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Richard T. Kelly (born 1970) is a British novelist and writer best known for his 2016 political thriller The Knives .
Kelly began his career writing in film and wrote several film-related books. [1] In 1998 he wrote Alan Clarke, a book on the filmmaker Alan Clarke. In 2000 he published The Name of this Book is Dogme 95, a look at the Danish film movement Dogme 95 created by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. In 2004 he wrote an authorized biography of actor Sean Penn called Sean Penn: His Life & Times.
Kelly made his fictional debut with the 2008 novel Crusaders . [2] Shortly after, in 2009, he began research on a political thriller that would develop into The Knives . His second novel The Possessions of Doctor Forrest followed in 2011. [3] The Knives was published in 2016. [4]
Since 2008 Kelly has been a Contributing Editor and feature writer for the UK edition of Esquire magazine. [5]
John Michael Crichton was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres, and heavily feature technology. His novels often explore that technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and scientific background.
Robin Gayle Wright is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has earned a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award for her work in television.
Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films The Celebration (1998), Submarino (2010), The Hunt (2012) and Far from the Madding Crowd (2015).
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M*A*S*H is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, owned by 20th Century Fox and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker.
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Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is a 2018 American satirical novel written by Sean Penn. Narrated from the point of view of Pappy Pariah, the book tells the story of Bob Honey, a supposed international assassin who kills elderly people with a mallet. Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, published the novel on March 27, 2018.
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The Possessions of Doctor Forrest is a 2011 contemporary thriller novel with a gothic style by British novelist Richard T. Kelly.
