Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 - August 2, 1980) was an American author and screenwriter.
Jos Maria de Ea de Queiroz or Ea de Queirs (November 25, 1845August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. The London Observer critics rank him with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Ea never officially rejected Catholicism, but was very critical of the Catholic Church of his time, and of Christianity in general as is evident in some of his novels. He used the old-fashioned spelling "Ea de Queiroz" and this is the form that appears on many editions of his works; the modern standard Portuguese spelling is "Ea de Queirs".
Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie (17 January 1883 - 30 November 1972) was a writer and a Scottish nationalist.
Henry Theophilus Finck (September 22, 1854 - 1926) was an American musical critic, born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and violincello. He taught himself Latin and Greek so thoroughly that he was able to enter Harvard as a sophomore in 1872. At Harvard, he studied philosophy, the classics, and music. He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. A subsequent fellowship from Harvard enabled him to spend three years in study in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. He became musical editor of the New York Evening Post
Aesop or Esop, known for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was by tradition born a slave () and was a contemporary of Croesus and Solon in the mid-sixth century BC in ancient Greece.
Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian. Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford. At university he took the Stanhope prize for an essay on Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley in 1877, became lecturer at Pembroke College in 1887, and fellow of All Souls College in 1901. He was Ford's lecturer in English history in 1900, and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in succession to Frederick York Powell in 1904. Firth's historical work was almost entirely confined to English history during the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by S.R. Gardiner, who wrote about the same period, his books were highly regarded. He was a great friend and ally of T.F. Tout, who was professionalising the History undergraduate programme at Manchester University, especially by introducing a key element of individual study of original sources and production of a thesis. Firth's attempts to do likewise at Oxford brought him into bitter conflict with the college fellows, who had little research expertise of their own and saw no reason why their undergraduates should be made to acquire such arcane, even artisan, skills, given their likely careers. They saw Firth as a power-seeker for the university professoriate as against the role of the colleges as proven finishing-schools for the country and empire's future establishment. Firth failed but the twentieth century saw universities go his and Tout's way. Firth's letters to Tout are in the latter's collection in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University.
Albert Bigelow Paine (10 July 1861 - 9 April 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse.
Annie Besant was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. In 1873 she married Frank Besant and moved to London where she became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society and writer and a close friend of Charles Bradlaugh. In 1877 they were prosecuted for publishing a book by birth control campaigner Charles Knowlton. The scandal made them famous and Bradlaugh was elected MP for Northampton in 1880. Annie became involved with Union organisers including the Bloody Sunday demonstration and the London matchgirls strike of 1888 and a leading speaker for the Fabian Society and the (Marxist) Social Democratic Federation and was elected to the London School Board for Tower Hamlets, topping the poll even though few women were qualified to vote at that time. In 1890 Annie Besant met Helena Blavatsky and over the next few years her interest in Theosophy grew and her interest in left wing politics waned. She travelled to India and in 1898 helped establish the Central Hindu College in India. In 1902 she established the International Order of Co-Freemasonry in England and over the next few years established lodges in many parts of the British Empire. In 1908 Annie Besant became President of the Theosophical Society and began to steer the society away from Buddhism and towards Hinduism. She also became involved in politics in India, joining the Indian National Congress. When war broke out in Europe in 1914 she helped launch the Home Rule League to campaign for democracy in India and dominion status within the Empire which culminated in her election as president of the India National Congress in late 1917. After the war she continued to campaign for Indian independence until her death in 1933.
Charles Hutchins Hapgood (May 17, 1904 December 21, 1982) was an American academician, and one of the best known advocates of a rapid and recent pole shift with catastrophic results.
Catherine Anne Warfield (1816-1877), a Southern United States writer of poetry and fiction, who along with her sister Eleanor, was first in the line of Percy family authors. Born in Natchez, Mississippi, she was the daughter of Sarah Percy and Nathaniel Ware. She was raised primarily in Philadelphia after her mothers hospitalization there for mental illness, she began writing poetry with her sister at an early age.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 15 July 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress. " Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhovs last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text. " Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Amlie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (18631945) was an American novelist and poet. Rives wrote at least twenty-four volumes of fiction, numerous uncollected poems, and Herod and Marianne (1889), a verse drama. In 1888, she published novel The Quick or the Dead, her most famous and popular work that sold 300,000 copies. The work depicted erotic passions of a newly widowed woman and earned Rives notoriety. Later she turned to theater and began writing plays for Broadway.
Debby Applegate (born 1968) is an American historian and biographer. She is the author of The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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.
