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This week we celebrate our authors of January by asking which book would you read?
Cold Comfort Farm
Author: Stella Gibbons
ISBN: 9780194792554
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set things right.
It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and family, but first he must recover from the flu and also solve a murder. A seemingly respectable retired Englishman, living in a flat on the Via Maggio near the Santa Trinita bridge, was shot in the back during the night. He was well-connected and Scotland Yard has dispatched two officers to “assist” the Italians in solving the crime. But it is the marshal, a quiet observer, not an intellectual, who manages to figure out what happened, and why.
This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of January. Check them out below.
(Top L-R) Stella Gibbons, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Isaac Asimov, Jack London, J.D. Salinger, Wilkie Collins (Bottom L-R) Jacob Grimm, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Lewis Carroll, W. Somerset Maugham, Magdalen Nabb
J.D. Salinger
(January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010)
Jerome David “J. D.” Salingerwas an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. His novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) brought him a lot of public attention-which he did not like. He published Franny and Zooey in 1961 and gave his last interview in 1980.
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E. M. Forster
(January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970)
Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster’s 1924 novel, A Passage to India brought him his greatest success.
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Isaac Asimov
(January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992)
Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books, such as I, Robot. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards and was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers during his lifetime.
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Jacob Grimm
(January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863)
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law, and as one of the Brothers Grimm (with his brother Wilhelm), as the editor of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
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Stella Gibbons
(January 5, 1902 – December 19, 1989)
Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which won the literary Prix Femina Étranger and has been reprinted many times.
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Wilkie Collins
(January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889)
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known work isThe Woman in White.
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Jack London
(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)
John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Magdalen Nabb
(January 16, 1947 – August 18, 2007)
Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels such as Death of an Englishman.
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Edgar Allan Poe
(January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His most famous works include The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death and The Pit and the Pendulum.
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Edith Wharton
(January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)
Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. The Age of Innocence was Wharton’s twelfth book which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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W. Somerset Maugham
(January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965)
William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. He is most remembered for his novels:Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Painted Veil and The Summing Up.
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Lewis Carroll
(January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
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