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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, journalist and activist, considered by some to be amongst the best living writers. She was born in 1939 in Canada's capital, Ottawa, to highly educated parents. Atwood took a keen interest in reading...

Published in 2004, State of Fear is a science fiction novel that was written by Michael Crichton. Though the book incorporates many aspects of global warming and climate change on Earth, State of Fear is actually a fiction work in which terrorists...

John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath remains such an iconic fictional portrait of the effects of the Dust Bowl on victims already suffering as a result of the Great Depression in middle America in the 1930s that it can be difficult to even...

A Princess of Mars was initially published under its original title Under the Moons of Mars in All-Story Magazine in 1912. That appearance in print marked the commencement of the writing career of author Edgar Rice Burroughs (best known as the...

Published in 1945, If He Hollers Let Him Go is the first novel published by Chester Himes and the launch of a career spent examining the corrosive effects of racism. The novel came about as a result heeding advice to head to Hollywood in search of...

Okot p'Bitek (7 June 1931 to 20 July 1982) an Ugandan poet is considered one of the greatest contemporary African poets.His prose poem Song of Lawino brought him international recognition;a poem initially written in Acholi language but translated...

Set in Northern Ireland, Reading in the Dark is a portrayal of life in Catholic, impoverished Ireland. Written by Seamus Deane in 1996, the book won several awards, including the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize and the Irish Literature Prize in 1997.

The Dim Sum of All Things is a fictional novel published in 2004 and written by Kim Wong Keltner. The book follows the path of Lindsey Owyang, a poorer woman of Chinese descent, living in America and working a regular job. Lindsey tries to fit in...

William Makepeace Thackeray, born in 1811, was an English writer and journalist. Thackeray’s early childhood was spent in India before the family moved back to England after his father’s death. He displayed a strong interest in painting and many...

First published in 1782, Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur centering around various topics of the time period, including the birth of American nationalism and aspects of the slave trade. It...

Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist born on March 12, 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut. As a child, her father, who worked as an anthropologist, encouraged her to focus on her studies and emphasized education as a top priority in life. With...

Ben Jonson is far probably far better known today for his career as a contemporary rival of the Bard for the hearts and minds of Elizabethan Era theatergoers. Indeed, his big hit as a dramatist—Every Man in His Humour—actually featured a young...

Beauty's Gift is a compelling story written by Sindiwe Magona. It was published during 2011 by NB Publishing. This novel tells the story of four women who cope with the lost of their best friend. This journey starts with five best friends known as...

The Last Battle (1956) is the seventh and final novel in the high-fantasy classic Chronicles of Narnia series by author C.S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes, The Last Battle is set almost entirely in Narnia and from the middle of the novel...

Relesed in 1954, The Horse and His Boy is the fifth novel of seven published in the The Chronicles of Narnia. Written before the first book was even out and for the first and only time featuring native Narnian children, The Horse and His Boy tells...

The Silver Chair is the sixth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, penned in the early 1950s by acclaimed British author and literary scholar C.S. Lewis. Despite the fact that these chronicles are some of the most popular and enduring stories...

A year after another resounding success with Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis released its sequel, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Finished before the first novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series was released, Dawn Treader follows Edmund and Lucy...

After conjuring a unique fantasy world in 1950's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis released Prince Caspian, 1951's followup to the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia series.

Prince Caspian directly continues the story started...

Charles Bukowski, an underground American poet, was born during 1920 and died during 1994. He was born in Germany and was brought to the United States at two-years-old. In addition to poetry, he wrote prose, novels, and short stories - all...

Ever wonder why a particular breed of woman in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional and conservative conventions was called a “flapper.” This is not the place to answer that question. Thoroughly Modern Millie will do the job, however, along...

Stanley Kubrick is a master of both satire and science fiction, but also achieved renown with the 1960 historical epic Spartacus. The film has positive reviews and grossed $60 million (the most of any Universal Studios film until Airport grossed...

Franklin Schaffner directed the original Planet of the Apes for release it would come to be the single most amazing year ever for science fiction movies. In 1968, the world was not only introduced to the idea of a future earth ruled by apes, but...

Lucky is a memoir by prominent novelist Alice Sebold, who also wrote The Lovely Bones. The book chronicles her experience as a rape survivor and the tumultuous months that followed where she had to defend herself against her father, her peers, and...

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange things is a collection of short stories. The stories are of Japanese origin and are retold by the narrator, stories that he heard of during his time in Japan. The stories are based on Buddhist religion and...