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Dinty W. Moore (born August 11, 1955) is an American essayist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction books. He received the Grub Street National Book Prize for Non-Fiction for his memoir, Between Panic and Desire, in 2008 and is also author of the memoir To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno, the writing guides ...
List. Notable humorists include: Ada Roach [2] Alexander Posey [3] André Franquin [4] (1924–1997) French comic book author of Spirou & Fantasio and creator of the Marsupilami. Anita Loos [5] Anne Roumanoff [6] Aziz Nesin [7] Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), as a newspaper editor and printer, became one of America's first humorists, [8] most ...
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino[1] (born 1988) [2] is an American writer and editor. [3][4] A staff writer for The New Yorker,[5] she previously worked as deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at The Hairpin. [6] Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine [7] and Pitchfork. [8] In 2019, her collected essays were ...
Emily St. John Mandel (/ seɪntˈdʒɒn mænˈdɛl /; [2][3] née Fairbanks; [4] born 1979) is a Canadian novelist and essayist. [5][6] She has written six novels, including Station Eleven (2014), The Glass Hotel (2020), and Sea of Tranquility (2022). Station Eleven, which has been translated into 33 languages, [7] has been adapted into a ...
Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. [ 1 ] He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.
Roger Rosenblatt. Rosenblatt in 2019. Born. 1940 (age 83–84) United States. Occupation (s) Writer and teacher. Roger Rosenblatt (born 1940) is an American memoirist, essayist, and novelist. [1] He was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour.
Genre. Literary fiction, historical fiction. Subject. War, violence, science, human compassion. William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Europe Central.