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Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often ...
Alice Munro. Alice Ann Munro (/ mənˈroʊ / mən-ROH; née Laidlaw / ˈleɪdlɔː / LAYD-law; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
May 14, 2024 at 12:33 PM. Alice Munro, who authored books "What Is Remembered" and "Dear Life," died Monday at age 92. (Chad Hipolito / The Canadian Press) Alice Munro, the Canadian short story ...
Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92.
The Prairie (1827) The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is an 1826 historical romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. [2] The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel; its prequel, The Deerslayer, was published ...
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), photographed by E. O. Hoppé. " Tobermory " is a humorous short story by Hector Hugh Munro written under his pen-name, Saki. It was originally published in The Westminster Gazette in 1909, first collected, in a revised form, in The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and has frequently been reprinted in anthologies.
George ELIOT was a pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Adam Bede tells the stories of four characters living in a rural, small community (the fictional town of Hayslope) in 1799, one of whom is the title ...