Australian writer and illustrator harun blabey He gave himself an ultimatum in 2014. The then-40-year-old father of two was working an increasingly unsatisfying range of day jobs from acting to advertising, and while children’s books were (as he put it) “warmly received”, his earnings did not support his family. Failing to achieve them successfully and …
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Police said a 10-month-old girl in Brooklyn died from a combination of fentanyl and heroin, and is charged with the death of her father, Daniel Auster, 44, son of famous novelist Paul Auster. The girl, named Ruby Auster, was found unconscious in a Bergen Street home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on November 1 and was …
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“I love your letters” told Publisher’s Weekly in 2010. “I kept one from a kid in my fridge and she says, ‘Thank you for writing this book, it was the second greatest book I’ve ever read.’ I love this. And I always wondered what was the greatest book this kid ever read.” In 2002, Ms. …
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In the 1960s, the first Jack Higgins novels published. (The author chose the pseudonym after a great uncle who was a gunman in Belfast with Protestant militants.) Mr. Higgins was annoyed when his academic colleagues made fun of his thrillers. That’s why he wrote “A Phoenix in the Blood”, a “serious” novel about racial prejudice …
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His first notable book, Easy Travel to Other Planets, started with dolphin-human sex. The three that followed were relatively unusual. Source link
Brandon Sanderson has raised $1 million on Kickstarter within 30 days to fund four new books. It flew in about 35 minutes. Source link
Mr. Kessler was usually inspired every day. For example, the hungry feelings of a toddler going to the supermarket are magnified in “Crunch Crunch” (1955), the sequel to “Plink Plink,” a book about feeling thirsty. He once told an interviewer that he did a lot by crawling on the floor to give a child’s perspective …
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Wilbur Addison Smith was born on January 9, 1933, in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). Named for aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright. His father, Herbert, was a rancher who was a sheet metal worker. His mother, Elfreda, was a painter who encouraged him to read. He contracted cerebral malaria when he was 18 months …
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Jazz songwriter Dave Frishberg, whose sarcastic wit as a songwriter and melodic wit as a composer has placed him at the top of his craft, died Wednesday in Portland, Ore, at the age of 88. His wife, April Magnusson, confirmed the death. Mr. Frishberg, who also played and sang the piano, was an anomaly, if …
“The door popped up and then Mays continued to spin after a great effort to get the ball back where it came from, and it fell flat on his stomach and disappeared. It was the shot of a giant, the shot of a humanoid howitzer reaching base two.” The Giants won the game 5-2 on …
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His 200 books, including “Axe” and “Dogsong,” have inspired generations with tales of exploration, survival, and the bloody reality of the natural world. Source link
Like many businesses, the publishing industry has been deeply affected by the racial showdown of 2020. questioned both online and behind closed doors. Now, more than a year later, the results of calls for more diversity among those deciding what to air are starting to materialize. Black writers’ titles hit the market Increasingly, including the …
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