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Hillary Jordan
Hillary Jordan is an American novelist. She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. and has written two novels: ''Mudbound'' (2008) and '' When She Woke'' (2011), and a short story called "Aftermirth". She is currently working on a sequel to ''Mudbound''. She is a 2009 recipient of the Alex Awards. ''Mudbound'' ''Mudbound'' confronts racism on a cotton farm on the Mississippi Delta in 1946. It won the 2006 Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded biennially to an unpublished work of fiction that addresses issues of social justice, and a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association. It was the 2008 NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Fiction Book of the Year and was named one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by "Paste" Magazine. An award-winning film adaptation was released in 2017. ''When She Woke'' ''When She Woke'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hilary or Hillary may refer to: * Hillary Clinton, American politician * Hillary Coast, Antarctica * Hilary (name), or Hilarie or Hillary, a given name and surname * Hilary term, the spring term at the Universities of Oxford and Dublin * ''Hikari no Densetsu'', a 1985 manga series, known in Italian as ''Hilary'' * Hurricane Hilary, the name of several storms * ''Hillary'' (film), a 2020 American documentary film about Hillary Clinton * HMS ''Hilary'' See also * Hillery (other) * Saint Hilary (other) * Saint-Hilaire (other) * Ilar (other), Welsh form of the name Hilary * Eleri (other), Welsh form of the name Hilarus * Hillarys, Western Australia Hillarys is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, in the local government area of the City of Joondalup. It is part of the Whitfords precinct, and is located 21 km north-northwest of Perth's central b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton is an Australian journalist and literary fiction author. Early life Trent Dalton grew up in a Housing Commission house in Bracken Ridge, a suburb on the northern outskirts of Brisbane. Journalism Dalton worked as a journalist for ''The Courier-Mail''. he works as a staff writer for ''The Weekend Australian Magazine''. Works ''Boy Swallows Universe'' In 2018 he published the semi-autobiographical novel '' Boy Swallows Universe (novel)'' through 4th Estate, which was longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. In May 2019 the film adaptation rights for ''Boy Swallows Universe'' were won by Anonymous Content, Chapter One and Hopscotch Features, to be directed by Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton. Queensland Theatre Company developed a play from the book, its performance delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia in 2020, but later scheduled to premiere in September at the 2021 Brisbane Festival. In March 2022, Netflix announced to develop a lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress. After making her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas' '' Prelude to a Kiss'' in 1990 (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Parker came to prominence for film roles in ''Grand Canyon'' (1991), ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' (1991), ''The Client'' (1994), ''Bullets over Broadway'' (1994), ''A Place for Annie'' (1994), ''Boys on the Side'' (1995), ''The Portrait of a Lady'' (1996), and '' The Maker'' (1997). Among stage and independent film appearances thereafter, Parker received the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Catherine Llewellyn in David Auburn's '' Proof'', among other accolades. Between 2001 and 2006, she recurred as Amy Gardner in the NBC television series ''The West Wing'', for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. She received both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi FRSL (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Life Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria and was raised in Lewisham, South London from when she was four. Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, '' The Icarus Girl'', while studying for her A-levels at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. She attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Since 2014 her home has been in Prague. Career While she was in college, Oyeyemi's plays ''Juniper's Whitening'' and ''Victimese'' were performed by fellow students and later published by Methuen in 2014. In 2007, Bloomsbury published Oyeyemi's second novel, '' The Opposite House'', which is inspired by Cuban mythology. Her third novel, '' White Is for Witching'', was published by Picador in May 2009. It was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. In 2009, Oyeyemi was recognized as one of the women on Venus Zine's "25 under 25" list. Her fourth novel, '' Mr Fox'', was published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Téa Obreht
Téa Obreht (born Tea Bajraktarević; 30 September 1985) is a Serbian-American novelist. Her debut novel, ''The Tiger's Wife'',Hamilton, Ted (25 March 2009)"Student Artist Spotlight: Tea Bajraktarevic"(interview). ''Cornell Daily Sun''. Archived 7 March 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2014. won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a 2011 National Book Award finalist. Obreht was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and was named by ''The New Yorker'' as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. Her second novel, ''Inland'', was released in 2019. Biography Téa Obreht was born Tea Bajraktarević in the autumn of 1985, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, the only child of a single mother, Maja Obreht, while her father, a Bosniak, was "never part of the picture". She was close to her maternal grandparents, especially to her grandfather Štefan Obreht, a Roman Catholic Slovene of German origin, and to her grandmother, Zahida, a Muslim Bosniak. When the Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) is a Nigerian writer. He is best known for writing the novels ''The Fishermen'' (2015) and ''An Orchestra of Minorities'' (2019), both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize in their respective years of publication. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. , Obioma is James E. Ryan Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Early life and influences Of Igbo descent, Obioma was born in 1986 into a family of 12 children — seven brothers and four sisters – in Akure, in the south-western part of Nigeria, where he grew up speaking Yoruba, Igbo, and English. As a child, he was fascinated by Greek myths and British writers, including Shakespeare, John Milton, and John Bunyan. Among African writers, he developed a strong affinity for Wole Soyinka's ''The Trials of Brother Jero''; Cyprian Ekwensi's ''An African Night's Entertainment''; Camara Laye's ''The African Child''; and D. O. Fagunwa's '' Ògbà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Nayeri
