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Dear Zoe
''Dear Zoe'' is an epistolary, young-adult novel by the American writer Philip Beard. which was first published in 2004. The narrator is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio, who writes to her younger sister Zoe about her experiences after Zoe died. The novel is set in 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and follows Tess's first year of high school. ''Dear Zoe'' tells the story of 15-year-old Tess DeNunzio, who is wracked by guilt after losing her half-sister in a hit-and-run accident on the day of the September 11 attacks. The novel was selected by ''Booklist'', a magazine of the American Library Association, as one of the ten best first novels of 2005. When Beard originally wrote this novel, he was advised by a friend to change the format from epistolary to first person. After he made these changes and sent the manuscript to publisher, the manuscript was rejected several times. It was not until he changed it back to being an epistolary novel that he was published. Beard had a hard time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Beard
Philip Beard (born 1963) is an American novelist. He was educated at Colgate University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. His novel, ''Swing'', was a finalist for the Casey Award in 2015. Works * ''Dear Zoe ''Dear Zoe'' is an epistolary, young-adult novel by the American writer Philip Beard. which was first published in 2004. The narrator is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio, who writes to her younger sister Zoe about her experiences after Zoe died. T ...'', a novel (New York: Viking, 2005) * '' Lost in the Garden'', a novel (New York: Viking, 2006) * ''Swing'', a novel (New York: Van Buren, 2015) Sources ''Contemporary Authors Online''. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000162696. External links Philip Beard webpage 1963 births Living people 21st-century American novelists Writers from Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh School of Law alumni Colgate University alumni American male novelists 21st-century American male writers Novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gren Wells
Gren Wells is a Kentucky-born filmmaker, screenwriter, and actress who works and resides in Los Angeles. Early life Wells was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. After attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, Wells moved to New York City, where she starred in six indie films over a two-year span, one of which, ''Man About Town'', won Best Short Film at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. After moving to Los Angeles, Wells became a stand-up comic and wrote her first feature script, ''A Little Bit of Heaven''. Career Her first script, '' A Little Bit of Heaven'', was sold to 20th Century Fox. This script later found a home at The Film Department and starred Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Kathy Bates, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lucy Punch, Romany Malco, and Peter Dinklage. Her second film, ''The Road Within'', was Wells' directorial debut. After premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival it was acquired by Well Go USA. It st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Press Books
Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9–22. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, Volga Bulgaria, the Middle East, and North America. In some of the countries they raided and settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a collective whole. The Vikings had a profound impact on the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Estonia, and Kievan Rus'. Expert sailors and navigators aboard their characteristic longships, Vikings established Norse settlements and governments in the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast, as well as alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction Set In 2002
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set In Pittsburgh
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 American Novels
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Lyra Blair
Vivien Lyra Blair (born ) is an American child actress who made her debut in the 2017 film '' Band Aid''. In 2018, she rose to prominence for her role as Girl in the film '' Bird Box''. Blair garnered further recognition for her appearances in video game '' Telling Lies'' (2019) and superhero film '' We Can Be Heroes'' (2020). In 2022, she received near-unanimous acclaim for her portrayal of Leia Organa in the streaming series ''Obi-Wan Kenobi''. She was also nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Streaming Television Series. Early life Vivien Lyra Blair was born in 2012 or 2013. Blair has been vegetarian since she was born. She has practiced Taekwondo since the age of five. In 2019, at six years old, Blair became the youngest spokesperson for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Career Blair's first onscreen role was in the 2017 film '' Band Aid'', and she subsequently appeared in the television miniseries ''Waco'' in 2018. She ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Bartha
Justin Lee Bartha (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor, known for his roles as Riley Poole in the ''National Treasure'' film series, Doug Billings in ''The Hangover'' trilogy, and David Sawyer in the NBC comedy series '' The New Normal''. He starred as Colin Morrello in the CBS All Access legal and political drama ''The Good Fight.'' Early life Bartha was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and moved to West Bloomfield, Michigan when he was eight. His father, Stephen, is a real estate developer, while his mother, Betty, is a school teacher. He has one older brother, Jeffrey. Bartha was raised in a Reform Jewish family. After he graduated from West Bloomfield High School in 1996, he moved to New York City and studied filmmaking and theatre at New York University's Tisch School of Arts. Career Bartha began his film career behind the camera as a production assistant on the film ''Analyze This''. His acting debut came with his first film, '' 54'', as a clubgoer. He wrote and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Capshaw (born August 9, 1976) is an American actress known for her roles as Jamie Stringer in ''The Practice'', and as Dr. Arizona Robbins on the ABC medical drama ''Grey's Anatomy''. Early life Capshaw was born on August 9, 1976, in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive and high school principal. She is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg, whom her mother married when Capshaw was 15. Capshaw graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in 1994, then attended Brown University, where she was in productions of ''Arcadia'' and '' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof''. She graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature. During summers, she attended classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London, where she appeared as Puck in a production of '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Career Capshaw had a minor role in the drama ''The Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Rossi
John Theodore Rossi (born June 4, 1975) is an American actor and producer. He portrayed Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz on the FX series ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–2014) and Hernan "Shades" Alvarez in ''Luke Cage'' (2016–2018). His film roles include Tino Hull in ''Red Sands'' (2009), Todd in ''Bad Hurt'' (2015), Francisco "Ghost" Alvarez in ''Lowriders'' (2017), and Deuce in ''Vault'' (2019). Early life Rossi was born in Staten Island, New York City, New York. He is of Italian, Spanish, Syrian, and North African descent. Growing up, he loved to ride dirt bikes. He has openly admitted to dealing drugs for years before moving to California. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, where he appeared in several theatre productions. Career Rossi played Juan Carlos "Juice" Ortiz on the FX series ''Sons of Anarchy''. His production company, ''Dos Dudes Pictures'', produced its first feature film in 2014, ''Bad Hurt'', Rossi acting alongside Karen Allen a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadie Sink
Sadie Elizabeth Sink (born April 16, 2002) is an American actress. She began acting at age seven in local theater productions, and played the title role in '' Annie'' (2012–14) and young Queen Elizabeth II in '' The Audience'' (2015) on Broadway. She made her television debut in a 2013 episode of ''The Americans'' and her film debut in the sports film ''Chuck'' (2016). Sink had her breakthrough portraying Max Mayfield in the Netflix science fiction series ''Stranger Things'' (2017–present). In 2021, she appeared in the horror film trilogy ''Fear Street'' and played the lead role in Taylor Swift's short film ''All Too Well''. Sink has since starred in Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama ''The Whale'' (2022), for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Early life Sink was born in Brenham, Texas, on April 16, 2002. Her father is a football coach and her mother is a math teacher. She has three older brothers and a younger sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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