Alan Brennert





Alan Brennert

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January 01, 1954 in Englewood, The United States

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Alan Brennert is the author of the historical novels Honolulu and Moloka'i, which was a 2006-2007 BookSense Reading Group Pick and won the 2006 Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the Book Club Book of the Year. He is also the author of the thought-provoking fantasy novel Time and Chance. In addition to novels, he has written short stories, teleplays, screenplays, and the libretto of a stage musical, Weird Romance. He won an Emmy Award and a People's Choice Award for his work as a writer-producer on the television series L.A. Law, and he has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and for the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Teleplay of the Year. His story "MaQui" won a Nebula Award. He lives in Sherman O...more


Average rating: 4.06 · 24,999 ratings · 4,359 reviews · 11 distinct works
Moloka'i
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 19,906 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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Honolulu
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 4,232 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
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3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1991
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Time and Chance
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 60 ratings6 editions
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Her Pilgrim Soul
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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Kindred Spirits
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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City Of Masques: [Where Dre...
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“Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.”
Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

“God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.”
Alan Brennert

“What's it like? Being married?

Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.”
Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

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