes known as Nathan C. Heard, was a best-selling author in the United States, noted for the grim realism of his novels. He is also known as one of the forefathers of street and prison literatures, having written his most famous book, ""Howard Street"" (1968), while serving time in the Trenton State Penitentiary for armed robbery. Heard is the son of Blues singer Gladys Heard"
"Victoria Strauss Victoria Strauss (born 1955 in Exeter, New Hampshire) is the author of nine fantasy novels for adults and young adults, including the ""Stone"" series (""The Arm of the Stone"" and ""The Garden of the Stone"") and the ""Way of Arata"" series (""The Burning Land"" and ""The Awakened City""). She has written hundreds of book reviews for magazines and ezines, including SF Site and ""Fantasy"" magazine, and her articles on writing have appeared in ""Writer's Digest"" and elsewhere. In 2006, she served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards. An active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy"
"in the United States as ""Larrikin"". ""Jonah"" was adapted for a television series by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1982; it also provided the basis for the Sydney Theatre Company musical, ""Jonah Jones"", in 1985. Stone's second novel ""Betty Wayside"" was published in 1915. An interesting character sketch of Louis Stone is given by Norman Lindsay in 'Bohemians of the Bulletin'. Lindsay describes how the plot of Stone's last novel, Betty Wayside, was bowdlerized and thus fell into obscurity, leaving Stone with a sense of failure and a mental breakdown. Louis Stone Louis Stone (21 October 1871 – 23 September"
"died at her home in Ripton, Vermont, on November 19, 2011. Writer Elizabeth Gilbert tells a story about Stone's writing style and inspiration, which she had shared with Gilbert: Ruth Stone is the author of thirteen books of poetry. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2002 National Book Award for Poetry (for her collection ""In the Next Galaxy""), the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Eric Mathieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, a Whiting Award (with which she bought plumbing for her house), two Guggenheim Fellowships (one"
"Irving Stone Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903, San Francisco, California – August 26, 1989, Los Angeles) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals; among the best known are ""Lust for Life"" (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"" (1961), about Michelangelo. Born Irving Tennenbaum, he was seven when his parents divorced. By the time he was a senior in high school, his mother had remarried. He legally changed his last name to ""Stone"", his stepfather's surname. Stone said his mother instilled a"
"Nathan Heard Nathan Heard (November 7, 1936 – March 16, 2004), sometimes known as Nathan C. Heard, was a best-selling author in the United States, noted for the grim realism of his novels. He is also known as one of the forefathers of street and prison literatures, having written his most famous book, ""Howard Street"" (1968), while serving time in the Trenton State Penitentiary for armed robbery. Heard is the son of Blues singer Gladys Heard Johnson (nee' Pruitt) and laborer Nathan E. Heard. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey, spending much of his life there. After the notoriety"
"the war, he published a number of novels, including best sellers ""Native Stone"" (1956) and ""Silver Spoon"" (1957). In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Gilbert was married to wife Virginia for 32 years before they divorced in 1973. Edwin Gilbert (writer) Edwin Gilbert (July 15, 1907 – August 24, 1976) was a novelist and playwright/scriptwriter who authored popular novels, including ""Native Stone"" in 1956. Gilbert was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1907 and moved to Detroit in the United States as a child."
"Ann McGovern Ann McGovern Scheiner (née Weinberger; May 25, 1930 – August 8, 2015) was an American writer of more than 55 children's books, selling over 30 million copies. She may be best known for her adaptation of ""Stone Soup"", as well as ""Too Much Noise"", historical and travel non-fiction, and biographies of figures like Harriet Tubman and Deborah Sampson. Born in New York, New York, she enrolled in the University of New Mexico but dropped out to marry her English professor. The marriage ended and she moved back, aged 22, to New York City with her 18-month old son."
