Two years ago in his book Author Unknown Foster argued that the curmudgeonly Moore's writing was full of words like "dread" and "strife, " By contrast, argued Foster, Livingston was a jolly fellow whose comic verse was much more like the famous poem.

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This quote from an unknown author might be the most apt description of my life as an entrepreneur.

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Writing The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Dragon-Slayers was probably not what the unknown author of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf had in mind.

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As a relatively unknown author this award will give her exposure to a wider and mass audience that she may not have reached and is a perfect example of the influence of the Whitbread.

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Marketing a genre-defying book by an unknown Dutch author could prove challenging.

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The whereabouts of one to his friend, the author JM Barrie, is unknown.

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So Alexander Kravtsov, the author of the city charter, may lose votes to a namesake who is an unknown student.

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But they believe the child they have in custody is the author of a letter to the local Kobe Shimbun, which included details of Hase's killing that were unknown to the public.

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Many previously unknown people are also enjoying success with memoirs based on compelling personal stories, including Kevin Lewis, author of The Kid, a book about childhood abuse which has sold more than 150, 000 in the last few weeks.

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