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Hoda Kotb	On January 15, 2013, she released her second book Ten Years Later : Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives, in which she chronicles six stories by identifying a game-changing event in her subjects' lives and then revisiting those lives a decade later.
Giada Trebeschi	A yet unpublished screenplay, The Confession, dealing with the problem of ethnic cleansing Giada Trebeschi wrote in 2004 under the impression of the wars in former Yugoslavia, Darfur and many other places and initially sparked by an intensive conversation with a Bosnian actress at a reception in Berlin, Germany.
Max O'Rell	Woman and Artist (1899), relating the conflict of a woman torn between her role as a wife and an aspiring artist was a very conventional story with one-dimensional characters.
Valentine de Saint-Point	In 1910 she published A woman and desire, an unacknowledged autobiographical confession that enabled her to express a few truths about female psychology and women's roles in society.
G. F. Green	Closely allied to this anthology was his novel In the Making (1952), which drew upon his memories of Wells House, but was relocated from the Malverns to the Quantocks.
William Sutcliffe	His first young adult novel,'' The Wall'' (2013), tells of a boy in Israel's occupied territories whose discovery of a tunnel underneath the barrier wall sets off a spiraling chain of events after he goes under and is saved from his attackers by a girl on the other side.
Julia Alvarez	In 1960, the family was forced to flee to the United States after her father participated in a failed plot to overthrow the island's military dictator, Rafael Trujillo, circumstances which would later be revisited in her writing : her novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, for example, portrays a family that is forced to leave the Dominican Republic in similar circumstances, and in her poem,'' Exile'', she describes'' the night we fled the country'' and calls the experience a'' loss much larger than I understood''.
Herv? Guibert	Two more books also detailing the progress of his illness followed : Le Protocole compassionnel (published in English as The Compassionate Protocol) and L'Homme au chapeau rouge (published in English as The Man In The Red Hat), which was released posthumously in January 1992, the same month French television screened La Pudeur ou l'impudeur, a home-made film by Guibert of his last year as he lost his battle against AIDS.
Heather Lewis (writer)	Lewis's second novel, The Second Suspect (1998), follows the struggles of a female police investigator trying to prove the guilt of a powerful and influential businessman responsible for the rape and murder of several young women.
Zee Edgell	Her subsequent novel, In Times Like These (1991) portrayed the turmoil of nearly independent Belize from the point of view of another female protagonist, this time the adult director of women's affairs (a post Edgell once held).
Andrew Sanger	His novel The J-Word (2009), about secular Jewish life, is not on a travel-related theme, and is set in the neighbourhood of Golders Green in his native north-west London.
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	In 1961, Lakhdar-Hamina collaborated with Chanderli in the movie Yasmina, which tells the story of a refugee girl who must flee her village following its destruction.
Elio Petri	I giorni contati (1962), his second film, again co-authored with Tonino Guerra sets the pattern : Petri's filmic world is political by allusion and dominated by the themes of exclusion and divided lives.
Yambo Ouologuem	Ouologuem's best-known works were republished English in The Yambo Ouologuem Reader : The Duty of Violence, A Black Ghostwriter's Letter to France and The Thousand and One Bibles of Sex, by Africa World Press, 2008.
Tullio Avoledo	Avoledo's novel L'anno dei dodici inverni (2009) deals with time travel, love and redemption, in a mix of science fiction themes and a realistic narrative approach to the feelings and emotions of the characters.
H. D. G. Leveson Gower	During a tour of America in 1897 organised by Plum Warner that Leveson Gower took part in, the Philadelphia n journalist Ralph D. Paine published the following piece of humorous verse concerning the pronunciation of his surname : : At one end stocky Jessop frowned, : The human catapult : Who wrecks the roofs of distant towns : When set in his assault.
Ford Madox Ford	One of his most famous works is The Good Soldier (1915), a novel set just before World War I which chronicles the tragic lives of two'' perfect couples'' using intricate flashback s.
Lawrence Wright	Wright also co-wrote the screenplay for the film The Siege (1998), which tells the story of a terrorist attack in New York City that leads to curtailed civil liberties and rounding up of Arab-Americans.
Lionel Shriver	Shriver won the 2005 Orange Prize for her eighth published novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, a thriller and close study of maternal ambivalence, and the role it might have played in the title character's decision to murder nine people at his high school.
Mongo Beti	In 1974 he published Perpétue and Remember Ruben ; the latter was the first in a trilogy exploring the life and impact of Nyobe.
