Biography: writers

"e;Like a Twilight zone with Charlie Chaplin"e;Mario PuzoWriter, screenwriter, playwright, editor, actor, teacher: Bruce Jay Friedman has done it all, charming the glitziest industries of American golden-age culture for more than half a century.

We all run from something, but do we have to leave?

Dieses eBook: "SCHILLER - Lebensgeschichte in 6 Bänden" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Kate says she doesn't know what to say about writing.

One of Australia's leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation.

I keep coming back to John Marsden.

A memoir is only a slice of a life.

'Tom stands among our great artists .

A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation .

It's a tale that doesn't seem like it would be a winner; an improbable proposition of a ten-mile reef of gold in the middle of the continent, a cabal of scheming investors, a farrago of poor planning and preposterous publicity, the fiasco of the prematurely celebrated triumph of technology over unforgiving terrain, a dead prospector - and no gold.

On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word 'Bermagui'.

Ion "e;Jack"e; Idriess (1889 - 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having published over 50 books including the Outback tales of Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland, and The Cattle King alongside major histories of Broken Hill, Broome and Cooktown.

With Stendhal is a delightful portrait of the nineteenth century French novelist Henri Beyle, better known to us as Stendhal.

When Jane Katjavivi becomes involved in London in support of change in Southern Africa, she meets and marries a Namibian activist in exile.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was born on 26th May 1689 to, the soon to be titled, Earl of Kingston and Mary (Fielding) Pierrepoint.

Josephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952).

"e;Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me.

"e;I've read a beautiful perfect book.

Dickens & Women ReObserved is a rich collection of new essays by scholars and critics from various parts of the world who represent a new appreciation and understanding of Charles Dickens and things woman.

The author traces the Queen Mother's formative years, her family life in the palace environment, her growing adoration and ascension to the British throne, how she arranged aid to Stalingrad and was ultimately named an honorary citizen of that city, and other little-known details from the life of the Queen and her circle.

'It is always a bore being ahead of one's time.

An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over.

Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordsworth, and his friends.

'I love this book.

'It's hard to think of a memoir that describes the experience [of love] with as much honesty, passion and precision.

This tender and personal memoir by the poet Joanna Ramsey of George Mackay Brown gives an account of some aspects of the last eight years of his life in Stromness, Orkney, and of the friendship between them.

In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton’s intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France.

In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton’s intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France.

Radiation Diaries tells of a month of radiotherapy treatment undergone when Janet Todd was president of a Cambridge college and while her father, in his 100th year, was approaching death, with skin cancer.

Born in 1836 near Strabane, Co.

Emilio Becher (1882-1921) fue el primer pensador argentino que, ya en los años iniciales de este siglo, enjuició con dureza las bases mismas de la sociedad moderna, democrática y tecnificada, hacia la cual el país daba entonces pasos rápidos y seguros.

No one is more responsible for Britain"e;s current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007).

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers.

A memoir that explores the author's thirty-plus years of living with bipolar disorder.

Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was a writer, scholar, literary critic and college teacher in Cape Town, South Africa.

Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was a writer, scholar, literary critic and college teacher in Cape Town, South Africa.

Charles Morgan was the dramatic critic of The Times for most of the years between 1922 and 1939.

Includes the plays The River Line, The Flashing Stream and The Burning GlassCharles Morgan was a distinguished novelist before he moved onto stage drama, with his reputation as a major dramatist established by his first play, The Flashing Stream.

To this day The White Hart and The Red Lion are two of the most popular names for a public house in England both talismans that served as the insignia for Richard II and the banished Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, who usurped the throne in 1399.

'Of course that's how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours'When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan.