![]() His ninth novel Hold My Hand released on 5 August 2013. On 4 February 2013, Someone Like You, a novel he co-wrote with Nikita Singh, was released by Penguin India. If It's Not Forever!, his sixth novel, was released on 1 February 2012. His fifth novel, You Were My Crush!, was published by Grapevine India Publishers in September 2011. Īfter graduating from MDI, Gurgaon, in 2011, he co-founded Grapevine India Publishers. His fourth novel, Ohh Yes, I Am Single!, was co-written with Neeti Rustagi. In the summer of 2010, his third novel, She Broke Up, I Didn't!, released. In August 2009, his second novel, Now That You're Rich!, was released. Career ĭurjoy Datta's first novel, Of Course I Love You! (co-authored with Maanvi Ahuja) was released by Srishti Publishers in 2008 while he was still in college. He is married to travel blogger and air hostess, Avantika Mohan. ![]() ![]() In 2011, he quit his job as a marketing analyst and became a full-time writer. He has done his post-graduation from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany. He completed his schooling at the Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura, and went on to do mechanical engineering at Delhi Technological University. Delhi College of Engineering, Management Development Instituteĭurjoy Datta is an Indian author and screenwriter.ĭurjoy Datta was born on 7 February 1987 in Mehsana, Gujarat, in a Bengali Hindu family, and was brought up in New Delhi. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The ghost of a pirate, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1903)Ī widespread belief concerning ghosts is that they are composed of a misty, airy, or subtle material. Belief in ghosts is found in all cultures around the world, and thus ghost stories may be passed down orally or in written form. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to scare, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story. ![]() In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. ![]() ![]() Ghost stories are commonly examples of ghostlore.Ĭolloquially, the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story. Linked to the ghost is the idea of a "haunting", where a supernatural entity is tied to a place, object or person. The "ghost" may appear of its own accord or be summoned by magic. FantasyĪ ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. James's story "Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad". ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s the hottest art form around, and not to know something about it is to ignore the foremost endeavor of our time.” The author, who began his writing career in journalism and now teaches at UC Berkeley, has received the American Institute of Physics Prize, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s prize for lifetime achievement, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his popularizations of esoteric science. ![]() Especially considering that Ferris has achieved his grasp of astronomy and physics with virtually no formal education in the fields. That his subsequent books on astronomy-”The Red Limit,” “Galaxies,” “Space Shot” and now “Coming of Age in the Milky Way”-have been praised by scientists as well as book critics should be encouraging to those who still find the Big Bang, black holes, quarks and quantum physics to be over our heads. So Ferris took a stab at writing about real stars. But rock stars were never as intriguing to him as the celestial bodies overhead. Fifteen years ago Timothy Ferris earned his living pontificating on the dubious aesthetics of bands such as Grand Funk Railroad. ![]() ![]() He has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including the Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006, 2008, 2014), the W. He received the University of Lethbridge Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award in 2013. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017. Morrison is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 1991, Morrison earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He later pursued a Master of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, which he completed in 1987. He was educated at the University of Lethbridge, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1983. Morrison was born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. A scholar of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture, he is particularly interested in the Regency years (1811-1820), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Jane Austen, and Thomas De Quincey. ![]() ![]() He is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. ![]() Morrison (born 6 January 1961) is a Canadian author, editor, and academic. Canadian author, editor, and academic (born 1961) ![]() |