Anne Carson

Anne Carson (1950-now)

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a former professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. In 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions of her books simply states Anne Carson lives in Canada.

Carson Jay Lee's Books:

[Oswald Langdon]

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Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh (18571915) was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. He is best known for his supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula was initially even more popular. The Beetle remained in print until 1960, and was subsequently resurrected in 2004 and 2007. Heldman was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He began to publish short stories, mostly adventure tales, as "Bernard Heldmann," before adopting the name "Richard Marsh" in 1893. Several of the prolific Marsh's novels were published posthumously. Marsh's grandson Robert Aickman was a notable writer of short "strange stories".

Richard Marsh's Books:

[The Beetle]

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Edward Dyson

Edward Dyson (1865-1931)

Edward George Dyson (18651931) was an Australian poet, journalist and short story writer. He was born at Morrisons near Ballarat in March 1865. His father, George Dyson, arrived in Australia in 1852 and after working on various diggings became a mining engineer, his mother came from a life of refinement in England. The family led a roving life during Dyson's childhood, moving successively to Alfredton, Bendigo, Ballarat and Alfredton again. Unconsciously the boy was storing for future use the life of the miners, farmers and bushmen, among whom he lived. At 12 he began to work as an assistant to a travelling draper, after that was a whimboy in a mine, and for two or three years an assistant in a factory at Melbourne. This was followed by work in a newspaper office. At 19 he began writing verse, and a few years later embarked on a life of free-lance journalism which lasted until his death. His first notable work was "The Golden Shanty", which appeared in the Bulletin, and many other short stories followed. In 1896 he published a volume of poems, Rhymes from the Mines, and in 1898 the first collection of his short stories, Below and On Top. In 1901 his first long story The Gold-stealers was published in London, which was followed by In the Roaring Fifties in 1906. In the same year appeared Fact'ry 'Ands, a series of more or less connected sketches dealing with factory life in Melbourne in a vein of humour. Various other stories and collections of stories were published in the Bookstall Series and will be found listed in Miller's Australian Literature. Another volume of verse Hello, Soldier! appeared in 1919. All through the years Dyson did an enormous amount of work until he broke down under the strain and died after a long illness on 22 August 1931. He married Miss Jackson who survived him with one daughter. Edward Dyson was the brother of Will Dyson and Ambrose Dyson.

Edward Dyson's Books:

[The Gold Stealers | The Missing Link | Below And On Top And Other Stories | Hello Soldier | In The Roaring Fifties]

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Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)

(born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29, 1688 - March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741 at the age of fifty-three he entered into a spiritual phase http://www. swedenborg. com/page. asppage_name=aboutswedenborgexpanded in which he eventually began to experience dreams and visions beginning on Easter weekend April 6, 1744. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works. Swedenborg explicitly rejected the common explanation of the Trinity as a Trinity of Persons, which he said was not taught in the early Christian Church. Instead he explained in his theological writings how the Divine Trinity exists in One Person, in One God, the Lord Jesus Christ, which he said is taught in Colossians 2:9. Swedenborg also rejected the doctrine of salvation through faith alone, since he considered both faith and charity necessary for salvation, not one without the other. The purpose of faith, according to Swedenborg, is to lead a person to a life according to the truths of faith, which is charity, as is taught in 1 Corinthians 13:13 and James 2:20. Swedenborg's theological writings have elicited a range of responses. Toward the end of his life, small reading groups formed in England and Sweden to study the truth they saw in his teachings. Several writers were influenced by him, including William Blake (though he ended up renouncing him), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, August Strindberg, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Baudelaire, Adam Mickiewicz, Balzac, William Butler Yeats, Sheridan Le Fanu, Jorge Luis Borges, Carl Jung and Helen Keller. Other notable figures who were adherents to his teachings were the theologian Henry James Sr., the artist George Inness, and mid-Western pioneer and nurseryman Johnny Appleseed. In contrast, one of the most prominent Swedish authors of Swedenborg's day, Johan Henrik Kellgren, called Swedenborg "nothing but a fool". A heresy trial was initiated in Sweden in 1768 against Swedenborg's writings and two men who promoted these ideas. In the two centuries since Swedenborg's death, various interpretations of his theology have been made, and he has also been scrutinized in biographies and psychological studies.

