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Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. Haruf’s novels have been translated into 30 languages and include: Haruf lived in Salida, Colorado until his death in 2014 he is survived by his wife Cathy, three daughters, and five step-children. Toward the end of his life he suffered from a lung disease despite declining health he still began each working day by reading from the two authors he most admired-William Faulkner and Anton Chekhov. Over the next thirty years, Haruf authored six novels and co-wrote a book of prose and photography. 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I wanted to honor Gardner Dozois so I chose The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourth Collection because it was a critical volume in the series. I’m saddened to think that this will be the last volume in this legendary series. On July 3, 2018, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 35th Annual Collection will be published. I particularly liked Gardner Dozois’s “Summation” essay in each volume which summed up that year in detail. Gardner’s yearly tome of The Year’s Best Science Fiction became the Gold Standard of quality. Gardner Dozois (July 23, 1947-May 27, 2018) was one of the great editors of Science Fiction. |