Sir Arthur Pearson Baronet

Sir Arthur Pearson Baronet

Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, GBE (24 February 1866 - 9 December 1921) was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, most noted for founding the Daily Express.

C Arthur Pearson's Books:

[Uncanny Tales]

Gleeson White

Gleeson White

Gleeson Joseph William White (1851-1898) was an English writer on art, born at Christ Church, in Hampshire. He was educated at Christ Church School and afterward became a member of the Art Workers Guild. He moved to New York City in 1890 where he conducted the Art Amateur (1891-1892). He returned to England

Gleeson White's Books:

[Bell Cathedrals The Cathedral Church Of Salisbury]

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Charles Rollin

Charles Rollin

Charles Rollin (30 January 1661 - 14 December 1741) was a French historian and educator. He was born in Paris.

Charles Rollin's Books:

[The Ancient History Of The Egyptians Carthaginians Assyrians Babylonians Medes And Persians Mac]

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Gumundur Kamban

Gumundur Kamban

Gumundur Kamban (8 June 1888 5 May 1945) was an Icelandic playwright and novelist. He was born near Reykjavk, son of a merchant of an old and well known Icelandic family. He graduated from the College of Reykjavk, where he received honoris causa in literature and language. While still at college, he was made assistant editor of the best known newspaper in Iceland, edited by Bjrn Jnsson. In 1906 his psychic abilities were also investigated by the Experimental Society founded by Einar Hjrleifsson Kvaran: as a clairvoyant, he succeeded in divining the contents of closed books, and as an automatic writer he penned works supposedly by Hans Christian Andersen, Jnas Hallgrmsson, and Snorri Sturluson. But he lost his mediumistic abilities after a serious illness. In 1908 he adopted the family name Kamban in place of his birth name (Gumundur Jnsson) and advocated a change in Icelandic naming conventions. In 1910, he proceeded to the University of Copenhagen, where he specialized in literature and received his Master's degree. In 1914 he published his first play, Hadda Padda which was endorsed by Georg Brandes and shown in the Danish Royal Theatre with Kamban as assistant director. He later married an actress from the play, Agnete Egeberg. In 1915 Kamban moved to New York, intending to establish himself as an English language writer. He was not successful and moved back to Copenhagen with his wife in 1917. In 1920 he achieved success at Dagmarteatret with We Murderers and was employed as a director at the theatre. He is also the author of spirited and erudite historical novels based on the Icelandic sagas, including Skalholt (4 vols., 1930-32; tr. of Vol. I and II, The Virgin of Skalholt, 1935) and I See a Wondrous Land (1936, tr. 1938). Kamban directed plays, wrote novels and produced motion pictures in Copenhagen until 1934, when he moved to London. Not finding success there, he relocated to Berlin in 1935 and lived there until 1938, when he moved back to Copenhagen. During the German occupation of Denmark, Kamban received German research funding and came to be seen as a collaborator. On 5 May 1945, as the German forces surrendered, Kamban was murdered at his home by Danish partisans.

Gumundur Kamban's Books:

[Hadda Pada]

Gabriele Dannunzio

Gabriele Dannunzio (1863-1938)

Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio (12 March 1863 - 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil. His role in politics is controversial due to his influence on the Italian Fascist movement and his status as the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini.

Gabriele Dannunzio's Books:

[Cabiria | Isaotta Guttadauro Ed Altre Poesie | La Gioconda | Linnocente | Isaotta GuttadUro Ed Altre Poesie]

Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill (1952-now)

Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.

H Cotterill's Books:

[The Faust Legend And Goethe Faust]

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Cyrus Macmillan

Cyrus Macmillan (1882-1953)

Cyrus Macmillan, PC (September 12, 1882 - June 29, 1953) was a Canadian academic, writer,and politician. Born in Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900 and a Master of Arts degree in 1903 from McGill University. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1909 and started as a Lecturer at McGill. During World War I, he serverd with the 7th Canadian Siege Battery. After the war, he became an Associate Professor and in 1923 was appointed Chairman of the English department. From 1940 to 1947, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. In June 1930, he was appointed Minister of Fisheries in the cabinet of Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King. He was defeated in July's 1930 federal election in the Prince Edward Island riding of Queen's. In 1940, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Queen's. He was defeated in 1945. From 1943 to 1946, he was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of National Defence for Air. He is the author of McGill and Its Story, 1821-1921 (1921), Canadian Wonder Tales (1918) and Canadian Fairy Tales (1922)

Cyrus Macmillan's Books:

[Canadian Wonder Tales | Mcgill And Its Story 1821 1921]

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Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904)

Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822-5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, and suffragette. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Frances Power Cobbe's Books:

[Criminals Idiots Women And Minors]

Francis Carolus Eeles

Francis Carolus Eeles

Carolus">Francis Carolus Eeles (1876 17 August 1954, Dunster), OBE, was an English liturgical scholar and church historian. Eeles was on the Advisory Committee of the Warham Guild, established in 1912. He was the first secretary of the Central Council for the Care of Churches, serving as honorary secretary from 1917 and paid secretary from 1926 until his death in 1954. He was made OBE in 1938.

