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William Forrester () was a Scottish-American author who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Avalon Landing.
Biography[]
William Forrester was born in Dranmurie, Scotland in , the child of a local school teacher and his wife. His father served as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot during World War II, and, during William's late teens, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York. Forrester received a scholarship from Columbia University, where he studied chemistry, writing, and journalism. Shortly after graduation, at the age of 23, he wrote his first and highly acclaimed novel Avalon Landing, and instant success due to its interweaving of memory, drama, and reality. It was hailed as a "modern-day fairy tale", and he was awarded a "Book of the Year Award" and the Pulitzer Prize. Forrester became a recluse, however, and lived a quiet and secretive life from his apartment in The Bronx, New York City. In , shortly after being diagnosed with cancer, he tuto
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Finding Forrester: The life and death of Joseph Forrester, convict silversmith.
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Aboriginal History Journal,
On successive days in April , James Comes and William Hugh Nicholls appeared at the Northern Circuit Court in Townsville, charged with violent offences committed against Aboriginal women. Although the two cases were unrelated, both men came from the mining community of Thomborough on the Hodgkinson River, and both trials resulted in convictions and prison sentences for the accused. At the time, the results of the trials were considered so extraordinary that they prompted the presiding judge, Mr Justice Cooper, to remark that he supposed Comes and Nicholls were the first two men in Queensland to be 'found guilty of an offence against a member of the aboriginal race'.1 An analysis of the trials in their social context not only offers some conclusions as to why the two convictions were obtained i
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William Forrester is a character who keeps han själv locked in an appartment and not interact with people. A Pulitzer-prize winning author who helps Jamal Wallace walk the correct path towards writing. Forrester moves back to his homeland of Scotland, where he dies of cancer. He leaves Jamal his apartment and a manuscript of his second and final novel, 'Sunset'. It is to be published by Jamal after he has written a foreword.
Although William Forrester is a fictitious character, there are some noticeable parallels between his life and that of the American author J. D. Salinger:
- Both Forrester and Salinger are notoriously reclusive authors.
- In the movie Forrester blocked a biography of han själv that the character Prof. Robert efternamn was going to have published. Salinger did the same thing through a lawsuit against Ian Hamilton.
- Both also only wrote on