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Victoria Clayton, née Walker, (born 1947) is a British author. She began writing at her parents' house in Cambridgeshire (after a couple of years living a bohemian lifestyle in London ). When dining one night in London she sat next to Bill McCreadle of publisher Rupert Hart-Davis who agreed to look at her manuscript, and in 1969, when she was ...
John Bell Clayton II (October 28, 1906 – February 10, 1955) was a "prolific writer of short stories" [1] who won an O. Henry Short Story Award in 1947. His wife, Martha Carmichael Clayton (c. 1915–1961), oversaw the posthumous publication of her husband's works; she was a sister of songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.
Victoria and the Staveneys. In London, when the aunt she lives with is rushed to the hospital, nine-year-old Victoria is taken after school to the spacious home of a kind-hearted older boy Edward Staveney and his younger brother Thomas. She is poor and black, while their white family is well-off and liberal.
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A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for third-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. [40] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed it as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." [41] It was one of the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library ...
Clayton's first novel, The Language of Light, was a finalist for the 2002 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, now the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her novel The Wednesday Sisters became a bestseller [ 9 ] and a popular book club choice.
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3rd Degree is a crime novel written by James Patterson and Andrew Gross. It is the third novel in the Women's Murder Club Series, and the sequel to 2nd Chance . The book was published on March 1, 2004.