Monday, May 31, 2010

Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber (1885-1968)

Edna Ferber (1885-1968)

Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), and Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie).



[Buttered Side Down | Cheerful By Request | Emma Mcchesney And Company | Fanny Herself | Gigolo | Half Portions | Personality Plus Some Experiences Of Emma Mcchesney And Her Son Jack | Roast Beef Medium The Business Adventures Of Emma Mcchesney | Dawn Ohara The Girl Who Laughed | Emma Mcchesney Co | One Basket | Personality Plus | Roast Beef Medium | The Homely Heroine]


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Cesare Balbo

Cesare Balbo

Cesare Balbo

Cesare Balbo (21 November 1789 1853), Count of Vinadio, was an Italian writer and statesman. Balbo was born at Turin on the 21st of November 1789. His father, Prospero Balbo, who belonged to a noble Piedmontese family, held a high position in the Sardinian court, and at the time of Cesares birth was mayor of the capital. His mother, Enrichetta Taparelli d'Azeglio, died when he was three years old; and he was brought up in the house of his great-grandmother, the countess of Bugino. In 1798 he joined his father at Paris. From 1808 to 1814 Balbo served in various capacities under the Napoleonic empire at Florence, Rome, Paris and in Illyria. On the fall of Napoleon he entered the service of his native country. While his father was appointed minister of the interior, he entered the army, and undertook political missions to Paris and London. On the outbreak of the revolution of 1821, of which he disapproved, although he was suspected of sympathizing with it, he was forced into exile; and though not long after he was allowed to return to Piedmont, all public service was denied him. Reluctantly, and with frequent endeavours to obtain some appointment, he gave himself up to literature as the only means left him to influence the destinies of his country. The great object of his labours was to help in securing the independence of Italy from foreign control. Of true Italian unity he had no expectation and no desire, but he was devoted to the house of Savoy, which he foresaw was destined to change the fate of Italy. A confederation of separate states, not under the supremacy of the pope like Gioberti, but lead by Piedmont, was the genuine ideal of Balbo. But Gioberti, in his Primato, seemed to him to neglect the first essential of independence, which he accordingly inculcated in his Speranze or Hopes of Italy, in which he suggests that Austria should seek compensation in the Balkans for the inevitable loss of her Italian provinces. Balbo believed that the papacy could become an enemy of a large, united Italy (as it did, indeed, become for many years). Preparation, both military and moral, alertness and patience were his constant theme. He did not desire revolution, but reform; and thus he became the leader of a moderate party, and the steady opponent not only of despotism but of democracy. At last in 1848 his hopes were to some extent satisfied by the constitution granted by the king, known as the Statuto albertino. He was appointed a member of the commission on the electoral law, and became first constitutional prime minister of Piedmont, but only held office a few months. With the ministry of dAzeglio, which soon after came to power, he was on friendly terms, and his pen continued the active defence of his political principles till his death on the 3rd of June 1853. He published Quattro Novelle in 1829; Storia dItalia sotto i Barbari in 1830; Vita di Dante, 1839; Meditazioni Storiche, 18421845; Le Speranze dItalia, 1844; Pensieri sulla Storia dItalia, 1858; Della Monarchia rappresentativa in Italia.



[Della Storia Ditalia V 1 2]


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Hugo Salus

Hugo Salus

Hugo Salus (3 August, 1866 in esk Lpa; 4 February, 1929 in Prague) was a doctor, writer and poet.



[Das Blaue Fenster]


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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Francis J Haverfield

Francis J Haverfield

Francis John Haverfield (1860-1919) was a British historian and archaeologist. Educated at the University of Oxford, he also worked under Theodor Mommsen. In 1907 he became Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford. Haverfield was the first to undertake a scientific study of Roman Britain and he is considered by some to be the first theorist to tackle the issue of the Romanization of the Roman Empire.



[Roman Britain In 1914 | Ancient Town Planning | The Romanization Of Roman Britain]

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Archibald Lampman

Archibald Lampman

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Archibald Lampman, FRSC (17 November 1861 - 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet. He was born at Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham. Lampman attended Trinity College (now part of the University of Toronto).



