A C H Smith

A C H Smith (1935-now)

A C.H. Smith (born in 1935) is a British novelist and playwright from Kew. He was educated at Hampton Grammar School and Cambridge (Corpus Christi College), where he read Modern Languages. Since 1960 his home has been in Bristol. From 1965-69 he was Senior Research Associate at Richard Hoggarts Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University, and he has held visiting posts at the Universities of Bristol, Bournemouth, and Texas (Austin). From 1964-73 he did literary work for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and later some for the National Theatre. In 1971 Peter Brook invited him to Iran for three months to write a book about the theatre experiment that Brook and Ted Hughes were undertaking. He was a director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in 1978, 1979, and 1999. He has two daughters, Imogen and Sophie, and a son, Oliver.

J Smith's Books:

[In Eastern Seas]

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Franz Grillparzer

Franz Grillparzer

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 - 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas.

Franz Grillparzer's Books:

[Das Goldene Vliess | Das Kloster Bei Sendomir | Der Arme Spielmann | Der Gastfreund | Der Traum Ein Leben | Des Meeres Und Der Liebe Wellen | Die Ahnfrau | Die Argonauten | Die Jdin Von Toledo | Ein Bruderzwist In Habsburg | Knig Ottokars Glck Und Ende | Libussa | Medea | Sappho | Die Juedin Von Toledo | Koenig Ottokars Glueck Und Ende]

Fitz Greene Halleck

Fitz Greene Halleck (1790-1867)

Fitz-Greene Halleck (July 8, 1790 - November 19, 1867) was an American poet, born and died at Guilford, Connecticut.

Fitz Greene Halleck's Books:

[Fanny]

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Xenophon

Xenophon

Xenophon (Ancient Greek , Xenophn; Modern Greek , Ksenofon; , Ksenofontas; c. 430 - 354 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.

Xenophon's Books:

[Agesilaus | Els Deu Mil | Hiero | On Horsemanship | On Revenues | Polity Athenians And Lacedaemonians | The Apology | The Cavalry General | The Economist | The Memorabilia | The Memorable Thoughts Of Socrates]

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Barbara Yorke

Barbara Yorke (1951-now)

Barbara Yorke (born 1951) is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England. She studied history and archaeology at Exeter University, where she completed both her undergraduate degree and her Ph.D. She is currently Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2011 she will give the Toller Lecture. Her publications include: Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England. London, Seaby, 1990.

C Yorke's Books:

[Mob Murder A Complete Novelette]

Jerome Bixby

Jerome Bixby

Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 in Los Angeles, California April 28, 1998 in San Bernardino, California) was an American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his writings in science fiction. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome (for one collaboration with Algis Budrys).

Jerome Bixby's Books:

[The Draw | The Holes Around Mars | Where Theres Hope | Zen]

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Albert J Beveridge

Albert J Beveridge (1862-1927)

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862 - April 27, 1927) was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana. He was born in Highland County, Ohio and his parents moved to Indiana soon after his birth, and his boyhood was one of hard work. Securing an education with difficulty he eventually became a law clerk in Indianapolis, was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1887 and practiced law in Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana Asbury University in 1885, with a Ph.B. degree. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was known as a compelling orator, delivering speeches supporting territorial expansion by the U.S. and increasing the power of the federal government. He entered politics in 1884 by speaking on behalf of Presidential candidate James G. Blaine and was prominent in later campaigns, particularly in that of 1896, when his speeches attracted general attention. In 1899, Beveridge was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican and served until 1911. He supported Theodore Roosevelt's progressive views and was the keynote speaker at the new Progressive Party convention which nominated Roosevelt for U.S. President in 1912. Beveridge is known as one of the great American imperialists. He supported the annexation of the Philippines. After Beveridge's re-election in 1905 to a second term, he became identified with the reform-minded faction of the GOP. He championed national child labor legislation, broke with President William Howard Taft over the Payne-Aldrich tariff, and sponsored the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906, adopted in the wake of the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. He lost his senate seat when the Democrats took Indiana in the 1910 elections; in 1912, when former president Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican party to found the short-lived Progressive Party, Beveridge left with him, and ran campaigns as that party's Indiana nominee in the 1912 race for governor and the 1914 race for senator, losing both. When the Progressive party disintegrated, he returned to the Republicans with his political future in tatters; he eventually ran one more unsuccessful race for Senate in the 1922 primary against Harry S. New, but would never again hold office. As his political career drew to a close, Beveridge dedicated his time to writing historical literature. He was a member and secretary of the American Historical Association (AHA). His four-volume set The Life of John Marshall, published from 1916 to 1919, won Beveridge a Pulitzer Prize. He spent most of his final years after his 1922 defeat writing a two volume biography of Abraham Lincoln which was published in 1928, the year after his death (he died in Indianapolis, Indiana, aged 64). That same year the AHA established the Beveridge Award in his memory, through a gift from his wife, Catherine Beveridge and donations from members.

