american novelists
Carol Plum-Ucci
1957 births | american children's writers | american essayists | american library association | american novelists | book one new jersey winners | edgar allan poe award | living people | michael l. printz honor book award | new jersey writers | purdue university graduates | suspense writers | young adult literary service association | young adult novelistsCarol Plum-Ucci (born August 16, 1957 in [Atlantic City, New Jersey]) is a young adult novelist and essayist. Plum-Ucci’s most famous work to date is (The Body of Christopher Creed, for which she won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award in 2002 and was named a Finalist to the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Describing her subjects as "the most common, timeless, and most heart-felt teenagers," Plum-Ucci is widely recognized for her use of the South Jersey shore to set scenes for engaging characters embracing suspense themes.
Harvey Swados
1920 births | 1972 deaths | american jews | american novelists | university of michigan alumniHarvey Swados (1920-1972) was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of a doctor. A graduate of the University of Michigan. Swados was a four year veteran of the Merchant Marine during World War II and published his first novel in 1955. Swados's 1959 essay for Esquire, "Why Resign from the Human Race?," has often been said to have inspired the formation of the Peace Corps.
Robert Kaplow
american novelistsRobert Kaplow is a novelist and teacher whose works include Two in the City; Alex Icicle: A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters; Alessandra in Love and Alessandra in Between, two comic tales about the romantic tribulations of a sardonic and intelligent high school junior; The Cat Who Killed Lillian Jackson Braun: A Parody, satirizing the books of Lilian Jackson Braun and the mystery genre; and Me and Orson Welles: A Novel, a romantic coming-of-age story set in 1937 around the founding of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. Me and Orson Welles was a New York Times bestseller and is currently optioned for film by Richard Linklater and set to star Zac Efron as Richard Samuels. Kaplow's most recent novel is Who's Killing the Great Writers of America?, a satire of writers, critics, and publishers. For National Public Radio's Morning Edition, Mr. Kaplow created "Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters," a series of musical and satirical pop-culture parodies. He is currently completing " Nobody's Heart: A Novel About Teachers".
He is also currently a popular English teacher in New Jersey.
See also
Brooks Hansen
american novelists | living people | new york writers period = 1990 - present genre = Literary fiction subject = movement = debut_works = Boone (1990) influences = influenced = signature = website = footnotes = }} Brooks Hansen is an American novelist, best known for his 1995 book The Chess Garden. He has also written one young adult's novel.
Works
- Boone (1990) Co-written with childhood friend, and Harvard classmate Nick Davis.
- The Chess Garden (1995) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Selected for the Fall 1995 Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" program.
- Caesar's Antlers (1997) For young adults
- Perlman's Ordeal: A Novel (1999)
- The Monsters of St. Helena (2003)
Ellery Queen (house name)
american mystery writers | american novelists | collective pseudonyms | edgar award winners | fictional amateur detectives | fictional writers | literary collaborations | novel seriesEllery Queen was the pen name for two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective character named Ellery Queen. At various points in their history, the cousins allowed the name of Ellery Queen to be used as a house name; novels written by other writers were published under that name. The cousins also wrote four novels that were published under the name "Barnaby Ross" -- they later allowed that name to be used as a house name.
Crime novels attributed to Ellery Queen but by other authors
All ghost writers are identified where knownCrime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Allen J. Hubin, Garland, 1984, ISBN 0 8240 9219 8. Post-1961 novels are usually paperback originals. All titles were edited and supervised by Lee except The Blue Movie Murders, which was edited and supervised by Dannay after Lee's death. Unless noted, these novels do not feature Ellery Queen as a character.Nephi Anderson
1865 births | 1923 deaths | american novelists | latter day saint art and culture | latter day saint writers | lds fiction | mormon missionaries | religious themed fiction | the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints periodicals birth_place = Christiana, Norway
death_date = death_place = Salt Lake City), Utah, United States occupation = Educator, author, genealogist nationality = Norwegian period = 1889 - 1923 movement = LDS fiction, Home Literature magnum_opus = Added Upon influences = influenced = }}
James Reese
american fantasy writers | american horror writers | american novelists | erotic horror writers | erotica writers | florida writers | living people | state university of new york at stony brook alumni | university of notre dame alumniJames Reese is an American author of gothic and historical fiction.
He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in Theatre from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Thomas W. Hanshew
1857 births | 1914 deaths | american novelists | american stage actors | people from brooklynThomas W. Hanshew (1857&45;1914) was an American actor and writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He went on the stage when only 16 years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company. Subsequently he played important r&244;les with Clara Morris and Adelaide Neilson. Later he was associated with a publishing house in London, where he resided at the close of his life. He used, among others, the pen name "Charlotte May Kingsley," and wrote more than 150 novels.