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"of Stone"" for her second album ""Can't Fight Fate"". Other artists who have recorded his songs include Aretha Franklin, Debbie Gibson, Gregg Tripp, Joey Lawrence, Atlantic Starr, Chynna Phillips, Color Me Badd, The Corrs, Dave Koz, A'Me Lorain, Jennifer Holliday, and Stacey Piersa. Wolff has written or co-written the following songs: Elliot Wolff Elliot Marvin Wolff (born 1955) was an American musician, songwriter, and music producer. Born in Oklahoma, he was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. His music catalog is represented by Downtown Music Publishing. He died at the age of 60 sometime between June 7 and June 25, 2016,"
"William Gardner Smith William Gardner Smith (February 6, 1927 – November 5, 1974) was an American journalist, novelist, and editor. Smith is linked to the black social protest novel tradition of the 1940s and the 1950s, a movement that became synonymous with writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Willard Motley, and Ann Petry. Smith's third book, ""South Street"" (1954), is considered to be one of the first black militant protest novels. His last published novel, ""The Stone Face"" (1963), in its account of the Paris massacre of 1961, ""stand[s] as one of the few representations of the event available"
"R. L. Stine Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor. Stine has been referred to as the ""Stephen King of children's literature"" and is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the ""Fear Street"", ""Goosebumps"", ""Rotten School,"" ""Mostly Ghostly,"" and ""The Nightmare Room"" series. Some of his other works include a ""Space Cadets"" trilogy, two ""Hark"" gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. As of 2008, Stine's books have sold over 400 million"
"death 2015, a critic noted, in a snapshot retrospective view of Stone's career, that ""even his experiments with drugs in the early sixties led Stone to understand that his view on life is going to remain religious no matter what."" And Stone himself confirmed this view, when he told the Washington Post in 1981: Novels Short Stories Nonfiction Screenplays Robert Stone (novelist) Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Stone was five times a finalist for the National Book"
"Shane Stevens (author) Shane Craig Stevens (October 8, 1941 – 2007) was an American author of crime novels. His parents are John and Caroline (Royale) Stevens. His novels include ""Go Down Dead"" (1966), ""Way Uptown in Another World"" (1971), ""Dead City"" (1973), ""Rat Pack"" (1974), ""By Reason of Insanity"" (1979), and ""The Anvil Chorus"" (1985). Stephen King wrote an appreciation of Stevens in the Afterword of his novel ""The Dark Half"" and paid tribute to him in that book, in which Thad Beaumont writes violent crime novels starring a character named ""Alexis Machine,"" a reference to a character from Stevens'"
"John Clellon Holmes John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926, Holyoke, Massachusetts – March 30, 1988, Middletown, Connecticut) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel ""Go"". Considered the first ""Beat"" novel, ""Go"" depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the ""quiet Beat"" and was one of Kerouac's closest friends. Holmes also wrote what is considered the definitive jazz novel of the Beat Generation, ""The Horn"". Holmes was more an observer and documenter of beat characters like Ginsberg, Cassady and Kerouac than"
"on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ""Saville"". He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for ""This Sporting Life"" in 1960. Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the"
"Elizabeth's poem ""A Musical Note"" to name his third solo album ""The Music of the Spheres"". Canadian playwright Wendy Lill wrote a play entitled ""Memories of You"" (1989) about the life of Elizabeth Smart.[7][20] Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author) Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"", detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, ""By Heart: Elizabeth Smart a Life"", by Rosemary Sullivan, and a film, """", produced by Maya Gallus of Red Queen"
"Hall of Fame. Other Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were"
"adult readers. Peet died on 2 March 2015 from cancer, aged 67. Mal Peet Malcolm Charles Peet (5 October 1947 – 2 March 2015) was an English author and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, British children's literature awards that recognise ""year's best"" books. Three of his novels feature football and the fictional South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. ""The Murdstone Trilogy"" (2014) is his first work aimed at adult readers. Peet grew up in a council estate in North Walsham, Norfolk, the"
"Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including ""The Women of Brewster Place"" (1982)"", Linden Hills"" (1985) and ""Mama Day"" (1988)""."" Naylor was born in New York on January 25, 1950, the oldest child of Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. The Naylors, who had been sharecroppers in Robinsonville, Mississippi, had migrated to Harlem to escape life in the segregated South and seek new opportunities in New York City. Her father became a transit worker; her mother, a telephone operator. Even though Naylor's mother had little education, she loved to"
"of California at Berkeley. Earl Thompson (author) Earl Thompson (May 24, 1931 – November 9, 1978) was a leading American writer of naturalist prose. Nominated for the National Book Award for ""A Garden of Sand"" and chosen by the Book of the Month Club for ""Tattoo"", Thompson died suddenly at the peak of his success, having published just three novels—the fourth ""The Devil to Pay"", was published posthumously. Thompson was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1931. His first novel ""A Garden of Sand"" describes the events of his birth and early childhood in vivid detail. ""Tattoo"" picks up where his"
