Frank Channing Haddock
Frank Channing Haddock (1853-1915) was an influential New Thought and self-help author, best known for his series, The Power-Book Library.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Andr Aciman
Andr Aciman
Andr Aciman (born January 2, 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a writer, currently distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York teaching the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. His memoir, Out of Egypt (1995), won a Whiting Writers' Award. He previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton University. In 2009 Aciman was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University. Aciman was born in Egypt in a French-speaking home where family members also spoke Italian, Greek, Ladino, and Arabic. His family were Jews of Turkish and Italian origin who settled in Alexandria, Egypt in 1905. Aciman moved with his family to Italy at the age of fifteen and then to New York at nineteen.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Diego Collado
Diego Collado
Diego Collado was a Christian missionary born in the late sixteenth century at Miajadas, in the province of Extremadura, Spain. He entered the Dominican Order at Salamanca around 1600, and in 1619 went to Japan.
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Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
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Tom Maddox
Tom Maddox
Tom Maddox is an American science fiction writer, known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement. His first novel was Halo, published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story Snake Eyes appeared in the 1986 collection Mirrorshades, edited by Bruce Sterling. He is perhaps best-known as a friend and writing partner of William Gibson. They wrote two episodes of The X-Files together, "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter".
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Cao Xueqin
Cao Xueqin
Cao Xueqin was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. His given name was Cao Zhan () and his courtesy name is Mengruan (; ; literally "Dream about Ruan" or "Dream of Ruan").
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Ernest Glanville
Ernest Glanville
Ernest Glanville (born May 5, 1855 in Wynberg, South Africadied September 6, 1925 in Rondebosch, South Africa) was a South African author, known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa. Glanville was educated in Grahamstown at St. Andrew's College (Grahamstown, South Africa) from January 1869 to May 1871. His schooling was interrupted when he and his father transported the first printing press from Grahamstown to Griqualand West by ox wagon in 1870 and began publishing a newspaper in Kimberley. In addition to his literary works, he worked in journalism for the Cape Argus and other newspapers, and collaborated with Dr MacGowan on the 1905 Jubilee Hymn. He was married to Emma Priscilla Powell, with whom he had two children -- Thomas and Ada.
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Emily Lawless
Emily Lawless
Emily Lawless (17 June 1845 - 19 October 1913) was an Irish novelist and poet from County Kildare.
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Franois De La Rochefoucauld
Franois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Franois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. The view of human conduct his writings describe has been summed up by the words "everything is reducible to the motive of self-interest," though the term "gently cynical" has also been applied. Born in Paris in the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was oscillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-Century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Raymond Z Gallun
Raymond Z Gallun
Raymond Zinke Gallun (March 22, 1911 - April 2, 1994) was an American science fiction writer. Gallun was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He left college after one year and travelled in Europe, living a drifter's existence, working a multitude of jobs around the world in the years leading up to World War II. He was among the stalwart group of early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre. He sold many popular stories to pulp magazines in the 1930s. "Old Faithful" (1934) was his first noted story. "The Gentle Brain" was published in "Science Fiction Quarterly" under the pseudonym Arthur Allport. His first book, People Minus X, was published in 1957 by Simon & Schuster, followed by The Planet Strappers in 1961 (Pyramid). The Ballantine collection issued in 1978, The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun, provides a selection of his early work. Gallun was honored with the I-CON Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985 at I-CON IV; the award was later renamed The Raymond Gallun Award. His pen names include Dow Elstar, E.V. Raymond and William Callahan. A posthumous autobiography, Starclimber, authored in part by Gallun and completed by Jeffrey M. Elliot, was published in September 2007. There is an extensive interview with Gallun about his life and career in Eric Leif Davin's "Pioneers of Wonder."
