The Global Syndicator - american novelists

Ric Estrada

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:50:34 +0000

Ric Estrada was born in February 1928 in Cuba. Although best known as a penciller of comic books, he has also worked in a political cartoons, advertising, storyboarding, book illustration and other artistic endeavors.

Estrada made his first professional sale at the age of 13; the illustration was used on the cover of a top Cuban magazine. Through a family connection with Ernest Hemingway and an uncle in New York, Estrada moved to New York to further his artistic career.

Nicholas Ian Rand

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:10:18 +0000

birthplace = Alamo Heights, Texas), United States deathdate = deathplace = occupation = novelist, travel agent nationality = United States genre = Non-Fiction, Series Fiction movement = influences = influenced = website = }} Nicholas Ian Rand (born December 30, 1964 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American author and travel agent. He is the author of the non-fiction book "A Second Christmas," available on the Amazon.com Kindle e-book.

Life

Nicholas Ian Rand was born at Santa Rosa Children's Hospital in San Antonio, Texas to parents Kenneth and Diana. He has two sisters, Tina and Deborah.

Jane Ransom

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:03:18 +0000

Jane Reavill Ransom is a prize-winning American novelist and poet.

From 1984–89 she was a New York Daily News national/international editor. She was also an editor for the San Juan Star. In 1990 she held a NYU fellowship in comparative literature, 1988–90. From 1997–2002 she was professor of creative writing at Rutgers and New York University. In 2004 she was distinguished poet in residence at Saint Mary’s College of California.

Carol Plum-Ucci

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:30:22 +0000

Carol 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

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:24:25 +0000

Harvey 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

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:41:32 +0000

Robert 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.

Brooks Hansen

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:39:09 +0000

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)

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:39:54 +0000

Ellery 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

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:03:36 +0000

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

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:16:06 +0000

James 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

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:05:41 +0000

Thomas 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.