Dina Nayeri (born December 20, 1979) is an Iranian-American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She wrote the novels ''A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea'' (2014) and ''Refuge'' (2017) and the creative nonfiction books: ''The Ungrateful Refugee'' (2019), ''The Waiting Place'' (2020), and ''Who Gets Believed'' (2023). Early life and education Nayeri was born in Isfahan, Iran. Her mother was a doctor and her father a dentist. She spent the first 8 years of her life in Isfahan but left Iran with her mother and brother Daniel in 1988 because her mother had converted to Christianity and the moral police of the republic had threatened her with execution. Nayeri, her mother and brother spent two years in Dubai and Rome as asylum seekers and eventually settled in Oklahoma, in the United States.Dina Nayeri"My Father, in Four Visits over Thirty Years."New Yorker, 18 June 2017. Her father remained in Iran, where he still lives. Nayeri holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Martin
Valerie Martin (née Metcalf; born March 14, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her novel ''Property'' (2003) won the Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2012, ''The Observer'' named ''Property'' as one of "The 10 best historical novels". Early life Martin was born in Sedalia, Missouri, to John Roger Metcalf and Valerie Fleischer Metcalf. Her father was a sea captain and her mother was a housewife whose family goes back several generations in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was raised in New Orleans from the age of three, attending public elementary school and a Catholic high school ( Mount Carmel Academy). She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Orleans in 1970 and graduated from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1974. In the 1970s, Martin took a writing course at Loyola University New Orleans taught by Southern novelist Walker Percy. Academic career Martin has taught at multiple colleges and unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Biography Makkai grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. She is the daughter of linguistics professors Valerie Becker Makkai and , a refugee to the US following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Her paternal grandmother, , was a well-known actress and novelist in Hungary. Makkai graduated from Lake Forest Academy and attended Washington and Lee University where she graduated with a B.A. in English. She later earned a master's degree from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. Makkai has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada University and Northwestern University. She is the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago. Makkai has also taught at Lake Forest College and held the Mackey Chair in Creative Writing Beloit College. She has two children and lives in Lake Forest, Illinois. She met her husband, Jon Freeman, at Bread Loaf. Career Makkai's debut no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin (born 4 December 1957) is a Zimbabwean author, journalist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and former human rights lawyer. Best known for his writings concerning the breakdown of his native Zimbabwe, he has reported from more than 60 countries and written several books. He served as president of PEN American Center from 2012 to 2015 and resides in Manhattan, New York. Early life and education His mother was of English descent and was a former hospital doctor. His father was an engineer and is of Polish Jewish ancestry. His father's immediate family were killed in The Holocaust. Godwin grew up with his family in Rhodesia, where he attended St. George's College. He was conscripted into the British South Africa Police at the age of seventeen to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War. In 1978, his older sister Jain and her fiancé were killed when their car hit an army ambush. Another sister, Georgina Godwin, has worked as a journalist, broadcast presenter and pod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Glass
Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956) is an American novelist. Her debut novel, ''Three Junes'', won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002."National Book Awards – 2002" . Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With acceptance speech by Glass and essay by Judy Blundell from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Glass followed ''Three Junes'' with a second novel, ''The Whole World Over'', in 2006, set in the same Bank Street– universe, with three interwoven stories fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Ford
Jamie Ford (born July 9, 1968) is an American author. He is best known for his debut novel, '' Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.'' The book spent 130 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, and was also awarded best "Adult Fiction" book at the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. The book was also named the No. 1 Book Club Pick for Fall 2009/Winter 2010 by the American Booksellers Association. In 2013, Ford released his second book, ''Songs of Willow Frost.'' His stories have also been included in '' Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology'' and The Apocalypse Triptych, a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction where Ford wrote Asian-themed steampunk. The collections were edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey. Early life Jamie Ford was born on July 9, 1968, in Eureka, California, but grew up in Ashland, Oregon, and Port Orchard and Seattle, Washington. His father, a Seattle native, is of Chinese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
