This list was created and voted on by Goodreads members. While we remembered to mention the work, we were . This post will mention several of their books, and offer some interesting information about their lives. . Am still looking forward to finally getting to Love in the Time of Cholera though. I will read Go Set a Watchman eventually, just to wallow in her words again. , The legendary Jimmy Breslin is certainly a VERY recent addition. Thats right Maya Angelou was also a professor! a[a9] = { I hadnt thought it before, but one can definitely compare Lee with Bob Dylan (though one gets the impression that Lee was a nicer person). window.Mobvious.device_type = 'mobile'; Sorry what you wrote wont be posted, bebe. I guess the born-somewhat-later Pete Hamill is still around, but writing books more than columns these days, I believe. Denis Johnson - American writer of Jesus' Son: Stories. And I have not even seen Dorothy skate! . J.B. was the last surviving member of the generation of newspaper columnists I faithfully read in my salad days, an ink-stained crew also encompassing Nat Hentoff, as well as Jack Anderson, Murray Kempton and Mike Royko. The boxing star who once was known as Cassius Clay and gave himself a new name after joining the Nation of Islam died at age 74 on June 3, 2016. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and many other terrific works. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("grsession", "osid.2c3b515e1a0051376904441ddfdc8736"); Hi Dave, not really relevant to anything, but this reminded me of a conversation I had last week with a lady inviting me to her book group. David Bowie (1947-2016), Space Oddity. The movie is hilarious. I noticed that you used a somewhat different alias for your previous comment. What you might not be aware of is that he was a descendant of one of the accused (Mary Bradbury) during the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. 10 Allen Bellman Marvel Comics Golden Age Artist Allen Bellman, the Golden Age of comic books artist who worked for both Timely and Atlas before they became Marvel Comics, was best known for early titles such as All-Winners Comics and Young Allies. Im wondering, with a long comment, if, after you write it in Word, you might post the first half in one box and the second half immediately under it in another box. William Peter Blatty (1928-2017), The Exorcist. Interesting to see the perspectives of writers who were born to wealth Edith Wharton is another example of an author who tweaked the upper class from a place of inside knowledge. Because if I find out that you acquired a pet lion after watching The Gang, Im going to SMH. For instance, I liked The Deerslayer a lot more. How much a smile can mean to someone who sends and receives. BTW, jhNY, did you receive the email I sent you Tuesday re Amanda? Seemed to update nicely I see Kat Lib and not katlib49 here. He was a troubled and troubling sort of personality, whose unpleasant quirks and fierce independence would forever keep him out of the mainstream, except when the radio was on. Im relaxing constraints which had been read within a month (of learning) of their death. Jane Austen being sort of a heroine of some of the alt-right is sickening. I still havent read Go Set a Watchman. Not sure if Im subconsciously avoiding it or not. James (1920-2014) also wrote her first novel relatively late (42) and penned her last one when past 90! window.Mobvious = {}; The stop-in-your-tracks voice of Brooklyn drill and a new and commanding hip-hop star. Ive never gotten to any of her six other memoirs. Ah, thanks, jhNY. Ill say! One interesting/harrowing fact about Emechetas Nigerian childhood: she was beaten in front of her class after announcing she wanted to be a writer. I know that some readers dont like the controversial/offensive and questionable language that Breslin used, but I can appreciate when an author steps outside his/her comfort zone. Oh did you hear Rex likes to take frequent naps ? I read The Last of the Mohicans and havent seen the movie. bobess48, while Im having trouble coming up with a film done about a Jane Austen book that I didnt love, Ive seen multiple mini-stories about each one of her six novels that Ive loved, mostly because they were more true to the novel. gads.src = (useSSL ? Anyway, I never could get into audio books, but my sister loved them, so on one of our road trips to visit our parents in Atlanta, we listened to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and it was so moving that I dont know why I never read any more of her work. Williams (1936-2015), With Ignorance.. And, yes, the white supremacist far right can have Ayn Rand, but it should leave Jane Austen alone. LOL your Dorothy Hamill quip! Two of the Pride & Prejudice adaptations that were those done by the BBC and A&E which stuck very closely to the story and dialog of the original. Teddy Pendergrass died on