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E L Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow (Edgar Laurence Doctorow) , 1931-, American novelist, b. New York City. Doctorow is known for his skillful blending of fiction and fact into reconstructions of eras in American history. His first work was a novel of the 19th-century West, Welcome to Hard Times (1960), but he did... Read more |
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E.L. Doctorow
Edgar Laurence Doctorow E.L. Doctorow (born 1931) is widely regarded as one of America's pre-eminent novelists of the 20th Century. His work is philosophically probing, employing an adventurous prose style, and the use of historical and quasi-historical figures, situations, and settings.... Read more |
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Detective fiction
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Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison Spillane), 1918-2006, American mystery writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. After contributing stories to comic books and pulp magazines, Spillane wrote his first novel, I, the Jury (1947), a best seller that introduced the ruthless detective Mike Hammer. A master of... Read more |
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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler1947–2006 Writer "I didn't decide to become a science fiction writer," Octavia Butler claimed in an interview with Frances M. Beal in the Black Scholar. "It just happened." Butler—the most recognized black woman writer in the genre—became one of sci-fi's leading lights with a... Read more |
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Fiction
Fiction BIBLIOGRAPHY Fictions include a variety of things: face-saving untruths that no one believes; devices of convenience in law; and unreal postulates such as the supposed inner planet Vulcan. This entry will address a narrower field: discourse that aims to convey a narrative of events but... Read more |
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Brian Stokes Mitchell
Brian Stokes Mitchell 1957– Actor At a Glance… Returned to Theatre Earned a Tony Award Nomination Sources Brian Stokes Mitchell is an actor and singer with a varied career in television and theater. Mitchell’s dramatic and vocal abilities are well displayed in the... Read more |
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