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Authors and publishers outside the United States were eligible and there were several winners by non-U.S. authors (at least Lofts, Curie, de Saint-Exupéry, Du Maurier, and Llewellyn). The Bookseller Discovery and the general awards for fiction and non-fiction were conferred six times in seven years, the Most Original Book five times, and the ...
E. B. White. Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) [ 1] was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their ...
Website. www .sehinton .com. Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. [ a] Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. [ 4][ 5]
number-one books. This is a list of lists by year of The New York Times number-one books . The New York Times Best Seller list was first published without fanfare on October 12, 1931. [ 1][ 2] It consisted of five fiction and four nonfiction for the New York City region only. [ 2] The following month the list was expanded to eight cities, with ...
Retrieved December 18, 2011. Without rival, the twentieth century's king of the genre is Louis Cha. Estimates of his book sales reach up to 300 million copies. One editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review estimated that, if one also counted the pirated copies, over 1 billion of Cha's books have been sold.
Biography. McMullen is one of Australia's leading science-fiction and fantasy authors and has written over 70 stories and 17 books. In 2011, his novelette "Eight Miles" was the runner-up in the Hugo Awards. He has won the Analog Reader's Award twice, for "Ninety Thousand Horses" in 2013 and "Tower of Wings" in 2002.
James Watt FRS, FRSE ( / wɒt /; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) [ a] was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen 's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native ...
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. Since October 12, 1931, The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly. In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and nonfiction, hardcover, paperback and electronic. The list is based on a ...