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Neil Richard Gaiman ( / ˈ ɡ eɪ m ən / ; [ 3 ] born 10 November 1960 [ 4 ] ) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels , audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust , American Gods , Coraline , and The Graveyard Book .
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Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist and screenwriter.American Gods is a Hugo and Nebula Award -winning [ 1 ] novel by Neil Gaiman .
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Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut . Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout , taking them for literal truth.
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Cat's Cradle is the fourth novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut , first published in 1963.
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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer and dramatist . He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series , several stage plays, comics, a computer game , and in 2005 a feature film . Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy 's Hall of Fame. [ 1 ]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams . Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon. Adaptations have included stage shows , a "trilogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in 2009, a 1981 TV series , a 1984 computer game , and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996.
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Philip Pullman CBE , FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer from Norwich . He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials , and his fictionalised biography of Jesus , The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ . The first book of His Dark Materials has been turned into the film The Golden Compass and the first two books from his Sally Lockhart series as well as his children's novel I was a Rat!His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels , coming together to form an epic , by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights (1995, published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).
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Northern Lights , known as The Golden Compass in North America , is the first novel in Philip Pullman 's His Dark Materials trilogy. Published in 1995 , it is a fantasy set in a universe parallel to our own and tells of Lyra Belacqua 's journey north in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned father, Lord Asriel , who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as " Dust ". The Novel won the Carnegie Medal in 1996, and has been adapted into a Hollywood feature film, The Golden Compass (2007) and an accompanying video game .The Subtle Knife , the second novel in the book His Dark Materials series, was written by the English novelist Philip Pullman and published in 1997 .
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The Amber Spyglass is the third and final novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by English author Philip Pullman , and published in 2000 .
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Jonathan Safran Foer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). In 2009, he published a work of nonfiction titled Eating Animals . [ 2 ] [ edit ] Early lifeEverything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer , published in 2002 .