Albert Beveridge's Books:

[The Young Man And The World]

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Edgar Guest

Edgar Guest (1881-1959)

Edgar Albert Guest (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the Peoples Poet. In 1891, Guest came with his family to the United States from England. After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared December 11, 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades. From his first published work in the Detroit Free Press until his death in 1959, Guest penned some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more than 20 books, including A Heap o' Livin' (1916) and Just Folks (1917). Guest was made Poet Laureate of Michigan, the only poet to have been awarded the title.

Edgar Guest's Books:

[A Heap O Livin | All That Matters | Just Folks | Over Here | The Path To Home | Making The House A Home | When Day Is Done]

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (October 11, 1825 - November 28, 1898) was a Swiss poet and novelist, a master of realism chiefly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like "Die Fe im Feuer" (The Feet in the Fire). Meyer was of patrician descent. His father, who died early, was a statesman and historian, while his mother was a highly cultured woman. Having finished the gymnasium, he took up the study of law, but history and the humanities were of greater interest to him.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's Books:

[Angela Borgia | Das Leiden Eines Knaben | Der Schuss Von Der Kanzel | Die Hochzeit Des Moenchs | Die Richterin Novelle | Die Versuchung Des Pescara | Huttens Letzte Tage | Die Richterin]

Catullus

Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC - ca. 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the Republican period. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.

Catullus's Books:

[The Poems And Fragments Of Catullus]

Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903, New York City - October 9, 1987, Washington D.C. ) was an American playwright, editor, journalist, ambassador, socialite and U.S. Congresswoman, representing the state of Connecticut.

A Luce's Books:

[Monophysitism Past And Present]

Alan Sullivan

Alan Sullivan

Edward Alan Sullivan (November 29, 1868 August 6, 1947) was a Canadian poet and author of short stories.

Alan Sullivan's Books:

[The Rapids | The Bush Fire | The Cycle Of The North | The Last Patrol | The Passing Of Oul I But | Under The Northern Lights]

Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist. Born in Richmond, Virginia, she published her first novel, The Descendant, in 1897, when she was 24 years old. With this novel, Glasgow began a literary career encompassing four and a half decades that comprised 20 novels, a collection of poems, short stories, and a book of literary criticism. Her final novel, In This Our Life, received the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. Her autobiography, A Woman Within, appeared posthumously in 1954.

Ellen Glasgow's Books:

[A Point In Morals | Life And Gabriella | One Man In His Time | The Battle Ground | The Deliverance A Romance Of The Virginia Tobacco Fields | The Freeman | The Miller Of Old Church | The Past | The Romance Of A Plain Man | The Shadowy Third | The Voice Of The People | Virginia]

Basilio Villarino

Basilio Villarino

Basilio Villarino was a captain of the Spanish Royal Navy who traveled around the southern tip of South America. Villarino published an 1837 book, Diario de la Navegacin Emprendida en 1781, Desde el Rio Negro, para Reconocer la Bahia de Todos los Santos, las Islas del Buen Suceso, y el Desague del Rio Colorado.

Basilio Villarino's Books:

[Diario De La Navegacion Empredida En 1781]

Fitz James Obrien

Fitz James Obrien (1828-1862)

Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; December 31, 1828 - April 6, 1862) was an Irish-born American writer, some of whose work is often considered one of the forerunners of today's science fiction.

Fitz James Obrien's Books:

[The Diamond Lens | The Lost Room]

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Arthur Judson Brown

Arthur Judson Brown

Arthur Judson Brown (December 3, 1856 January 11, 1963) was an influential American clergyman, missionary and prolific author. Brown was born in Holliston, Massachusetts, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1883. He preached in various cities throughout the United States, including Portland, Oregon and Oak Park, Illinois from 1883 to 1895. Often termed a "missionary statesman," Brown traveled throughout the world--most notably in China and other Asian countries. During the time he surveyed China, he wrote a seventeen-volume diary of what he'd seen and discovered. Over time, Brown communicated with Roman Catholic, Jewish, and Greek Orthodox leaders, in addition to such influential Protestant clergymen as Henry Sloane Coffin, Nathan Sderblom, and John R. Mott. Brown himself received letters from five American Presidents and various other government officials. Booker T. Washington, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1839-1937), and John Wanamaker were among his famous American correspondents. In addition, members of European and Asian royalty, including Chinese general and emperor, Yuan Shih-kai, were in communication with Brown. Overall, Brown will be remembered as a pioneer in the ecumenical and world missionary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries and was an individual who was active in and out of the church. He served in a plethora of notable positions. The following is a lengthy chronology of Brown's achievements and activities. During this time Brown also preached at various churches. Arthur Judson Brown died in New York City in 1963, 39 days after celebrating his 106th birthday. He was subsequently buried in Orange, New Jersey.

Arthur Judson Brown's Books:

[The French Prisoners Of Norman Cross]