Andrew Pepper
Contributor
Andrew Pepper is a Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel (2000) and the co-author of American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (2005). His first novel is The Lost Days of Newgate. He is also a contributor to 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2012), where an earlier version of this Britannica entry first appeared.
Primary Contributions (2)
Get Shorty, crime novel and Hollywood satire written by American master of the literary thriller Elmore Leonard and published in 1990. In an irony worthy of Leonard himself, the 1995 movie version of Get Shorty, a story about the stupidity and vacuity of Hollywood filmmakers, became the best and…
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Publications (1)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2001)
Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual...
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