Jose Maria Sison	His experience was described in Prison & Beyond, a book of poetry released in 1986, which won the Southeast Asia WRITE award for the Philippines.
Willibrordus S. Rendra	After he was released from prison he was banned from performing poetry or drama until 1986, when he wrote, directed and starred in his eight hour long play `` Panembahan Reso,'' which discussed the issue of the succession of power that was a taboo at that time.
Whiting Williams	Based on his work as a common laborer in the steel mills and in a rolling mill, as a coal miner in two towns, as a shipbuilder, as an oil man in a refinery, and as a worker in the iron mines, Williams wrote a 1920 book entitled'' What's on the Worker's Mind, subtitled By One Who Put On Overalls To Find Out.
Dakota Fanning	Over the summer of 2006, Fanning worked on the film Hounddog, described in press reports as a'' dark story of abuse, violence and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South.''
David Malouf	His epic novel The Great World (1990) tells the story of two Australians and their relationship amid the turmoil of two World Wars, including imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II ; the novel won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the French Prix Femina Étranger.
Ted Conover	A few of those Conover met on the rails were Mexican nationals, and in his next book, Coyotes : A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants (1987), he turned his attention to illegal immigrants, describing them as'' the true modern-day incarnation of the classic American hobo.''
Jonathan Franzen	Strong Motion (1992) focuses on a dysfunctional family, the Hollands, and uses seismic events on the American East Coast as a metaphor for the quakes that occur in family life (as Franzen put it,'' I imagined static lives being disrupted from without -- literally shaken.
Lady Gaga	Born This Way (2011) is sung in English, French, German, and Spanish and includes common themes in Gaga's controversial songwriting such as sex, love, religion, money, drugs, identity, liberation, sexuality, freedom, and individualism.
Robin Sellick	Sellick's next book, Life & Times in the Republic of Broken Hill, a collaboration with author Jack Marx released in 2011, was something of'' an antidote'' to his career as a celebrity photographer, the subjects of the portraits being ordinary people from the historic mining town.
James Aldridge	His 1966 novel My Brother Tom was set in the fictional Australian town of St Helen, closely based on the town of Swan Hill by the Murray River where he spent much of his childhood.
Ansar Burney	The following are some of the most prominent cases Ansar Burney has been involved in : Ansar Burney is particularly widely accredited as the man whose efforts led to the end of child slavery in the shape of child camel jockeys in the Middle East ; as a direct of which, thousands of children were freed from bonded labour and returned to their homes in South Asia and Africa.
Carolyn Banks	•'' Shhh, Shhh, It's Christmas'' •'' The Wish'' •'' The Country Gentleman'' •'' Sauna'' •'' The Shame Girl'' •'' Death Is a Lonesome Cowboy'' •'' Deuce'' •'' Silk Lady'' •'' Arrowhead'' •'' Jamming With Juba'' •'' Bernadette's Song'' •'' Sex and the Single Parent'' •'' A Real One'' •'' Jewels'''' •'' Mean to My Father'''' •'' Random Violence'' • Catholic Girls : Stories, Poems, and Memoirs (1992) amazon.
Rory MacLean	His second book The Oatmeal Ark (1997) followed, exploring immigrant dreams from Scotland and across Canada and inspiring John Fowles to write,' Such a book as this rather marvellously explains why literature still lives'.
Henryk Chmielewski (comics)	Since the debut of his first Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek comic book in 1966, he focused his career almost entirely on this series, telling the story of Tytus de Zoo, an anthropomorphic, talking chimpanzee who wants to become a human.
Henry Channon	His anti-Americanism was reflected in his novel, Joan Kennedy published in 1929, described by the publishers as'' the story of an English girl's marriage to a wealthy American and of her attempts to bridge the gulf created by differences of race and education.''
Nadine Gordimer	Her first published novel, The Lying Days (1953), takes place in Gordimer's home town of Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town near Johannesburg.
Hisaye Yamamoto	Life Among the Oil Fields, A Memoir (1979) -- In this non-fiction account, Yamamoto describes her life on a farm among the oil fields of Southern California.
Chris Bohjalian	In 1998, Bohjalian wrote his fifth book, Midwives, a novel focusing on rural Vermont midwife Sibyl Danforth, who becomes embroiled in a legal battle after one of her patients died following an emergency Caesarean section.
