What was Judy Blume’s first book?
Judy Blume’s first book was Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, published in 1970.
Judy Blume’s first book was Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, published in 1970.
Zora Neale Hurston was a folklorist who studied with anthropologist Franz Boas at Barnard College before becoming a novelist. In Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938), she compiled black traditions of the South and the Caribbean. Her novels include Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937).
The A.A. in A. A. Milne stands for Alan Alexander. Milne is best known as the author of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
In The Iliad (9th century B.C.), Thetis, a sea nymph is Achilles’ mother.
Dr. Samuel Johnson said it of his dictionary in “Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language” (1747-55).
Thomas Hardy published his last novel thirty-three years before his death. Hardy’s last novel was Jude the Obscure (1895), the story of Jude Fawley’s adulterous love for his cousin Sue Bridehead. The novel so shocked readers that Hardy gave up writing fiction and turned to poetry. Hardy died in 1928.
The subtitle of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) was A Romance.