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America's Authors
of the XXth & XXIst Century
on Page One-A: Anthologies & Literary History on Page One-B: Early American Authors
on Page Two: Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M
on Page Three: Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z
on Page Four: Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L
on Page Five: Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z
here on Pages Six & Seven: XX-XXIst Century Authors
A thru F G thru L M thru S T thru Z
Authors of Britain Pages Authors of France Page
American Poets Pages including The Beats
American Literature of The XIXth Century
American Literature of The XXth Century
Rudolfo Anaya Page
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Richard Bach: browse books
official Richard Bach website
Alisha's Richard Bach page
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playwright Annie Baker
won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2014; won a Macarthur Grant 10/2017
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entry at Wikipedia
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humorist Dave Barry: browse books
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Rick Bass of Montana
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entry at Wikipedia
 | "Nashville Chrome: A Novel" [2010] American trio The Browns [1955-67] – siblings Maxine, 'Jim Ed' & Bonnie – were the first group to have a number one hit on both the country and the pop charts (and later on the folk charts – pioneers in the phenomenon of crossover hits) and were the number one selling group in England in 1957. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8¼x5¾ hardcover [9/2010] for $16.20 'The Browns' entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Why I Came West: A Memoir" [2008] Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [7/2009] for $11.21 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover [7/2008] for $19.20 |
Peter S. Beagle lives in Oakland, California
browse books NEW official website
OLD 'unofficial' website
entry at Wikipedia
entry at ISFDb
credits at IMDb
received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011
"A Fine and Private Place" [first novel 1960]
"I See By My Outfit: Cross-Country By Scooter - An Adventure" [nonfiction 1965]
"The Last Unicorn" [1968 novel]
"The Dove" [1974 screenplay]
"Lila The Werewolf" [1974 novelette]
"The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened" TV movie [1977 teleplay]
"The Fantasy Worlds of Peter S. Beagle" [1978 omnibus] includes "AF&PP", "TLU", "LTW", and "Come Lady Death"
Ralph Bakshi's "The Lord of The Rings" animated film [1978 screenplay]
"The Last Unicorn" animated film [1982 screenplay]
"Sarek" episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" TV series [1990 teleplay]
"A Whale of A Tale" pilot for "The Little Mermaid" TV series [1992 teleplay]
"Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn" [1995] co-editor (split into two volumes as pb in 1998 & 1999)
"The Secret History of Fantasy" [2010] editor of anthology
"The Urban Fantasy Anthology" [2011] co-editor with Joe R. Lansdale
"Camelot" [1996 screenplay]
"A Tale of Egypt" animated film [1996 screenplay]
"The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version" [2007] original novella-length draft
"We Never Talk About My Brother" story collection [2009]
"The Last Unicorn" graphic novel [comics 2010, book 1/2011]
"Sleight of Hand" story collection [2011]
"Two Hearts" [2011] award-winning novelette sequel to "The Last Unicorn"
"The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings" [not yet published] stories & essays
"A Fine and Private Place" graphic novel [not yet published]
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Ann Beattie
"Ann Beattie: New Yorker Stories" [2011]
"The State We're In: Maine Stories" [Scribner, 2015] by Ann Beattie 9781501107818
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Gene H. Bell-Villada
browse books homepage at Williams College
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James P. Blaylock: books fansite
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humorist Roy Blount, Jr.
