Literature Facts: Author Facts

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

James Joyce is known for his popular novel Ulysses, published in 1922.

Harper Lee is known for her popular novel To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960.

Muriel Spark is known for her popular novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, published in 1961.

John Cheever is known for his short stories.

Arthur Conan Doyle is known for his Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels.

Paul Bowles is known for his popular novel The Sheltering Sky, published in 1949.

John Updike is known for his popular "Rabbit" series of five novels, published in 1960-2000.

John le Carré is known for his popular novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, published in 1963.

Iris Murdoch is known for her popular novel Under the Net, published in 1954.

Vladimir Nabokov is known for his popular novel Lolita, published in 1955.

Raymond Carver is known for his short stories.

Flannery O'Connor is known for her short stories.

Anton Chekhov is known for his short stories.

Margaret Mitchell is known for her popular novel Gone with the Wind, published in 1936.

Gone with the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell, was adapted into the film Gone with the Wind (1939).

Margaret Mitchell's only novel is Gone with the Wind, published in 1936.

Chinua Achebe is known for his popular novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958.

Robert Stone is known for his popular novel Dog Soldiers, published in 1974.

E. M. Forster is known for his popular novel A Passage to India, published in 1924.

J. K. Rowling is known for her popular seven novels Harry Potter, published in 1997-2007.