Tuesday, March 31, 2009

E Hoffmann Price

E Hoffmann Price (1898-1988)

Edgar Hoffmann Trooper Price (July 3, 1898 June 18, 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction for the pulp magazine marketplace. He collaborated with H. P. Lovecraft on "Through the Gates of the Silver Key".



[Desert Judgment | Draft Dodger | Feud End | Mummies To Order | Murder Salvage | Plunder Of Kurdistan | Prune Picking Patriot | Queen Of Heaven | Scourge Of The Silver Dragon | The Devil Crypt]

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939)

Edmund Beecher Wilson (19 October 1856 3 March 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell.



[Biology]

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Adam Robinson

Adam Robinson

Adam Robinson is an American educator, freelance author, and a US Chess Federation chess master. He is the co-founder of The Princeton Review. Robinson co-authored Cracking the SAT with John Katzman, the only test preparation book ever to become a New York Times best seller. His other books, which include Cracking the LSAT, What Smart Students Know, and The RocketReview Revolution, have received high acclaim from students and educators.



[Minions Of The Moon]


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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Henry Slesar

Henry Slesar (1927-2002)

Henry Slesar (June 12, 1927 - April 2, 2002) was an American author, playwright and copywriter. He was also known as O. H. Leslie and Jay Street.



[Heart | My Father The Cat | Reluctant Genius | The Delegate From Venus | The Success Machine | Dream Town]

Monday, March 23, 2009

Sir William Brereton 1st Baronet

Sir William Brereton 1st Baronet

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet (13 September 1604 7 April 1661) was an English soldier, politician, and writer.



[With Joffre At Verdun]


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Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (June 29, 1798 - June 14, 1837) was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist. Although he lived in a secluded town in ultra-conservative Stato della Chiesa, he came in touch with the main thoughts of Enlightenment, and, by his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to the Romantic movement, which makes him one of the greatest poets of modern Italy.



[The Poems Of Giacomo Leopardi]

Adolphe Thiers

Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (Marseille, 18 April 1797-3 September 1877) was a French politician and historian. Thiers was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871. From 1871 to 1873 he served initially as Head of State (effectively a provisional President of France), then provisional President. When, following a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly, his offer of resignation was accepted (he had expected a rejection) he was forced to vacate the office. He was replaced as Provisional President by Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta, who became full President of the Republic, a post Thiers had coveted, in 1875 when a series of constitutional laws officially creating the Third Republic were enacted.



[Histoire De La Revolution Francaise Iii | Histoire De La Revolution Francaise Tome 10 | Histoire De La Rvolution Franaise Iv | Histoire De La Rvolution Franaise Ix | Histoire De La Rvolution Franaise Vi | Histoire De La Rvolution Franaise Viii | Histoire Du Consulat Et De Lempire Vol 1 | Histoire Du Consulat Et De Lempire Vol 2 | Histoire Du Consulat Et De Lempire Vol 3 | Histoire De La Revolution Franaise Ix | Histoire De La Revolution Franaise Tome 10 | Histoire De La Revolution Franaise Viii | Histoire De La Revolution Francaise Iv | Histoire De La Revolution Francaise Tome 1 | Histoire De La Revolution Francaise Tome Cinquieme | Histoire De La Revolution Francaise Vol Ii | Histoire Du Consulat Et De Lempire V1 | Histoire Du Consulat Et De Lempire V2 | Histoire Du Consulat Et De Lempire Vol 4]

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna title=

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (October 1, 1790 - July 12, 1846) was an English evangelical Protestant writer and novelist who wrote as Charlotte Elizabeth.



[Kindness To Animals | Personal Recollections | Osric A Missionary Tale With The Garden And Other Poems]

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) title=

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.



[Jennie Gerhardt | Sister Carrie | The Financier | The Genius | Titan | Twelve Men]

Friday, March 20, 2009

George Peck

George Peck

George Peck, born August 8, 1797, in Middlefield, New York, and died on May 20, 1876, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Forty Fort Meeting, near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Luther Peck, a blacksmith, and his wife, Annis nee Collar. He and his four brothers became ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church. One, Jesse T. Peck, became a bishop. The trend in his family toward the Methodist ministry led his grandson, Stephen Crane, to say: "Upon my mother's side, everyone in my family became a Methodist clergyman as soon as they could walk, the ambling-nag, saddlebag, exhorting kind."



