[Name] produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
She also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott.
These bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by the critics, but have since earned an enduring reputation for storytelling craft.
[Name']'s first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971.
His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
Having been home-schooled for most part of her childhood, mostly in English classics and Victorian literature, [name] began writing professionally in 1900.
Though [name] had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.
He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.
He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980.
He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
[Name] has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books.
His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de [name] ('the language of [name]').
Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.
His first short story, 'Blackmailers Don't Shoot', was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine.
[Name] wrote 22 novels, including her series of five novels with Tom Ripley as protagonist, and many short stories.
[Name] is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a 'father of science fiction', along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
In more recent years, a collection of [name]'s girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published.
[Name] was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.
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