January 13, 2010. I have no idea why, but this post reminded me of this phrase under the yearbook photo of a friend:. init: function() { A number of sci-fi writers are quite literary, too. Given how much of a Jane Austen fan/expert you are, Im glad James did a good job with that Pride and Prejudice sequel! . Which reminds me of what is possibly apocrypha, yet perfect the supposed deathbed utterance of Oscar Wilde: The wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. So sorry, Kat Lib Im not seeing it. I sometimes wonder where they go is there some great big dead email/comment office in the sky? } Yes, Stieg Larssons death was so untimely he was just 50 or thereabouts, and never lived to see the astounding success of his riveting Millennium Trilogy. "ObfuscatedMarketplaceId": "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1" authors who died in the last 10 years. If not, let me know here and Ill email it to you tomorrow, on the assumption that you may yet receive in a medium you cannot send. try { Sounds like you were very impressed with I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I was, too though it has been many years since I read it. But glad you were able to get stuff for your home, and put the card to good use on two Ray Bradbury books! I used to read a lot of it (biographies, mostly) before getting on my current novel binge for the past fifteen years or so. We lost lost many literary greats last year, including a Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Good luck with Love in the Time of Cholera! Im familiar with Charlotte Perkins Gilmans story The Yellow Wallpaper, but The Yellow Feather Boa is unknown to me. (NB: US copyright uses a different system for works published before 1978). If that doesnt work eventually, will send my message postal mail. //]]> I can think of one film that I consider vastly superior to the novel: the 1991 adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans. SL5 having attracted my attention on learning the night in question was on my 6-month birthday. But if this persists, I could always try to contact WordPress and ask them to contact you. That bio is indeed an original piece of work, a one-off kind of an idiosyncrasy that only Mr. Berry could have written, and contains,among a great many other things, a revelatory bit of insight: considering the secret of his success, he concluded it was enunciation.. I totally agree that Ray Bradbury was an elegant prose writer, which some people who havent read him may not know. Ill try to figure this out tomorrow, as its getting late and Im ready to turn in for the night and read for a while. Ive gotten the sense that Moyers would like to work less after a half-century in public life, but he feels his voice is needed in these terrible times of Trump, the GOP congress, many media outlets that make things worse, etc. I dont really want to have to delete my avatar from this site, but Im about ready to. Much appreciated. Beverly Cleary, who enthralled tens of millions of young readers with the adventures and mishaps of Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the bratty Ramona Quimby and her older sister Beezus, and other. Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984. }, Chuck Berrys Johnny B. Goode. googletag.enableServices(); Maya Angelou. It sounds like you had a great NJ/NY trip vividly described. Weve already planned his party, but Im sure it will go off-script just like my moms did. Is there any end to this uneducated stupidity ? De gustibus, etc. I assume that those themes are probably present in the other Leatherstocking novels you cited? One woman becomes pregnant and gets sought after by various political/terrorist groups, some to use the pregnancy as a threat to the prevailing power structure and others to kill her/it. 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All great men are dying and I dont feel so well myself.. } She only wrote two books about her, which I was disappointed in at first, but Adam Dalgliesh is such a compelling character that I read the entire series. Definitely looking forward to Cholera. The latest weekly column is here. ), I guess the born-somewhat-later Pete Hamill is still around, but writing books more than columns these days . Top Tip: Find out more about ourworkbooksandonline coursesin ourshop. url = "https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/mobile/phone_images-9e9093f0cfddba8c2b1e815375d976a3.css"; George Michael (1963-2016), Careless Whisper (co-written by Andrew Ridgeley). googletag.pubads().setTargeting("gr_author", "false"); The Russia/Trump connection seems so obvious. For one thing, it was a different animal. laughing. Billie Letts (1938-2014) saw her very appealing debut novel Where the Heart Is published when she was in her mid-50s during a career teaching creative writing at the college level. ! 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