Emanuel Swedenborg's Books:

[Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets | The Gist Of Swedenborg | Angelic Wisdom Concerning The Divine Love And The Divine Wisdom | Heaven And Its Wonders And Hell | Spiritual Life And The Word Of God | The Delights Of Wisdom Pertaining To Conjugial Love]

Alex Morrison

Alex Morrison (1941-now)

William Alexander (Alex) Morrison, MSC, CD (born 1941) is a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Forces. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he is a graduate of Xavier Junior College. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968 from Mount Allison University. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1959 and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1990. While in the CF, he completed the year-long course at the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College (1970) and received a Master of Arts in war studies degree from Royal Military College of Canada

G Morrison's Books:

[An Australian In China]

E Marlitt

E Marlitt

E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (18251887), a popular German novelist, born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, who sent her to Vienna to study music. She became deaf, lived for 11 years at court, and then, withdrawing to Arnstadt, began there her novelistic career. Die zwlf Apostel (1865), Goldelse (1868), Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell (1868), Thringer Erzhlungen (1869), Reichsgrfin Gisela (1870), Heideprinzechen (1872), Die zweite Frau (1874), and other novels are familiar in English translations. Her collected works appeared in 10 volumes (Leipzig, 1888-90; second edition, 1891-94).

E Marlitt's Books:

[Amtmannin Maria | Aron Prinsessa]

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Lijia Zhang

Lijia Zhang (1964-now)

Lijia Zhang (born in May 1964 in Nanjing) is a writer and a journalist. She describes herself as a communicator between China and the world (interview on The China Beat) Early in life she wanted to become a writer. At the age of 16 she had to start working in a factory instead of finishing her promising school career. During the decade at the factory she taught herself English. In 1990 she was able to attend Goldsmiths, University of London in London, England to study journalism. Her articles have been published in many newspapers and magazines. She co-authored China Remembers (OUP, 1999) and her memoir 'Socialism is Great!' A Workers Memoir of The New China is published by Atlas & Co. and University of Western Australia Press. Her first novel, Lotus, will be released in 2010. Zhang was married to Calum MacLeod, a reporter for USA Today. She currently lives in Beijing with her two daughters.

Zhang Ni's Books:

[Qi Jing]

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Bernard William Smith

Bernard William Smith (1916-now)

Bernard William Smith (born 3 October 1916) is an Australian art historian, art critic and academic. Born in Sydney of Charles Smith and Rose Anne Tierney, he married his first wife, Kate Challis, in 1941 and his second wife, Margaret Forster, in 1995.

William Smith's Books:

[The Last Straw]

Georg Ebers

Georg Ebers

Georg Moritz Ebers, German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca 1550 BCE, named for him at Luxor in the winter of 1873-74. Now in the library of the University of Leipzig, the Ebers papyrus is among the most important ancient Egyptian medical papyri. It is one of two of the oldest preserved medical documents anywhere, the other main source being the Edwin Smith papyrus (c. 1600 BCE). At Gttingen he studied jurisprudence, and at Berlin Oriental languages and archaeology. Having made a special study of Egyptology, he became in 1865 Dozent in Egyptian language and antiquities at Jena, and in 1870 he was appointed professor in these subjects at Leipzig. He had made two scientific journeys to Egypt, and his first work of importance, gypten und die Bcher Moses, appeared in 1867-1868. In 1874 he edited the celebrated medical papyrus (Papyrus Ebers) which he had discovered in Thebes (translation by H. Joachim, 1890). Ebers early conceived the idea of popularizing Egyptian lore by means of historical romances. Eine gyptische Knigstochter was published in 1864 and obtained great success. His subsequent works of the same kind-Uarda (1877), Homo sum (1878), Die Schwestern (1880), Der Kaiser (1881), of which the scene is laid in Egypt at the time of Hadrian, Serapis (1885), Die Nilbraut (1887), and Kleopatra (1894), were also well received, and did much to make the public familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists. Ebers also turned his attention to other fields of historical fiction-especially the 16th century (Die Frau Brgermeisterin, 1882; Die Gred, 1887)-without, however, attaining the success of his Egyptian novels. His other writings include a descriptive work on Egypt (Aegypten in Wort und Bild, 2nd ed., 1880), a guide to Egypt (1886) and a life (1885) of his old teacher, the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. The state of his health led him in 1889 to retire from his chair at Leipzig on a pension. Ebers's Gesammelte Werke appeared in 25 vols. at Stuttgart (1893-1895). Many of his books have been translated into English. For his life see his Die Geschichte meines Lebens (Stuttgart, 1893); also R. Gosche, G. Ebers, der Forscher und Dichter (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1887).

