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Boston In Fiction
This articles lists various works of fiction that take place in Boston, Massachusetts: Video games A number of popular video games are set in Boston, with several characters from the city appearing in multiple games. * The Scout, a character in the video game ''Team Fortress 2'' is from Boston and speaks with a Boston accent. *Ash, a character in Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege, studied at Boston University. Another character, Delta Force operator Erik "Maverick" Thorn, is from Boston. *In ''Tony Hawk's Underground 2'', one of the levels is set in Boston. *'' Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven'' the City of Lost Heaven bears a slight resemblance to Boston. *In ''Rock Band'' and ''Rock Band 2'', Boston is a featured city that one's fictional band can play gigs in. *In ''Assassin's Creed III'', Boston features as a main city during the course of the game. *In ''The Last of Us'', some of the game is set in post-apocalyptic Boston. *Nathan and Samuel Drake, characters from the ''Uncharted'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AaAaAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard For Gravity
''AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity'' (officially abbreviated as ''AaAaAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity'') is a 2009 video game developed by Dejobaan Games for Microsoft Windows. Taking place in the year 2011 in an alternate reality version of Boston, Massachusetts, players BASE jump from the highest building, trying to get the highest possible score. Gameplay ''AaAaAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity'' is a game where players BASE jump headfirst from the top of the highest building downwards. The game is viewed in a 3D first-person perspective. Players score points by flying near objects on the way down, smashing through various colored glass plates, landing via parachute on a designated drop zone. Players also receive points for "kissing" (flying very close to) buildings or other airborne obstacles, and for "hugging" (remaining in close proximity to) these obstacles as they fall. Players receive bonus points for "threading the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant (born June 27, 1951) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books."Anita Diamant." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2015. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2017-09-22. She has published five novels, the most recent of which is ''The Boston Girl'', a ''New York Times'' best seller. She is best known for her 1997 novel '' The Red Tent'', which eventually became a best seller and book club favorite.Ghent, Janet Silver (February 14, 2014).Celebrating the power of women and ritual: Author Diamant in conversation at JCCs. '' J. The Jewish News of Northern California''. jweekly.com. Retrieved 2017-09-22. She has also written six guides to contemporary Jewish practice, including ''The New Jewish Wedding,'' ''Living a Jewish Life,'' and ''The New Jewish Baby Book'', as well as a collection of personal essays, ''Pitching My Tent''. Early life and education Diamant spent her early childhood in Newark, New Jerse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist who shared the same name with country music singer Jean Stafford. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for '' The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford'' in 1970. Biography She was born in Covina, California, to Mary Ethel (McKillop) and John Richard Stafford, a Western pulp writer. As a youth Stafford attended the University of Colorado Boulder and, with friend James Robert Hightower, won a one-year fellowship to study philology at the University of Heidelberg from 1936 to 1937. Her first novel, ''Boston Adventure'', was a best-seller, earning her national acclaim. She wrote two more novels in her career, but her greatest medium was the short story: her works were published in ''The New Yorker'' and various literary magazines. In 1955 she won first place in the O. Henry Awards for her story "In the Zoo". For the academic year 1964–1965, she was a Fellow on the faculty at the Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bachman
Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King, adopted in 1977 for the novel '' Rage''. King hid the link between himself and Bachman, until allowing for his identification in 1985. He collected the first four Bachman novels into '' The Bachman Books''. ''Rage'' became controversial for being about a school shooting and was allowed to go out of print after the 1997 Heath High School shooting. In total, seven novels have been published under the Bachman name. King portrays an unrelated character named Richard Bachman in the third season of the FX television series ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2010). Origin At the beginning of King's career, the general view among publishers was that an author was limited to one book per year, since publishing more would be unacceptable to the public. King therefore wanted to write under another name in order to increase his publication without saturating the market for the King "brand". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaze (novel)
''Blaze'' is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. As stated in the afterword of ''Different Seasons,'' it was written before '' Carrie.'' King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as '''Salem's Lot''; the latter was chosen to be his second novel and ''Blaze'' became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the book for publication in 2007. The book also has an annex containing "Memory", a short story that was first published in 2006 and which King has since worked into '' Duma Key''. Plot summary The story concerns Clayton Blaisdell Jr. (known as "Blaze" for short, thus the title), a mentally disabled small-time con artist who kidnaps a wealthy gentleman's baby son, in the hopes of fulfilling the dreams of George Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Barnes (writer)
