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John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel , a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
Grendel is a 1971 novel by the American author John Gardner. [1] It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel.In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero.
John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty .
John A. Gardner, American physicist and developer of Gardner–Salinas braille codes; John Fentress Gardner (1912–1998), American author and educator; John J. Gardner (1845–1921), politician representing New Jersey in the House of Representatives, 1885 to 1893; John W. Gardner (1912–2002), U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare ...
In 1979 [2] Glidrose Publications (now Ian Fleming Publications) approached Gardner and asked him to revive Ian Fleming's James Bond series of novels. [3]When hired to begin a new series of James Bond novels, author John Gardner was tasked with updating James Bond and his allies and transporting them into the 1980s.
John William Gardner (October 8, 1912 – February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under President Lyndon Johnson. He was a strong advocate for citizen participation and founded Common Cause ; he became known as "the father of campaign finance reform".
The Sunlight Dialogues is a 1972 novel by the American author John Gardner. Plot summary. The novel is set in the 1960s in Batavia, New York. It follows Batavia ...
Kirkus Reviews said Gardner's second Bond novel "is smooth enough - but a good deal less fun than License Renewed. Comic-strippy as ever, but without the freshness and Bond-persona detail of the first resurrection." [10] John Waite, writing in the Nursing Mirror, said Gardner managed to write in Fleming's style "beautifully". The plot, he said ...