[Alcyone | Among The Millet And Other Poems | Lyrics Of Earth]

Friday, May 28, 2010

Herman Bang

Herman Bang (1857-1912)

Herman Bang (1857-1912) title=

Herman Joachim Bang (April 20, 1857 January 29, 1912) was a Danish author, one of the men of the Modern Breakthrough.



[Det Graa Hus | Det Hvide Hus | Enkens Sn | Excentriske Noveller | Faedra | Ludvigsbakke | Min Gamle Kammerat]


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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby (18651925) was an American educator and writer, born in Washington, D. C.. He graduated from Columbia University in 1888, was acting professor of history at Amherst College in 1890-91, lecturer on history at Columbia and instructor in history and economics at Barnard College from 1891 to 1895, and professor of economics at New York University thereafter until 1900. Between 1893 and 1895 he was a member of the editorial staff of Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia in the department of history and political science, and in 1898 he became editor of the International Year Book and one of the editors of the International Cyclopedia (1884). The International Cyclopedia was renamed New International Encyclopedia, and Colby was an editor of the 1st edition (1902) and the 2nd edition (1914). His other literary work comprises editorial writing for the New York Commercial Advertiser 1900-02, "The Book of the Month" in the North American Review (1913-), as well as critical articles for the Bookman



[Reminiscences Of Pioneer Days In St Paul]

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Barbara Barrie

Barbara Barrie (1931-now)

Barbara Barrie (born May 23, 1931) is an American actress and author of children's books.


J Barrie's Books:


[Auld Licht Idyls | Courage | Echoes Of The War]

Monday, May 24, 2010

Seabury Quinn

Seabury Quinn

Seabury Grandin Quinn (also known as Jerome Burke; December 1889 - 24 December 1969) was an American pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales.



[Pledged To The Dead]


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Edna St Vincent Millay

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She was the second woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. Poet Richard Wilbur asserts: "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."



[A Few Figs From Thistles | Aria Da Capo | Renascence And Other Poems | Second April | The Lamp And The Bell | A Few Figs From Thistles Poems And Sonnets | American Poetry 1922 | The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver]


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Brad Fitzpatrick

Brad Fitzpatrick (1980-now)

Brad Fitzpatrick (1980-now)

Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of a variety of free software projects such as memcached, used on LiveJournal, Facebook and YouTube. Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and majored in computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle.



[The Circuit Riders]


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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Alfred Walton

Alfred Walton

Alfred Armstrong Walton (1816-1883) was one of the lesser-known British Radical politicians of working-class origin in the mid-Victorian era. He was a prolific author of newspaper contributions on most political and social questions of his time, with a particular interest in land and parliamentary reform.



[Susan | The Kitchen Cat And Other Stories | Thistle And Rose | White Lilac Or The Queen Of The May | White Lilac]


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Adam Hamilton Pastor

Adam Hamilton Pastor

Rev. Adam Hamilton (born July 12, 1964) is the senior pastor of the 17,000 member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. It is the largest United Methodist congregation in the United States, measured by weekend attendance. The congregation has recently expanded to multiple sites in the Kansas City area, including an online congregation. Rev. Hamilton has received numerous awards including the B'nai B'rith award in Social Ethics, the Denman Award in Evangelism, and the Circuit Rider Award for excellence in church leadership. He was named one of the "Ten People to Watch in America's Spiritual Landscape" by Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and named Distinguished Evangelist of the United Methodist Church by the Foundation for Evangelism. He has been awarded two honorary doctorates. He currently serves as a Trustee at Saint Paul School of Theology and as a member of the Kansas East Board of Professional Ministry. He lectures on leadership, evangelism and preaching across the country. Hamilton spoke at the 2010 Willow Creek Leadership Summit on the topic of leaders and the power of temptation.


A Pastor's Books:


[The Pearl Box]


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August Von Kotzebue

August Von Kotzebue

August Von Kotzebue

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (3 May 1761 23 March 1819) was a German dramatist. One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften.



