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| x William Shakespeare |
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Tower of London |
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and...
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| x Mahasweta Devi |
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Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa |
Mahasweta Devi (Bengali: মহাশ্বেতা দেবী Môhashsheta Debi) (born 1926) is an Indian social activist and writer.
Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet...
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| x David Franzoni | Gladiator |
David Harold Franzoni (born March 4, 1947) is an American screenwriter. His best known screenplays include King Arthur, Gladiator, Amistad, and Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Franzoni has close connections with both DreamWorks Pictures and Steven Spielberg....
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| x James Norman Hall |
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Mutiny on the Bounty |
James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Nordhoff.
Hall was born in Colfax, Iowa, where he attended the local schools. Hall graduated from Grinnell...
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| Mutiny on the Bounty | |||
| Passage to Marseille | |||
| High Barbaree | |||
| The Tuttles of Tahiti | |||
| x Charles Nordhoff | Mutiny on the Bounty |
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 - April 10, 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler.
Charles Nordhoff was born in London, England, on February 1, 1887, to American parents. His father was Walter Nordhoff, a wealthy...
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| The Tuttles of Tahiti | |||
| x Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs |
Thomas Harris (born April 11, 1940) is an American author and screenwriter, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being the multi...
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| Hannibal | |||
| Manhunter | |||
| Hannibal Rising | |||
| x Maurine Dallas Watkins | Chicago |
Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 – August 10, 1969) was an American journalist and playwright.
She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and attended Crawfordsville High School, followed by five colleges (including Hamilton College, Transylvania...
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| x Clive Cussler | Raise The Titanic |
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novelist and marine archaeologist. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than...
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| Sahara | |||
| x George MacDonald |
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The Princess and the Goblin |
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R....
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| x Jules Verne |
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Mysterious Island |
Jules Gabriel Verne (French pronunciation: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the...
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| A Trip to the Moon | |||
| In Search of the Castaways | |||
| The Impossible Voyage | |||
| Conquest of the Pole | |||
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| x Henry James |
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The Portrait of a Lady |
Henry James, OM (15 April 1843(1843-04-15) – 28 February 1916(1916-02-28)) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of...
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| The Heiress | |||
| The Innocents | |||
| Washington Square | |||
| Daisy Miller | |||
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| x Ellen Wood |
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East Lynne |
Ellen Wood (17 January 1814 – 10 February 1887), was an English novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood". She is best known for her 1861 novel East Lynne.
Ellen Price was born in Worcester in 1814. In 1836 she married Henry Wood, who worked in...
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| x Edward E. Rose | The Prisoner of Zenda |
Edward E. Rose was a playwright.
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| Murder in the Private Car | |||
| x Frank Norris |
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Greed |
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901...
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| A Corner in Wheat | |||
| x Stefan Wul |
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Fantastic Planet |
Stefan Wul was the nom de plume of French science fiction writer Pierre Pairault (27 March 1922–26 November 2003). He was a dental surgeon, but science fiction was his real passion. Most of his books reflect that, showing a deep knowledge of...
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| Time Masters | |||
| x Gordy Hoffman | Love Liza |
Gordy Hoffman (b. October 19, 1964) is a US writer and director.
Gordy is the older brother of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the son of Marilyn O'Connor, a judge in Rochester, New York. He wrote the film Love Liza, in which his brother starred....
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| x Don Roos | Love Field |
Donald Paul Roos (born April 14, 1955) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Roos was born in New York. He attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. After graduating, Roos moved to Los Angeles, where he pursued a career writing for...
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| x Adrian Fulle |
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Love 101 |
Adrian Fulle is the Managing Member of Poya Pictures, a full service production company for film, television and new media clients. Adrian began his career as a writer/director of independent feature films and is best known for the comedy Love 101....
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| x Jules Chancel | The Love Parade | ||
| x Leon Xanrof |
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The Love Parade |
Leon Xanrof (1867–1953) was a French playwright and songwriter, noted for writing the play The Prince Consort, which was used to create the 1929 film Parade d'amour (The Love Parade).
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| x Bruce Feirstein |
Bruce Feirstein is an American screenwriter and humorist, best known for his contributions to the James Bond series and his best-selling humor books, including Real Men Don't Eat Quiche and Nice Guys Sleep Alone. Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was on the...
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| x Yash Chopra |
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Yash Raj Chopra (Hindi: यश चोपड़ा, born 27 September 1932 in Lahore, British India) is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To...
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| x Frank Wead |
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Test Pilot |
Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead (born October 24, 1895, in Peoria, Illinois – died November 15, 1947, in Santa Monica, California) was a U.S. Navy aviator turned screenwriter who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World...
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| The Wings of Eagles | |||
| The Flying Fleet | |||
| x Ben Garant |
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Reno 911!: Miami |
Robert Ben Garant (born 14 September 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer.
Garant was born in Cookeville, Tennessee, and grew up in Farragut, Tennessee. He lived in New York City for several years and currently resides...
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| Herbie: Fully Loaded | |||
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | |||
| Night at the Museum | |||
| x Thomas Lennon |
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Reno 911!: Miami |
Thomas Patrick Lennon (born August 9, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer best known as a cast member on MTV's The State and for his role as Lieutenant Jim Dangle on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!.
Lennon is a...
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| Herbie: Fully Loaded | |||
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | |||
| Night at the Museum | |||
| x Paul Haggis |
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In the Valley of Elah |
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director. He spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series.
Haggis was born on March 10, 1953, in London,...
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| Crash | |||
| x Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers |
Ron Powers is a film writer.
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| x Hunter S. Thompson | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary (1998), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973), The Curse of Lono (1983),...
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| x Jule Gilfillan | Restless | ||
| x Lowell Ganz | Parenthood |
Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel.
