Are Jeff Noon and John Banville both novelists?
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Jeff Noon Jeff Noon (born 1957 in Droylsden, Lancashire, England) is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make use of word play and fantasy. Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges. Prior to his relocation in 2000 to Brighton, Noon set most of his stories in some version of his native city of Manchester.
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John Banville William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today." He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
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Joe Gores Joseph Nicholas "Joe" Gores (born December 25, 1931, in Rochester, Minnesota, United States; died January 10, 2011, in Greenbrae, California) was an American mystery writer. He was known best for his novels and short stories set in San Francisco and featuring the fictional "Dan Kearney and Associates" (the "DKA Files") private investigation firm specializing in repossessing cars, a thinly veiled escalation of his own experiences as a confidential sleuth and repo man. Gores was also recognized for his novels "Hammett" (1975; made into the 1982 film "Hammett"), "Spade & Archer" (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon") and his Edgar Award-winning or -nominated works, such as "A Time of Predators", "32 Cadillacs" and "Come Morning".
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J. Lee J Lee is an American actor and writer, known as Lt. John LaMarr on the Fox science fiction comedy television series "The Orville".
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Ghosts (Banville novel) Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville. Published in 1993, it was his first novel since "The Book of Evidence" (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a "triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works." This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel.
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John Blumenthal John Blumenthal (born 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for co-writing the screenplays for the films "Short Time" and "Blue Streak".
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Victor J. Banis Victor J. Banis (born 1937) is an American author, often associated with the first wave of west coast gay writing. For his contributions he has been called "the godfather of modern popular gay fiction." He is openly gay.
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John Stanley Pottinger John Stanley Pottinger (born February 13, 1940) is an American novelist, lawyer, banker, and former politician.
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John Banting John Banting (12 May 1902 – 30 January 1972) was an English artist and writer.
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Jeff Johnson (musician) Jeff Johnson (born 1956) is a musician residing in Camano Island, Island County, Washington, United States. Stemming from a progressive-rock background, he works within a contemporary artistic-Christian framework, and precedes much of the new-age music to which much of his music would later be compared. He has made collaborations with various other well-known musicians, including Sandy Simpson, Brian Dunning, and Phil Keaggy. His works also include collaborations with contemporary author Stephen Lawhead.
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Jeff McMullen Jeffrey John "Jeff" McMullen AM, is an Australian journalist and author and television presenter. He was a foreign correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for almost two decades (1966–1984), international reporter for the investigative television program "Four Corners" and later joined the Australian version of "60 Minutes" (1984–2000). In 2007 he hosted a 33-part discussion series on ABC1 titled "Difference of Opinion". and later chaired many Indigenous forums on NITV. He is the author of a number of books including A Life of Extremes - Journeys and Encounters (HarperCollins Australia 2001); Dispossession : Neo Liberism and The Struggle For Aboriginal Land Ands Rights In The 21ST Century ( IN BLACK & WHITE, Connor Court Publishing, 2013) and Rolling Thunder: Voices Against Oppression (The Intervention 2013)
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Noon (play) Noon is a one-act play by Terrence McNally. It constitutes the second segment of the trilogy "Morning, Noon and Night", which premiered on Broadway in 1968.
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John Lee (author) John Lee (born March 12, 1931) is an American writer of thrillers, many of them set in Second World War settings, as well as non-fiction books. He was also a professor of journalism, distinguished by his conscious decision not to take up a doctorate despite having made all the preparations for it.
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Afternoon Men Afternoon Men is the first published novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. In its characters and themes it anticipates some of the ground Powell would cover in "A Dance to the Music of Time", a twelve-volume cycle that spans much of the 20th century and is widely considered Powell's masterpiece.
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John Kaye (screenwriter) John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include "American Hot Wax", "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins" and "Where the Buffalo Roam". He also directed the feature film "Forever Lulu", starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971. A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T. Nelson, John Amos, and McLean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business. In 2012, " The Los Angeles Review of Books" began publishing his memoirs.
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Robert Gover Robert Gover (November 2, 1929 – January 12, 2015) was an American journalist who became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, "One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding", a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. Gover worked with writers for three decades, and one of his best known students was American writer Christopher Klim. "On the Run with Dick and Jane" was his ninth novel. His previous book, "Time and Money", explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. In 2015, the Eric Hoffer Prose Award was renamed the Gover Story Prize in his honor.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. The book, Berendt's first, was published in 1994. It became a "New York Times" Best-Seller for 216 weeks following its debut and remains the longest-standing "New York Times" Best-Seller.
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Morley Callaghan Morley Edward Callaghan, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.
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John Metcalfe (writer) William John Metcalfe (6 October 1891 – 31 July 1965) was a teacher, short story writer and novelist from England, who twice emigrated to the United States.
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John Wallach John Wallach (January 18, 1943 – July 10, 2002) was an American journalist, author and editor as well as founder of Seeds of Peace international camp in Maine.
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Jeff Torrington Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland.
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Josephine Pinckney Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney (January 25, 1895 – October 4, 1957) was a novelist and poet in the literary revival of the American South after World War I. Her first best-selling novel was the social comedy, "Three O'clock Dinner" (1945).