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Charlotte Niese
Charlotte Niese
Charlotte Niese (7 June 1854 - 8 December 1935) was a German writer, poet and teacher. Niese was born in Burg on the island of Fehmarn, then under the direct rule of King Frederick VII of Denmark, and her father was the local pastor who later became director of a seminary in Eckernfrde. Her mother was Benedicte Marie Niese (born Matthiesen). Niese passed her exams as a teacher in Eckernfrde and became a tutor in what was since 1866 the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, in the Rhine Province, and as a boarding school teacher in Montreux. Niese went with her mother, then a widow, to Pln and began publishing her writings, at first under the masculine pseudonym "Lucian Brger". In 1884 Niese settled in the city of Altona, where her mother used to live, and in 1888 she moved to Ottensen, which in 1889 became a part of Altona. She no longer needed to work as a teacher, as she had become one of the best known Holstein regional writers. In her work Niese campaigned not only for the improvement of educational and employment opportunities for women, but also managed the local section of the North German Women's Organisation in Altona. As a child she had seen that her six brothers, one of whom was the Classical scholar Benedikt Niese, were all allowed higher education and professional careers, while her father refused these to herself or her sister. She herself wrote only within the socially accepted boundaries of women's writing of her day, her socially conservative views preventing her from more radical action. The closest she got to political activity was signing a letter of protest against the construction of a tramway line along the street she lived on in 1904. Niese died in her home in 1935 and was buried in the nearby Altona-Ottensen cemetery.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Chapman Cohen
Chapman Cohen
Chapman Cohen (1 September 1868, Leicester - 4 February 1954, Brentwood) was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer.
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Frank Munsey
Frank 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.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont (January 2, 1929 February 21, 1967) was a prolific American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Miniature", and "Printer's Devil", but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. As best-selling novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, "[Charles Beaumont was] one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre."
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Frederick Reynolds
Frederick Reynolds
Frederic Reynolds, (November 1, 1764 April 16, 1841), British dramatist, during his literary career composed nearly one hundred tragedies and comedies, many of which were printed, and about twenty of them obtained temporary popularity. Reynoldss plays were slight, and are described as having been aimed at the modes and follies of the moment. He is still occasionally remembered for his caricature of Samuel Ireland as Sir Bamber Blackletter in Fortune's Fool, and for his adaptations of some of Shakespeare's comedies.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
William Christopher Wordsworth
William Christopher Wordsworth
William Christopher Wordsworth CIE (1878 - 12 December 1950) was a British academic and journalist in India.
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Alice Kessler Harris
Alice Kessler Harris
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, in New York City. She specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. Kessler-Harris received her B.A. from Goucher College in 1961 and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1968. Her newest book, "Gendering Labor History. " collects some of her best-known essays on women and wage work. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, won several prizes, including the Joan Kelly, Philip Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Bancroft Prizes; among her other fellowships and awards, Kessler-Harris has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and is vice-president, and president elect, of the Organization of American Historians.
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Hamilton Bower
Hamilton Bower
Hamilton Bower (1858-1940) was a British military officer who traveled through Chinese Turkestan and Tibet.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
David H Keller
David H Keller
David H. Keller (December 23, 1880 July 13, 1966), David Henry Keller (most often published as David H. Keller, MD, but also known by the pseudonyms Monk Smith, Matthew Smith, Amy Worth, Henry Cecil, Cecilia Henry, and Jacobus Hubelaire), was a writer for pulp magazines in the mid-twentieth century who wrote science fiction, fantasy and horror. He was the first psychiatrist to write for the genre. Keller was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1903. He served as neuropsychiatrist in U.S. Army Medical Corps during World Wars I and II, and was the Assistant Superintendent of the Louisiana State Mental Hospital at Pineville until Huey Longs reforms removed him from his position in 1928. That same year, Keller would travel to New York City to meet with Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Amazing Stories, who had bought his first professionally published science fiction story, "The Revolt of the Pedestrians". Gernsback was impressed by Kellers quality of writing, unique insight, and ability to address sophisticated themes beyond the commonplace technological predictions or lurid alien encounters typically found in early pulp stories. He encouraged Kellers writing and would later call these distinctive short stories keller yarns. In 