[Peck Bad Boy Abroad | Peck Bad Boy And His Pa | Peck Bad Boy With The Circus | Peck Bad Boy With The Cowboys | Peck Compendium Of Fun | Peck Sunshine | Peck Uncle Ike And The Red Headed Boy | The Grocery Man And Peck Bad Boy]

Robert Woodruff Anderson

Robert Woodruff Anderson (1917-2009)

Robert Woodruff Anderson (born April 28, 1917, New York City - February 9, 2009) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, which he later said he found a lonely experience. While there he fell in love with an older woman, an event which later became the basis of the plot of Tea and Sympathy. Anderson also attended Harvard University, where he took an undergraduate as well as a master's degree. He may be best-remembered as the author of Tea and Sympathy. The play made its Broadway debut in 1953 and was made into an MGM film in 1956; both starred Deborah Kerr and John Kerr. You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, a collection of four one-act comedies, opened in New York in 1967 and ran for more than 700 performances. His other successful Broadway plays were Silent Night, Lonely Night (1959) and I Never Sang for My Father (1968). He also wrote the screenplays for Until They Sail (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), and The Sand Pebbles (1966). He was Oscar-nominated for The Nun's Story as well as his 1970 screen adaptation of I Never Sang for My Father. He also authored many television scripts, including the TV play The Last Act Is a Solo (1991), and the novels After (1973) and Getting Up and Going Home (1978). Anderson was married to Phyllis Stohl from 1940 until her death in 1956 and to actress Teresa Wright from 1959 until their divorce in 1978. Anderson died of pneumonia on February 9, 2009 at his home in Manhattan, aged 91. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for seven years prior to his death.



[The Rim Of The Desert]

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Lizette Woodworth Reese (January 9, 1856 December 17, 1935) was an American poet. Born in the Waverly section of Baltimore, Maryland, she was a school teacher from 1873 to 1918. During the 1920s, she became a prominent literary figure, receiving critical praise and recognition, in particular from H. L. Mencken, himself from Baltimore. She has been cited as an influence on younger women poets and has been compared to Emily Dickinson.



[Wreaths Of Friendship]


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Friday, March 13, 2009

Asser

Asser

Asser title=

Asser (d. 908/909) was a Welsh monk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was recruiting for his court. After spending a year at Caerwent because of illness, Asser accepted. In 893 Asser wrote a biography of Alfred, called the Life of King Alfred. The manuscript survived to modern times in only one copy, which was part of the Cotton library. That copy was destroyed in a fire in 1731, but transcriptions that had been made earlier, together with material from Asser's work which was included by other early writers, have enabled the work to be reconstructed. The biography is the main source of information about Alfred's life and provides far more information about Alfred than is known about any other early English ruler. Asser assisted Alfred in his translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, and possibly with other works. Asser is sometimes cited as a source for the legend about Alfred's having founded the University of Oxford, which is now known to be false. A short passage making this claim was interpolated by William Camden into his 1603 edition of Asser's Life. Doubts have also been raised periodically about whether the entire Life is a forgery, written by a slightly later writer, but it is now almost universally accepted as genuine.


Asser's Books:


[Annals Of The Reign Of Alfred The Great]


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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937)

Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) title=

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet and (above all) short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic realism of Gabriel Garca Mrquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortzar.



[Cuentos De Amor De Locura Y De Muerte]

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Almeida Garrett

Almeida Garrett (1799-1854)

Almeida Garrett (1799-1854) title=

Joo Baptista da Silva Leito de Almeida Garrett, 1st and Only Viscount of Almeida Garrett (February 4, 1799 December 9, 1854) was a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist and politician. He is considered to be the introducer of the Romanticism in Portugal, with the epic poem Cames, based on the life of Lus de Cames.



[Frei Luiz De Sousa | Viagens Na Minha Terra Volume Ii | Viagens Na Minha Terra]

Belle Kendrick Abbott

Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842-1893)

Isabella "Belle" Kendrick Abbott (18421893) was an American author from the Deep South, whose only published novel, Leah Mordecai, was issued in 1875. A native of Atlanta, Belle Kendrick married her first husband, Benjamin F. Abbott, and lived for many years on Peachtree Street, between Cain Street (subsequently renamed International Boulevard) and Harris Street. Leah Mordecai, published at Christmastime 1875, when she was 33, is a coming of age story set in Charlotte, North Carolina, during the 1850s, shortly before the Civil War. The title character, who is Jewish, finds herself subjected to scorn and abuse by the jealous and grasping woman who marries her widowed father, a wealthy banker. Seeking relief from her unhappiness, Leah only engenders further distress when, upon entering into marriage with an importunate gentile, she incurs the violent wrath of her father. The author, who was not Jewish, found herself unable to avoid stereotypes or convincingly portray detailed specifics as well as the mindset of contemporary Jewish life.



[Leah Mordecai]


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Charles Hodge

Charles Hodge

Charles Hodge

Charles Hodge (born Dec. 27, 1797, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died June 19, 1878, Princeton, N.J. ) was the principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878. He is considered to be one of the greatest exponents and defenders of historical Calvinism in America during the 19th century.



