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By 2006, the book had sold over two million copies worldwide. [2] Critics have credited Fielding's novel as the "ur-text" of the contemporary chick lit movement. [3] A sequel, The Edge of Reason, was published in 1999, and two further novels, Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy and Bridget Jones's Baby, were published in 2013 and 2016 respectively.
Monkey Grip is a 1977 novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book.Set in Melbourne, the novel follows single-mother Nora as she narrates her increasingly tumultuous relationship with a heroin addict, juxtaposed with her raising a daughter while living in bohemian share houses.
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
In a review in The New Yorker from 2000, A.S. Byatt said of the novel, "A triumph - a genuinely new story, and genuinely new form." [6] Myla Goldberg, writing in The New York Times the same year, said, "Though the book worships too long at the altar of the intellect, her intelligence provides sparkle as well as promise." [7]
Hoang wrote the first draft of what would become The Kiss Quotient within ten weeks. [2] [3] The manuscript went through several drafts before she entered the online pitch contest Pitch Wars, where she revised it again with the help of her mentor Brighton Walsh, working for eight months.
Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968. Helen Wells (1910-1986) wrote volumes #1–7 and #17–27, and Julie Campbell Tatham (1908–1999), the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #8–16.
Helen Fielding [2] (born 19 February 1958) [3] is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones. Fielding’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in East Africa and she started writing Bridget Jones in an anonymous column in London’s Independent newspaper.
Phillips was born in Colorado.When she was a child she was affected by alopecia and by the age of 11 she had lost all of her hair. [3]She graduated from Yale University in 2004, [4] and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007. [5]