Linda Barnes (born December 6, 1949) is an American mystery writer. Biography Linda Barnes was born and raised in Detroit, and graduated cum laude from the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University. After college, Barnes became a drama teacher and director at Chelmsford and Lexington, Massachusetts schools. While teaching drama, Barnes wrote two plays, the award-winning "Wings" and "Prometheus", and went on to write highly successful mystery novels. Linda Barnes lives near Boston with her husband and has one son. Book reviews *''The Perfect Ghost'' Carolyn Haley's book review in the ''New York Journal of Books'' noted “Don’t be surprised if Linda Barnes gets an award for The Perfect Ghost, . . .” *''Kirkus'' wrote "Barnes puts aside her Carlotta Carlyle series (Lie Down With the Devil, 2008, etc.) for an eerie, suspenseful stand-alone that focuses more on the characters and their dark pasts than on a clever mystery." *''Publishers Weekly'' wrote "Although the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Martin (novelist)
William Martin is an American author of historical novels, a native of Boston, Massachusetts. Biography William Martin grew up in West Roxbury and Roslindale, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1972 where he majored in English. He worked as an historical research assistant and directed theater in the evening. He went into construction to raise money to move to Hollywood and then studied motion pictures at the University of Southern California. Martin wrote two screenplays in an effort to get into the writing business. Producers and his agent suggested that, to best take advantage of his writing style, Martin should write a novel. Based on the outline of his first novel, Martin obtained a $7,500 publishing deal. The book, ''Back Bay'', was published in 1979 and reached ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. William Martin has continued to write historical novels and currently lives in Weston, Massachusetts (near Boston Boston is the capital and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Farber
Norma Holzman Farber (6 August 1909 – 21 March 1984) was an American children's book writer and poet. The Poetry Society of America presents the Norma Farber First Book Award, which is awarded for a first book of original poetry written by an American. Life She was born in Boston in 1909, daughter of G. Augustus and Augusta Schon Holzman. She attended Girls' Latin School. She earned degrees from Wellesley College, and Radcliffe College. On 3 July 1928, she married Sidney Farber, (died 1973) the founder of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation (now the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute) in Boston. According to her obituary published in the ''New York Times'', she was also a classical soprano. Farber was sister-in-law to noted philosopher Marvin Farber, faculty at the University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo (commonly referred to as UB, University at Buffalo, and sometimes SUNY Buffalo) is a public university, public research university in Buf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (; January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays. He was one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television. His intimate, realistic scripts provided a naturalistic style of television drama for the 1950s, dramatizing the lives of ordinary Americans. Martin Gottfried wrote in ''All His Jazz'' that Chayefsky was "the most successful graduate of television's slice of life school of naturalism." Following his critically acclaimed teleplays, Chayefsky became a noted playwright and novelist. As a screenwriter, he received three Academy Awards for '' Marty'' (1955), '' The Hospital'' (1971) and '' Network'' (1976). The movie ''Marty'' was based on his own television drama about two lonely people finding love. ''Network'' was a satire of the television industry and ''The Hospital' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altered States
''Altered States'' is a 1980 American science fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell, and adapted by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his 1978 novel of the same name. The novel and the film are based in part on John C. Lilly's sensory deprivation research conducted in isolation tanks under the influence of psychoactive drugs like mescaline, ketamine, and LSD. The film features elements of both psychological horror and body horror. Chayefsky withdrew from the project after disputes with Russell and took his name off the credits, substituting "Sidney Aaron", his actual first and middle names. The film stars William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, and Charles Haid. It marked the film debut of Hurt and Drew Barrymore (in a small role). The film score was composed by John Corigliano and conducted by Christopher Keene. Warner Bros. gave the film a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 1980, followed by a wide release in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner (born 1972) is a #1 ''New York Times'' bestselling American novelist. She is the author of more than 20 suspense novels, published in more than 30 countries. She began her career writing romantic suspense under the pseudonym Alicia Scott, before the publication of her breakout domestic thriller, ''The Perfect Husband'', in 1997. TV and movie credits include ''At the Midnight House'' (CBS), ''Instinct to Kill'', ''The Survivors Club'' (CBS), and ''Hide'' (TNT) as well as personal appearances on TruTV's ''Murder by the Book'' and CNN. Biography Raised in Hillsboro, Oregon, she graduated from the city's Glencoe High School.Krawczak, Jolene. When murder's on her mind, beware. '' The Oregonian'', May 6, 2007. Her novel ''Gone'' is set in a fictionalized version of Tillamook, Oregon. In the mid-1990s, she was a research analyst in Boston with Mercer Management (now Oliver Wyman). She credited her long days doing research for giving her the skills needed to follow a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
