![]() | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline .(January 2023) |
![]() | |
Author | Lori Rader-Day |
---|---|
Genre | Mystery fiction, Thriller, Crime, Suspense |
Published | 2014 |
Publisher | Seventh Street Books |
Pages | 331 |
Awards | Anthony Award for Best First Novel (2015) |
ISBN | 978-1-616-14885-0 |
Website | The Black Hour |
The Black Hour is a 2014 novel written by Lori Rader-Day [1] [2] and published by Seventh Street Books [3] [4] [5] on 8 July 2014, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2015. [6]
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller. It is a Fortune 1000 company and the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of July 7, 2020, the company operates 614 retail stores across all 50 U.S. states.
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz. The publisher's name was derived from Prometheus, the Titan from Greek mythology who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to man. This act is often used as a metaphor for bringing knowledge or enlightenment.
Tananarive Priscilla Due is an American author and educator. Due won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood. She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Due teaches a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", which focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.
Victor LaValle is an American author. He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and four novels, The Ecstatic,Big Machine,The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling. His fantasy-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. LaValle writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and The Washington Post, among other publications.
Richard Kadrey is a San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer.
Charles Chowkai Yu is an American writer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown, as well as the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2020, Interior Chinatown won the National Book Award for fiction.
Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her books and films, including the novels My Year of Meats (1998), All Over Creation (2003), A Tale for the Time Being (2013), and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021) seek to integrate personal narrative and social issues, and deal with themes relating to science, technology, environmental politics, race, religion, war and global popular culture. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. She teaches creative writing at Smith College where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her real name is Ruth Diana Lounsbury. Ozeki is a pseudonym, taken from her former boyfriend's last name.
Dean Rader is an American writer and professor who teaches at the University of San Francisco, in the Department of English, where he has also served as department chair. Rader holds a M.A.and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton where he studied translation, poetry, visual culture, and literary studies. He is primarily known for his poems that mix high and low art and his scholarly work on Native American poetry.
Mary Robinette Kowal is an American author and puppeteer. Originally a puppeteer by primary trade after receiving a bachelor's degree in art education, she became art director for science fiction magazines and by 2010 was also authoring her first full-length published novels. The majority of her work is characterized by science fiction themes, such as interplanetary travel; a common element present in many of her novels is historical or alternate history fantasy, such as in her Glamourist Histories and Lady Astronaut books.
Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Persian and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Lily King is an American novelist.
An evil corporation is a trope in popular culture that portrays a corporation as ignoring social responsibility, morality, ethics, and sometimes laws in order to make profit for its shareholders. In rare cases, the corporation may be well intentioned but extremist, engaging in noble cause corruption.
A Bad Day for Sorry is a novel written by Sophie Littlefield and published by Minotaur Books on 4 August 2009, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2010.
Bury Your Dead is a book written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books on 28 September 2010, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2011.
A Trick of the Light is a book written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books on 30 August 2011, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2012.
As She Left It is a book written by Catriona McPherson and published by Midnight Ink Books on 8 June 2013, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2014.
Yesterday's Echo is a book written by Matt Coyle and published by Oceanview Publishing on 7 May 2013, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2014.
The Day She Died is a book written by Catriona McPherson and published by Midnight Ink Books on 8 May 2014, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2015.
Ty Franck is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for co-authoring The Expanse with Daniel Abraham under the pseudonym James S. A. Corey, as well as Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series (2014) and The Expanse: Expanded (2016). The Expanse novels have been adapted into the television series The Expanse (2015–2022), with both Franck and Abraham serving as writers and producers on the show.
Lori Rader-Day is an American author of mystery, crime, and suspense novels. She has won three Anthony Awards, a Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award (2016), and an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel (2021).