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Fun Facts Friday: Robert McCloskey
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Fun Facts Friday: Robert McCloskey

Man of la BookSeptember 15, 2023

Robert McCloskey (15 September, 1914 – 30 June, 2003) was an American author known for his children’s books, which he also illustrated.

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Fun Facts Friday: John Howard Payne
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Fun Facts Friday: John Howard Payne

Man of la BookJune 9, 2023

John Howard Payne was an American playwright, songwriter, composer, actor, & politician. During his lifetime he was very popular but found success in London

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Fun Facts Friday: George Santayana
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Fun Facts Friday: George Santayana

Man of la BookDecember 16, 2022

George Santayana was a Spanish-American poet, novelist and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the early 20th century.

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Feature The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine
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Feature: The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine

Man of la BookAugust 25, 2022

A diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past, named one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year

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Fun Facts Friday: Theodore H. White
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Fun Facts Friday: Theodore H. White

Man of la BookMay 6, 2022

Theodore H. White was a historian and journalist known for his reporting from China during World War II, as well as the series Making of the President

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Fun Facts Friday: Jacques Futrelle
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Fun Facts Friday: Jacques Futrelle

Man of la BookApril 9, 2021

Jacques Futrelle (9 April, 1875) was a journalist and mystery writer known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen.

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Fun Facts Friday: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Fun Facts Friday: Arthur Conan Doyle

Man of la BookMay 22, 2020

Arthur Conan Doyle ((22 May, 1859 – 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish author most famous for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Fun Facts Friday: Howard Lindsay
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Fun Facts Friday: Howard Lindsay

Man of la BookMarch 27, 2020

Howard Lindsay (29 March, 1889 – 11 February, 1968) was an American Pulitzer Prize award winner playwright, director and actor.

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Fun Facts Friday: William Braithwaite
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Fun Facts Friday: William Braithwaite

Man of la BookDecember 6, 2019

William Braithwaite (6 December 1878 – 8 June, 1962) was a poet, writer and critic from Boston, MA.

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Book Review: The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson
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Book Review: The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Man of la BookJuly 1, 2019

The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775 – 1777 by Rick Atkinson describes the first 21 months of the Revolutionary War.

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