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Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany, Jr. 1942– Science fiction and short story writer Read more |
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science fiction
science fiction literary genre in which a background of science or pseudoscience is an integral part of the story. Although science fiction is a form of fantastic literature, many of the events recounted are within the realm of future possibility, e.g., robots, space travel, interplanetary war,... Read more |
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Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner 1889-1970, American detective-story writer, b. Malden, Mass. He served as a trial lawyer for many years. About 1921 he began writing detective stories for magazines; after that time he produced an extraordinary number of novels and stories noted for their fast action and clever... Read more |
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Bluebeard
Bluebeard nickname of the chevalier Raoul in a story by Charles Perrault. In the story Bluebeard's seventh wife, Fatima, yielding to curiosity, opens a locked door and discovers the slain bodies of her predecessors. She is saved from death by the timely arrival of her brothers, for whose coming her... Read more |
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Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant (Mavis Leslie Gallant) , 1922-, Canadian writer, b. Montreal. A newspaper reporter in Canada (1944-50), she moved to Europe in 1950 and ultimately settled in Paris, where she has continued to live. She is acclaimed for her mastery of the short story and first published work appeared... Read more |
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Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda A very popular writer in Italy in her time, Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) was a practitioner of Italian verismo or "realist" fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The setting for Deledda's novels and... Read more |
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Mary Mapes Dodge
Mary Mapes Dodge 1831-1905, American writer of children's stories, b. New York City. During her lifetime she was the acknowledged leader in the field of juvenile fiction. Her story Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865) has become a children's classic. From 1873 until her death she edited and... Read more |
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Miriam Tlali
TLALI, Miriam (Masoli) Nationality: South African. Born: Doornfontein, Transvaal. Education: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Career: Co-founder, Staffrider magazine; board member, Skotaville Press. Address: c/o Pandora Press, 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8JB,... Read more |
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