Inge Auerbacher
Inge Auerbacher (born December 31, 1934 in Kippenheim) is an American chemist of German origin. She is a survivor of the Holocaust and has published many books about her experiences in the Second World War.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Ameen Rihani
Ameen Rihani (1876-1940)
Ameen Rihani ( ; also Amin al-Rihani) (1876 in what is today Lebanon 1940) was a Lebanese writer, an Arab-American writer, an intellectual, a political activist, a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America, and an early theorist of Arab nationalism. Rihani became an American citizen in 1902.
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
David Hull
David Hull
David Lee Hull (15 June 1935 11 August 2010) was a philosopher with a particular interest in the philosophy of biology. In addition to his academic prominence, he was well-known as a gay man who fought for the rights of other gay and lesbian philosophers. Hull was one of the first graduates of the History and Philosophy of Science department at Indiana University. After earning his PhD from IU he taught at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee for 20 years before moving to Northwestern, where he taught for another 20 years. Hull was a former president of the Philosophy of Science Association and the Society for Systematic Biology. He was particularly well known for his argument that species are not sets or collections but rather spatially and temporally extended individuals (also called the individuality thesis or "species-as-individuals" thesis). Hull also proposed an elaborate discussion of science as an evolutionary process in his 1988 book, which also offered a historical account of the "taxonomy wars" of the 1960s and 1970s between three competing schools of taxonomy: phenetics, evolutionary systematics, and cladistics. In Hull's view, science evolves like organisms and populations do, with a demic population structure, subject to selection for ideas based on "conceptual inclusive credit. " Either novelty or citation of work gives credit, and the professional careers of scientists share in credit by using successful research. This is a "hidden hand" account of scientific progress. He was Dressler Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Northwestern University.
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Joseph P Farrell
Joseph P Farrell
Joseph P. Farrell, born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a theologian, scholar on the EastWest Schism and the author of a number of books on alternative history, Pseudohistory, historical revisionism, Pseudoarchaeology, physics, and science.
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Gilbert Murray
Gilbert Murray
George Gilbert Aim Murray (2 January 1866 20 May 1957) was an Australian born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
David Brewster
David Brewster
Sir David Brewster PRSE FRS (11 December 1781 - 10 February 1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster (1896-1975)
Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
A Scott Berg
A Scott Berg (1949-now)
Andrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer. After graduating from Princeton University in 1971, Berg expanded his senior thesis, about editor Maxwell Perkins, into a full-length biography. Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) won a National Book Award, and his second book, Goldwyn: A Biography, was published in 1989. Berg's third book, a highly anticipated biography of aviator Charles Lindbergh, was published in 1998. Lindbergh became a New York Times Best Seller, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 2003, Berg published Kate Remembered, a biography-cum-memoir about his friendship with actress Katharine Hepburn that received mixed reviews. He is currently researching a biography of Woodrow Wilson. Berg also wrote the story for Making Love (1982), a controversial film that was the first major studio drama to address the subjects of gay love, closeted marriages, and coming out. He has contributed articles to magazines such as Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Daniel F Galouye
Daniel F Galouye
Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 - 7 September 1976) was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels. Born in New Orleans, Galouye (pronounced Gah-lou-ey) graduated from Louisiana State University (B.A. ) and then worked as a reporter for several newspapers.
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Steve Allen
Steve Allen (1921-2000)
Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen (December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best-known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. He graduated to become the first host of The Tonight Show, where he was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Thereafter, he hosted numerous game and variety shows, including The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, The New Steve Allen Show, and was a regular panel member on CBS' What's My Line Allen was a "creditable" pianist, and a prolific composer, having penned over 14,000 songs, one of which was recorded by Perry Como and Margaret Whiting, others by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Les Brown, and Gloria Lynne. Allen won a Grammy award in 1963 for best jazz composition, with his song The Gravy Waltz. Allen wrote more than 50 books and has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
David Weinberger
David Weinberger (1950-now)
David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as "a primer on Internet marketing"). Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society. A philosopher by training, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and taught college from 1980-1986.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Charlotte Maria Tucker
Charlotte Maria Tucker
Charlotte Maria Tucker (May 8, 1821-December 2, 1893), English author, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E. (a Lady of England), was born near Barnet, Middlesex, the daughter of Henry St George Tucker (1771-1851), a distinguished official of the British East India Company. From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity. In 1875 she left England for India to engage in missionary work, and died at Amritsar on the 2nd of December 1893.
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William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown (1814-1884)
William Wells Brown (November 6, 1814 November 6, 1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama, and wrote what is considered to be the first novel by an African American. An almost exact contemporary of Frederick Douglass, Wells Brown was overshadowed by Douglass and the two feuded publicly.
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Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
Ann Radcliffe (9 July 1764 7 February 1823) was an English author, a pioneer of the gothic novel. She published as Mrs. Radcliffe. It was her technique of the explained supernatural, in which every seemingly supernatural intrusion is eventually traced back to natural causes, and the impeccable conduct of her heroines that finally met with the approval of the reviewers, transforming the gothic novel into something socially acceptable.
