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  2. Wordplay (film) - Wikipedia

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    The movie focuses on the following crossword solvers: Ellen Ripstein: editor living in New York City and 2001 ACPT champion. She is also known for her baton twirling. Trip Payne: professional puzzlemaker living in South Florida and three-time ACPT champion. He held the record as the youngest champion after winning the tournament in 1993 at the ...

  3. Johnston McCulley - Wikipedia

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    An additional story (possibly a story originally written for West which went unpublished when West folded) appeared in Max Brand's Western Magazine in the May 1954 issue. The final Zorro story appeared in Short Story Magazine in April 1959, after McCulley's death and after Walt Disney 's Zorro television program starring Guy Williams had become ...

  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wikipedia

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.

  5. Will Shortz - Wikipedia

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    He has said that his favorite crossword of all time is the Election Day crossword of November 5, 1996, designed by Jeremiah Farrell. It had two correct solutions with the same set of clues, one saying that the "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!)" would be "BOB DOLE ELECTED", and the other correct solution saying "CLINTON ELECTED". [18]

  6. The Pearl (novella) - Wikipedia

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    The story, first published in 1947, [citation needed] follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man’s purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur , which he had heard in a visit to the formerly pearl -rich region in 1940.

  7. James Joyce - Wikipedia

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    Rome was the birthplace of the idea for "The Dead", which would become the final story of Dubliners, [157] and for Ulysses, [158] which was originally conceived as a short story. [x] His stay in the city was one of his inspirations for Exiles. [160] While there, he read the socialist historian Guglielmo Ferrero in depth. [161]

  8. The Birds (story) - Wikipedia

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    The story is set in du Maurier's home county of Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. A farmhand, his family and community come under lethal attack from flocks of birds. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds, released in 1963, the same year that The Apple Tree was reprinted as The Birds and Other ...

  9. Sherwood Anderson - Wikipedia

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    Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio.