A Further Look into the Christopher Pike Christopher Pike’s real name is Kevin Christopher McFadden (von Ruff). He was born November 12 of 1954 in New York City, New York. He grew up in California and attended college for a short amount of time before he dropped out where he then worked different jobs. Some of the jobs Pike worked was house painting and computer programming. Pike started writing books in 1985.
Christopher Pike is his false name, which is mostly used by an author. Pike is a popular author in horror novels for teenagers. Some of the books he has written are: Slumber Party, Weekend, Chain Letter, Thirst (book 1-5), and the Spooksville series for children. He is New York Times bestselling author of Thirst No. 1 and Thirst No. 2, Remember Me, The Secret of Ka, and more than forty teen thrillers (Pike). Pike is best known for his series Thirst and the Spooksville series. Pike writes mostly fiction series and novels. His fiction series include: Alosha (1-3), Chain Letter (1-2, Chained Together), Christopher
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When Pike first started writing, he wrote science fiction and adult mystery, but his editor suggested moving to teen thrillers (Christopher Pike (Author)). Some other genres Pike has written are Science Fiction and young adult. “On November 25, 1996, his book Fall Into Darkness was adapted into a television movie of the same name, produced by his company Christopher Pike Productions” (Christopher Pike (Author)).
I consider Pike to be an important author to literature because he gives his horror/thriller books a different perspective. Like many other horror/thriller books everything starts out perfect for the characters until one day it turns into a mystery filled with unanswered questions and most likely death. In Pike’s books, he provides details and makes the reader question all of the moves the characters make and sends the reader on a journey throughout the
Other authors (all of these authors write mystery/thriller novels as well) have praised the book as well. These authors include: Karin Slaughter, Nelson DeMille, Douglas Preston, and James Patterson. This book alone has over a hundred five star reviews on Amazon. Not bad for an author just releasing his first
issues. He has written many other books with Dugard like Killing Kennedy: T he End of Camelot,
There have been many notable figures in the field of writing. Most of those people are long dead, but there are a few that are pretty fresh on the scene. One such author is Piers Anthony. He has written many novels and long series, which have all done extremely well. Despite the major differences between Anthony's novels, he tends to use repeating themes throughout all of his books.
David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. is one of the lesser known inventors. He’s the designer that made the heating system for the spectacular Radio Music Hall and Rockefeller Center in New York City. Crosthwait was born on May 27, 1898, Nashville, Tennessee and died on February 25, West Lafayette, Indiana. He went to school and grew up in Kansas city, Missouri. His parents, David Nelson and Minnie Harris supported him in his early life well. Crosthwait excels in math and science. He was accepted to Purdue University and graduate at the young age of 15 in 1913 with a B.S in engineering. C.A Dunham Company immediately hired him as a researcher engineer for the company with his skill.
His first famous and well paying book was The Spy. The book was modeled after Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly Tails. The Spy was a groundbreaker b...
Edward Bloor is an author to watch out for since the release of his first book, Tangerine. Both his first novel and Story Time were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 1998 and 2005, respectively.
Albert Pike had a very influential life being a journalist, soldier, Freemason, and a reporter for Arkansas Supreme Court. He also wrote some poetry. He was born on August 15, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. He died on April 2, 1891 in Washington D.C. and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery also in Washington D.C. Albert Pike was a Confederate Soldier and he was the only Confederate soldier who had a statue of himself.
Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the greatest authors to hail from Britain. His writings have been enjoyed by countless since he masterfully wrote them down. Stevenson uses characterization, imagery, and conflict to keep his readers captivated by his works in Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped.
author of this book. He has also has written many other good books such as The Grapes
Patricia Highsmith is a highly successful female American writer who’s career spanned from “1945 until her death in 1995” (Wilson, 2010). During this period Highsmith was credited with writing 22 pieces, many of which have been recreated into successful film adaptations. According to The New York times (2013) Highsmith specialised in murder and physiological intrigue novels. Critics often categorised Highsmith’s genre as crime fiction (Peters, 2003), but by her own admission she disliked this tag. Greene cited in The New York Times (2013) stated that a more accurate description of her style is that “she creates a world of her own, an irrational and claustrophobic world, which we as the readers enter each time with a sense of personal danger”. This ideology presented by Greene is particularly apparent in the Ripley series. The Ripley series conforms to all descriptions of Highsmith’s writing style and personal idiosyncrasies. It is a thrilling five-book trilogy cast around a young attractive male who is an opportunistic killer named Tom Ripley. Mr Ripley has been orphaned from age five and is a master con artist and impersonator. Throughout the series the audience is presented with a man free of a conscience, who actively engages in a variety of law breaking activities, varying from petty theft to cold-blooded murder. ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ is the first of the Ri...
He’s a Professor of Geography at University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his B.A from Harvard College and got his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from University of Cambridge. Being an expert at human physiology and having produced books that provide insight on evolution and societal development, he’s indeed well qualified to write
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Stephen King is known as one of the greatest horror and gothic writers of our time. The reason for this is his ability to fuse the gothic elements created by stories such as Dracula or Frankenstein and todays horror. King has written hundreds of short stories but two in-particular “The Night Flier” and “Popsy” show his unique ability to combined gothic elements from the old literature with realistic settings and people of our era. One of his greater talents is being able to use gothic element like vampires and make us see them in a different light. Kings unique way of writing with his old gothic ideals, new horror ideas, and use of realistic settings help to put a new spin on what we conceive as gothic story.
As private as Wheeler was a person, you can only speculate as to why he wrote over 40 books under three different pseudonyms. His seemingly quiet private life may have been vicariously lived through the lives of the many characters he created in his mystery novels. The series of Puzzle novels were his most popular and were written under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin and collaborated with Richard Webb (Obituar...
Nicholas Sparks is considered to be one of the greatest American authors of today. He provides love, romance, passion, drama, tragedy, comedy, triumph, and mystery in all of his novels. His stories are heartwarming and inspiring. Nicholas Sparks does not have a specific writing style. His writing style is flexible and liberal, and can be described as romantic, imaginative and engaging, and varies depending on the theme of the novel. The theme of the novel is the main thing that affects his writing style. Even though the themes of each novel mostly deal with love, each novel takes on different perspectives of love. His novels can be described as romantic, compassionate beach reads with real, relatable characters.