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Garland E Bayliss
Garland E Bayliss (1924-now)
Garland Erastus Bayliss (born August 27, 1924) is a retired historian and director emeritus of academic services at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, whose research was primarily in the history of his native Arkansas and the American South. His affiliation with TAMU extended from 1956-1992. Bayliss was born in Warren in Bradley County in south Arkansas and reared in McGehee in Desha County in the southeastern corner of the state. There he attended McGehee public schools and then the University of Arkansas at Monticello in Monticello in neighboring Drew County. On November 3, 1942, Bayliss entered the United States Navy and became an ensign through the completion of the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School at Columbia University in New York City. He first served at the New York Naval Shipyard, completed overseas duties during World War II, and was discharged from the military on August 1, 1946. Two of Bayliss' brothers also served in the war, James E. Bayliss (19161989) and Mercer E. Bayliss (born February 21, 1919) of Warren, Arkansas, the winner of eight Bronze Stars. Bayliss received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, completed in 1972, is entitled Public Affairs in Arkansas, 1874-1896, which includes a study of the Agricultural Wheel agrarian reform movement. In the fall of 1964, Bayliss published "Post-Reconstruction Repudiation: Evil Blot or Financial Necessity" in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, a study of the public debt that was accumulated during the era of Reconstruction and its subsequent repudiation by the Redeemer state government. In the fall of 1975, Bayliss published "The Arkansas State Penitentiary Under Democratic Control, 18741896," also in Arkansas Historical Quarterly. In 1978, Bayliss received the TAMU Distinguished Achievement Award in the area of student relations. He also served on numerous graduate student committees during his long tenure at TAMU. Historian Dan Louie Flores (born 1948) acknowledges Bayliss's service in the forward to his 2001 book, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Bayliss is tall, lanky, bestackled, and soft-spoken and is said to have born a resemblance to the economist Milton Friedman. He and his wife, the former Mary Evelyn Futrell (born October 1927), reside in College Station. They have two sons, Mark Edward Bayliss (born September 5, 1957) and his wife, Diana Lee Bayliss (born July 1, 1959), and James Fred Bayliss, an attorney, and his wife, Julie Michele Bayliss (both born ca. 1965) of Brenham, Texas.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
John Bunyan (28 November 1628 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on August 29.
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Barbara Hofland
Barbara Hofland
Barbara Murray Holland (April 5, 1933 - September 7, 2010) was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C..
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist. Parker went through three marriages (two to the same man) and survived several suicide attempts, but grew increasingly dependent on alcohol. Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a "wisecracker". Nevertheless, her literary output and her sparkling wit have endured.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Archibald Henderson
Archibald Henderson
Archibald Henderson (July 17, 1877 December 6, 1963) was an American professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He was born at Salisbury, N. C., was educated at the University of North Carolina (A.B., 1898; Ph.D., 1902), and studied more at Chicago, Cambridge, and Berlin universities, and at the Sorbonne. After 1899 he taught at the University of North Carolina, becoming professor of pure mathematics
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann (1871-1950)
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 - 11 March 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes. His attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of pre-World War I German society led to his exile in 1933.
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William Cowper Prime
William Cowper Prime
William Cowper Prime (1825-1905) was an American journalist, art historian, numismatist, and travel writer, younger brother of S. I. Prime and E. D. G. Prime, born at Cambridge, New York. William Prime graduated Princeton in 1843 and delivered a poem at commencement. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1846 and began to practice law in New York City. In 1851 he married Mary Trumbull of Stonington, Connecticut (Dictionary of Art Historians).
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Robert Abernathy
Robert Abernathy
Robert Abernathy (1924 1990) was an American science fiction author during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known primarily for his short stories which were published in many of the pulp magazines that flourished during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Many of his stories have been included in various anthologies of classic science fiction.
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Henry James Sumner Maine
Henry James Sumner Maine
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI (15 August 1822 3 February 1888), was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract.
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Walter Scott Houston
Walter Scott Houston (1912-1993)
Walter Scott Houston was an American popularizer of amateur astronomy. He wrote the "Deep-Sky Wonders" column in Sky and Telescope magazine from 1946 to 1993.
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David K Wyatt
David K Wyatt (1937-2006)
David K. Wyatt (September 21, 1937 - November 15, 2006) was an American historian, working on Southeast Asian topics, especially Thailand. His book Thailand. A Short History has become the authority on Thai history in the English language. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1937, he grew up in Iowa. Wyatt studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1959. He continued to study at Boston University, where he got an MA in history in 1960. He graduated from Cornell University with a PhD in History in 1966. Already before his graduation, he accepted a teaching position at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where he taught until 1968. After one year teaching at the University of Michigan, he returned to the Cornell University Department of History in 1969, serving for a time as the Department Chairman, and stayed there until his retirement in 2002. In October 2005, he sold his library consisting of roughly 15,000 volumes to the Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University. Wyatt was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1995, but he continued to travel extensively until his death. He died of emphysema and congestive heart failure in the Hospicare Residence in Ithaca, New York. He is survived by his wife Alene Wilson Wyatt, three sons and five grandchildren.
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William Gilbert
William Gilbert
William Gilbert, (20 May 1804-3 January 1890) was a British novelist and Royal Navy surgeon, and the author of novels, biographies, histories and several popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered, however, as the father of dramatist W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Charles Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Frank A Munsey
Frank A Munsey
Frank Andrew Munsey (21 August 1854 22 December 1925) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author. He was born in Mercer, Maine but spent most of his life in New York City. The village of Munsey Park, New York is named for him. Munsey is credited with the idea of using new high-speed printing presses to print on inexpensive, untrimmed, pulp paper in order to mass produce affordable (typically ten-cent) magazines. Chiefly filled with various genres of action and adventure fiction, thet were aimed at working-class readers who could not afford and were not interested in the content of the 25-cent "slick" magazines of the time. This innovation, known as pulp magazines, became an entire industry unto itself and made Munsey quite wealthy. He often shut down the printing process and changed the content of magazines when they became unprofitable, quickly starting new ones in their place.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Alephonsion Deng
Alephonsion Deng
Alephonsion Deng (c. 1982 -) is a Sudanese writer. He is best known as the co-author of the book They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys of Sudan, along with his brother Benson, cousin Benjamin and American author Judy Bernstein. In 1989, when Alephonsion was seven years old, his village in Southern Sudan was attacked by government troops. To avoid capture he ran into the night with many other young boys.
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