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1977 in literature, the Glossary

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1977.^[1]

355 relations: A Book of Common Prayer, A Guide for the Perplexed, A Judgement in Stone, A Morbid Taste for Bones, A Scanner Darkly, A Time of Gifts, A. T. Q. Stewart, Abigail's Party, Alejo Carpentier, Ales Adamovich, Alessandro D'Avenia, Alexandru Ivasiuc, Alfian Sa'at, Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Alicia Austin, Alun Richards, Anaïs Nin, And Afterward, the Dark, Andrés Caicedo, Anthony Crosland, Argentina, Artur Adson, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, ¡Que viva la música!, Barbara Pym, Barbara Smucker, Basil Copper, BBC, BBC News, Beggarman, Thief, Beryl Bainbridge, Bharati Mukherjee, Bill Peet, Black God's Shadow, Blackstone on Broadway, Blasphemous libel, Bloodline (Sheldon novel), Booker Prize, Botho Strauss, Brian Lumley, Brimstone and Treacle, Bruce Chatwin, Buchi Emecheta, C. L. Moore, Cali, Carl Zuckmayer, Carnegie Medal (literary award), Ceremony (Silko novel), Charmed Life (novel), Children of Crisis, ... Expand index (305 more) »
1977 books

A Book of Common Prayer

A Book of Common Prayer is a 1977 novel by Joan Didion.

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A Guide for the Perplexed

A Guide for the Perplexed is a short book by E. F. Schumacher, published in 1977.

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A Judgement in Stone

A Judgement in Stone is a 1977 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell.

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A Morbid Taste for Bones

A Morbid Taste for Bones is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters set in May 1137.

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A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1977.

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A Time of Gifts

A Time of Gifts (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor.

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Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart, CBE (8 July 192916 December 2010), known professionally as A. T. Q. Stewart or Tony Stewart, was a Northern Irish historian, teacher and academic, and a best-selling author on the subject of the politics of Ulster and Northern Ireland.

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Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television, devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.

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Alejo Carpentier

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.

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Ales Adamovich

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Adamovich (translit, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Адамо́вич; 3 September 1927 – 26 January 1994) was a Soviet Belarusian writer, screenwriter, literary critic and democratic activist.

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Alessandro D'Avenia

Alessandro D'Avenia (born 2 May 1977) is an Italian writer, teacher and screenwriter.

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Alexandru Ivasiuc

Alexandru "Sașa" Ivasiuc (July 12, 1933 – March 4, 1977) was a Romanian novelist.

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Alfian Sa'at

Alfian bin Sa'at (born 18 July 1977), best known as Alfian Sa'at, is a Singaporean playwright, poet, and writer.

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Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations.

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Alicia Austin

Alicia Austin (born 1942) is an American fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator.

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Alun Richards

Alun Morgun Richards (27 October 1929 – 2 June 2004) was a Welsh novelist, best known for his novel Ennal's Point, about the work of a lifeboat crew in South Wales.

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Anaïs Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.

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And Afterward, the Dark

And Afterward, the Dark is a collection of stories by author Basil Copper.

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Andrés Caicedo

Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela (29 September 1951 – 4 March 1977) was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life.

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Anthony Crosland

Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 191819 February 1977) was a British Labour Party politician and author.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Artur Adson

Artur Adson (– 5 January 1977) was an Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic.

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (La tía Julia y el escribidor) is the seventh novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa.

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¡Que viva la música!

¡Que viva la música! (Published in English as: Liveforever) is a novel by the Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo, one of his most important works and considered by many observers as a masterpiece of modern Colombian literature.

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Barbara Pym

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist.

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Barbara Smucker

Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, 1915 – July 29, 2003) was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1993.

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Basil Copper

Basil Frederick Albert Copper (5 February 1924 – 3 April 2013) was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beggarman, Thief

Beggarman, Thief is a 1977 novel written by Irwin Shaw.

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Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer.

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Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bill Peet

William Bartlett Peet (né Peed; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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Black God's Shadow

Black God's Shadow is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer C. L. Moore and illustrator Alicia Austin.

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Blackstone on Broadway

Blackstone on Broadway is a 1977 historical thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert, published under the pen name Richard Falkirk.

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Blasphemous libel

Blasphemous libel was originally an offence under the common law of England.

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Bloodline (Sheldon novel)

Bloodline is a 1977 novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Botho Strauss

Botho Strauss (written as Botho Strauß) (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist, and essayist.