[The Stranger]


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Friday, May 21, 2010

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White (11 May 1866 30 March 1934) was an American author and poet. Born in Bergen, New Jersey, he attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in which city he did most of his work. From 1915 until his retirement in 1930, he was a teacher at the University School for Boys in Baltimore. He wrote a number of historical novels, including The Unwilling Vestal (1918), Andivius Hedulio (1921) and Helen (1926); but he is best remembered as a fantasist, for stories such as "The House of Nightmare" and "Lukundoo" These short horror stories were based on his own nightmares. Two collections of his short fiction were published in his lifetime, The Song of the Sirens (1919) and Lukundoo and Other Stories (1927). He died by his own hand on 30 March 1934, seven years to the day after the death of his wife, Agnes Gerry. His last book, Matrimony (1932) was a memoir of his happy marriage to her. "Lukundoo", Lucas's most frequently anthologized story, is the tale of an American explorer in a remote section of Africa who incurs the wrath of the local witch doctor, who casts a spell on him. Hundreds of sore pustules erupt all over the explorer's body. As these develop, it becomes clear that each sore is actually a sort of homunculus: a tiny African man, emerging head-first from within the explorer's flesh. He is able to terminate the development of individual homunculi by beheading them as they develop, but there are too many for him to defeat them all and some of them are on portions of his back which he cannot reach. The explorer's only option is suicide. Two posthumous collections of his fiction have been published by Midnight House: The House of the Nightmare (1999) edited by John Pelan and Sesta and Other Strange Stories (2001) edited by Lee Weinstein. The latter contains mostly previously unpublished and uncollected material. A much-revised utopian science fiction novel, Plus Ultra, was begun in 1885; White destroyed this draft, but began a rewrite in 1901. In 1918-19 he produced a novella, From Behind the Stars, which he later incorporated into the massive (S. T. Joshi estimates it at 500,000 words) completed version of Plus Ultra, which remains unpublished. A critical essay on White's work, with particular reference to his fantasy and horror fiction, appears in Joshi's book, The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004).



[Lukundoo | Lukundoo And Other Stories | The Unwilling Vestal]

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Frederic Manning

Frederic Manning (1882-1935)

Frederic Manning (22 July 1882 - 22 February 1935) was an Australian poet and novelist. Born in Sydney, Manning was the son (one of eight children) of local politician Sir William Patrick Manning. His family were Catholics, of Irish origin. A sickly child, Manning was educated exclusively at home. As a teenager he formed a close friendship with Arthur Galton, a scholarly man who was Secretary to the Governor General. Galton went home to England in 1898, taking Manning with him, but Manning returned to Australia in 1900. In 1903, he finally settled in the UK.



[The Middle Parts Of Fortune Somme And Ancre 1916]


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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) title=

Djuna Barnes (12 June 1892 18 June 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens. Her novel Nightwood became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T. S. Eliot. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian themes and its distinctive writing style. Since Barnes's death, interest in her work has grown and many of her books are back in print.



[Ladies Almanack | Shadows | The Book Of Repulsive Women]

Monday, May 17, 2010

Elinor Wylie

Elinor Wylie

Elinor Wylie

Elinor Morton Wylie ne Hoyt (September 7, 1885 - December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist, who first became popular before World War II.



[Nets To Catch The Wind]


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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Charles Eliot Norton

Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)

Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)

Charles Eliot Norton, (November 16, 1827 - October 21, 1908) was a leading American author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a militant idealist, a progressive social reformer, and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States.



[Four American Leaders | Hinduism And Buddhism An Historical Sketch Vol 3 | Hinduism And Buddhism Vol I | Harvard Classics Volume 28 | Prefaces And Prologues To Famous Books]


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Saturday, May 15, 2010

George Santayana

George Santayana (1863-1952)

George Santayana (1863-1952)

George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid, Spain September 26, 1952, Rome, Italy), was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered in the United States an American man of letters. Santayana is perhaps best known as an aphorist, most famously for his oft-misquoted remark "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. " Similarly, a line of Santayana's, "Only the dead have seen the end of war," is often falsely attributed to Plato.



[Character And Opinion In The United States | The Sense Of Beauty]


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Friday, May 14, 2010

Don Marquis

Don Marquis

Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse.



[Danny Own Story | Dreams Dust | Hermione And Her Little Group Of Serious Thinkers | The Cruise Of The Jasper B | Dreams And Dust]


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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Ben Bova

Ben Bova (1932-now)

Ben Bova (1932-now)

Benjamin William Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American science-fiction author and editor.