William Curtis Farabee	In other locations he witnessed the atrocities that were taking places by slave hunters, such as the story of Simasiri, a translator for the expedition, who witnessed his family sold into slavery or killed by the traders (Farabee, 1922).
Don Boyd	His wife Hilary, a granddaughter of the late Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton, also has a forthcoming debut novel Thursdays in the Park due 2011, described by her publisher as' a beautiful and insightful first novel written by an author who has the perfect experience to write it'.
Terry Glavin	His first book, A Death Feast in Dimlahamid (1990), dealt with the struggles of the Gitksan and Wet' suwet' en peoples, drawing on an account of the oral traditions of Dimlahamid, also known as Temlaham, an ancient city said to have existed in that region.
Orlan	In 1964, while in her home town of Saint-Étienne, she started the'' Marches au ralenti'' ('' Slow motion walks''), in which she would walk as slowly as possible between two central parts of the city.
Hidemi Kon	In 1949, Kon published Sanchu Horo ('' Wandering in the Mountains''), a story based on his wartime experiences in the Philippines, which marked the start of his literary career.
John Gray (poet)	Gray produced one novel, Park : A Fantastic Story (1932), a surreal futuristic allegory about Fr Mungo Park, a priest who, in a dream, wakes up in a Britain which has become a post-industrial paradise inhabited by black people who are all Catholics, with the degenerate descendants of the white population living below ground like rats.
Laurie Halse Anderson	In 2008, Anderson published another historical fiction novel, entitled Chains, a narrative about a teenage Revolutionary War - era slave.
Jan de Hartog	He also made the professional decision to write most of his later works in English, beginning with The Lost Sea (1951), which was a fictional account of his experiences working aboard ship as a boy, colloquially called a'' sea mouse.''
Heidi Holland	In 2006, Holland released a South Africa -- based true crime investigation of racism and violence in The Colour of Murder : One family's horror exposes a nation's anguish.
Andr? Malraux	In 1938 he published L'Espoir (Man's Hope), a novel influenced by his Spanish war experiences.
Pepetela	His first novel of the decade, the 1992 A geração da utopia, addresses many of the issues first raised in Mayombe, but from the perspective of the post-independence reality of Angola.
Perry Moore	He co-wrote and co-directed (with life partner Hunter Hill) the 2008 film Lake City, a drama that tells the story of a mother (Sissy Spacek) and son (Troy Garity) who reunite under desperate circumstances years after a family tragedy drove them apart.
Martin Allerdale Grainger	In 1908, while in England, he wrote Woodsmen of the West, a novel based on his experiences as a logger.
Ada Jack Carver Snell	In 1926, she published'' The Raspberry Dress'' in The Century, a story of a complex relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter.
Marco Pastors	In his political pamphlet At your service which was published in 2006 he described his catholic and rural upbringing as unremarkable, with his parents' problematic marriage as a recurring theme.
Dudley Randall	Naomi Long Madgett writes :'' His interest in Russia, apparent in his translations of poems by Aleksander Pushkin (' I Loved You Once,' After the Killing) and Konstantin Simonov (' My Native Land' and' Wait for Me' in A Litany of Friends), was heightened by a visit to the Soviet Union in 1966.
Stan Walker	Walker has compared his early life to that portrayed in the 1994 New Zealand film, Once Were Warriors, which tells the story of an urban Māori family and their problems with poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence.
Konrad Lorenz	In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel (winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who'' were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals,'' and to his childhood encounter with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.
David Marcus	His 1986 novel, A Land Not Theirs, a fictionalized account of the experiences of the Cork Jewish community during the Irish War of Independence was a bestseller.
John Strausbaugh	Strausbaugh's new book The Village : 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village (Ecco 2013) (ISBN 978-0062078193), April 9, 2013, explains the tumultuous events that made New York's Greenwich Village the cultural engine of America.
Mark Pendergrast	In attempting to understand this personal tragedy, Pendergrast discovered that this pattern of accusation and self-estrangement following unearthed'' repressed memories of sexual abuse'' had become popular in the United States and Canada in the late 1980s ; adults were encouraged by self-help book s, such as The Courage to Heal (1988), and by many therapists, to believe that some of their problems as adults were because they had been sexually abused in childhood.
Remy Sylado	In 1999 Sylado published the novel Ca Bau Kan (The Courtesan), which dealt with the trials and tribulations of Chinese Indonesians in pre-independence Indonesia.
