Which writer has his novels take place in a fictional Ozark Mountain town: Brian O'Nolan or Donald Harington?
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Brian O'Nolan Brian O'Nolan (Irish: "Brian Ó Nualláin" ; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. His English language novels, such as "At Swim-Two-Birds", and "The Third Policeman", were written under the "pen name" Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in "The Irish Times" and an Irish language novel "An Béal Bocht" were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen.
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Donald Harington (writer) Donald Douglas Harington (December 22, 1935 – November 7, 2009) was an American author. All but the first of his novels either take place in or have an important connection to "Stay More," a fictional Ozark Mountains town based somewhat on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent summers as a child.
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Donald Strachey Donald "Don" Strachey is a fictional character who appears in novels by mystery writer Richard Stevenson.
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Bernard O'Reilly (author) Bernard O'Reilly (1903–1975) (born Alfonso Bernard O'Reilly) was an Australian author and bushman of Irish descent. He was born and raised in the Blue Mountains about north-west of Sydney and later moved to the McPherson Range near Beaudesert in South East Queensland, Australia. He is part of the family that established the O'Reilly's Guesthouse in the Lamington Plateau.
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Trumptonshire Trumptonshire is a fictional county created by Gordon Murray, in which the "Trumptonshire Trilogy" of Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley are located. According to Murray, the three communities are based on real locations one and a half miles from each other at the corners of an equilateral triangle.
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Reginald Campbell Reginald Campbell (1894–1950) was a British writer. His novel "Poo Lorn of the Elephants" was filmed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in 1980 under the name "Tusk". Another novel, "Tiger Valley", was filmed in 1936 by Howard Bretherton as "The Girl from Mandalay". He described his personal experiences from Thailand in the book "Teak-Wallah: The Adventures of a Young Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s".
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Naadan Premam Naadan Premam (English: Love in the Countryside ) is a Malayalam novel written by S. K. Pottekkatt in 1941. It is a short novel written when the author was in Bombay and tells the story of an innocent village belle jilted by a modern man-about-town. It is set entirely in Mukkam, a rustic village on the banks of Iruvanjippuzha, a major tributary of River Chaliyar. Written initially as a film treatment and later converted into a novel, it was serialised in "Kerala Kaumudi" newspaper and released as a book in August 1941. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1972 but was not a success on the screen.
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The Nutmeg of Consolation The Nutmeg of Consolation is the fourteenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1991. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
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Crichton Porteous Leslie Crichton Porteous (1901–1991) was an author (writing under the name of Crichton Porteous) of fiction and non-fiction – books, articles and short stories – many of them about life in the Peak District of northern England, and often set in specific Peak locations ("Toad Hole" and "Broken River", for example, are set in the Derwent Valley).
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Natty Bumppo Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the "Leatherstocking Tales".
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Robert C. O'Brien (author) Robert Leslie Carroll Conly (January 11, 1918 – March 5, 1973), better known by pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and a journalist for "National Geographic Magazine".
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Elizabeth O'Conner Elizabeth O'Conner (1913 – 6 May 2000), born under the name Barbara Lowe, was an Australian novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney, before teaching at a Brisbane girls' boarding school.
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Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Bretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities. Being virtually surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest, the vista from Bretton Woods toward Mount Washington and the Presidential Range includes no significant artificial structures other than the Mount Washington Cog Railway and the Mount Washington Hotel.
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Wilfrid Eggleston Wilfrid Eggleston (25 March 1901 – 13 June 1986) was an Anglo-Canadian journalist, author and civil servant. Born in Lincoln to middle-class English parents, he relocated to Netherfield, Nottinghamshire where his father was convinced to move the family to a ranch in Orion, Alberta. Suffering from boredom in his teenage years, Eggleston advanced his basic English education through a fast-track course at Regina College, which qualified his entrance to Queen's University in 1926. Graduating in 1928, he found journalistic work at the "Lethbridge Herald" before occupying his role as Ottawa correspondent for the "Toronto Star" by the following year, becoming parliamentary correspondent before his resignation in 1936.