Georg Ebers's Books:

[A Thorny Path | A Word Only A Word | An Egyptian Princess | Arachne | Barbara Blomberg | Homo Sum | In The Fire Of The Forge | Joshua | Serapis | The Bride Of The Nile | The Burgomaster Wife | The Emperor | The Sisters | Uarda | A Question | In The Blue Pike | The Elixir | The Greylock | The Nuts]

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Allan F Nicholls

Allan F Nicholls (1945-now)

Allan F. Nicholls born April 8, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec, is a Canadian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and composer. He was nominated for both a BAFTA and WGA award for his writing on the 1978 film A Wedding. He is often credited as Allan Nicholls.

H Nicholls's Books:

[Iron Making In The Olden Times]

Franois Coppe

Franois Coppe

Franois Edouard Joachim Coppe (26 January 1842 23 May 1908) was a French poet and novelist.

Franois Coppe's Books:

[A Romance Of Youth | Contes Rapides | Henriette | La Patrie Franaise | Promenades Et Intrieurs | The Lost Child]

Daniel Jerome Macgowan

Daniel Jerome Macgowan

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.

Daniel Jerome Macgowan's Books:

[Sociologia Chinesa Autoplastia]

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Stanley Mullen

Stanley Mullen (1911-now)

Stanley Mullen (June 20, 1911 - 1973) was an American artist, short story writer, novelist and publisher. He studied writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder and drawing, painting and lithography at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center where he was accepted as a professional member in 1937. A series of his paintings of Indian ceremonial dances is part of the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum. Mullen worked as assistant curator of the Colorado State Historical Museum during the 1940s. Mullen wrote over 200 stories and articles in a variety of fields. He became involved with the small press publisher New Collector's Group before starting his own small press publisher, Gorgon Press, in 1948.

Stanley Mullen's Books:

[Master Of The Moondog | Shock Treatment]

William Dewitt Hyde

William Dewitt Hyde (1858-1917)

William DeWitt Hyde (18581917) was an American college president, born at Winchendon, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University in 1879 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1882. Ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1883, he was a pastor at Newark, N. J., in 1883-85, and thereafter was president of Bowdoin College, also holding the chair of mental and moral philosophy

William Dewitt Hyde's Books:

[Practical Ethics]

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete; who, after writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and from an early age he was tutored at home, where he showed his intelligence, becoming fluent in French and German. He attended boarding school for six years, then matriculated to university at seventeen years of age. Reading Greats, Wilde proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. His intellectual horizons were broad: he was deeply interested in the rising philosophy of aestheticism (led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin) though he also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism and finally converted on his deathbed. After university Wilde moved to London, into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and returned to London to work prolifically as a journalist for four years. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde was one of the best known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays; though it was his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which brought him more lasting recognition. The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, combined with larger social themes, drew Wilde to writing drama. He wrote Salom in French in Paris in 1891, but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and successhis masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was still on stage in LondonWilde sued his lover's father for libel. After a series of trials, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency with other men and imprisoned for two years, held to hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

Oscar Wilde's Books:

[A House Of Pomegranates | El Crimen De Lord Arthur Saville | El Fantasma De Canterville | El Retrato De Dorian Gray | El Retrato Del Sr W H | La Esfinge Sin Secreto | Le Crime De Lord Arthur Savile | Le Portrait De Dorian Gray | The Canterville Ghost | The Importance Of Being Earnest | The Nightingale And The Rose | The Picture Of Dorian Gray]

Eando Binder

Eando Binder

Eando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder (1904-1965) and his brother Otto Binder (1911-1974). The name is derived from their first initials ("E and O Binder"). Under the Eando name, the Binders wrote some published science fiction, including stories featuring a heroic robot named Adam Link. The first Adam Link story, published in 1939, is titled I, Robot.

Eando Binder's Books:

[Shipwreck In The Sky]

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Archie Duncan

Archie Duncan (1926-now)

Archibald Alexander McBeth Duncan, FBA, FRHistS, FRSE (born 17 October 1926) is a Scottish historian. From 1962 to 1993 he was Professor of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow. On giving up his professorship, he became Clerk of Senate and Dean of Faculties, retiring from the University in 2000. Since 2001 he has been Emeritus Professor of Scottish History and Literature. He continues to publish on the history of Scotland in the Middle Ages.

