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Born #onthisday1986 Sarah J. Maas American #fantasy #author Best known for her scintillating debut 7 book Throne of Glass series (2012-2018) & 5 book A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015-2021) Classical music & movie scores is her inspiration of writing + thrill of discovery https://t.co/WNpi7KrGzL

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Born #onthisday1820 Anna Sewell English #author Best known for best-selling #childrenlit #novel Black Beauty (1877) Considered one of the top ten best selling novels for children Died five months afterBlack Beauty's publication long enough to see only novel become a major success https://t.co/b4L3gWKU7b

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Born #onthisday1951 Bill Bryson OBE American British #NonFiction #author Works explore #travel #popularscience & English language Known for UK journey Notes from a Small Island (1995) & A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) acclaimed for making complex science accessible https://t.co/iWk6Uv3UuP

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Published #onthisday1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1st #detective #mystery #novel by British #writer Agatha Christie Introduced iconic characters Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings & Inspector Japp & well received by reviewers lauded its clever plot & nuances of time & place https://t.co/ognkt7W26c

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Published #onthisday1965 Dune #sciencefiction #novel & 1st installment in Dune saga by American #author Frank Herbert Tied for Hugo Award (1966) Won inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel World’s best-selling science fiction novel in 2003 Wrote 5 sequels https://t.co/pvaIzkC5oj

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Born #onthisday1872 Zane Grey American #novelist Best known for popular #Western #adventure #novels Idealized American frontier best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) helped shape formula of popular Western genre & called "the most popular western novel of all time" https://t.co/BMW56MOXra

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Published #onthisday1872 Around the World in Eighty Days an adventure #novel by French #writer Jules Verne One of Verne's most acclaimed works the story sees Englishman Phileas Fogg attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days to win a £20,000 wager https://t.co/UJhVWpituS

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Published #onthisday1884 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a #novel & sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by #author Mark Twain Named among Great American Novels the work is among the first major works in American Literature to be written in vernacular English … https://t.co/1sxhE0mRvH

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Published #onthisday1960 To Kill a Mockingbird #novel by Harper Lee Instantly successful widely read in U.S. high schools become classic of modern American literature winning Pulitzer Prize Renowned for its warmth & humour deals with serious issues of racial inequality & rape https://t.co/JUHSxlimwW

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Born #onthisday1840 Nathaniel Hawthorne American #novelist dark #Romance #author of the Romantic movement inc House of 7 Gables The Scarlet Letter & #shortstoreywriter Works often focus on history morality & religion & contain moral metaphors inspired by an anti-Puritan sentiment https://t.co/ij0x5j0HjT