1929, Gernsback founded the magazine Science Wonder Stories and not only published Kellers work in the first issue, but listed him as an Associate Science Editor. It was this issue of Science Wonder Stories that introduced the term science fiction to the world. This began an intense writing period for Keller, but he was unable to support his family solely on a writers income and set up a small private psychiatric practice out of his home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Keller's work often expressed strong right-wing views (Everett F. Bleiler claims he was "an ultra-conservative ideologically"), especially hostility to feminists and African-Americans. While a number of Kellers works are considered dated and utilize plot lines or ideas that have since been dismissed as too simplistic or clichd, other stories contain the detailed ramifications of future technology and address taboo issues of that era (such as bisexuality) that a reader might expect in a modern science fiction story. The level of complexity found in Kellers writing rises above many other pulp stories of the same period and holds the promise of science fiction literature that would be fulfilled during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Keller wrote a number of horror and fantasy stories, which some critics regard as superior to his SF work. Most notable is his 1932 horror tale "The Thing In The Cellar". Keller also created a series of fantasy stories called the Tales of Cornwall sequence, about the Hubelaire family; these were influenced by James Branch Cabell.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
Bertram Stevens
Bertram Stevens
Bertram William Mathyson Francis Stevens (8 October 1872 14 February 1922) was Australian journal editor (Single Tax; Native Companion; Art in Australia; Lone Hand) literary and art critic, anthologist (An Anthology of Australian Verse; The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse). Stevens was born at Inverell, New South Wales, the eldest child of William Mathison Stevens and his wife Marian, ne Cafe, from Queanbeyan. By 1882 Stevens moved with his family to Newtown, Sydney where he was educated at public schools. Stevens was an avid reader and developed a wide knowledge and culture. In 1895 he began a fifteen-year period as a solicitor's clerk and it was intended that he should study law. During this time Stevens worked as a freelance journalist, coming into contact with a number of literary figures, he edited My Sundowner and other Poems (1904) by John Farrell with a memoir. Stevens prepared An Anthology of Australian Verse (1906), in which he was hampered by copyright restrictions, but he had a much freer hand in The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse (1909), the first anthology of Australasian verse of any importance. In the same year he had the difficult task of succeeding Alfred Stephens as editor of the 'Red Page' of The Bulletin. David Scott Mitchell gave him access to his library of Australiana. At the end of 1911 Stevens became editor of the Lone Hand and conducted this journal for seven years. In 1916 Stevens was one of the founders and joint-editor of Art in Australia until his death. He also did literary criticism for the Sydney Mail and other journals, published editions of Australian poets, prepared other anthologies, and edited books on leading Australian artists. Much of his literary work is listed in Serle's Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse and Miller's Australian Literature. Stevens campaigned for the land policies of Henry George, temporarily winning Henry Lawson to the cause. He was a founding member of the Dawn and Dusk Club in 1899 and of the Casuals Club in 1906. Stevens was deeply involved with attempts at rehabilitating Henry Lawson at Yanco, New South Wales and Edwin Brady's property at Mallacoota, Victoria. Stevens died suddenly of cerebral haemorrhage and chronic nephritis at Sydney, on 14 February 1922. He left a widow, two sons and a daughter. Henry Lawson wrote a warm confessional tribute in The Bulletin. At the time of his death he was vice-president of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists. He had been preparing A History of Australian Literature for some years before his death, but this was never published. Many of his papers are at the Mitchell library, Sydney.
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Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater (formerly known as Charlie Leadbeater) is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair. He first came to widespread notice in the 1980s as a regular contributor to the magazine Marxism Today. Later he was Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief at the Financial Times. While working at The Independent in the 1990s, he devised Bridget Jones's Diary (originally a column) with Helen Fielding.
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
H Beam Piper
H Beam Piper
Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alternate history tales. He wrote under the name H. Beam Piper. Another source gives his name as "Horace Beam Piper" and a different date of death. His gravestone says "Henry Beam Piper". Piper himself may have been the source of part of the confusion; he told people the H stood for Horace, encouraging the assumption that he used the initial because he disliked his name. On a copy of "Little Fuzzy" given to Charles O. Piper, Beam's cousin and executor, he wrote "To Charles from Henry."
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Allan Bromley
Allan Bromley
Allan George Bromley (19472002) was an Australian historian of computing. Allan Bromley was an associate professor at the University of Sydney. His main academic interest was the history of computers. He died of Hodgkin's disease.