Archibald C Alexander's Books:

[Christianity And Ethics]

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Hugh Walpole

Hugh Walpole

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (13 March 1884 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. A best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, his works have been neglected since his death.

Hugh Walpole's Books:

[Jeremy | The Golden Scarecrow | The Prelude To Adventure]

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Louis Herbert Gray

Louis Herbert Gray

Louis Herbert Gray, Ph.D. (1875-1955) was an American Orientalist, born at Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1896 and from Columbia University (Ph.D., 1900). Gray contributed to the annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, with contributions on such topics as the Avestan texts.

A Herbert Gray's Books:

[Men Women And God | The Little Tea Book]

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Marah Ellis Ryan

Marah Ellis Ryan

Marah Ellis Ryan was born either February 27, 1860 or 1866. As Ellis Martin, she married Samuel Erwin Ryan (b. 1834), an Irish actor and comedian, in 1883. She died July 11, 1934. She was a popular author, actress and activist for Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century. The New York Times published this obituary: Los Angeles, July 11 (AP)Mrs.

Marah Ellis Ryan's Books:

[That Girl Montana | The Treasure Trail]

Nelson S Bond

Nelson S Bond

Nelson Slade Bond (November 23, 1908, Scranton, Pennsylvania - November 4, 2006, Roanoke, Virginia) was an American author who wrote extensively for books, magazines, radio, television and the stage. The 1998 recipient of the Nebula Author Emeritus award for lifetime achievement, Bond was a pioneer in early science fiction and fantasy. His published fiction is mainly short stories, most of which appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Many were published in Blue Book magazine. He is noted for his "Lancelot Biggs" series of stories and for his "Meg the Priestess" tales, which introduced one of the first powerful female characters in science fiction.

Nelson Bond's Books:

[Lighter Than You Think]

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Benjamin Griffith Brawley (April 22, 1882 - February 1, 1939) was a prominent African American author and educator. He studied at Atlanta Baptist College graduating in 1901, the University of Chicago, and received his Master's degree from Harvard University in 1908. Brawley taught in the English departments at Atlanta Baptist College, Howard University, and Shaw University.

Benjamin Brawley's Books:

[A Social History Of The American Negro]

George Sylvester Viereck

George Sylvester Viereck

George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 in Munich - March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist.

George Sylvester Viereck's Books:

[The House Of The Vampire]

Cale Young Rice

Cale Young Rice

Cale Young Rice (December 11, 1872 January 24, 1943) was an American poet and dramatist. He was born in Dixon, Kentucky to Laban Marchbanks Rice, a Confederate veteran and tobacco merchant, and his wife Martha Lacy. He was a younger brother of Laban Lacy Rice, a noted educator. Cale Rice grew up in Evansville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated at Cumberland University and at Harvard. He was married to the popular author Alice Hegan Rice; they worked together on several books. The marriage was childless, and Cale committed suicide at his home in Louisville a year after her death due to his sorrow at losing her. Cale Rice's poems were collected and published in a single volume by his brother, Laban Lacy Rice. His birthplace in Dixon is designated by Kentucky State Historical Marker 1508.

Cale Young Rice's Books:

[Charles Di Tocca | Many Gods | Nirvana Days | Porzia | Sea Poems | Song Surf]

Allen Morris

Allen Morris

Dr. Allen Morris was the historian of the Florida legislature and Clerk of the House.

Ga Morris's Books:

[The Carnivore]

Ethel M Dell

Ethel M Dell

Ethel May Dell or Ethel Mary Dell (August 2, 1881 19 September 1939) was an English writer of popular romance novels.

Ethel Dell's Books:

[Charles Rex | Greatheart | Rosa Mundi And Other Stories | The Keeper Of The Door | The Lamp In The Desert | The Obstacle Race | The Odds | The Safety Curtain And Other Stories | The Swindler And Other Stories | The Top Of The World | The Way Of An Eagle]

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Hilda Conkling

Hilda Conkling

Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986) was an American poet. She was the daughter of Grace Hazard Conkling, a poet in her own right and Assistant Professor of English at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Hilda was born in New York state. Her father died when she was four years old, and she had one sister, Elsa, two years her senior. Hilda is notable for having composed most of her poetry as a young child, between the ages of four and ten years old. She never wrote them down herself; instead, they came out in conversation with her mother, who would write down Hilda's words either in the moment, or from memory later. If the latter, she would read the lines back to Hilda, who would then correct any deviation from her original words. As Hilda grew up, her mother stopped recording the poems, and Hilda is not known to have written any herself as an adult.