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Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley (2 December 1937 – 2 January 2024) was an English author of horror fiction.

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Brimstone and Treacle

Brimstone and Treacle is a 1976 BBC television play by Dennis Potter.

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Bruce Chatwin

Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist.

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Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta (born Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta; 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian writer who wrote novels, plays, autobiography, and children's book.

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.

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Cali

Santiago de Cali, or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by DANE in 2023.

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Carl Zuckmayer

Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright.

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Carnegie Medal (literary award)

The Carnegie Medal for Writing, established in 1936, is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new English-language book for children or young adults.

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Ceremony (Silko novel)

Ceremony is a novel by writer Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo descent), first published by Viking Press in March 1977.

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Charmed Life (novel)

Charmed Life is a children's fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1977.

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Children of Crisis

Children of Crisis is a social study of children in the United States written by child psychiatrist Robert Coles and published in five volumes by Little, Brown and Company between 1967 and 1977.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author who is regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature.

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Christopher Tolkien

Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English and naturalised French academic editor.

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Christopher Wood (writer)

Christopher Hovelle Wood (5 November 1935 – 9 May 2015) was an English screenwriter and novelist, best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as Timothy Lea.

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Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор) December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer.

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Clark Blaise

Clark Blaise, OC (born April 10, 1940) is a Canadian-American author.

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Colleen McCullough

Colleen Margaretta McCullough (married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Coma (novel)

Coma is Robin Cook's first commercially successful novel, published by Signet Book in 1977.

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Conan of Aquilonia

Conan of Aquilonia is a collection of four linked fantasy short stories by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland.

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David Craig Owen Thomas (24 November 1942 – 4 April 2011) was a Welsh author of thrillers, most notably the Mitchell Gant and Kenneth Aubrey series of novels.

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Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which makes significant changes in many areas of the criminal justice system in England and Wales and, to a lesser extent, in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Dan Wells (author)

Daniel Andrew Wells (born March 4, 1977) is an American horror and science fiction author.

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Dancing Girls (short story collection)

Dancing Girls & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto.

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Daniel Martin (novel)

Daniel Martin is a Bildungsroman novel written by English author John Fowles and first published in 1977 by Jonathan Cape.

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David M. Potter

David Morris Potter (December 6, 1910 – February 18, 1971) was an American historian specializing in the study of the coming of the American Civil War, especially the political factors.

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Days and Nights in Calcutta

Days and Nights in Calcutta is a work of memoir by husband-and-wife authors Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee first published by Doubleday in 1977.

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Dear Me (book)

Dear Me is an autobiography by Peter Ustinov, published in 1977.

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December 31

It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.

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Dennis Wheatley

Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s.

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Derek Lambert

Derek (William) Lambert (10 October 1929 – 10 April 2001) was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk, and a journalist.

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Devil on the Cross

Devil on the Cross is a 1980 Kikuyu language novel (orig. title Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ) written and self translated by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, which was later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series in 1982.

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Devotion (novella)

Devotion is a 1977 novella by the German writer Botho Strauß.

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Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer.

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Didier Decoin

Didier Decoin (born 13 March 1945) is a French screenwriter and writer awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1977.

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Dispatches (book)

Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine.

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Divine Comedies

Divine Comedies is the seventh book of poetry by James Merrill (1926–1995).

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Doctor on the Go

Doctor on the Go is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors.

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Dogger (book)

Dogger is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shirley Hughes, published by The Bodley Head in 1977.

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Don E. Fehrenbacher

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG).

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Dying of the Light (Martin novel)

Dying of the Light is a science fiction novel by American writer George R. R. Martin, published in 1977 by Simon & Schuster.

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E. F. Schumacher

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.

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Edith Holden

Edith Blackwell Holden (26 September 1871 – 15 March 1920) was an English artist and art teacher.

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Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics.

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Edmund Crispin

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978), an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.

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Elias Khoury

Elias Khoury (إلياس خوري; born 12 July 1948) is a Lebanese novelist and public intellectual.

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Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)

Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.

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Ennal's Point

Ennal's Point is a novel by Alun Richards, first published in 1977.

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Eric Ambler

Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre.

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Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30.

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Erica Jong

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.

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Erich Segal

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and its hit film adaptation.

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Ernest Lehman

Ernest Paul Lehman (December 8, 1915 – July 2, 2005) was an American screenwriter and film producer.