browse books official website IMDb listing
Wikipedia
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Robert Boswell
Boswell and his wife, novelist Antonya Nelson live in Houston, TX and Telluride, CO and Las Cruces, NM
browse books official website Wikipedia
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Ray Bradbury [1920-2012] Pages
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ex-felon author Edward Bunker: browse books
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mystery author James Lee Burke Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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Dave Burns lives in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas
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official weblog no entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Movement: A Children's Story For Grown-ups" [book #1 2011]
140-page Kindle Edition from Uncarved Books [1/2014] for 99’ 140-page CreateSpace 8x5 pb [9/2011] for $8.99 "The Movement: Revisited" [book #2 2012] 57-page Kindle Edition from Uncarved Books [1/2014] for 99’ "Edem's Flight" [book #3 2012] 24-page Kindle Edition from Uncarved Books [1/2014] for 99’ "The Movement: Concluded" anthology [books 1-3 2012] by Dave Burns 278-page Kindle Edition from Uncarved Books [1/2014] for $1.99 274-page CreateSpace 8x5 pb [7/2012] for $12.99 |
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award-winning Michael Chabon
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official website
Wikipedia
1999 O. Henry Award
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2007 Nebula Award for Best Novel
2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Jerome Charyn
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IMDb listing
Wikipedia
official Jerome Charyn website
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mystery author Michael Connelly Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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mystery author K.C. Constantine
the Rocksburg, PA novels: books
J.D.'s fansite
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Don Delillo
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Wikipedia
The Don DeLillo Society [est. 1999]
"Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun" [BBC 1991]
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Junot Dνaz
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official website
Wikipedia
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" [2007] won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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children's author Kate DiCamillo of Minneapolis, Minnesota
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official website
Facebook
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
Candlewick Press Mercy Watson books website
3/2010 "Meet The Author: Kate DiCamillo" video [10:21]
12/2013 "Meet The Author: Kate DiCamillo" at Red Balloon Bookstore video [22:33]
6/2014 speech at Newbery-Caldecott Banquet in Las Vegas, Nevada [16:11]
9/2017 Kate DiCamillo interview at National Book Festival in Washington, DC [12:31]
"Because of Winn-Dixie" [2000]
"The Tiger Rising" [2001]
"The Tale of Despereaux" [2003], illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
"The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane [2006], illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
"Great Joy" [2007], illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
"Louise: The Adventures of A Chicken" [2008], illustrated by Harry Bliss
"The Magician's Elephant" [2009), illustrated by Yoko Tanaka
"Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" [2013], illustrated by K.G. Campbell
"Raymie Nightingale" [April 2016]
"La, La, La" [Oct 2017]
"Mercy Watson" series - text by DiCamillo, illustrated by Chris Van Dusen
"Mercy Watson To The Rescue" [2005]
"Mercy Watson Goes For A Ride" [2006]
"Mercy Watson Fights Crime" [2006]
"Mercy Watson: Princess In Disguise" [2007]
"Mercy Watson Thinks Like A Pig" [2008]
"Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes" [2009]
"Bink & Gollie" chapter book series - text by DiCamillo & Alison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile
"Bink & Gollie" [2010]
"Bink & Gollie: Two For One" [2012]
"Bink & Gollie: Best Friends Forever" [2013]
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Dave Eggars: browse books
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Barbara Ehrenreich
books
official website
blogsite
Wikipedia
2011 update: "On Turning Poverty Into An American Crime" by Barbara Ehrenreich
 | "This Land Is Their Land: Reports From A Divided Nation" [62 essays 2008] by Barbara Ehrenreich Holt 7¾x5¼ pb [4/2009] for $10.12 Metropolitan Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2008] for $16.49 |
 | "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of The American Dream" [2005 New York Times bestseller] by Barbara Ehrenreich Holt 8x5½ pb [7/2006] for $10.40 Metropolitan Books 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2005] for $19.20 |
 | "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America" [2001] by Barbara Ehrenreich winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize April 2002 Picador 10th Anniv Edition pb with new Afterword [8/2011] for $9.59 Owl Books 9x5 pb [5/2002] for $7.80 Metropolitan 9x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] for $16.10 |
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Deborah Eisenberg
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Wikipedia
 | "The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg" [2010] combining the four previous short story collections "Transactions In A Foreign Currency" [1986], "Under The 82nd Airborne" [1992], "All Around Atlantis" [1997], and "Twilight of The Superheroes" [2006] for a total of 27 tales Picador Paperback Original 8¼x6½ pb [3/2010] for $14.96 |
Kate Elliott {pen name of Alis A. Rasmussen of Hawai'i}
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official website
Wikipedia
Kate Elliott entry at Internet Science Fiction Database
 | "The Very Best of Kate Elliott" [2015]  includes Introduction, 12 stories, and four essays Kindle Edition from Tachyon Publns [2/2015] for $7.99 Tachyon Publns 8¾x6 pb [2/2015] for $12.29 |
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mystery author James Ellroy Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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Joshua Ferris
browse books
official booksite
Wikipedia
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Gillian Flynn lives in Chicago
worked as the chief TV critic for Entertainment Weekly for ten years, now writes full-time; her first novel "Sharp Objects" won two C.W.A. Dagger Awards
and was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger; her latest novel "Gone Girl" is a massive #1 bestseller.
