Which of these American authors is best know for her bestselling novels that take place in the fictional village of Mitford, Jan Karon or Mary Gordon?
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Jan Karon Jan Karon is an American novelist who writes for both adults and young readers. She is the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Mitford novels, featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest, and the fictional village of Mitford. Her most recent Mitford novel, "Come Rain or Come Shine", debuted at #1 on the "New York Times" Bestseller List. She has been designated a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy (Illinois) by Keith Ackerman, Episcopal Bishop of Quincy, and in 2015, she was awarded the Library of Virginia's Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. Her original papers-to date are archived in Special Collections at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library.
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Mary Gordon (writer) Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer and the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism.
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Mark Joseph (author) Mark Joseph is an American novelist. He is the author of "To Kill the Potemkin," originally published in 1986. As a paperback, it spent four weeks on "The New York Times" bestseller list in July and August 1987.
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Out to Canaan Out to Canaan is a novel written by American author Jan Karon. It is the fourth book of "The Mitford Years" series.
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Mary and the Giant Mary and the Giant is an early, non-science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick in the years between 1953 and 1955, but not published until 1987.
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Mary Monroe Mary Monroe is a "New York Times" bestselling African-American fiction author. Her first novel, "The Upper Room", was published by St. Martin's Press in 1985. She is best known for her novel "God Don't Like Ugly" (originally published by Dafina Books in Fall 2000), and the series revolved around the characters first introduced in this book.
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Linda Gordon Linda Gordon is an American feminist and historian. She lives in New York City and in Madison, Wisconsin. She won the Marfield Prize for "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits".
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Nancy Freedman Nancy Mars Freedman (born July 4, 1920, in Evanston, Illinois, died August 10, 2010, in Greenbrae, California) was an American feminist novelist, the co-author of "Mrs. Mike".
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Losing Joe's Place Losing Joe's Place is a 1990 children's novel by Gordon Korman. The book was first published on April 1, 1990 through Scholastic and follows the adventures of three small town Ontario boys (Jason, Ferguson and Don) as they live in Jason's brother's (Joe) apartment in Toronto for a summer. However, there is one catch: Under no circumstances can they cause Joe to lose his lease. "Losing Joe's Place" was listed on YALSA's "Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2001".
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Leopold Tyrmand Leopold Tyrmand (May 16, 1920 in Warsaw, Poland – March 19, 1985) was a popular Polish-Jewish novelist, writer and editor. Tyrmand emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1966, and five years later married an American, Mary Ellen Fox. He served as editor of an anti-communist monthly "Chronicles of Culture" with John A. Howard. Tyrmand died of a heart attack at the age of 64 years in Florida.
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Mary Russell (character) Mary Russell is a fictional character in a mystery series by American author Laurie R. King.
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Marian Babson Marian Babson is a pseudonym for Ruth Stenstreem. She is a mystery author with a large body of work that rotates in and out of print. She was born in 1929 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States, but has lived most her life in London, England.
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Nancy Mitford Nancy Freeman-Mitford {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright Young People" on the London social scene in the inter-war years, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.
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Joan Slonczewski Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Her books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: "A Door into Ocean" (1987) and "The Highest Frontier" (2011). With John W. Foster she coauthors the textbook, "Microbiology: An Evolving Science" (W. W. Norton). She explores her ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at her blog Ultraphyte.
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Bertram Mitford (novelist) Bertram Mitford (13 June 1855 - 4 October 1914) was a colonial writer, novelist, essayist and cultural critic who wrote forty-four books, most of which are set in South Africa.
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Sam Greenlee Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as "The Sunday Times" Book of the Year. The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a "cult classic".
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Christmas Pudding (novel) Christmas Pudding, is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1932. It tells the story of a Christmas spent in the Cotswolds during an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease, away from the busy city life of London.
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Maura Stone Maura Stone (born 1955) is a contemporary American author. With the publication of her first novel, "Five-Star FLEECING" in December 2009, she was described as a "promising new star in the literary world" by the "Queens Gazette" on 6/2/2010. The book was reviewed on 2/8/2010 by renowned literary critic Harriet Klausner who labeled it as a "superb scathing satire of the hospitality business." It was also reviewed by the Midwest Book Review on 4/3/2010 as a "humorous delve into the underworld of class, highly recommended." Five-Star FLEECING is the winner of the 2011 National Indie Excellence Award in the category of comedy.
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Margaret Frazer Margaret Frazer, born Gail Lynn Brown (November 26, 1946 – February 4, 2013), was an American historical novelist, best known for more than twenty historical mystery novels and a variety of short stories. The pen name was originally shared by Frazer and Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld in their collaboration on "The Novice's Tale", the first of the "Sister Frevisse" books featuring the Benedictine nun Dame Frevisse. Their collaboration came to an end with "The Murderer's Tale", the sixth book in the series. Starting with the Edgar Award-nominated "The Prioress' Tale", the Margaret Frazer pen name was used exclusively by Gail Frazer. She also wrote the "Player Joliffe" mysteries, starring the medieval actor Joliffe.
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Mary Caponegro Mary Caponegro (born November 21, 1956) is an American experimental fiction writer whose collections include "Tales from the Next Village", "The Star Cafe", "Five Doubts", "The Complexities of Intimacy", and "All Fall Down". Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature in 1992, and is also the recipient of The General Electric Award for Younger Writers, the Bruno Arcudi Prize, and the Charles Flint Kellog Award in Arts and Letters. She has taught at Brown University, RISD, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Syracuse University. She is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature at Bard College. Her work has been praised for its syntactic complexity and its surreal, fabulist content.
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Miriam Karmel Miriam Karmel is an American novelist and writer. Her first novel, "Being Esther" (2013), is one of only a few involving characters in their eighties.
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Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable". Following the publication of the 1975 novel "Curtain", Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of "The New York Times". The literary historian Howard Haycraft considered that "few fictional sleuths can surpass the amazing little Belgian—with his waxed moustache and egg-shaped head, his inflated confidence in the infallibility of his 'little grey cells', his murderous attacks on the English language—either for individuality or ingenuity."