Sentences with phrase «prolific author of fiction»

The first was conceived in 1937 by the Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor General's Literary Award.

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The prolific science - fiction author Ray Bradbury collected the lessons he had learned about the craft during his long and successful career in Zen in the Art of Writing.

Known as a prolific author of more than eighty books with twenty - two New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than forty languages.

Watching Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, Amazon's new sci - fi anthology series based on the author's short stories, is a potent lesson in just what a long shadow the prolific and endlessly imaginative author has cast over the world of contemporary science fiction in all its forms.

For example, in our Book Club Plus work in third grades, this played out in an author study of Patricia Polacco, a prolific Michigan author who through her autobiographical fiction shares family stories of her Russian immigrant and her Michigan farmer ancestors.

Recently, Karen Kingsbury, the prolific author crowned the queen of Christian fiction by Time magazine, will celebrate the publication of Leaving, the first book in her four - part Bailey Flanigan series.But she won't be celebrating alone.

There are few writers as prolific as T.C. Boyle who consistently produce such high - quality and varied work — he is the author of 24 books of fiction and has been the recipient of several literary awards, including the PEN / Faulkner — so it's both unsurprising and exciting to receive news of upcoming novels.

Elmore Leonard, the prolific detective fiction series author, was never shy about telling other authors what he thought of the writing profession.

She also fields 12 works of fiction currently and is prolific: She writes here of working on seven projects in the last year, plus four single - author box sets.

And none of them showed up with huge backlists to start out with (Granted, they've all been insanely prolific, but I do want to point out that these were science fiction and fantasy people, not authors writing romance or erotica or whatever genre you've heard is super popular).

In a field that is still too young to have many luminaries, Joanna Penn stands out as a prolific, talented author of both fiction and non-fiction work; a popular speaker and educator with a friendly, engaging style; and a crusader for independent authors seeking to establish themselves in the brave new world of epublishing.

The non-fiction low - cost books are usually highly illustrated (souvenir books, craft books); the fiction includes bind - ups of several novels from a prominent, prolific author (Agatha Christie) or reprints of classics in the public domain (Dickens, Austen).

Many of my favorite science fiction and fantasy authors were enormously prolific.

One of modern fiction's of most prolific writers, USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith is the author of more than a hundred novels (in forty years!).

Our 50th issue will also feature a exclusive interview with the talented and prolific Walter Mosley, where the celebrated author of the Easy Rawlins series spoke about noir legends, the craft of writing, and what inspires him to write, as well as fiction by Craig Johnson, John Floyd, Jeffrey Pearce, and Larry Millet.

He has also co-written two books with Clive Cussler and is regarded as one of the most prolific and successful indie fiction authors.