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IMDb listing
Wikipedia
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Wm. Price 'Bill' Fox [1926-2015]
books
2002 interview
Wikipedia
wife author Sarah Gilbert Fox [] - married 1992, widowed 2015
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blog of Sarah Gilbert Fox
"Southern Fried"
"Southern Fried Plus Six"
"Moonshine Light, Moonshine Bright"
"Ruby Red"
"Dixiana Moon"
"Chitlin Strut and Other Madrigals"
"Lunatic Wind: Storm of The Century" about Hurricane Hugo
"Golfing In The Carolinas"
"South Carolina: Off The Beaten Path"
"Doctor Golf"
"Satchel Paige's America" (voted as one of the best books of 2007 by The Library Journal)
"Wild Blue Yonder"
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Jonathan Franzen
browse books
FS&G official website
Wikipedia
cover story in Time Magazine, August 2010
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Robert A. Gallinger: browse books official website¨ ¨
historian & poet Nasario Garcνa, PhD of Santa Fe, New Mexico
browse books official website
lots more info on Spirit of America Bookstore's Nasario Garcia Page
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William Gibson
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IMDb listing
official website
Wikipedia
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Barry Gifford
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IMDb listing
official website
Wikipedia
 | "The Rooster Trapped In The Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader" [2003] Edited by Thomas A. McCarthy, Foreword by Andrei Codrescu Kindle Edition from Seven Stories Press [1/2011] for $11.53 Seven Stories Press 9x6 pb [5/2003] for $16.19 |
Ellen Gilchrist
http://www.amazon.com/Ellen-Gilchrist/e/B000AQ4RMG/
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Jim Harrison
books
bibliography website
credits at IMDb
"Legends of The Fall" + movie
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Gerald W. Haslam
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wikipedia
 | "Jack Londons Golden State: Selected California Writings" [1999] Edited by Gerald Haslam essays, short stories, journalism, and fiction excerpts (from "John Barleycorn", "Martin Eden", "The Sea Wolf", "The Star Rover", "The Iron Heel", "The Valley of The Moon" & others) Heyday Books 9x6 pb [7/1999] out of print/used Spirit of America Bookstore's Jack London [1876-1916] Page |
"Working Man Blues: Country Music In California" [Univ CA Press 1999] ISBN 0520218000
by Gerald W. Haslam, with Richard Chon & Alexandra Haslam Russell
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S.E. Hinton
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official website
credits at IMDb
"The Outsiders" [1983] /tt0086066/
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
"Rumble Fish" [1983] /tt0086216/
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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mystery author J.A. Jance Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
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Denis Johnson
poet-author-playwright Johnson is known for his portraits of America's desperate and dispossessed
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 | "Angels: A Novel" [1983] by Denis Johnson Johnson's first novel: A runaway wife toting two kids meets an ex-con drifter on the Greyhound bus to Phoenix. Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [4/2002] for $12.19 Knopf 8½x6 hardcover [8/83] out of print/many used |
"Fiskadoro" [1985 novel]
"The Stars At Noon" [1986 novel]
"Resuscitation of A Hanged Man: A Novel" [1991]
"Jesus' Son" short story collection [1992]
"Jesus' Son" feature film [1999] /tt0186253/
"Already Dead: A California Gothic" [1998 novel]
"The Name of The World: A Novel" [2000]
"Seek: Reports From The Edges of America & Beyond" [essays 2001]
"Train Dreams" [2002 novella]
"Tree of Smoke" [2007 novel]
 | "Nobody Move: A Novel" [2009] by Denis Johnson Serialized in Playboy magazine, Summer 2009. Addictive gambler Jimmy Luntz escapes a knee-capping and hooks up with an alcoholic vixen set on revenge after she was set up as fall-guy for a million-dollar swindle by her prosecutor husband; the underworld kingpin and his enforcer catch up with them and muscle in on the money deal. Picador 8¼x6½ pb [4/2010] for $11.20 FS&G 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2009] for $17.01 |
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
popular science author Steven Johnson Page
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author & radio show host Garrison Keillor
on Spirit of America's Old Time Radio Page
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Singaporean-American author Kevin Kwan Page
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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IMDb listing
Wikipedia
"Interpreter of Maladies" [1999] won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Anne Lamott
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IMDb listing
Wikipedia
T.E.D. Talk April 2017 "Twelve Truths I Learned From Life & Writing
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prolific author Joe R. Lansdale lives in Nacogdoches, Texas
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official website