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Ștefan Tita

Ștefan Tita (born Teodor Solomon; 14 August 1905 – 1 September 1977) was a Romanian left-wing activist and writer in multiple genres.

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Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain

Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain is a Second World War military history book by English author Len Deighton.

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Firefox (novel)

Firefox is a thriller novel written by Craig Thomas and published in 1977.

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Fortune de France

Fortune de France (Fortunes of France) is a sequence of 13 historical novels by French author Robert Merle, published between 1977 and 2003.

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François-René de Chateaubriand

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the nineteenth century.

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Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long Jr. (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction.

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Frank Thiess

Frank Thiess (13 March 1890 – 22 December 1977) was a German writer.

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Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.

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Friedrich Georg Jünger

Friedrich "Fritz" Georg Jünger (1 September 1898 – 20 July 1977) was a German writer and lawyer.

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Gateway (novel)

Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl.

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Gay News

Gay News was a fortnightly newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE).

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Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Gene Kemp

Gene Kemp née Rushton (27 December 1926 – 4 January 2015) was an English author known for children's books.

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George D. Painter

George Duncan Painter OBE (5 June 1914 – 8 December 2005), known as George D. Painter, was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust.

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George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known by the initials G.R.R.M., is an American author, television writer, and television producer.

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Gerard K. O'Neill

Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist.

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Gerd Brantenberg

Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg (born October 27, 1941) is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer.

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Girl on a Bicycle

Girl on a Bicycle is a 1977 novel by Leland Bardwell (her first).

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit.

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Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer.

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Gurbaksh Singh

Gurbaksh Singh (1895–1977) was an Indian novelist and short story writer with more than fifty books to his credit in Punjabi.

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Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction.

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H. A. Rey

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Hamletmachine

Hamletmachine (Die Hamletmaschine) is a postmodernist drama by German playwright and theatre director Heiner Müller.

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Hammond Innes

Ralph Hammond Innes (15 July 1913 – 10 June 1998) was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books.

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Harold Robbins

Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels.

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Héctor Germán Oesterheld

Héctor Germán Oesterheld, also known as his common abbreviation HGO (born July 23, 1919; disappeared and presumed dead 1977), was an Argentine journalist, comics editor and writer of graphic novels and comics.

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Hector Bianciotti

Hector Bianciotti (18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012) was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.

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Heiner Müller

Heiner Müller (9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director.

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Helen Cresswell

Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 – 26 September 2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction.

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Helen Garner

Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

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Henry Williamson

Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history, ruralism and the First World War.

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Howard Fast

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.

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Hubert Aquin

Hubert Aquin (24 October 1929 – 15 March 1977) was a Quebec novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor.

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Illusions (Bach novel)

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach.

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In Mayan Splendor

In Mayan Splendor is a collection of poems by Frank Belknap Long.

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In Patagonia

In Patagonia is an English travel book by Bruce Chatwin, published in 1977, about Patagonia, the southern part of South America.

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In the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Country (1977) is an early novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee.

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India: A Wounded Civilization

India: A Wounded Civilization (1977), by V. S. Naipaul, is the second book of his "India" trilogy, after An Area of Darkness, and before India: A Million Mutinies Now.

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Injury Time (novel)

Injury Time is a novel by English author Beryl Bainbridge and first published in 1977 by Duckworth.

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Iris Murdoch

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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Jacques Prévert

Jacques Prévert (4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter.

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James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me is the official novelization of the 1977 Eon ''James Bond'' film The Spy Who Loved Me, which was itself inspired by the 1962 novel of the same title by Ian Fleming.

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James Jones (author)

James Ramon Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was an American novelist renowned for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.

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James Kirkup

James Harold Kirkup (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) was an English poet, translator and travel writer.

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James M. Cain

James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter.

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James Merrill

James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.

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Jane Gardam

Jane Mary Gardam (born 11 July 1928) is an English writer of children's and adult fiction.

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Janka Bryl

Ivan Antonovich "Janka" Bryl (Янка Брыль; 4 August 1917 – 25 July 2006) was a Soviet and Belarusian writer best known for his short stories.

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Jim Fixx

James Fuller Fixx (April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984) was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running.

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Jim Thompson (writer)

James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American prose writer and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist.

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John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn.

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John E. Mack

John Edward Mack (October 4, 1929 – September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry.

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John Fowles

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

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John Green

John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist.

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John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.

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John Mortimer

Sir John Clifford Mortimer (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.

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John Neal (writer)

John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist.

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John Wells (satirist)

John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist.

