A Fellowship Published
The classic book by J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings was first published as three volumes; The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King on July 21, 1954, on November 11, 1954 and on October 20, 1955 respectively in the United Kingdom. The book was created as a [...]
He Changed What We Read
Harold Robbins with more than 20 published books in 32 different languages and selling over 750 million copies can easily be considered one of the World’s Bestselling Author. He was born on May 21, 1916 and although he often claimed to be a Jewish orphan (just like the character in his first novel Never Love [...]
Author James Jones – He Wrote About WWII and More
James Ramon Jones was born in Robinson, Illinois on November 6, 1921. He was the second son of Ramon and Ada Jones. His older brother his older brother was George W. He also had a younger sister, Mary Ann. On November 10, 1939, three days after his eighteenth birthday he enlisted in the United States [...]
Alice of Wonderland
There is a lot of buzz about the new Alice in Wonderland movie. The film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen and others is not a retelling of the original books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the [...]
Remembering A Science Fiction Master
Unless you were a Science Fiction fan in the 1960s and 70s, you may not know the name Philip Jose Farmer. But during this period he was one of the genre’s best. Farmer passed away on February 25, 2009, a month after his 91st birthday. Phillip Jose Farmer was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on [...]
The Mystery Dies
December 3, 1926 was a quiet Friday evening. Mystery writer Agatha Christie was well on her way as an established writing having just published her seventh book, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. After giving her daughter a goodnight kiss she suddenly left the house for a car ride. The next morning the car was discovered [...]
Philp Jose Farmer
Unless you were a Science Fiction fan in the 1960s and 70s, you may not know the name Philip Jose Farmer. But during this period he was one of the genre’s best. Farmer passed away on February 25th, a month after his 91st birthday. Phillip Jose Farmer was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on January [...]
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
A Christmas Carol by English novelist Charles Dickens was first published on December 19, 1843. It had illustrations by John Leech. The story is divided into Staves and not chapters. A stave, which is similar to a stanza, is found in music as a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. Dickens felt this added humor [...]
J.R.R. Tolkien – Life and Works
In Bloemfontein, South Africa, on January 3, 1892, John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien was born. His father, Arthur Reuel Tolkien was an English banker and had moved to Bloemfontein with his wife Mabel as part of his job. By the time Tolkien was 13 both of his parents had died, first his father in 1896 [...]
First Books in a Long Running Series
1. James Bond – Casino Royale – 1950 – Ian Fleming 2. Nero Wolfe – Fer-De-Lance – 1934 – Rex Stout 3. Travis McGee – The Deep Blue Goodbye – 1964 – John D. MacDonald 4. Kay Scarpetta – Postmortem – 1990- Patricia Cornwell 5. Kent Family Chronicles – The Bastard – 1974 – John [...]
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