Alejandro Jodorowsky	In August 2011, Alejandro arrived in a town in Chile where he grew up, also the setting of his autobiography The Dance of Reality, to promote an autobiographical film based upon his book.
Fernando Chaves	Chaves' novel influenced other future indigenist novelists of Ecuador, such as Jorge Icaza whose novel Huasipungo (1934) is the most important indeginist novel from Ecuador.
Herman Wouk	His second novel, City Boy, proved to be a commercial disappointment at the time of its initial publication in 1948 ; Wouk once claimed it was largely ignored amid the excitement over Norman Mailer's bestselling World War II novel The Naked and the Dead.
Jean Sasson	978-0470067291 -- Wiley (March 5, 2007) In this true love story, Sasson focuses on the life of a Kurdish woman living in Iraq and the broader story of ethnic tensions between the Kurds, Iraqis, Turks, Iranians, and Syrians.
Anne Noggle	This book (now out of print) showcased Noggle's photographs that documented the challenges she and other women in America faced as they grew olde She made portraits of her fellow WASPs as older women in the book For God, Country and the Thrill of It : Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II (1990).
Khaled Hosseini	Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was published in 2007, and is also set in Afghanistan.
Paul Gervais (writer)	He completed his first novel, Extraordinary People, in 1991 ; which depicted the lives of two boys growing up in neglectful households.
Sister Nivedita	Cradle Tales of Hinduism Her works included The Web of Indian Life, which sought to rectify many myths in the Western world about Indian culture and customs, Kali the Mother, The Master as I Saw Him on Swami Vivekananda, Notes of Some Wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda on her travels from Nainital, Almora and other places with Swamiji, The Cradle Tales of Hindusim on the stories from Puranas, Ramayana and Mahabharata, Studies from an Eastern Home, Civil Ideal and Indian Nationality, Hints on National Education in India, Glimpses of Famine and Flood in East Bengal -- 1906.
Natalie Zemon Davis	In her Women on the Margins (1995), she looked at the autobiographical accounts of three 17th-century women -- the Jewish merchant Glikl Hamel, the Catholic nun Marie de l’Incarnation, who came to New France, and the Protestant entomologist - artist Maria Sibylla Merian -- and discussed the role of religion in their lives.
Geraldine Brooks (writer)	To connect that memorable reading experience to her new status in 2002 as an American citizen, she researched the Civil War historical setting of Little Women and decided to create a chronicle of wartime service for the'' absent father'' of the March girls.
Beverly Shaffer	To a Safer Place (1987) was an uplifting story of an incest survivor in her thirties who succeeded in building a fulfilling life after years of abuse.
Sarfraz Manzoor	These include From Luton Streets to Jersey Shores where he travelled to New Jersey to examine the connections between Springsteen's New Jersey and Manzoor's hometown of Luton ; Do n't Call Me Asian which examined the rise in British Indians and Pakistanis defining themselves by their religion and nationality rather than simply as British Asians ; A Class Apart which explored the consequences of faith schools on social cohesion ; Taking the Cricket Test which saw Manzoor follow the Pakistan cricket team across England during the 2006 test series.
Irving Bacheller	Writing novels primarily concerned with early American life in the North Country of New York State, in 1900 his novel'' Eben Holden,'' subtitled A Tale of the North Country, proved a major success, and was the fourth best-selling novel in the United States in 1900.
Wally Lamb	Lamb's third novel, The Hour I First Believed, published in 2008, interfaces fiction with such non-fictional events as the Columbine High School shooting, the Iraq War, and, in a story within the story, events of nineteenth-century America.
Robert A. Heinlein	The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story (borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow	The couple spent the first half of 1859 in Florida, where Fitz Hugh wrote a series of articles, `` Due South Sketches,'' describing what he later recalled as `` the climate of Utopia, the scenery of Paradise, and the social system of Hell.''
Nora Wall	In the book Suffer the Little Children published in November 1999 as a follow up to her TV series, Mary Raftery and her co-author Eoin O'Sullivan wrote : Dear Daughter concerned the experiences at Goldenbridge Industrial School, Dublin of Christine Buckley, who grew up there during the 1950s.
Michael Netzer	A 40-day retreat to the Dead Sea resort of Ein Gedi in February 2003 inspired Netzer to go back to his early spiritual themes and activism.
T. J. English	With `` Narco Americano'', published in Playboy in 2011, English examined the narco war in Mexico after spending time in the Ciudad Juarez - El Paso border area.