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Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school.

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Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst (née Stahl,Aarons, Leroy., People (magazine), February 18, 1980 Vol. 13 No. 7. Accessed August 4, 2016. "Born in Maplewood, N.J., the daughter of an accountant and a mother 'who was a reader and a bridge player,' Judith Stahl started writing poetry at age 7." February 2, 1931) is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher.

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July 2

This date marks the halfway point of the year.

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Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre

The Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre was an arts and education facility built in Kamiriithu, Kenya in 1976.

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Kamiti Maximum Security Prison

Kamiti Maximum Security Prison is a prison in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Kay Dick

Kathleen Elsie "Kay" Dick (29 July 1915 – 19 October 2001) was an English journalist, writer, novelist and autobiographer, who sometimes wrote under the name Edward LaneDe-la-Noy, Michael (24 October 2001), (obituary), The Guardian.

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Kikuyu language

Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) (also known as Gĩgĩkũyũ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Gĩkũyũ (Agĩkũyũ) of Kenya.

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King's Gold Medal for Poetry

The King's Gold Medal for Poetry (known as Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry when the monarch is female) is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.

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Konstantin Fedin

Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (a; – 15 July 1977) was a Soviet and Russian novelist and literary functionary.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature.

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Lady Caroline Blackwood

Lady Caroline Blackwood (born Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood; 16 July 1931 – 14 February 1996) was an English writer, socialite, and muse.

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Larry McMurtry

Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas.

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Last Ditch

Last Ditch is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-ninth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1977.

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Laura Wade

Laura Wade is an English playwright.

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Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone (4 December 1919 – 16 June 1999) was an English historian of early modern Britain, after a start to his career as an art historian of English medieval art.

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Leland Bardwell

Constance Olive Leland Bardwell (25 February 1922 – 28 June 2016) was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright.

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Len Deighton

Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is a British author.

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Leon Forrest

Leon Richard Forrest (January 8, 1937 – November 6, 1997) was an African-American novelist who taught at Northwestern University from 1973 until his death.

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Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer.

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Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic.

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M. P. Shiel

Matthew Phipps Shiell (21 July 1865 – 17 February 1947), known as M. P. Shiel, was a British writer, remembered mainly for supernatural horror and scientific romances.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Marilyn French

Marilyn French (November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author, most widely known for her second book and first novel, the 1977 work The Women's Room.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician.

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Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Mary O'Malley (playwright)

Mary Josephine O'Malley (19 March 1941 – 19 September 2020) was an English playwright of Irish-Lithuanian descent.

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Mary Whitehouse

Constance Mary Whitehouse (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and conservative activist.

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

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Melissa Murray (playwright)

Melissa Murray (born 1954) is a British poet and playwright.

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Melvin Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles (born Melvin Peebles; August 21, 1932 – September 21, 2021) was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer.

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Michael Cristofer

Michael Cristofer (born January 22, 1945) is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Michael Herr

Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War.

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Michel Butel

Michel Butel (19 September 1940 – 26 July 2018) was a French journalist and novelist.

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Michel Déon

Michel Déon (4 August 1919 – 28 December 2016) was a French novelist and literary columnist.

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Middle-Age Spread

Middle-Age Spread is a 1977 play written by New Zealand playwright Roger Hall that premiered at the Circa Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Miguel de Cervantes Prize

The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.

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Mihai Gafița

Mihai or Mihail Gafița (Francized Mikhaï Gafitza;Alexandru Talex, "A notre ami disparu (M. Gafitza)", in Cahiers Panaït Istrati, Issue 6, May 1977, p. 5 October 21, 1923 – March 4, 1977) was a Romanian literary historian, critic, editor, and children's novelist, also noted as a communist activist and politician.

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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television.

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Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred DeLois Taylor (born September 13, 1943) is a Newbery Award-winning American young adult novelist.

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Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

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Miloš Crnjanski

Miloš Crnjanski (Милош Црњански,; 26 October 1893 – 30 November 1977) was a Serbian writer and poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat.

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Monkey Grip (novel)

Monkey Grip is a 1977 novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book.

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National Viewers' and Listeners' Association

Mediawatch-UK, formerly known as the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (National VALA or NVLA), was an advocacy group in the United Kingdom, which campaigned against the publication and broadcast of media content that it viewed as harmful, blasphemous and offensive, such as sex, violence, and profanity.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children".

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Ngaahika Ndeenda

Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) is a controversial play that covers post-colonial themes of class struggle, poverty, gender, culture, religion, modernity vs.