Hilda Conkling's Books:

[Poems By A Little Girl]

Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004)

Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 October 20, 2004) was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.

Ben Hecht's Books:

[Fantazius Mallare | A Thousand And One Afternoons In Chicago | Erik Dorn]

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John Godley Kilbracken

John Godley Kilbracken

John Raymond Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, DSC (October 17, 1920 August 14, 2006) was a British-born, later Irish-resident peer, wartime naval pilot, journalist, author and farmer. He was the son of the 2nd Baron Kilbracken; his grandfather, Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, was William Ewart Gladstone's private secretary. He became the third Baron Kilbracken on his father's death in 1950, and became an active member of the House of Lords.

A Godley's Books:

[Lyra Frivola | The Casual Ward]

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Basil Wells

Basil Wells (1912-2003)

Basil Eugene Wells (1912 - 2003) was an American writer. His first published story, "Rebirth of Man" appeared in the magazine Super Science Stories in 1940. He wrote science fiction, fantasy western and detective stories for various magazines sometimes under the name Gene Ellerman. Two collections of his stories, Planets of Adventure and Doorways to Space were published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.

Basil Wells's Books:

[Fog Of The Forgotten | Top It Off With Death]

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Alan Mcglashan

Alan Mcglashan

Alan Fleming McGlashan, MC (20 October 1898 in Bedworth, Nottinghamshire 6 May 1997 in London) was a British pilot and doctor. His father was a medical doctor in General Practice. McGlashan joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, later the RAF.

C Mcglashan's Books:

[History Of The Donner Party]

Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 December 19, 1947) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Scott are known as the "Confederation poets". Scott was also deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs, a position he held from 1913 to 1932. Scott was born in Ottawa, Ontario. Early in life, he became an accomplished pianist. In 1883, he met Archibald Lampman who introduced him to poetry and prose writing. His best work was inspired by the Canadian wilderness and the native people of North America. In 1894, he married Belle Botsford, a concert pianist, whom he had met at a recital in Ottawa. After Lampman died in 1899, Scott helped publish a number of editions of Lampman's poetry. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899 and served as its president from 1921 to 1922. He was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal in 1927 for his contributions to Canadian literature, and received honorary degrees from the University of Toronto (Doctor of Letters in 1922) and Queen's University (Doctor of Laws in 1939). His wife died in 1929 and, two years later, he married another poet, Elsie Aylen. He retired from the Canadian Civil Service in 1932. He died in December 1947 in Ottawa at the age of 85 and is buried in Beechwood Cemetery.

Duncan Campbell Scott's Books:

[Lundy Lane And Other Poems]

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Elizabeth Gregg Patterson

Elizabeth Gregg Patterson (1908-1987)

Elizabeth Gregg Patterson was born in Newport, Arkansas on August 8, 1904, and lived there until attending Smith College where she graduated in 1926. She moved to New York City and soon after, her career as a writer of short fiction began. For two decades, her stories appeared in such magazines as Charm, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Evening Post and many more. Throughout her career, she was represented by Harold Ober Associates of New York City. In 1942, Patterson became a Fellow, at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College, and later, her short story, "Homecoming", was awarded third prize in the 1951 O. Henry Award for short fiction. She married Kenneth C. Patterson in 1930, and moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where she did much of her published writing. Elizabeth was devoted to Newport and had many relatives in that area. She returned there often. As the market for short fiction began to wane, she retired from writing in the late 1950s and divided her time and interests between world travel and living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1983, Patterson suffered a debilitating stroke and soon after, her son, J. David Patterson, relocated Elizabeth to Key West, Florida, where he and his wife owned a sportfishing charter business. She died on March 15, 1987, in Key West, and was buried in the Gregg family plot in Newport. Following her death, The Newport Library set aside a section dedicated to the display of a collection of her work, including many original magazines and telegrams from her agent, Dorothy Olding and Harold Ober, informing her of the sale of a story. Included among her literary friends were Wallace Stegner, Theodore Roethke, Norman Cousins.

J Patterson's Books:

[The Man Eaters Of Tsavo]