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George Ronald Rougier. . . ( m. 1925) . Georgette Heyer ( / ˈheɪ.ər /; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth.
0-7434-3167-7. Followed by. A Murder of Quality. Call for the Dead is John le Carré 's first novel, published in 1961. It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in a story about East German spies inside Great Britain. [ 1] It also introduces a fictional version of British Intelligence, called "the Circus ...
A best-selling author, Heyer's writing career saw her produce works from a variety of genres; in total she published 32 novels in the romance genre, 6 historical novels, 4 contemporary novels, and 12 in the detective fiction genre. [ 1][ 2] Born in Wimbledon, London, the nineteen-year-old Heyer published her first novel, The Black Moth, in 1921 ...
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 ...
Dieter Dengler – United States Navy pilot who escaped a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos; Jeremiah Denton – awarded the Navy Cross for resistance in captivity during the Vietnam War; Roy Dotrice – British actor; John A. Dramesi – USAF Colonel, Vietnam POW, lead the only organized escape from the Hanoi Hilton with Edwin Atterberry
A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.In that book, MI6 agent Alec Leamas, motivated by the death of his operative Karl Riemeck in East Berlin, agrees to undertake one final mission to get revenge on the man he believes to be Riemeck's murderer, a high-ranking member of the Stasi named Hans-Dieter Mundt.
Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892–1927) Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli (1733–1809 or later) Elvira Bach (born 1951) Johann Sebastian Bach (1748–1778) Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach (1756–1829)
Movement. Concrete art, Op Art, Fluxus, Maximalism. Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist who gained recognition for his diverse body of work, which included artist's books, editioned prints, sculpture, and creations from found materials, including rotting food stuffs. [ 1] He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot .