Which one of these American author's, Susan Vreeland or Harry Mathews, was responsible for various novels and able to translate French?
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Susan Vreeland Susan Joyce Vreeland (January 20, 1946 – August 23, 2017) was an American author. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. "The Passion of Artemisia" is a fictionalised investigation of some aspects of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while "The Girl in Hyacinth Blue" centres round an imaginary painting by Vermeer. "The Forest Lover" is a fictionalized account of the life of the Canadian painter Emily Carr.
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Harry Mathews Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer. He is the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of French.
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Harry Kemp Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 – August 5, 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted himself as) the "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet", or the "Tramp Poet", and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era, the "hero of adolescent Americans."
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The Torture Garden The Torture Garden (French: "Le Jardin des supplices" ) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel is ironically dedicated: "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."
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Heidi's Children Heidi's Children is a 1939 novel, the second of four sequel novels to Johanna Spyri's original "Heidi" series, written by Spyri's French and English translator, Charles Tritten. It was originally published in French by Flammarion in Paris in 1939, and in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1939.
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Tideland Tideland is the third published book by author Mitch Cullin, and is the third installment of the writer's "Texas Trilogy" that also includes the coming-of-age novel "Whompyjawed" and the novel-in-verse "Branches".
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Madame Thérèse Madame Thérèse is a novel jointly written by French authors Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian. It deals with the topics of the French Revolution and the resulting social upheaval, destruction caused by war, the formation of the first French Republic, the ideals of justice and equality among classes, and friendship and devotion. The book was first published in French in 1863. It was translated into English and published under the title "Madame Thérèse or The volunteers of '92" by Charles Scribner and Company in 1889.
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Susan Hill Susan Hill CBE (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include "The Woman in Black", "" and "I'm the King of the Castle" for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.
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Roger Boylan Roger Boylan is an American writer (b. 1951) who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland. His Irish novel "Killoyle, "called "a virtuoso performance" by "Publishers Weekly", is published by Dalkey Archive Press. His second Irish novel, "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad", is published by Grove Press; the "Village Voice" said it resembled the work of James Joyce "at his comically prolix best." Both novels were translated into German by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt. The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, "The Maladjusted Terrorist", was published in German in 2007, and the entire Killoyle trilogy was reissued as a boxed set that year by the Swiss publisher Kein und Aber.
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G. M. Malliet G. M. Malliet is an American author of mystery novels and short stories.
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Susan Wiggs Susan Wiggs is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels.
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Lauren Oliver Lauren Oliver (born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982) is an American author of numerous young adult novels including "Panic," the Delirium trilogy; "Delirium", "Pandemonium" and "Requiem", and "Before I Fall," which became a major motion picture in 2017. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally. Oliver is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel "Liesl & Po", as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel "The Spindlers".
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Blue Balliett Blue Balliett (born 1955 in New York) is an American author, best known for her award-winning novel for children, "Chasing Vermeer". She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her family started calling her Blue shortly after her birth.
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Vaddey Ratner Vaddey Ratner is a Cambodian-American author of novels.
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Stephen McKenna (novelist) Stephen McKenna (27 February 1888 – 26 September 1967) was an English novelist who wrote forty-seven novels, mostly focusing on English upper-class society, and six non-fiction titles. He published his first novel, "The Reluctant Lover", in 1912. His best-known novel, "Sonia: Between Two Worlds", was published in 1917. It was the tenth best-selling novel for 1918 in the United States, and also made into a British film of the same name in 1921.
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Jacqueline Briskin Jacqueline Briskin, née Orgell (18 December 1927 – 24 December 2014) was a British-born American writer specializing in historical fiction from 1970 to 1995. Her books regularly appear on the "New York Times" bestseller's list. She was a main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club seven times, her novels were translated into 26 languages, and has sold 23,000,000 copies worldwide.
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William Slater Brown William Slater Brown (November 13, 1896 – June 22, 1997) was an American novelist, biographer, and translator of French literature. Most notably, he was a friend of the poet E. E. Cummings and is best known as the character "B." in Cumming's 1922 memoir/novel "The Enormous Room".
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Edwin Mullhouse Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright is the critically acclaimed debut novel by American author Steven Millhauser, published in 1972 and written in the form of a biography of a fictitious person by a fictitious author. It was Millhauser's best known novel until the publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Martin Dressler" in 1997, and according to Patrick McGrath writing in "The New York Times" it is his best work. "Edwin Mullhouse" is described by "Publishers Weekly" as a 'cult novel'.
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Robert Ludlum bibliography Robert Ludlum (1927–2001) was an American author of twenty-seven novels between 1971 and 2006, the last being issued five years after his death. Of his twenty-seven novels, two were originally published under the pseudonym of Jonathan Ryder and another under the pseudonym of Michael Shepherd. Ludlum also created the "Covert-One" series, overseeing the first three novels with Gayle Lynds and Philip Shelby before his death. Following Ludlum's death, his estate has continued to publish novels under his name with eight authors having written a combined twenty-two novels under the Ludlum brand, a trademark inscription of "Robert Ludlum's" on every book (e.g. "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion"). Since 2007, publishing rights in the United States have been held by Grand Central Publishing, taking over from St. Martin's Press who held the rights from 2000 to 2006.
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The Groves of Academe The Groves of Academe (1952) is a novel by American writer Mary McCarthy. Considered to be one of the first academic novels, it concerns the sequence of events that take place after Henry Mulcahy, a literary instructor at the fictive Jocelyn College, learns that his teaching appointment will not be renewed. The novel is intended as a satire of academics based on the author's teaching experiences at Bard and Sarah Lawrence Colleges. The book is prefaced by a quote from Horace's "Epistles," "Atque inter silvas academi quaerere verum", which translates from the Latin as "And Seek for Truth in the Garden of Academus." The book's first chapter, "An Unexpected Letter," originally appeared in "The New Yorker".
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw Eloise Jarvis McGraw (December 9, 1915 – November 30, 2000) was an American author of children's books and young adult novels. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels "Moccasin Trail" (1952), "The Golden Goblet" (1962), and "The Moorchild" (1997). "A Really Weird Summer" (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. McGraw had a very strong interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are "Greensleeves", "The Seventeenth Swap", and "Mara, Daughter of the Nile". A Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was given to "Moccasin Trail" in 1963.
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Frances Winfield Frances Winfield, also known as Frances Bremer is an American author, also notable for being the wife of the former administrator of Iraq, Ambassador Paul Bremer.