"and his head hit the pavement. Catherine said Covey ""went down a hill too fast and flipped forward on the bike. It was a pretty big goose egg on the top of his head."" Covey also suffered cracked ribs and a partially collapsed lung. Covey died from complications resulting from the bike accident at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on July 16, 2012, at the age of 79. Stephen Covey Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book is ""of"
"Niel Hancock Niel Hancock (January 8, 1941 – May 7, 2011) was an American fantasy writer most famous for authoring the ""Circle of Light"" series and creating the fictional universe of ""Atlanton Earth"". After being out of print for several years, his novels were reprinted by Tor Books. Hancock's fantasy books are grouped into three sets of four books each. A stand-alone novel, ""Dragon Winter"", is set in the same fictional universe, but not explicitly part of the larger storyline. Hancock wrote high fantasy marketed for adults, but his works contain straightforward plots and tropes such as anthropomorphic animals more"
"Benjamin DeMott Benjamin Haile DeMott (June 2, 1924, Rockville Centre, New York – September 29, 2005, Worthington, Mass.) was an American writer, scholar, and cultural critic. The author of more than a dozen books, DeMott was best known for his cultural criticism in popular magazines and a trilogy, ""The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Class"" (1990), ""The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Race"" (1995), and ""Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Gender"" (2000). He wrote glowingly of Otis Redding, the Beatles' ""Blue Jay Way"" and ""the supergorgeous Mantovanian Motown Sound"","
"Earl Thompson (author) Earl Thompson (May 24, 1931 – November 9, 1978) was a leading American writer of naturalist prose. Nominated for the National Book Award for ""A Garden of Sand"" and chosen by the Book of the Month Club for ""Tattoo"", Thompson died suddenly at the peak of his success, having published just three novels—the fourth ""The Devil to Pay"", was published posthumously. Thompson was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1931. His first novel ""A Garden of Sand"" describes the events of his birth and early childhood in vivid detail. ""Tattoo"" picks up where his first novel left off"
"Grace Zaring Stone Grace Zaring Stone (January 9, 1891 – September 29, 1991) was an American novelist and short-story writer. She is perhaps best known for having three of her novels made into films: ""The Bitter Tea of General Yen"", ""Winter Meeting"", and ""Escape"". She also used the pseudonym Ethel Vance. Born in New York City in 1891, Grace Zaring was the great-great-granddaughter of social reformer Robert Owen. Her mother died during her childhood. She started writing in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where she lived with her husband, Ellis Spencer Stone (1889-1956), later a commodore in the U.S."
"""Tropic of Cancer"" is referenced in Junot Díaz's 2007 book ""The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"" as being read by Ana Obregón. Miller's legal difficulties, ""Tropic of Cancer"" and ""Tropic of Capricorn"" are mentioned in Denis Johnson's 2007 novel ""Tree of Smoke"", in a conversation between Skip Sands and his uncle, Colonel Sands. Miller is mentioned again later in the novel. Miller appeared as himself in several films: Several actors played Miller on film, such as: Multimedia Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer. He was known for breaking with"
"June 2017 at the age of 73. Barrie Pettman Barrie Owen Pettman, Baron of Bombie (22 February 1944 – 2 June 2017) was a British author, publisher, and philanthropist. He was the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Emerald Group Publishing. A professor emeritus at the University of Hull, he was the author of a dozen books on industrial relations. He was president emeritus of ""Burke's Peerage"" and a patron of opera in England and New Zealand. Pettman was born on 22 February 1944. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Hull, followed by a Master of Science,"
"Ann Fairbairn Dorothy Tait, (March 1, 1901, Cambridge, Massachusetts – February 8, 1972, Monterey, California) better known by her pen name, Ann Fairbairn, was an American author. She wrote ""Five Smooth Stones"", published in 1966, which was her best-known work. Fairbairn also wrote ""That Man Cartwright"", which was published in 1970. Tait for ten years managed the American and international tours of jazz clarinetist George Lewis's band. Tait had no children and was widowed twdice. The names of her husbands are not known. Tait was born on March 1, 1901 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a child, she went to school"
"praise from contemporary critics such as Louis Untermeyer and John Chancellor. Summarizing Espy's writing, critic Alistair Cooke wrote: Later in life, Espy divided his time between Manhattan and his home in Oysterville, and wrote nationally bestselling books on local history, including """" (1977) and ""Skulduggery on Shoalwater Bay"" (1998). Two of his books on wordplay, ""The Game of Words"" and ""An Almanac of Words at Play"", were honored at the Governor's Writers Day Awards (now the Washington State Book Awards), Espy died aged 88 at New York Hospital in Manhattan on February 20, 1999. He is interred in a family"
"Robert Stone (novelist) Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Stone was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, which he did receive in 1975 for his novel ""Dog Soldiers"". ""Time"" magazine included this novel in its list ""TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005"". ""Dog Soldiers"" was adapted into the film ""Who'll Stop the Rain"" (1978) starring Nick Nolte, from a script that Stone co-wrote. During his lifetime Stone received material support"