Ben Bova's Books:


[The Dueling Machine | The Next Logical Step]


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Alexander Hewatt

Alexander Hewatt

Dr. Alexander Hewat(t) was the first historian of South Carolina and Georgia, and the brother of Andrew Hewat, a loyalist planter in South Carolina. Both remained loyal to the King during the American Revolution, and as a result their property was seized and they were expelled under threat of death. Hewat's An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina is still a respected account of early American history, and was reprinted as recently as 1962 by the Reprint Co of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Alexander came from a long line of Calvinist farmers and churchmen. The earliest record of the Hewat name appears to be that of James Hewat, a Dominican friar in Dundee in the 1520s, one of the earliest teachers of Calvin's doctrine in Scotland. In the conflicts between Catholic, Protestant and then Anglican state religions, Hewats often found themselves on the wrong side. In 1619 (the year of the Mayflower) Peter Hewat a church leader, notary and member of the Parliament of Scotland, was exiled to Crossraguel Abbey (which had been given to him by the king) after James VI of Scotland had become head of the official Anglican church as James I of England. By the 18th century Hewats were farming around Roxburgh when Alexander's grandfather James was expelled from his kirk for taking over other people's land. However, Alexander's father Richard (17071776) became an elder of the church and is described on his tombstone, still standing in Roxburgh churchyard, as "an honest and industrious man and a sincere and devout Christian". Hewat left an estate of 7000 sterling (equivalent to almost 500,000 in 2000). He is buried in St. John's Wood in London [Death Duty Registers, PRO, IR26/1003].



[An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The]

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare

Augustus William Hare (17 November 1792 22 January 1834) was the son of Francis Hare-Naylor, who married a cousin of the famous Duchess of Devonshire, and was the author of a history of Germany. He was sent by the widow of Sir W. Jones, whose godson he was, to Winchester, and New College, Oxford, in the latter of which he was for some time a tutor.



[The Vampire Of Croglin Grange]

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Annie Sophie Cory

Annie Sophie Cory

Annie Sophie Cory (1 October 1868 - 2 August 1952) was the author of popular, racy, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross(e), Vivian Cory and V.C. Griffin.



[A Girl Of The Klondike | Anna Lombard | Five Nights]

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Ernst Von Wildenbruch

Ernst Von Wildenbruch

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Ernst von Wildenbruch (February 3, 1845 - January 15, 1909) was a German poet and dramatist.



[Good Blood]

Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964)

Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964)

Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 - December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.



[Interpreters | The Merry Go Round]


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David N Livingstone

David N Livingstone (1953-now)

David N. Livingstone (born 15 March 1953), OBE, MRIA, FBA, AcSS, MAE, is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History, at Queen's University Belfast.



[Travels And Researches In South Africa]


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Guilherme De Vasconcelos Abreu

Guilherme De Vasconcelos Abreu

Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu (1842-1917) was a Portuguese writer, map maker and orientalist.



[Bases Da Ortografia Portuguesa]

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Emily Henrietta Hickey

Emily Henrietta Hickey

Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845-1923) was an Irish author and narrative poet from County Wexford. Hickey wrote about religion after converting to Catholicism in 1901. One of her better-known poems is Beloved, It Is Morn.



[Our Catholic Heritage In English Literature Of Pre Conquest]


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Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Henry Melvill Gwatkin

Henry Melvill Gwatkin (30 July 1844-14 November 1916) was an English theologian and church historian. He was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He became Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History of the University of Cambridge in 1891, retiring in 1912.



[The Arian Controversy]

Enrico Castelnuovo

Enrico Castelnuovo

Enrico Castelnuovo (February 12, 1839 February 16, 1915) was an Italian writer who had an active role in the Italian unification movement. He was the father of Guido Castelnuovo.



[Dal Primo Piano Alla Soffitta | I Coniugi Varedo | Il Fallo Duna Donna Onesta | Nella Lotta]

Friday, May 7, 2010

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

Fernando Pessa, (April 15, 1902 - April 29, 2002) was a Portuguese journalist and reporter. Early in 2002, Pessa was hailed as the world's oldest journalist. He joined Portugal's state radio in 1934, and covered World War II for BBC radio, for which he was subsequently appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by King George VI. Pessa later launched Portugal's national radio and TV service in the 1940s and 1950s.



[Antinous A Poem | Orpheu N2 | 35 Sonnets]


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