Carolus's Books:

[De Profundis Episode Maritime]

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E E Y Hales

E E Y Hales

Edward Elton Young Hales (October 8, 1908 - 1986) was an English Catholic

A Hales's Books:

[Campaign Pictures Of The War In South Africa 1899 1900]

William Bentley

William Bentley

William Bentley (June 22, 1759, Boston, Massachusetts December 29, 1819, Salem, Massachusetts) was an American Unitarian minister, scholar, columnist, and diarist. Bentley graduated from Harvard University in 1777, and worked as a schoolteacher and then a tutor of Latin and Greek at Harvard. On September 24, 1783, he was ordained as a minister and became pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Salem, known as the East Church, where he remained until his death in 1819.

William Bentley's Books:

[The Honored Prophet]

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William Dunlap

William Dunlap

William Dunlap (1 February 1766 28 September 1839) was a pioneer of the American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. He managed two of New York's earliest and most prominent theaters, the John Street Theatre (from 179698) and the Park Theatre (from 17981805). He was also an artist, despite losing an eye in childhood. He was born in Perth Amboy New Jersey, the son of an army officer wounded at the Battle of Quebec in 1759. In 1783, he produced a portrait of George Washington, now owned by the United States Senate, and later studied art under Benjamin West in London. After returning to America in 1787, he worked exclusively in the theater for 18 years, resuming painting out of economic necessity in 1805. By 1817, he was a full-time painter. In his lifetime he produced more than sixty plays, most of which were adaptations or translations from French or German

William Dunlap's Books:

[Andr]

Enrique Larreta

Enrique Larreta (1875-1961)

Enrique Rodrguez Larreta, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires, March 4, 1875 - July 6, 1961). Author of La gloria de don Ramiro, one of the finest works representative of Hispanic modernism in which Don Ramiro, a soldier during the time of Philip II of Spain, embodies the Christian conflict between a life of the flesh and a life of the spirit. Larreta was a member of an ancient family of fortune and was married to Josefina Anchorena Castellanos, a daughter of one of most aristocratic, landowning families of Argentina, the Anchorenas. They had five children; Mercedes, Enrique (b.1902), Josefina (b.1905), Agustin (b.1909) and Fernando (b.1911). He studied law and worked as history teacher. In 1915-1916 he lived in Biarritz, France and in vila, Spain, where he met Miguel de Unamuno and a street now bears his name. As a playwright, his first piece, La lampe dargile, written in French, opened in Paris in 1917. This was followed by La luciernaga (1923; Firefly), El linyera (1932; The Bum), Santa Maria del Buen Ayre (1935), considered his best and Tenia que suceder (1943; It had to Happen). He served as ambassador to France (19101919) and to the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in Seville. He was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and spent a large part of his later years in Madrid. The cities of Alcal de Henares, Madrid and Segovia also have streets named after him. After his death his home in Buenos Aires became the Museo de Arte Espanol Enrique Larreta in 1962. Built by architect Ernesto Bunge in 1886, this Spanish Renaissance-style house is graced with an Andalusian palace garden; an unusual oasis in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires. When Larreta came back from Europe and settled in the Belgrano neighborhood he brought a vast collection of Spanish art and furniture from France. The Renaissance and Baroque collection makes the house feel like a Spanish museum and is mostly from the same period as his historical Don Ramiro novel. File:Museo de Arte Espaol Enrique Larreta esquina. jpg Larreta's house and now Museum of Spanish Art

Enrique Larreta's Books:

[La Gloria De Don Ramiro]

B S Johnson

B S Johnson (1933-1973)

