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  2. Biography in literature - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Literary biographers must balance the weight of commentary on the subject-author's oeuvre (complete body of works) against the biographical content to create a coherent narrative of the subject-author's live. [2] This balance is interpretively-influenced by the degree of biographical elements inherent in an author's literary works.

  3. Eugenia Price - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Osamu Dazai - Wikipedia

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    Shūji Tsushima (津島 修治, Tsushima Shūji, 19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), known by his pen name Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese novelist and author. [1] A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō ) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku ), are considered modern classics.

  5. Spoon River Anthology - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, those who lived in the Spoon River region objected to their portrayal in the anthology, particularly as so many of the poems' characters were based on real people. The book was banned from Lewistown schools and libraries until 1974. [3] Even Masters's mother, who sat on the Lewistown library board, voted for the ban. [9]

  6. 9 Iconic Fictional Characters You Didn't Know Were Based on ...

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    1. Sherlock Holmes. One of literature's greatest detectives, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's medical school teacher, Dr. Joseph Bell.

  7. Contact (novel) - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, Sagan predicted that because of science fiction, "I know many young people who would, of course, be interested, but in no way astounded, were we to receive a message tomorrow from an extraterrestrial civilization". [2] In 1981, Simon & Schuster gave Sagan a $2 million advance on the novel. At the time, "the advance was the largest ever ...

  8. Colette - Wikipedia

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    In 1893, Colette married Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859–1931), an author and publisher 14 years her senior, who used the pen name "Willy". [8] Her first four novels – the four Claudine stories : Claudine à l'école (1900), Claudine à Paris (1901), Claudine en ménage (1902), and Claudine s'en va (1903) – appeared under his name.

  9. Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.