Im März 2001 erscheint ihr Jugendroman: "Im Bann einer anderen Welt" als Deutsche Erstausgabe bei dtv junior. Bei dtv junior sind bereits "Shiloh" (70487) und "Jagd auf Shiloh" (70585) erschienen. Die Autorin hat zwei erwachsene Söhne und lebt mit ihrem Mann in Maryland. Sie hat über 90 Bücher veröffentlicht, die vielfach ausgezeichnet wurden. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ist in den USA im Staate Indiana geboren. Marty weiß gar nicht mehr, was er denken soll: Ist nicht jeder unschuldig, bis das Gegenteil bewiesen ist? Doch dann finden Marty und sein Freund David einen gefrorenen Stiefel im Schnee, genau dort, wo Judd Travers angeblich seinen Unfall hatte. Als ein Mann aus Bens Run, mit dem Judd vor seinem Unfall einen großen Streit hatte, verschwindet, sind alle überzeugt, dass Judd ihn umgebracht hat. Er gibt sich Mühe, freundlich zu sein, und behandelt sogar seine Hunde besser als früher. Der 11-jährige Marty kann es kaum glauben: Der bösartige und jähzornige Judd Travers scheint sich seit seinem Unfall wirklich geändert zu haben.
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He read the first series of Tom Swift books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, and H.G. The cosmic romances of Olaf Stapledon affected him particularly. Heinlein has said that he read all the science fiction he could lay hands on from the age of 16. By the time he entered Kansas City’s Central High School in 1920, Heinlein had already read every book on astronomy in the Kansas City Public Library. His consuming interest, from the 1910 apparition of Halley’s Comet, was for astronomy. A few months after Heinlein was born, his family moved from Butler to Kansas City, where he was to grow up. At the time of Robert’s birth, the family had been living with his maternal grandfather, Alva Lyle, M.D. Robert Anson Heinlein was born on 7 July 1907, in Butler, Missouri, the third son of Rex Ivar Heinlein and Bam Lyle Heinlein. 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Tuesday May 18th, 2021 – 7:00 – 8:30pm EDT Joyce continued writing after Ulysses, producing the even more avant-garde Finnegans Wake in 1939. Two years earlier, Joyce had published Dubliners, his first book, which was a collection of 15 short stories, including “The Dead.” These books brought Joyce some fame as a Modernist writer, a fame that only increased after the publication of Ulysses (1922), which upon release was both hailed as a masterpiece and banned in numerous countries for indecency. Joyce received guidance from the poet Ezra Pound, who helped him publish his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in 1916. Joyce only returned to Dublin four times, but many of his works remain heavily focused on the city, and on Ireland more generally. After meeting his wife, the couple left Dublin and lived in a variety of countries including Yugoslavia and Italy, and later fled to Zurich during World War I. In 1903, just one year later, Joyce’s mother got sick and he moved back to Dublin to take care of her. After college, he moved to Paris where he briefly studied medicine. James Joyce grew up in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, and studied at University College, where he began to publish literary reviews, poems, and plays. |