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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi is one of my favourite literature sites. It contains a large collection of authors' biographies sorted by their names or birthdays. It provides short introductions to the lives and works of hundreds of authors from around the world.It has about a thousand pages in google and it ranks 21,114 at alexa with a reach of 92. --jahsonic, Jan 2004
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see also cult fictionFrank Herbert The epic adventure won the first Nebula for Best Novel, shared the Hugo, and gained a cult status among science fiction readers. ... Description: Short biography and a list of his various works. Category: Arts > Literature > ... > Authors > H > Herbert, Frank www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fherbert.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Donald Goines ... Muslims, especially Louis Farrakhan. In France the author gained a cult status and he was compared to Chester Himes. His works can ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goines.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages Achmed Abdullah ... community in lower Manhattan, The Swinging Caravan (1925), Steel and Jade (1927), and The Bungalow on the Roof (1931), in which an secret African cult camps on ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/abdullah.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages Sax Rohmer ... He has also disappeared mysteriously. "Here, perhaps, lies one of the secrets of Fu Manchu's power to fascinate," Clive Bloom wrote in Cult Fiction (1996). ... Description: Biography, further reading, selected works. Category: Arts > Literature > Authors > R > Rohmer, Sax www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rohmer.htm - 23k - Cached - Similar pages Henri Bergson ... of the League of Nations. Bergson enjoyed the status of a cult figure in the years between World Wars. Although not a practicing ... Description: Biography and selected bibliography. Category: Society > Philosophy > Philosophers > Bergson, Henri www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bergson.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Friedrich Nietzsche ... Also Nietzsche did not accept the rising Wagnerian cult at Bayreuth, especially with its anti-Semitism. The religiosity of Parsifal was too much for him.. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nietzsch.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages HP Lovecraft ... magic, lost their foothold and were expelled, yet live on outside ever ready to take possession of this earth again." HP Lovecraft has become a cult figure in ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lovecraf.htm - 24k - Cached - Similar pages JRR Tolkien ... and Owen Barfield. In the mid-1960s American paperback editions of The Lord of the Rings started to gain cult fame. The Tolkiens ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tolkien.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages Saima Harmaja ... 1932 to 1937. Harmaja's lyrics after her death at the age of 22 gained a cult status among young female readers. Her works have ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harmaja.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages Heinrich Hoffmann ... were found / Among her ashes on the ground." Hoffmann's disillusioned view of children's behavior was not exactly in tune with the prevailing cult of innocence ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hhoffman.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages Jim Morrison American rock singer and rock lyric who achieved after his death a cult position among fans. Morrison wished to be accepted as a ... Description: A biography, list of literature and albums by the artist. Category: Arts > Music > Bands and Artists > M > Morrison, Jim www.kirjasto.sci.fi/morrison.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Robert A. Heinlein ... even a "fascist". However, a number of his book gained a cult status among members of the counterculture. "Furthermore, although ... Description: Brief author biography with a discussion of the major themes of his books. Category: Arts > Literature > ... > H > Heinlein, Robert A. > Biographies www.kirjasto.sci.fi/heinlein.htm - 19k - Cached - Similar pages John Fowles Among Fowles's best-known novels are THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (1969), adapted into screen in 1981, and THE MAGUS (1965), which have gained a cult status. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jfowles.htm - 19k - Cached - Similar pages Gore Vidal ... MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (1968) was a transsexual comedy parodying the cult of the Hollywood film star, dedicated to Christopher Isherwood. ... Description: Brief biography, suggestions for further reading, trivia, selected bibliography. Category: Arts > Literature > Authors > V > Vidal, Gore www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vidal.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages Djuna Barnes ... decadent flavor. Her most famous novel, Nightwood (1936), a stream-of-consciousness narrative, has become a cult classic. It was ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dbarnes.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages Anthony Burgess ... good' citizen without it? The character of Alex, played in the film by Malcolm McDowell, gained cult status. Kubrick later withdrew ... Description: A biography and bibliography from the books and writers website Category: Arts > Literature > Authors > B > Burgess, Anthony www.kirjasto.sci.fi/burgess.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages Omar Khayyam ... the major English poets". The second edition of the work in 1868 marked the beginning of Omar Khayyam cult. "Isaac Luria the Lion ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/khayyam.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages Dennis Potter Potter's plays showed an original and inventive use of the medium, and he gained cult status in his native Britain and the world. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dpotter.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Margaret Millar ... The protagonist is Joe Quinn, a gambler and former private detective. He drifts to a remote religious community, a cult called the True Believers. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mmillar.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages Rolf Jacobsen ... He was also a member of Norwegian National Socialist party. It is probably true that Jacobsen never accepted the cult of the Führer or the Holocaust. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jaco.htm - 12k - Cached - Similar pages John Le Carré ... a fast car, who used gadgetry and gimmickry to escape." With his breakthrough novel le Carré established an alternative form to the James Bond cult and a new ... Description: Biography and selected bibliography. Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Espionage and War > le Carré, John www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lecarre.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages Molnár, Ferenc ... that Molnár never wrestled with destiny, unlike the heroic struggles of the major playwrights: somehow he too seemed to be a victim of the cult of illusion so ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/molnar.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar pages Nick Joaquin ... Doña Lupeng first rejects ancient beliefs, but under the spell of the moon, she becomes possessed by the spirit of the Tadtarin cult - she does not want to be ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/joaquin.htm - 12k - Cached - Similar pages Gaston Leroux ... a contemporary pop palace. The film was poorly received by many critics but attained a large cult following. - Susan Kay's novel ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leroux.