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Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit

via “Sixty-year-old Tolkien reads from The Hobbit, doing a magnificent impression of Gollum in the ancient accent he so loved.”  Share this: Twitter Facebook Email Pinterest Tumblr Reddit Like this: Like Loading… Related

Crime Author Sentenced to Death in China

Liu Yongbiao is an acclaimed crime novelist in China. He and another man killed four people 23 years ago, and Liu used the memory of the murders to write a novel. How crazy is that! Because of new DNA testing, investigators were finally able to trace the murders to the novelist, and he and his […]

Writers Who Died in 2017

  Brian Aldiss – English author, vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society Buchi Emecheta – Nigerian novelist Colin Dexter – English author of the Inspector Morse series Denis Johnson – American writer of Jesus’ Son: Stories Derek Walcott – Saint Lucian poet and playwright who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature Harry Matthews – American writer of novels, poetry, […]