Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
David Adams Richards is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate.
Starship Titanic is an adventure game developed by The Digital Village and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive. It was released in April 1998 for Microsoft Windows and in March 1999 for Apple Macintosh. The game takes place on the eponymous starship, which the player is tasked with repairing by locating the missing parts of its control system. The gameplay involves solving puzzles and speaking with the bots inside the ship. The game features a text parser similar to those of text adventure games with which the player can talk with characters.
St. Thomas University is a Catholic, English-language liberal arts university located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is a primarily undergraduate university offering bachelor's degrees in the arts, education, and social work to approximately 1,900 students. The average class size is 30 and no class is larger than 60.
Robert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.
Barry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet, novelist, and editor.
The Matt Cohen Award is an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer, in honour of a distinguished lifetime contribution to Canadian literature. First presented in 2000, it was established in memory of Matt Cohen, a Canadian writer who died in 1999.
The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $25,000.
Michael Redhill is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist. He also writes under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe.
David Wheaton is an American author, radio host, columnist, and former professional tennis player.
Mercy among the Children is a novel by David Adams Richards, published by Doubleday Canada in 2000. Sarah Slean championed the novel to compete in Canada Reads in 2009.
David Gibbins is an underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist.
Elizabeth Bevarly is an American writer of over 70 romance novels since 1989. She is a New York Times bestselling author.
Jerrod Edson is a Canadian novelist. His work has been widely praised by critics, including fellow New Brunswick writer David Adams Richards who said in 2005 that Edson is "one of our best young writers." In 2010, the Telegraph-Journal claimed that Edson is "one of the best New Brunswick writers, period."
The Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established Canadian author to honour their body of work.
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down is a novel by David Adams Richards, published in 1993. It was the final volume in his Miramichi trilogy, which also included the novels Nights Below Station Street (1988) and Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990).
The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), previously known as the International Festival of Authors (IFOA), is an annual festival presented in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nights Below Station Street is a novel by David Adams Richards, published in 1988. It was the first volume in his Miramichi trilogy, which also included the novels Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990) and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993).
The Coming of Winter is a novel by Canadian writer David Adams Richards, published in 1974. His debut novel, it was published after an excerpt from the novel won the Norma Epstein Prize for unpublished writing by Canadian university students.