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages Donald Westlake ... John Boorman's cult film boasts interesting characters, choice locals (around LA, at Alcatraz prison), and virtuoso camera and editing technique. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/westl.htm - 25k - Cached - Similar pages Lawrence Treat ... He believes that the Church of the Master, whose member she is, is an evil cult. For further reading: The Police Procedural by George Dove (1982); St. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/treat.htm - 12k - Cached - Similar pages Elsa Morante ... it would seem that Elsa Morante has turned against her innermost creative self and vision, her carefully nurtured private mythology, her special cult of the ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/emorante.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages Paul Jarrico ... Salt of the Earth was subsequently blacklisted and its distribution was prohibited, but later it has gained the status of a cult film and was selected by The ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jarrico.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Maryse Condé ... DES COEURS from 1995 transposed Emily Brontë's wild love affair from Wuthering Heights to a Caribbean context and set the story against reincarnation cult. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/conde.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages LM Alcott ... It was also produced for the new audience - young people. (See: Cult Fiction by Clive Bloom, 1996). The book has been filmed several times. ... Description: Short biography and listing of Alcott's works. Category: Arts > Literature > Authors > A > Alcott, Louisa M. www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lmalcott.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages Richard Condon ... around in red bikini shorts. William Richert wrote and directed the film which has enjoyed a cult status. "The tongue-in-cheek approach ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/condon.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages Hubert Selby ... May 2002). For further reading: Cult Fiction by Andrew Calcutt and Richard Shepard (1998); Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr. by James ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/selby.htm - 12k - Cached - Similar pages Nathanael West ... Five Came Back established John Farrow as a director. The film gained critical success and achieved gradually a cult status. Later ... Description: Short biography, selected bibliography. Category: Arts > Literature > Authors > W > West, Nathanael www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nwest.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages Georges Bataille ... The Story of the Eye has enjoyed a cult status. Most recently it was rediscovered by the Icelandic pop singer Björk Guðdmundsdóttir. ... Description: Biography, list of works. Category: Society > Philosophy > Philosophers > Bataille, Georges www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bataille.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages Kenzaburo Oe ... 1995 in Tokyo. A religious doomsday cult was responsible for the act of terrorism, in which twelve people were killed. Although Oe ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oe.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages Harper Lee ... 1989) and Novels Into Films by John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh (1999) - All reviews were not positive: "To Kill a Mockingbird relates the Cult of Childhood ... Description: Biographical information about Ms Lee. Category: Arts > Literature > ... > American > 20th Century > Lee, Harper www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov ... The Twelve Chairs is considered a cult classic and has been reprinted a number of times. For further reading: I. Il'fi E. Petrov. ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ilf.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages JD Salinger ... 1987); In Search of JD Salinger by Ian Hamilton (1988); World Authors 1900-1950, ed. by Martin Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens (1996); Cult Fiction by ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/salinger.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages Angela Carter ... Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, ed by Danielle M. Roemer, Cristina Bacchilega (2000); Angela Carter, ed. by Alison Easton (2000); Cult Fiction by Andrew ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/acarter.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages Irving Wallace ... (from VideoHound's Complete Guide to Cult Flicks and Trash Pics, 1996) - A bookseller is arrested for disturbing an obscene novel, and many people are ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/iwallace.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Harold Robbins ... To patronize every reader of Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins is to grossly misjudge and diminish the subject." - (Clive Bloom in Cult Fiction, 1996). ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/robbins.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Thornton Wilder ... Wilder had one or two affairs with younger men, but his idea of love was not based on the cult of pleasure or solely on the relations of a couple, but on "the ... Description: Biography, summaries of selected works and bibliography. Category: Arts > Literature > Authors > W > Wilder, Thornton www.kirjasto.sci.fi/twilder.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages Ken Kesey ... by Milos Forman, starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson. - "I think the reason this picture has always had a youth cult is that until the end ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kkesey.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages Jane Austen ... t think her superb intelligence brought her happiness." It was not until the publication of JE Austen-Leigh's Memoir in 1870 that a Jane Austen cult began to ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jausten.htm - 19k - Cached - Similar pages Jonathan Latimer ... 1960-65). The series, which made a star of Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, has enjoyed cult fame. Latimer died on June 23, 1983. For ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/latimer.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages James Hadley Chase ... and Detection, ed. by Chris Steinbrunner and Otto Penzler (1976); Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, ed. by John M. Reilly (1985); Cult Fiction by ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jhchase.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages Andrey Bely ... the Novels by JD Elsworth (1983); Andrei Bely: The Major Symbolist Fiction by Vladimir Alexandrov (1985); Andrei Bely's "Petersburg" and the Cult of Dionysus ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bely.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages Hermann Hesse ... types of men. In the 1960s and 1970s Hesse became a cult figure for young readers. The interest declined in the 1980s. In 1969 the ... Description: German poet and novelist, who has depicted in his works the duality of spirit and nature, body versus... Category: Arts > Literature > Authors > H > Hesse, Hermann www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hhesse.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages Raymond Carver ... 1., ed. by Steven R. Serafin (1999); Cult Fiction by Andrew Calcutt and Richard Shephard (1998); Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography by Sam Halpert (1995); The ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rcarver.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages Hergé ... further information: Tintin.com - Tintin Books: US/English editions - A Short Biography of Hergé - Tintin seikkailut - Hergé et Tintin - The Cult of Tintin ... www.kirjasto.sci.fi/herge.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
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