Peter Popoff	Popoff was also the inspiration for a character in the 2012 thriller film Red Lights, a psychic who uses information fed to him via a hidden earpiece to persuade the audience at his shows that he is receiving personal details psychically.
John Roosevelt Boettiger	He has an interest in the intersections of social history, memory, narrative and psychology, themes explored in his biography of his parents' lives and their family history, A Love in Shadow, published by W. W. Norton in 1978.
Agatha Christie	Murder in Mesopotamia (1936) : Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.
Song Il-gon	Song's first feature film was Flower Island (2001), a story about three women with psychological wounds travelling together to an island which is said to have magical healing powers.
Rachel Crothers	She began work on the play in 1912 before the vogue was underway, visited the Bedford Street Reformatory for Women to talk to some imprisoned sex workers, and elected to adopt an entirely female-centered perspective.
Isabel Ashdown	David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide Ashdown's Glasshopper was one of our favourite books of 2009, and her second novel is another mix of compelling characters and 1980s nostalgia.
William Sutcliffe	Bad Influence (2004), is about Olly, a 10 year old growing up in a North London suburb with his family, and the plot centres around the complex knot of his childhood friendships.
William Inge	Carl Van Vechten In 1953, Inge received a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic, a play based on women he had known as a small child : : When I was a boy in Kansas, my mother had a boarding house.
Anna Seghers	Seghers best-known story The Outing of the Dead Girls (1946), written in Mexico, was an autobiographical reminiscence of a pre - World War I class excursion on the Rhine river in which the actions of the protagonist's classmates are seen in light of their decisions and ultimate fates during both world wars.
Michael Crichton	In 1976, Crichton published Eaters of the Dead, a novel about a tenth-century Muslim who travels with a group of Vikings to their settlement.
Jacques Kupfermann	left | thumb | Thumbnailed | image | River View 1974 Oil on Canvas Unsurprisingly, with his parents now feared deported or worse, his teen years in the Bronx, NY were troubled ones and after a minor misdemeanour Jacques was sent to a corrective facility in Engelwood, New Jersey for delinquent boys where, happily, he lighted upon the man who turned his life around -- psychologist Dr Abe Kraig who ran the facility with his wife.
Zina Saro-Wiwa	Her short story, Lola of the Red Oil, based loosely on Saro-Wiwa's experiences as a lone teen traveller in Bahia, Brazil, was excerpted in a book for Riflemaker Gallery's 2008'' Voodoo'' exhibition.
David Lodge (author)	Lodge's first published novel The Picturegoers (1960) draws on his early experiences in' Brickley' (based on Brockley), and he revisits them again in a later novel, Therapy.
Tanya Datta	In 2009, she reported in the Explore series on BBC2 uncovering' Argentina's Dirty War' where she was had a detailed look into the lives of families torn apart by the Perón government's sponsored' disappearances' of suspected communists.
Judith Alice Clark	Clark is among the inmates at Bedford Hills featured in the 2003 documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You, about a writing workshop in the prison led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues.
Andrew McGahan	In 2000, having by his own admission struggled to come up with a third novel, McGahan produced his first work of non-autobiographical fiction : the crime novel Last Drinks, a reflection upon the endemic political corruption in Queensland in the 1980s, and the aftermath of the famous Fitzgerald Inquiry.
Rick Alverson	New Jerusalem (2011), his second feature, starring Colm O'Leary (The Builder) and Will Oldham (Matewan, Old Joy), again considered the immigrant experience but this time through the lens of religious ideology.
John Hersey	His 1965 novel, White Lotus, is exploration of the African American experience prior to civil rights as reflected in an alternate history in which white Americans are enslaved by the Chinese after losing'' the Great War'' to them.
Michael Thomas Ford	In October 2008, Ford returned to his young adult roots with the publication of Suicide Notes (HarperCollins), the blackly comic story of a young man forced to come to terms with his emerging sexuality after a failed attempt at ending his life puts him in a psychiatric hospital.
Leslie Marmon Silko	In'' An Old-Fashioned Indian Attack in Two Parts'', first published in Geary Hobson's collection The Remembered Earth (1978), Silko accused Gary Snyder of profiting from Native American culture, particularly in his collection Turtle Island, the name and theme of which was taken from Pueblo mythology.
Song Il-gon	In 2009 Song turned to documentaries, telling the story of the Korean diaspora in Cuba in Dance of Time.