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Eugenia Price (sometimes Genie Price; [1] June 22, 1916 – May 28, 1996) was an American author best known for her religious and self-help books, and later for her historical novels which were set in the American South.
In his 2001 book The Man Who Was Walter Mitty: The Life and Work of James Thurber (ISBN 0-930751-13-2), author Thomas Fensch suggests that the character was largely based on Thurber himself. This is consistent with Thurber's self-described imaginative interpretations of shapes seen with his "two-fifths vision" in his essay "The Admiral on the ...
The Alice Network is a 2017 historical novel by American author Kate Quinn. It was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. The story is based on the real-life World War I spy ring called the Alice Network, which operated in German-occupied France and Belgium. Three historical figures are used as characters in the novel:
3. Alice from 'Alice in Wonderland' Back in 1862, the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, found himself on a leisurely boat ride down the Thames with Alice ...
Sagan named the novel's protagonist, Eleanor Arroway, after two people: Eleanor Roosevelt, a "personal hero" of Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, and Voltaire, whose last name was Arouet. [3] The character is based on the real-life SETI researcher Jill Tarter. [6] The novel won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1986.
Trust was named one of the "10 Best Books of 2022" by The Washington Post [13] and The New York Times. [14] The New Yorker and Esquire included the novel on their lists of the best books of 2022. [15] [16] The novel was also included on a year-end list of books published in 2022 which were "loved" by NPR staff. [17]
Elmer Gantry is a 1927 satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis that presents aspects of the religious activity of the United States in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it.
The Overstory is a novel by American author Richard Powers, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company.The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.