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I'm looking at Margaret Atwood and Ruth Rendell for this, and both earn Aged styles. Thanks for this task, Ed!
20.4 Non-linearBeyond This Point Are Monsters by Margaret Millar
+20 Task (Lots of flashbacks; trial testimony details were set in the past)
Task total=20
Season total=585
Thank you for this information. I had been looking at Stephen King who was born in 1947. He would not have qualified in December, but would in January. It's good to know that 1947 authors will qualify from the beginning of the season.
Richard Yateshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
"He subsequently taught writing at Columbia University, the New School for Social Research,[1] Boston University (where his papers are archived),[3] at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, at Wichita State University, the University of Southern California Master of Professional Writing Program, and at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.[4]"
20.9 AnniversaryBlonde by Joyce Carol Oates
+20 Task ("By this time, Norma Jeane had had her first glass or two of champagne and Bucky'd had both champagne and ale. There was a photo of the newlyweds dancing..." pg. 156)
+15 Combo (10.3-in GR bio, 20.3-4.0 rating, 20.4-many flashbacks)
+10 1001 books list
+10 Jumbo (738 pgs.)
Task total=55
Season total=565
20.10 Musical MysteriesPork Pie Hat by Peter Straub
+20 task
+10 combo (10.3-in task help thread, 20.4-told in flashbacks)
Task total=30
Season total=510
Peter Straubhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_S...
From last sentence, last paragraph of Early Life section:
"He briefly taught English at Milwaukee Country Day..."
✔️10.1 Red Lights by Georges Simenon 1-19-22✔️10.2 The Clockmaker by Georges Simenon 1-16-22
10.3
✔️10.4 In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians by Michael Cart 1-8-22
✔️10.5 Joe Pepper by Elmer Kelton 1-3-22
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
✔️10.6 My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates 12-10-21
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
✔️10.7 Hiroshima by John Hersey 1-13-22
✔️10.8 November by Georges Simenon 1-20-22
Donovan by Elmer Kelton
✔️10.9 The Life of Edward Jenner: Naturalist, and Discoverer of Vaccination by F. Dawtry Drewitt 12-13-21
10.10 Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
20.1 Rites of Passage by William Golding
✔️20.2 This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch 12-25-21
✔️ The Cat by Georges Simenon 1-23-22
✔️ Possession by Celia Fremlin 1-28-22
✔️ The Rules of the Game by Georges Simenon 2-6-22
✔️The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon 2-12-22
✔️Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself In by Georges Simenon 2-23-22
An Air That Kills by Margaret Millar
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
Back in the World by Tobias Wolff
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
The Canyon of the Green Death by F.R. Buckley
✔️20.3 Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini 2-26-22
✔️20.4 The Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon 12-24-21
✔️The Engagement by Georges Simenon 2-10-22
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
✔️20.5 Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin 2-1-22
The Blackheath Poisonings: A Victorian Murder Mystery by Julian Symons
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
✔️20.6 Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel R. Delany 12-27-21
Two Trains Running by August Wilson
✔️20.7 The Dedicated by Willa Gibbs 1-1-22
✔️20.8 Firebug by Robert Bloch 12-12-21
✔️20.9 Mr. Bedford and the Muses by Gail Godwin 12-18-21
✔️20.10 The Cunning by Robert Bloch 12-5-21
✔️Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch 1-4-22
✔️Lori by Robert Bloch 1-11-22
Robert ShapardHe teaches literature and fiction writing at the University of Hawaii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
101-140: The Necklace and Other Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, 128 pgs141-180: A Lost Lady, Willa Cather, 167 pgs
181-220: It Might Lead Anywhere, E.R. Punshon, 214 pgs
221-260: The Easter Parade, Richard Yates, 226 pgs
261-300: The Turmoil, Booth Tarkington, 268 pgs
301-340: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, 325 pgs
341-380: McTeague, Frank Norris, 368 pgs
381-420: The Harder They Come, T. Coraghessan Boyle, 384 pgs
421-460: Stillness and Shadows, John Gardner, 421 pgs
461-500: Independence Day, Richard Ford, 464 pgs
Thanks! I tried to figure it out online, but wanted to make sure I followed RWS rules. And thank you for the tips on searching for books. It didn't take me long to hit a roadblock, and looking at your books bailed me out!
1873-1887: The Necklace and Other Short Stories (1884), Guy de Maupassant, 128 pgs1888-1902: McTeague (1899), Frank Norris, 368 pgs, (assignment, 890 and 1010 Lexile)
1903-1917: The Turmoil (1915), Booth Tarkington, 268 pgs
1918-1932: A Lost Lady (1923), Willa Cather, 167 pgs
1933-1947: It Might Lead Anywhere (1946), E.R. Punshon, 214 pgs
1948-1962: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ken Kesey, 325 pgs, (assignment, 1040 Lexile)
1963-1977: The Easter Parade (1976), Richard Yates, 226 pgs
1978-1992: Stillness and Shadows (1986), John Gardner, 421 pgs
1993-2007: Independence Day (1995), Richard Ford, 464 pgs
2008-2022: The Harder They Come (2015), T. Coraghessan Boyle, 384 pgs
20.5 BoomerEmily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
+20 Task (1961)
+10 Combo (10.3-msg #11 in task thread), 20.9-"Henry wrote the check and we opened a bottle of champagne.")
Task total=30
Season total=470
20.3 RatingsShip Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
+20 Task (4.05)
+10 Combo (10.3, 20.5, both in GR bio)
Task total=30
Season total=440
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20.3 RatingsOh William! by Elizabeth Strout
+20 Task (4.12 rating)
+15 Combo (10.3-in GR bio, 20.4 narrative is very back and forth in time, 20.5-1956)
Task total=35
Season total=410
20.3 RatingsIn the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff
+20 Task (4.15 rating)
+10 Combo (10.3-in GR bio, 10.7-Two stories had MC's that were veterans; another was about men in boot camp)
+10 Not-a-Novel (short stories)
Task total=40
Season total=375