[What Is Darwinism]


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Monday, March 9, 2009

Marty Gervais

Marty Gervais (1946-now)

Charles Henry "Marty" Gervais (born 1946) is a Canadian poet, photographer, professor, journalist, and publisher of Black Moss Press. Gervais has also published plays, children's books, non-fiction and, most recently, a book of photography, A Show of Hands: Boxing on the Border (2004). In 1998, he won the prestigious Torontos Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian letters and to emerging writers. In 1996, he was awarded the Milton Acorn Peoples Poetry Award for his book, Tearing Into A Summer Day. That book was awarded the City of Windsor Mayors Award for literature. Gervais won this award again in 2003 for another collection, To Be Now: New and Selected Poems. Gervais has also been the recipient of 16 Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for journalism. His first published novel, Reno, appeared in 2005 from Mosaic Press. Another book, Taking My Blood, charting his time in a hospital, and including photographs he took while he was there, came out in 2005. In 2006 Gervais and his work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge. In May 2009, another book, "Lucky Days: New Poems," appeared from Mosaic Press. This followed Gervais' 2006 book, Wait For Me, that was launched on the west coast at readings in Victoria, British Columbia, and Salt Spring Island. Gervais lives in Windsor, Ontario.


A Marty's Books:


[The Ontario High School Reader]

Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes (1968-now)

Bettany Hughes (born 1968) is an English historian, broadcaster and writer. She has presented several Channel 4 and PBS television documentaries on ancient history.



[Life Of Charles Darwin]


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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Elliott Odonnell

Elliott Odonnell

Elliott O'Donnell (February 27, 1872 - May 8, 1965) was an Irish author known primarily for his books about ghosts. He claimed to have seen a ghost, described as an elemental figured covered with spots, when he was five years old. He also claimed to have been strangled by a mysterious phantom in Dublin. He claimed descent from Irish chieftains of ancient times, including Niall of the Nine Hostages (the King Arthur of Irish folklore) and Red Hugh, who fought the English in the sixteenth century. O'Donnell was educated at Clifton College, England, and Queen's Service Academy, Dublin, Ireland. In later life he became a ghost hunter, but first he traveled in America, working on a range in Oregon and becoming a policeman during the Chicago Railway Strike of 1894. Returning to England, he worked as a schoolmaster and trained for the theater. He served in the British army in World War I, and later acted on stage and in movies. His first book, written in his spare time, was a psychic thriller titled For Satan's Sake (1904). From this point onward, he became a writer. He wrote several popular novels but specialized in what were claimed as true stories of ghosts and hauntings. These were immensely popular, but his flamboyant style and amazing stories suggest that he embroidered fact with a romantic flair for fiction. As he became known as an authority on the supernatural, he was called upon as a ghost hunter. He also lectured and broadcast (radio and television) on the paranormal in Britain and the United States. In addition to his more than 50 books, he wrote scores of articles and stories for national newspapers and magazines. He claimed "I have investigated, sometimes alone, and sometimes with other people and the press, many cases of reputed hauntings. I believe in ghosts but am not a spiritualist. " In recent times his work has come into question by Scottish author Graeme Milne.



[Animal Ghosts | Byways Of Ghost Land | The Banshee | Werwolves]


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Friday, March 6, 2009

Frederica J Turle

Frederica J Turle

Frederica Jane Turle (1880 - 19) was a British author of juvenile fiction. She was born and grew up in Finchley, Middlesex. She married Lt Col Charles Bennett (d. 1932) in 1912. She is best known for her story The Gap in the Fence (1914) in the Red Nursery Series, which is still in print. Her other works include The Squire's Grandchildren (1906), Jerry O'Shassenagh (n.d. ), and The Miser's Well (1909).



[The Gap In The Fence]

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Daniel Sten

Daniel Sten

Daniel is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. According to the biblical book, at a young age Daniel was carried off to Babylon where he became famous for interpreting dreams and rose to become one of the most important figures in the court.



[Bland debygder Och Skr]


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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Walter De Camp

Walter De Camp

Walter de Camp is the pseudonym of a Finnish writer. He writes answers to questions about partying, restaurants and celebrities in the Finnish City magazine.



[Keeping Fit All The Way]

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) title=

Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He was born in Florence; he died and is buried in Ravenna. The name Dante is, according to the words of Jacopo Alighieri, a hypocorism for Durante. In contemporary documents it is followed by the patronymic Alagherii or de Alagheriis; it was Boccaccio who popularized the form Alighieri. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia by the author and later nicknamed Divina by Boccaccio, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italy he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta) or just il Poeta. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language".


Dante's Books:


[Jumalainen Naytelma I Iii]


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