Who is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States, Joseph Wambaugh or Helen Zahavi?
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Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists.
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Helen Zahavi Helen Zahavi (born 1966) is an English novelist and screenwriter born and educated in London. Her father was sent to Britain with the Polish Army during the Second World War and her mother's parents came from Odessa. Before becoming a writer Zahavi worked as a Russian translator, and has spent several years living in Paris.
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Victim: The Other Side of Murder Victim: The Other Side of Murder (Delacorte Press, ISBN  ) is a 1982 true crime book by Gary Kinder. The book is based on actual characters and events of the so-called "Hi-Fi murders" that took place on April 22, 1974, in Ogden, Utah.
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Laughing Whitefish Laughing Whitefish is a 1965 historical novel by Justice John D. Voelker, writing under the pen name "Robert Traver". It is based on an actual trilogy of Michigan Supreme Court cases from the 1880s. The final case in the series, "Kobogum v. Jackson Iron Co.", established in Michigan the general rule that state courts must defer to tribal law in cases involving the internal, domestic relations of American Indians residing within their own territory.
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Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ( ; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires "Decline and Fall" (1928) and "A Handful of Dust" (1934), the novel "Brideshead Revisited" (1945) and the Second World War trilogy "Sword of Honour" (1952–61). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
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Evelyn Waugh bibliography Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was a British writer, journalist and reviewer, generally considered as one of the leading English prose writers of the 20th century. The following lists his fiction, travel and biographical works, together with selected articles and reviews.
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Dirty Weekend (novel) Dirty Weekend (1991) is a novel by Helen Zahavi, adapted into a film two years later by Zahavi and director Michael Winner. In the US it was first published under the title The Weekend; some editions are subtitled "A Novel of Revenge".
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The Optimist's Daughter The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty. It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after he has surgery for a detached retina. He fails to recover from the surgery, though, surrenders to his age, and dies slowly as Laurel reads to him from Dickens. Her father's second wife Fay, who is younger than Laurel, is a shrewish outsider from Texas. Her shrill response to the Judge's illness appears to accelerate his demise. Laurel and Fay are thrown together when they return the Judge to his home town of Mount Salus, Mississippi, where he will be buried. There, Laurel is immersed in the enveloping good neighborliness of the friends and family she knew before marrying and moving away to Chicago. Fay, though, has always been unwelcome and takes off for a long weekend, leaving Laurel in the big house full of memories. Laurel encounters her mother's memory, her father's life after he lost his first wife, and the complex emotions surrounding her loss and the wave of memories in which she swims. She comes to a place of understanding that Fay can never share, and leaves small town Mississippi with the memories she can carry with her.
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Helen Epstein Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.
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John Cheever John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote four novels, comprising "The Wapshot Chronicle" (National Book Award, 1958),
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Serpent (novel) Serpent is the first book in the NUMA Files series of books co-written by best-selling author Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos, and was published in 1999. The main character of this series is Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala.
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John L'Heureux John Clarke L'Heureux (born October 26, 1934) is an American author. Heureux is the author of such works of fiction as "The Miracle", "Having Everything", "The Shrine at Altamira", "Comedians", "An Honorable Profession", and "A Woman Run Mad". A former Jesuit priest (he left the order in 1971) and contributing editor to "The Atlantic Monthly", he has taught at Georgetown, Tufts, Harvard, and been a professor of English at Stanford University since 1973.
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Joseph Schacht Joseph Franz Schacht (born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose "Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence" (1950) is still considered a centrally important work on the subject. The author of many articles in the first and second editions of the "Encyclopaedia of Islam", Schacht also edited the second edition of "The Legacy of Islam" for the "Legacy" series of Oxford University Press and authored a textbook under the title "An Introduction to Islamic Law" (1964).
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James Baldwin James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and social critic. His essays, as collected in "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, for instance "The Fire Next Time" (1963), "No Name in the Street" (1972), and "The Devil Finds Work" (1976). An unfinished manuscript, "Remember This House", was expanded upon and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film "I Am Not Your Negro".
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Helen Simpson (author) Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1957 in Bristol, in the West of England, and grew up first in Wealdstone then in a suburb of Croydon where she went to a girls' school. Her mother was a primary-school teacher and her father was a naval architect who later taught. The first from her family to go to university, she read English at Oxford where she wrote a thesis on Restoration farce. She worked at "Vogue" for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, "Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories", 1990, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was followed by a second collection, "Dear George", in 1995. "Hey Yeah Right Get A Life", 2000, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize, and was renamed "Getting a Life" for its US publication. She was awarded the E.M. Forster Award in 2002 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent story collections are: "Constitutional" (2005), renamed "In the Driver's Seat" for its US publication; "In-Flight Entertainment" (2010); and "Cockfosters" (2015). "A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories" was published in 2012.
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The Trial of Steven Truscott The Trial of Steven Truscott is a book written by Isabel LeBourdais, published in 1966, on the trial and conviction of Steven Truscott for the murder of Lynne Harper in 1959. The book "attacked the rapid police investigation and trial, calling into question a justice system that many people then considered infallible."
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Wayne Hoffman (author) Wayne Hoffman is an American author and journalist.
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Joseph Kirkland Joseph Kirkland (January 7, 1830 - April 29, 1894) was an American novelist. Born in Geneva, New York, to educator William Kirkland and author Caroline Kirkland, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major. He resigned his Union Army commission and moved to Tilton, Illinois, where he married Theodosia B. Wilkinson in 1863. In 1864 he founded the Midwestern literary periodical "Prairie Chicken". After the war he became a lawyer while also pursuing writing. He is best remembered as the author of two realistic novels of pioneer life in the Far West, "Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County (1887)" and "The McVeys". Other works are "The Captain of Company K" and "The Story of Chicago". He was also the literary editor of the "Chicago Tribune". Kirkland died in Chicago at the age of 64.
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Zabibah and the King Zabibah and the King (Arabic: زبيبة والملك‎ ‎ "Zabībah wal-Malik") is a romance novel, originally published anonymously in Iraq in 2000, that was written by Saddam Hussein.
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Grace Halsell Grace Halsell (May 7, 1923 – August 16, 2000) was an American journalist and writer.
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George V. Higgins George V. Higgins (November 13, 1939 – November 6, 1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels. His full name was George Vincent Higgins II, after an uncle living in Randolph, but he dropped the numeric (unofficially) in mid life. His books were all published as by George V. Higgins.
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Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held United States citizenship.