B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (5 February 1933 - 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and film-maker. Born into a working class family, Johnson was evacuated from London during World War II and left school at sixteen to work variously as an accounting clerk, bank junior and clerk at Standard Oil Company. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, attended a year's pre-university course at Birkbeck College, and with this preparation, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London. After he graduated with a 2:2, Johnson wrote a series of increasingly experimental and often acutely personal novels that would now be considered visual writing. In his early years he collaborated on several projects with a close friend and fellow writer, Zulfikar Ghose, with whom he produced a joint collection of stories, Statement Against Corpses. Like Johnson's early stories (at least superficially) his first two novels, Travelling People (1963) and Albert Angelo (1964), at first appear relatively conventional in plot terms. However, the first novel uses several innovative devices and includes a section set out as a filmscript. The second includes famously cut-through pages to enable the reader to skip forward. His work became progressively even more experimental. The Unfortunates (1969) was published in a box with no binding (readers could assemble the book any way they liked) and House Mother Normal (1971) was written in purely chronological order such that the various characters' thoughts and experiences would cross each other and become intertwined, not just page by page, but sentence by sentence. Johnson also made numerous experimental films, published poetry, and wrote reviews, short stories and plays. For many years he was the poetry editor of Transatlantic Review. A critically acclaimed film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973) was released in 2000. Singer-songwriter Joe Pernice paid tribute to Johnson on the 2006 Pernice Brothers album Live a Little. At the age of 40, increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide. Johnson was largely unknown to the wider reading public at the time of his death, but has a growing cult following. Jonathan Coe's 2004 biography Like a Fiery Elephant (winner of the 2005 Samuel Johnson prize) has already led to a renewal of interest in Johnson's work. In the sleeve notes of Los Campesinos!' Romance is Boring, Gareth Campesinos! sites Johnson as an influence.

J Bryan's Books:

[Dominion]

Charles Augustus Kincaid

Charles Augustus Kincaid

C.A. Kincaid (1870-1954) has co-authored with Dattatray Balwant Parasnis, the "History of the Maratha People" in three volumes. He was a high court judge in colonial India and a prolific author

C Kincaid's Books:

[Deccan Nursery Tales]

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Andr Fontaine

Andr Fontaine

Andr Fontaine is a French historian and journalist (March 30, 1921). He started working at Temps Prsent, and then at Le Monde in 1947, at the official beginning of the Cold War. He became the newspaper's editor from 1969 to 1985, and director from 1985 to 1991. As of February 2007 he was still contributing articles to the paper. Andr Fontaine is famous for his historical thesis according to which the Cold War in fact started as soon as 1917 with the cordon sanitaire policy.

De La Fontaine's Books:

[Joconde | Old Man Calendar And Other | The Contented Cuckold | The Muleteer And Other]

Francois Ren De Chateaubriand

Francois Ren De Chateaubriand

Franois-Ren, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 - 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.

Francois Ren De Chateaubriand's Books:

[Chateaubriand Et Madame De Custine | Correspondance De Chateaubriand Avec La Marquise De V]

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Brian Keene

Brian Keene

Brian Keene is an author, primarily of horror and crime fiction. Keene has often been credited with ushering in the new era of zombie popularity in pop culture (along with filmmaker Danny Boyle).

H Keene's Books:

[The Fall Of The Moghul Empire Of Hindustan]

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G Stanley Hall

G Stanley Hall

Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 -- April 24, 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University.

G Stanley Hall's Books:

[Anger As A Primary Emotion And The Application Of Freudian Mechanisms To Its Phenomena | Youth Its Education Regimen And Hygiene]

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Harry Leon Wilson

Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1939)

Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 June 28, 1939) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels, Ruggles of Red Gap and Merton of the Movies. His novel, Bunker Bean helped popularize the term flapper.

Harry Leon Wilson's Books:

[Bunker Bean]

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Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan (ne Chamberlaine) (17241766) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright. Frances Sheridan was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Dr. Phillip Chamberlaine, was an Anglican minister. In 1747 she married Thomas Sheridan, who was then an actor and theatre director, and at the same time she began work on her first novel, Eugenia and Adelaide. The couple moved to London permanently in 1758 for business reasons (after an earlier sortie to London in 1754).

Frances Sheridan's Books:

[Memoirs Of Miss Sidney Bidulph | The History Of Nourjahad]

Emma Guy Cromwell

Emma Guy Cromwell

Emma Guy Cromwell (September 28, 1865-July 19, 1952) was a suffragist, women's rights activist, and early female Democratic Party politician from Kentucky in the United States. Cromwell became the first woman to hold a statewide office in Kentucky when she was elected state librarian in 1896 by a vote of the Kentucky State Senate. In 1923, Cromwell was elected Secretary of State of Kentucky in an elections against two other females.

Emma Guy Cromwell's Books:

[Citizenship]