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Arkham Arkham ( ) is a fictional town situated in Massachusetts. It is a dark city and an integral part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft, and it is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
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The Mount Marunga Mystery The Mount Marunga Mystery is a murder mystery first published in 1919 by Australian author Harrison Owen about the mysterious death of a fraudulent businessman in a rural township's five-star hotel. In June 2008, the novel was re-issued by Kessinger Publishing.
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George Goodchild George Goodchild (1888–1969) aka Alan Dare, Wallace Q. Reid, and Jesse Templeton, was a prolific and successful British writer of popular books, short stories, plays, and movies (e.g. 1921 "Colorado Jim" filmed as "Colorado Jack"), who published over 200 works in his 60-year career, and beyond his lifetime. Books are still re-issued, mostly in large print for older readers. Featured characters include Inspector McLean, spy catcher Q33 Trelawney, Nigel Rix, and Trooper O'Neill (1932 film). He wrote and directed films based on books and stories, including "Colorado Jack" (1921), "Bucking the Barrier" (1923), "The Public Defender" (1931), "Condemned to Death" (1932), "Trooper O'Neill" (1932), and "No Escape" (1936).
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Murray Bishoff Murray Bishoff is a writer at "The Monett Times" in Monett, Missouri. Formerly a contributor to "Comics Buyer's Guide", Bishoff won an Inkpot Award in 1980. Bishoff is also known for his research and writings on the 1901 fifteen-hour lynching spree in Pierce City, Missouri, during which white residents murdered three African American residents and caused nearly 300 others to flee the city. His writings include a series of articles published to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the event and the historical novel "Cry of Thunder". In addition, the town's cemetery holds a marker to the event paid for in large part by Bishoff and the Pierce City Museum hosts an exhibit which Bishoff created. He has also publicly spoken about the event to CNN and appears in a documentary about the event, "Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks out of Town in America".
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Neylon Neylon is an anglicized version of the Irish surname Ó Nialláin. Other English language forms of the name include Nealon, O'Neylan, Nyland and Neilan. They were a sept of the Dalcassian (Irish: Dál gCais) tribe located in the kingdom of Thomond, which is now predominantly modern-day County Clare but encompassed parts of modern-day Tipperary and Limerick. Some early references to the name in this area come from references made to the completion in 1016 of a fortified dwelling overlooking Ballyalla lake, north of Ennis, which had the blessing of the ruling O'Brien family.
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Michael Knight (writer) Michael Knight is the author of the novels "The Typist" and "Divining Rod", the short story collections "Dogfight and Other Stories", "Goodnight, Nobody" and "Eveningland" and the book of novellas "The Holiday Season". His most recent novel, "The Typist", was selected as a Best Book of the Year by "The Huffington Post" and "The Kansas City Star" and appeared on Oprah's Summer Reading List in 2011. His most recent collection, "Eveningland", was awarded the Truman Capote Prize for Short Fiction. It was also selected as an Editor's Choice Pick by "The New York Times" and as a Southern Book of the Year by "Southern Living" magazine. His short stories have appeared in magazines and journals like "The New Yorker", "Oxford American", "Paris Review", "Ploughshares", "The Southern Review" and "The Saturday Evening Post", among other places.
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David Shipman (colonist) David Shipman (1730 – 1813) is generally considered to be the real-life inspiration for James Fenimore Cooper's character Natty Bumppo in the "Leatherstocking Tales" along with a pioneer man named Thomas Leffingwell. When Cooper's father Judge William Cooper settled in what is now Otsego County, New York in the mid-1780s, Shipman lived alone in a small cabin in the hills south of the village of Cooperstown, a squatter on the land of Cooper's neighbor John Christopher Hartwick.
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Brian Glanville Brian Lester Glanville (born 24 September 1931) is an English football writer and novelist.