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  Born in rural Pennsylvania she learned to read and draw at an early age. Her favorite story as a child was Little Red Riding Hood, and she spent an entire year of her childhood wearing a red cape. Many of her illustrations can be quite complex. For example, in one scene in Saint George and the Dragon, the dragon's tail stretches into the border artwork of the next page. She was the first art director of Cricket Magazine, from 1973 to 1979, and contributed illustrations regularly until her death. “Building Great Collections One Fine Book at a Time” Check us out at www.BlindHorseBooks.com

He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle. H. P. Lovecraft was Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent. However, while Bloch started his career by emulating Lovecraft and his brand of "cosmic horror", he later specialized in crime and horror stories dealing with a more psychological approach. Winner of multiple awards including a Hugo, World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stroker Award, Bloch’s work has been extensively adapted for the movies and television, comics and audio books. DID YOU KNOW: At the age of nine, Block saw his first horror movie, The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, and sle...

  Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. Active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Beginning in the 1990s, she made around 80 appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Fro...

  Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales; although he was a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called eventyr in Danish or "fairy-tales" in English, express themes that transcend age and nationality Currently translated into more than 125 languages, Andersen's fairy tales have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His initial attempts at writing fairy tales were revisions of stories that he heard as a child. Andersen then brought this genre to a new level by writing a vast number of fairy tales that were both bold and original. Initially they were not met with recognition, due partly to the difficulty in translating them and capturing his genius for humor and dark pathos. A keen traveler, Andersen published seve...

Some take Sir Francis Bacon's famous words quite literally: 'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and the other few to be chewed and digested.'" The International Edible Book Festival is an annual event usually held on or around April 1, which is also known as Edible Book Day. The official website Books2Eat.com says that the International Edible Book Festival is held to commemorate "the birthday of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826), famous for his book Physiologie du goût, a witty meditation on food".      “Building Great Collections One Fine Book at a Time” Check us out at www.BlindHorseBooks.com  

  Fowles's fiction was never merely dry, intellectual sparring. He was a writer possessed of an expansive imagination, whose gifts as a storyteller meant that his dramas were played out beyond the conflicts of the inner self. His narrative genius led to three of his novels being filmed, two of them to critical acclaim. John Fowles, the British writer whose teasing, multilayered fiction explored the tensions between free will and the constraints of society, even as it played with traditional novelistic conventions and challenged readers to find their own interpretations of his work. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, appeared in 1969 and won several awards and was made into a well-received film (1981) starring Meryl Streep in the title role and was the most commercially successful. "Fowles's success in the marketplace derives from his great skill as a storyteller," wrote Ellen Pifer. For whatever reason - he always said it was because he was mistrusted by the British liter...

  She belonged to a deeply religious family, her mother expressed her religious faith most noticeably by authoring a series of evangelical children's books, which Anna helped to edit. When Anna was 14 an injury to her ankles caused her to become an invalid. Likely, because of mistreatment of her injury, Anna was unable to stand without a crutch or to walk for any length of time for the rest of her life. For greater mobility, she frequently used horse-drawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the humane treatment of animals. Sewell sold the novel to local publisher Jarrolds on 24 November 1877, when she was 57 years of age. Although it is now considered a children's classic, she originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said "a special aim [was] to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses". Although Sewell died five months after the book appeared (the cause of her death has been attributed variou...