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Retrieved December 18, 2011. Without rival, the twentieth century's king of the genre is Louis Cha. Estimates of his book sales reach up to 300 million copies. One editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review estimated that, if one also counted the pirated copies, over 1 billion of Cha's books have been sold.
The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1895 through 2020. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown. For many years, the list was maintained by Alice Payne Hackett, who ...
Jackson Cole, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) Ralph Compton (1934–1999) Robert J. Conley (1940–2014) Will Cook (William Everett Cook) (1921–1964) Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886–1940) James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) Barry Cord, (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) Ralph Cotton.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
This is a partial list of 21st-century writers. This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works.
Donatus Magnus, bishop of Carthage, (+355), leader of the Donatists from 313. Lactantius, apologist ~317. Arnobius, apologist ~330. Eusebius, wrote History of the Church ~325. Augustine of Hippo, 354-430, Latin church father, wrote Confessions and City of God.
18th century. An Essay on the Principle of Population by T.R. Malthus, originally published anonymously. Anti-Machiavel by Frederick the Great, originally published anonymously. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, originally published anonymously. The Sorrows of Yamba by Hannah More, originally published anonymously.
One of the most prolific writers in history, he was said to have written 2,200 plays (an average of nearly one per week for his entire adult life), though fewer than 400 survive today. [1] In addition, he produced volumes of short and epic poems as well as prose works. For this fecundity, Cervantes nicknamed him the "Monster of Nature". [1]