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
Joe R. Lansdale bibliography at Wikipedia
 | "All Hail The Popcorn King" documentary feature [Squee Dec 2019] color doumentary film about prolific author and filmmaker Joe Lansdale; directed by Hansi Oppenheimer DVD/Blu-ray not yet available not yet listed at IMDb |
William Least Heat-Moon
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movie credits
Wikipedia
 | "Blue Highways: A Journey Into America" [1982] by William Least Heat-Moon Little Brown 8¼x5½ pb [11/99] for $10.47 Little Brown 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/99] for $20.97 Nightingale-Conant ABR audio [11/91] for $11.20 |
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"Roads To Quoz: An American Mosey" [2008] by William Least Heat Moon Back Bay Books pb [11/2009] for $11.55 Little, Brown 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2008] for $18.47 |
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Richard Lederer [b. 1938] lives in San Diego, California
browse books {returns 60+ titles}
official website/blog
IMDb listing {1 film}
Wikipedia
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Chang-rae Lee
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faculty bio at Princeton University
Wikipedia
"Native Speaker" [Riverhead, 3/1995]
http://www.amazon.com/Native-Speaker-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1573225312/
http://www.amazon.com/Native-Speaker-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1573220019/
"A Gesture Life: A Novel" [Riverhead, 9/1999]
http://www.amazon.com/Gesture-Life-Novel-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1573228281/
http://www.amazon.com/Gesture-Life-Novel-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1573221465/
"Aloft: A Novel" [Riverhead, 3/2004]
http://www.amazon.com/Aloft-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1594480702/
http://www.amazon.com/Aloft-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1573222631/
"The Surrendered" [Riverhead, 3/2010]
http://www.amazon.com/Surrendered-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1594485011/
http://www.amazon.com/Surrendered-Chang-rae-Lee/dp/1594489769/
"On Such a Full Sea: A Novel" [Riverhead, 1/2014]
http://www.amazon.com/Such-Full-Sea-Novel/dp/1594486107/
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journalist & author Jim Lehrer
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 | "Super: A Novel" [2010] by Jim Lehrer A trip on the famous Santa Fe Super Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles (in 1956) involves a murdered railroad passenger agent, with possible links to Clark Gable and to the deaths of Harry Truman and a Hollywood movie producer. Random House 8¼x5½ hardcover [4/2010] for $16.50 |
Jonathan Lethem
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official website
Wikipedia
 | "Gun, With Occasional Music" [1994] by Jonathan Lethem Set in a future Oakland-Bay Area; only the government or police can ask questions, state-made drugs keep the populace in check, tough guy 'inquisitor' Conrad Metcalf's new client is framed for murder, and the local rackets boss has sent a gun-toting kangaroo to stop Metcalf. (Film pro- ducer-director Alan J. Pakula [1928-98] optioned the novel's movie rights in the mid-1990s.) Mariner Books 8x6½ pb [9/2003] for $11.20 Tor Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/95] out of print/many, many used Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8½x6 hardcover [3/94] out of print/many, many used book entry at Wikipedia |
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David Liss
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official website
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
 | "A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel" [2000] by David Liss
Period mystery thriller novel set in early 18th century London against the backdrop of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency Ballantine Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2001] for $10.29 Random House 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2000] out of print/many, many used Announced in December 2010 as a Ridley & Tony Scott production, adaptation by Danny Strong for Warner Bros. release in 2014 latest info at IMDb |
 | "The Coffee Trader: A Novel" [2003] by David Liss
Set in the Amsterdam commodities market in 1659. Ballantine 8x5¼ pb [2/2004] for $10.17 Random House hardcover [3/2003] out of print/used Random House ABR audio CD [8/00] for $18.87 |
 | "The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel" [2008] by David Liss Down-on-his-luck former U.S. spy Ethan Saunders lost his true love to a successful Philadelphia businessman; when the man disappears, the wife asks Saunders to find him. Ballantine Books 8x5¼ pb [6/2009] for $10.80 Random House deckle-edge hardcover [9/2008] for $17.16 Whiskey Rebellion [1791-94] entry at Wikipedia Bank Panic of 1792 entry at Wikipedia |
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on Page Three: Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z
on Page Four: Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L
on Page Five: Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z
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