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I Wear the Black Hat I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) is a book written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2013. It is a collection of twelve essays examining the nature of villainy through the lens of popular culture, rock music, and sports. It is the eighth book released by Klosterman. The book debuted at number 5 on the "New York Times" bestseller list.
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Chuck Klosterman Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972) is an American author and essayist who has written books and essays focused on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for "Esquire" and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for "The New York Times Magazine". Klosterman is the author of nine books, including two novels and the essay collection "".
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Emily Cheney Neville Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. She was born in Manchester, Connecticut and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the "New York Daily News" and the "New York Daily Mirror" newspapers. She had five children with her husband, Glenn Neville, a newspaperman, and lived in New York City. Her first book, "It's Like This, Cat" (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964. Her other works include: "Berries Goodman" (1965); "The Seventeen-Street Gang" (1966); "Traveler From a Small Kingdom" (1968); and "Fogarty" (1969).
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Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States in novels such as "Tobacco Road" (1932) and "God's Little Acre" (1933) won him critical acclaim, but also made him controversial among Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the people of the region.
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Marion Holland Marion Holland (July 17, 1908 – April 6, 1989) was an American children’s book writer and illustrator from Washington, DC. Holland’s best-known books were "A Big Ball of String"; "No Children, No Pets"; "Billy Had a System"; and "The Secret Horse." "A Big Ball of String" (1958), which sold more than a million copies, was one of the six original Beginner Books published by Random House, along with "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss.
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Black Robe Black Robe, first published in 1985, is a historical novel by Brian Moore set in New France in the 17th century. Its central theme is the collision of European and Native American cultures soon after first contact. First Nations peoples historically called French Jesuit priests "Black Robes" because of their religious habit.
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Gwen Bristow Gwen Bristow (September 16, 1903 in Marion, South Carolina – August 17, 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American author and journalist. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Myrlie Evers-Williams Myrlie Louise Evers–Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist of the Civil Rights Movement and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband Medgar Evers in 1963. She was also chairwoman of the NAACP, and published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband’s legacy. On January 21, 2013, she delivered the invocation at the second inauguration of Barack Obama.
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Bruce Cassiday Bruce Cassiday (1920–2005) was an American author and editor. He was born on January 25, 1920, in Los Angeles, California, and attended UCLA. Among his pseudonyms were Con Steffanson, Annie Laurie McAllister, Annie Laurie McMurdie, Mary Ann Drew, C.K. Fong. He also collaborated with other authors.
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Beverly Cleary Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; born April 12, 1916) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful living authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of Cleary's best known characters are Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse.
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Jennifer Roberson Jennifer Mitchell Roberson (born October 26, 1953) is an American author of fantasy and historical literature.
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Kristin Hunter Kristin Elaine Hunter (September 12, 1931 – November 14, 2008) was an African-American writer from Pennsylvania. She sometimes wrote under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. She is best known for her first novel, "God Bless the Child", published in 1964.
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Bobbie Ann Mason Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is a Southern United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky.
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Henry Beard Henry Nichols Beard (born June 7, 1945) is an American humorist, one of the founders of the magazine "National Lampoon" and the author of several best-selling books.
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Charles Barber (author) Charles Barber (born 1962) is an American author who writes about mental health, psychiatric, and criminal justice issues.
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The Black Riders and Other Lines The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). It was first published in 1895 by Copeland & Day.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" as the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." In 1968 she was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's writers.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne ( ; born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.
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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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Bel Kaufman Bella "Bel" Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel "Up the Down Staircase."
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Anne Stevenson Anne Stevenson (born January 3, 1933) is an American-British poet and writer.
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Donald Windham Donald Windham (July 2, 1920 – May 31, 2010) was an American novelist and memoirist. He is perhaps best known for his close friendships with Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Windham moved with his then-boyfriend Fred Melton, an artist, to New York City in 1939. In 1942 Windham collaborated with Williams on the play, "You Touched Me"!, which is based on a D. H. Lawrence short story with the same title. Windham received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960.