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Devin K Grayson
Devin K Grayson
Devin Kalile Grayson (birth name Jennifer Eisenman) is an American writer of comic books and novels. Titles that she has written include Gotham Knights, The Titans, the Vertigo series USER, and Nightwing. Her work on Gotham Knights made her the first, and as of 2010 the only, woman to serve as the regular writer for a Batman title.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Antonio Fogazzaro
Antonio Fogazzaro
Antonio Fogazzaro (25 March 1842 7 March 1911) was an Italian novelist.
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M R James
M R James (1862-1936)
Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, (1 August 1862 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (19051918) and of Eton College (19181936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. One of James's most important achievements was to redefine the ghost story for the new century by dispensing with many of the formal Gothic trappings of his predecessors, and replacing them with more realistic contemporary settings. At the same time, James' protagonists and plots tendlike himselfto be absorbed with antiquarianism. As such, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".
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Ebenezer Cook
Ebenezer Cook
Ebenezer Cooke (ca. 1665 ca. 1732), a London-born poet, wrote what some scholars consider the first American satire: The Sotweed Factor, or A Voyage to Maryland, A Satyr (1708). He has been fictionalized by John Barth as the comically innocent protagonist of The Sot-Weed Factor, a novel in which a series of fantastic misadventures leads Cooke to write his poem. As Barth explained, The SotWeed Factor began with the title and, of course, Ebenezer Cooke's original poem.... Nobody knows where the real chap is buried; I made up a grave for Ebenezer because I wanted to write his epitaph.'
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Edward Macdowell
Edward Macdowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 - January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau (1867-1924)
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 June 24, 1922) was a German Jewish industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
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Monday, July 11, 2011
Daniel Lescallier
Daniel Lescallier
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.
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William Appleman Williams
William Appleman Williams
William Appleman Williams (June 12, 1921 March 8, 1990) was one of the 20th century's most prominent revisionist historians of American diplomacy. He achieved the height of his influence while on the faculty of the Department of History at the University of WisconsinMadison.
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Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (1894-1964)
Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or plays in America. According to film historian Richard Corliss, he was "the" Hollywood screenwriter, someone who "personified Hollywood itself. " The Dictionary of Literary Biography - American Screenwriters, calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictures. " He was the first screenwriter to receive an Academy Award for Original Screenplay, for the movie Underworld (1927). The number of screenplays he wrote or worked on that are now considered classics is, according to Chicago's Newberry Library, "astounding," and included films such as, Scarface (1932), The Front Page, Twentieth Century (1934), Barbary Coast (1935), Nothing Sacred (1937), Stagecoach, Some Like It Hot, Gone with the Wind, Gunga Din, Wuthering Heights, (all 1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Monkey Business, A Farewell to Arms (1957), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and Casino Royale (posthumously, in 1967). In 1940, he wrote, produced, and directed, Angels Over Broadway, which was nominated for Best Screenplay. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning. He became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and as a result wrote articles and plays about the plight of Europe's Jews, such as We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. Of his seventy to ninety screenplays, he wrote many anonymously to avoid the British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The boycott was a response to Hecht's active support of the Zionist movement in Palestine, during which time a supply ship to Palestine was named the S.S. Ben Hecht. He could produce a screenplay in two weeks and, according to his autobiography, never spent more than eight weeks on a script. Yet he was still able to produce mostly rich, well-plotted, and witty screenplays. His scripts included virtually every movie genre: adventures, musicals, and impassioned romances. But ultimately, he was best known for two specific types of film: crime thrillers and screwball comedies. Despite his success, however, he disliked the effect that movies were having on the theater, American cultural standards, and on his own creativity.
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Shane Lacy Hensley
Shane Lacy Hensley
Shane Lacy Hensley is an author, game designer, and CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and is currently a resident of Gilbert, Arizona. He has written several novels and designed a variety of games including miniatures wargames, tabletop wargames, and role-playing games, as well as substantial freelance work writing modules for game systems. He has also scripted at least one computer game.
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