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Ngaio Marsh

Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh (23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director.

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Ngũgĩ wa Mirii

Ngũgĩ wa Mirii (1951 – 2/3 May 2008) was a Kenyan-Zimbabwean playwright, social worker and teacher, most known for his play Ngaahika Ndeenda, which he co-authored with fellow Gikuyu writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as "East Africa's leading novelist".

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No-dig gardening

No-dig gardening is a non-cultivation method used by some organic gardeners.

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Noah's Ark (Spier book)

Noah's Ark is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday in 1977.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Norman Mailer

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.

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Norman Nicholson

Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson (8 January 1914 – 30 May 1987) was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom.

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Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales.

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Oliver's Story

Oliver's Story is a 1978 American romantic drama film and a sequel to Love Story (1970) based on a novel by Erich Segal published a year earlier.

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Once a Catholic

Once a Catholic is a play by Mary O'Malley.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot.

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Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

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Paul Scott (novelist)

Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 1 March 1978) was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet.

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Pauline Gedge

Pauline Gedge (born December 11, 1945) is a Canadian novelist best known for her historical fiction novels, including the best-selling Child of the Morning, The Eagle and the Raven, her fantasy novel Stargate, and her Egyptian trilogies, Lords of the Two Lands and The King's Man.

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Péter Nádas

Péter Nádas (born 14 October 1942) is a Hungarian writer, playwright, and essayist.

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Peter Hall (director)

Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (22 November 1930 11 September 2017) was an English theatre, opera and film director.

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Peter Spier

Peter Spier (June 6, 1927 – April 27, 2017) was a Dutch-American illustrator and writer who created more than thirty children's books.

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Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov; 16 April 192128 March 2004) was a British actor, director and writer.

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Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is given annually by the Phi Beta Kappa Society to authors of significant books in the fields of science and mathematics.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.

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Philosophy and Literature

Philosophy and Literature is an academic journal founded in 1977 by Denis Dutton.

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Premio Nadal

Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta.

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Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk

Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by the author M. P. Shiel.

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Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt (Le prix Goncourt,, The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".

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Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November.

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Quartet in Autumn

Quartet in Autumn is a novel by British novelist Barbara Pym, first published in 1977.

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R. C. Majumdar

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1888 – 11 February 1980) was an Indian historian and professor known for being an integral part of the Nationalist school of historiography.

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Rage (King novel)

Rage (written as Getting It On) is a psychological thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, the first he published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

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Remy Sylado

Yapi Panda Abdiel Tambayong (12 July 1945 – 12 December 2022), best known by his pen-name Remy Sylado, was an Indonesian author, actor, and musician.

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Richard Adams

Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist whose works include Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs.

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Richard Bach

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer.

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Richard Bachman

Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King, adopted in 1977 for the novel Rage.

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Richard Gordon (English author)

Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere), was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist.

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Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead (born November 12, 1976) is an American fantasy author.

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Robert B. Gottlieb

Robert Bernard Gottlieb (born 1944) is an American academic, activist, journalist, and writer.

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Robert Bolt

Robert Oxton Bolt (15 August 1924 – 20 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Robert Coles (psychiatrist)

Robert Coles (born October 12, 1929) is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

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Robert Coover

Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series.

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Robert Merle

Robert Merle (28 August 1908 – 27 March 2004) was a French novelist.

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Robin Cook

Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook (28 February 19466 August 2005) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001 when he was replaced by Jack Straw.

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Roger Hall (playwright)

Sir Roger Leighton Hall (born 17 January 1939) is one of New Zealand's most successful playwrights, arguably best known for comedies that carry a vein of social criticism and feelings of pathos.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1977 Newbery Medal awarded novel by Mildred D. Taylor.

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Rumer Godden

Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books.

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Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders (21 August 1886 – 12 October 1988) was an English poet and author born in Wales, known for a series of children's books for which she collected and related fairy tales worldwide.

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Ruth Park

Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 191714 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author.

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Ruth Rendell

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

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Sandra Boynton

Sandra Keith Boynton (born April 3, 1953) is an American humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author, and illustrator.

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer.

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Send No More Roses

Send No More Roses is a 1977 novel by Eric Ambler.

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Seven Little Monsters

Seven Little Monsters is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by American author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.

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Shirley Hughes

Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator.

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Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer.

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Song of Solomon (novel)

Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her third to be published.