Ganz was born in New York City, New York, the son of Jean (née Farber) and Irving Ganz...
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| x Babaloo Mandel | Parenthood |
Marc "Babaloo" Mandel (born October 13, 1949) is an American writer. His writing credits include the television series Happy Days and the movie Night Shift. He is the long-time writing partner of Lowell Ganz. Mandel was born in New York City, the...
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| x Ron Howard |
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Parenthood |
Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American film director, producer and former child actor. He came to prominence playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham...
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| x William Gibson |
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Johnny Mnemonic |
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later...
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| New Rose Hotel | |||
| Pattern Recognition | |||
| x David S. Ward |
David Schad Ward (born October 25, 1945) is an American film director and screen writer.
Ward was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Miriam (née Schad) and Robert McCollum Ward. Ward has degrees from Pomona College (BA), as well as both...
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| x Demetri Martin |
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Bandslam |
Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on The Daily Show and for his Comedy Central show Important Things with...
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| x J. R. R. Tolkien |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE ( /ˈtɒlkiːn/, US /ˈtoʊlkiːn/; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of...
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| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | |||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |||
| The Lord of the Rings | |||
| The Hobbit | |||
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| x Arthur C. Clarke |
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2001: A Space Odyssey |
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS, Sri Lankabhimanya, (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host...
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| 2010: The Year We Make Contact | |||
| Trapped In Space | |||
| x Elizabeth von Arnim | Enchanted April |
Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an Australian-born British novelist. By marriage she became Gräfin (Countess) von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and by a second marriage, Countess Russell. Although known...
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| Mr. Skeffington | |||
| Enchanted April | |||
| x Jhumpa Lahiri |
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The Namesake |
Jhumpa Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11, 1967) is a Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was...
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| x Charles Eames | Powers of Ten |
Charles Eames (June 17, 1907 ￢ﾀﾓ August 21, 1978) (pronounced ) was an American design, architect and film who, together with his wife Ray, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century.
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was born in...
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| x Kurt Vonnegut |
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Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( /ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science...
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| Displaced Person | |||
| Happy Birthday, Wanda June | |||
| Slapstick of Another Kind | |||
| Between Time and Timbuktu | |||
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| x Valerio Massimo Manfredi |
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The Last Legion |
Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 8 March 1943) is an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist.
He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia, province of Modena and after getting a degree in Classical Arts at the University of Bologna,...
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| x Stanley Kubrick |
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2001: A Space Odyssey |
Stanley Kubrick (/ˈkuːbrɪk/; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer. He is generally regarded as one of America's greatest filmmakers. His films, typically adaptations of novels or...
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| x Arthur Laurents | Home of the Brave |
Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.
After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing...
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| Gypsy | |||
| Summertime | |||
| West Side Story | |||
| x Yasutaka Tsutsui | Paprika |
Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆, Tsutsui Yasutaka, born September 24, 1934 in Osaka) is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His...
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| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | |||
| Toki o Kakeru Shōjo | |||
| x Elmore Leonard |
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The Big Bounce |
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925), better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense...
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| Get Shorty | |||
| Stick | |||
| Be Cool | |||
| Out of Sight | |||
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| x Busy Philipps |
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Blades of Glory |
Elizabeth Jean Philipps (born June 25, 1979), known professionally as Busy Philipps, is an American film actress, perhaps best known for her supporting roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek. She has also performed...
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| x James Ellroy |
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The Black Dahlia |
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only...
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| L.A. Confidential | |||
| Brown's Requiem | |||
| Cop | |||
| Dark Blue | |||
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| x Jack Finney | The Invasion |
Jack Finney (October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body...
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| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |||
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |||
| x Tom Perrotta |
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Little Children |
Thomas R. Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an Albanian-American/ Italian-American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Academy Award...
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| Election | |||
| x F.X. Toole | Million Dollar Baby |
F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (1930 – September 2, 2002). Toole is most noted for writing the collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar...
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| x Stephen Hunter | Shooter |
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.
Stephen Hunter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His father was Charles Francis Hunter, a...
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| x Lorenzo Da Ponte |
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Don Giovanni |
Lorenzo Da Ponte (10 March 1749 - 17 August 1838) was a Venetian opera librettist and poet. He wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's greatest operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte....
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| x Jane Austen |
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Emma |
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social...
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| Pride & Prejudice | |||
| Persuasion | |||
| Mansfield Park | |||
| Northanger Abbey | |||
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| x Malin Lind Lagerlöf | Breaking Out | ||
| x Anup Kurian | Manasarovar | ||
| x Tim Krabbé | The Vanishing |
Tim Krabbé (born 13 April 1943) is a Dutch journalist and novelist.
Krabbé was born in Amsterdam. His writing has appeared in most major periodicals in the Netherlands. He is known to Dutch readers for his novel De Renner (The Rider), first...
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| The Cave | |||
| The Vanishing | |||
| x Ian Fleming |
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Casino Royale |
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer. Fleming is best known for creating the fictional spy James Bond and the series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the...
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| Dr. No | |||
| Octopussy | |||
| You Only Live Twice | |||
| Never Say Never Again | |||
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| x Joshua John Miller | The Mao Game |
Joshua John Miller (born December 26, 1974) is an American actor, writer, screenwriter, novelist, and filmmaker.
As a child actor, Miller was best known for his role as Homer, the pre-teen vampire in the film Near Dark, Richtie Miller, the annoying...
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| x Gregory Poirier | Gossip |
Gregory Stephen Poirier (born 19 May 1961) is an American film and television writer, director, and producer.
Poirier was born in Kula, Maui, Hawaii, and attended the Maui Academy of Performing Arts. He wrote the screenplay for the John Singleton...
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