When was the author of When We Were Orphans born?
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When We Were Orphans When We Were Orphans is the fifth novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2000. It is loosely categorised as a detective novel. "When We Were Orphans" was shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize, though it is considered one of Ishiguro's weakest works, with Ishiguro himself saying "It's not my best book".
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Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.
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Erik Christian Haugaard Erik Christian Haugaard (April 13, 1923 – June 4, 2009) was a Danish-born American writer, best known for children's books and for his translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.
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April Halprin Wayland April Halprin Wayland (born 1954) is an American children's and young adult author, poet, and teacher.
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Joan Didion Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
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The Life of Our Lord The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus Christ written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing "David Copperfield". "The Life of Our Lord" was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens' death.
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Bernard Capes Bernard Edward Joseph Capes (August 30, 1854 – November 2, 1918) was an English author.
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David-Matthew Barnes David-Matthew Barnes (born September 3, 1970) is an American author, playwright, poet, and screenwriter.
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Patrick Brontë Patrick Brontë ( , "commonly" ; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish priest and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years by which time all of their children had died as well.
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Jeffrey Marks Jeffrey Marks (born October 8, 1960) is an American author.
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Ruth Ogden Ruth Ogden (Dec. 27, 1853–July 2, 1927) was the pen name of Fannie Ogden Ide, a late 19th century American children's book author.
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Carolyn Slaughter Carolyn Slaughter (born 7 January 1946) is a critically acclaimed English author now living in the United States. Her first novel "The Story of the Weasel" won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1977, given to authors under the age of 40.
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Edward Abbey Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang", which has been cited as an inspiration by environmental groups, and the non-fiction work "Desert Solitaire".
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Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay (born Anthony Gordon Instone, 21 April 1944, England) is an English author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter. He has won the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Award twice as 'Songwriter of the Year' (1970 and 1977). He is a nine time Ivor Novello Awards winning songwriter. In 2007, he became the only British person to win the Edwin Forrest Award for outstanding contribution to the American theatre.
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Carolyn Meyer Carolyn Meyer (born June 8, 1935) is an American author of novels for children and young adults.
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Jonathan Fast Jonathan Fast (born April 13, 1948) is an American author and social work teacher.
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Sager orphans The Sager orphans (sometimes referred to as the Sager children) were the children of Henry and Naomi Sager. In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During it, both Henry and Naomi died and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, they were orphaned a second time, when both their new parents, as well as brothers John and Francis Sager, were killed during the Whitman massacre in November 1847. About 1860 Catherine, the oldest girl, wrote a first-hand account of their journey across the plains and their life with the Whitmans. Today it is regarded as one of the most authentic accounts of the American westward migration.
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William Rivers Pitt William Rivers Pitt (born November 9, 1971) is an author, editor, and political activist.
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Claire Huchet Bishop Claire Huchet Bishop (1899 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss-born American children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, "Pancakes-Paris" (1947) and "All Alone" (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for "Twenty and Ten" (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: "The Five Chinese Brothers", illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.
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Frances Blogg Frances Chesterton, born Frances Alice Blogg (1869–1938) was an English author of verse, songs and school drama. She was the wife of G.K. Chesterton and had a large role in his career as amanuensis and personal manager.
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Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman (born January 7, 1949, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States) is an American singer-songwriter and author.
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Eliza Suggs Elizabeth Gertrude Suggs (December 11, 1876 – January 29, 1908) was a 19th-century American author, born to former slaves. Physically impaired with Osteogenesis imperfecta, she was able to gain an education and became known as a temperance lecturer. The little that is known about Eliza Suggs can be found in her book, "Shadow and Sunshine", published in 1906.