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State of Revolution

State of Revolution is a two act play by Robert Bolt, written in 1977.

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Staying On

Staying On is a novel by Paul Scott which was published by University of Chicago Press in 1977.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Sunset at Blandings

Sunset at Blandings is an unfinished novel by P. G. Wodehouse published in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London, on 17 November 1977 and in the United States by Simon & Schuster, New York, 19 September 1978.

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Swords and Crowns and Rings

Swords and Crowns and Rings (1977) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Ruth Park.

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T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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Tena Štivičić

Tena Štivičić (born 1977) is a Croatian playwright and screenwriter.

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Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter.

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Terry Brooks

Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction.

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The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977.

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The Bagthorpe Saga

The Bagthorpe Saga is a series of 10 novels by Helen Cresswell published between 1977 and 2001 winning two International Reading Association awards published in the UK and the United States by Faber and Faber.

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The Big Footprints is a 1977 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes.

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The Chancellor Manuscript

The Chancellor Manuscript is a 1977 novel, by American writer Robert Ludlum, about the alleged secret files of J. Edgar Hoover and how they disappeared after his death, and how they possibly could be used to force people in high places to do the bidding of those who possessed the secrets contained therein.

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The Complete Book of Running

The Complete Book of Running is a 1977 non-fiction book written by Jim Fixx.

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The End of a Family Story

The End of a Family Story (Egy családregény vége) is a 1977 novel by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas.

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The Flounder

The Flounder (Der Butt) is a 1977 novel by the German writer Günter Grass.

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The Foundling's War

The Foundling's War is a 1977 novel by the French writer Michel Déon.

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The French Atlantic Affair

The French Atlantic Affair was a 3-part TV miniseries produced and broadcast in 1979, based on is the 1977 novel of the same title by Ernest Lehman.

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The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel)

The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1977 detective novel by the British writer Edmund Crispin.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space

The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a human on the Moon and beyond.

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The History and Culture of the Indian People

The History and Culture of the Indian People is a series of eleven volumes on the history of India, from prehistoric times to the establishment of the modern state in 1947.

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The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by British writer John le Carré.

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The Horror at Oakdeene and Others

The Horror at Oakdeene and Others is a collection of stories by author Brian Lumley.

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The Hostage of Zir

The Hostage of Zir is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the seventh book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and the fifth of its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna.

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The Immigrants

The Immigrants (1977) is a historical novel written by Howard Fast.

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The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861

The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 is a 1976 nonfiction book by American historian David M. Potter, who had died in 1971.

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The Invisible Victory

The Invisible Victory is a 1977 spy thriller novel by the British writer Richard Gordon.

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The Mauritius Command

The Mauritius Command is the fourth naval historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1977.

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The Mysteries

The Mysteries is a version of the medieval English mystery plays first presented at London's National Theatre in 1977.

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The Plague Dogs (novel)

The Plague Dogs is a novel by English author Richard Adams, first published in 1977 by Allen Lane.

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The Public Burning

The Public Burning, Robert Coover's third novel, was published in 1977.

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The Queen of Zamba

The Queen of Zamba is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the first book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna.

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The Sea, the Sea

The Sea, The Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch.

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The Shadow Box

The Shadow Box is a play written by actor Michael Cristofer.

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The Shining (novel)

The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King.

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The Ship's Cat

The Ship's Cat, also known under its full title of The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis & Triumphant Firing Of The Port Of Chagres, is a 1977 children's narrative poem that was written by Richard Adams with illustrations by Alan Aldridge.

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The Silmarillion

The Silmarillion is a book consisting of a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Sword of Shannara

The Sword of Shannara is a 1977 epic fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks.

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The Thorn Birds

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough.

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The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (or Tyke Tiler) is a children's school adventure novel by Gene Kemp, first published by Faber and Faber in 1977 with illustrations by Carolyn Dinan.

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The Visible Hand

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business is a book by American business historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr., published by the Belknap Press imprint of Harvard University Press in 1977.

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The Wars

The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressive Edwardian society.

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The Women's Room

The Women's Room is the debut novel by American feminist author Marilyn French, published in 1977.

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Tieta

Tieta (Portuguese: Tieta do Agreste, lit. "Tieta from Agreste") is a novel written by the Brazilian author Jorge Amado, published on August 17, 1977.

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Timothy Findley

Timothy Irving Frederick Findley entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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Toilet paper

Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, toilet roll, or bathroom tissue) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation), and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine (after urination).

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