Charles Whiting (December 18, 1926 - July 24, 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, John Kerrigan, Klaus Konrad and Leo Kessler. Born in the Bootham area of York, England, he was a pupil at the prestigious Nunthorpe Grammar School, leaving at the age of 16 to join the British Army by lying about his age. Keen to be in on the wartime action, Whiting was attached to the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment and by the age of 18 saw duty as a sergeant in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany in the latter stages of World War II. While still a soldier, he observed conflicts between the highest-ranking British and American generals which he would write about extensively in later years. After the war, he stayed on in Germany completing his A-levels via correspondence course and teaching English before being enrolled at Leeds University reading History and German Language. As an undergraduate he was afforded opportunities for study at several European universities and, after gaining his degree, would go on to become an assistant professor of history. Elsewhere, Whiting held a variety of jobs which included working as a translator for a German chemical factory and spells as a publicist, a correspondent for The Times and feature writer for such diverse magazines as International Review of Linguistics, Soldier and Playboy. His first novel The Frat Wagon, written while still an undergraduate, was published by Jonathan Cape in 1954 and by 1958 had been followed by three wartime thrillers, Lest I Fall (which was optioned by Rank but never filmed), Journey to No End and The Mighty Fallen. The first of these thrillers was awarded the George Dowty Prize at the 1956 Cheltenham Literature Festival which financed Whiting's study tour in North America and led on to a contract with Maryland University which at that time was providing degree courses for US military officers stationed in Europe. Whiting became a touring academic living in Spain, France, Germany, Turkey and Italy while teaching military history and strategy to the US Army. It was while doing this that he would meet his first wife, Irma, whose father had suffered persecution in Hamburg for his opposition to the Nazis, and eventually the couple settled in a remote Belgian village. It was while living there that Whiting's writerly muse began to pour forth novels and non-fiction at an unprecedented rate, initially overwhelming his publishers. Between 1970 and 1976 in a prolific burst he wrote a total of 34 books which he described as "Bang-bang, thrills-and-spills". In dealing with his work rate, publishers would successfully develop a number of different markets for his output, publishing his work under his own name as well as the names Duncan Harding, John Kerrigan, and Klaus Konrad and, at the suggestion of publisher Anthony Cheetham, his most successful nom de plume, Leo Kessler whose annual sales would reach 60,000 copies during the 1980s. From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. In addition to writing his novels, his weekly educational columns and dealing with his lecturing commitments, he also established a language centre in the German city of Trier and a European studies department at Bradford. He was also a prolific and popular military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. One of his most famous books of non-fiction is York Blitz (also published as Fire Over York) about the German bombing of York in April 1942 while his most controversial is Hemingway Goes To War, about the (mis)adventures of the writer Ernest Hemingway during World War II. The latter is being republished in 2008 by Humdrumming Ltd which is also republishing some early Leo Kessler titles, kicking off with Fire Over Kabul (now available), his final title under the Kessler name: Desperate Glory, as well as his very first novel: The Frat Wagon. Some early Duncan Harding titles are now available from GH Smith & Sons of York.
Gustav Falke (January 11, 1853 February 8, 1916) was a German writer.
Derek John de Solla Price (January 22, 1922 - September 3, 1983) was a physicist, historian of science, and information scientist, credited as the father of scientometrics.
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. Faust was born in Seattle to Gilbert Leander Faust and Elizabeth (Uriel) Faust, who both died soon after. He grew up in central California, and later worked as a cowhand on one of the many ranches of the San Joaquin Valley. Faust attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he began to write prolifically for student publications, poetry magazines, and, occasionally, newspapers. He did not attain a degree, as he was deemed a troublemaker, whereupon he began to travel extensively. He joined the Canadian Army in 1915, but deserted the next year and went to New York City. During the 1910s, Faust started to sell stories to the pulp magazines of Frank Munsey, including All-Story Weekly and Argosy Magazine. When the United States joined World War I in 1917, Faust tried to enlist but was turned down. He married Dorothy Schillig in 1917, and the couple had three children. In the 1920s, Faust wrote extensively for pulp magazines, especially Street & Smiths Western Story Magazine, a weekly for which he would write over a million words a year under various pen names, often seeing two serials and a short novel published in a single issue. In 1921 he suffered a severe heart attack, and for the rest of his life suffered from chronic heart disease. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it might be that his classical influences, as well as his literary inclinations, are part of the reason for his success at genre fiction. The classical influences are certainly noticeable in his stories, many of which would inspire films. He created the Western character Destry, featured in several filmed versions of Destry Rides Again, and his character Dr. Kildare was adapted to motion pictures, radio, television, and comic books. Beginning in 1934 Faust began publishing fiction in upscale slick magazines that paid better than pulp magazines. In 1938, due to political events in Europe, Faust returned with his family to the United States, settling in Hollywood, working as a screenwriter for a number of film studios. At one point Warner Brothers was paying him $3,000 a week (at a time when that might be a years salary for an average worker), and he made a fortune from MGMs use of the Dr. Kildare stories. He was one of the highest paid writers of that time. Ironically, Faust disparaged his commercial success and used his own name only for the poetry that he regarded as his true vocation. When World War II broke out, Faust insisted on doing his part, and despite being well into middle age and having a heart condition, he managed to become a front line war correspondent. Faust was quite famous, and the soldiers enjoyed having this popular author among them. While traveling with American soldiers as they battled in Italy in 1944, Faust was mortally wounded by shrapnel. He was personally commended for bravery by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Faust managed a massive outpouring of fiction, rivaling Edgar Wallace and Isaac Asimov as one of the most prolific authors of all time. He wrote more than 500 novels for magazines and almost as many stories of shorter length. His total literary output is estimated to have been between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 words. Most of his books and stories were turned out at breakneck rate, sometimes as quickly as 12,000 words in the course of a weekend. New books based on magazine serials or were previously unpublished continue to appear, so that Faust has averaged a new book every four months for seventy-five years. Beyond this, some work by him is newly reprinted every week of every year, in one format or another, somewhere in the world.
Adam Stephen Kelly (born July 16, 1990) is a British film and television producer and screenwriter. Kelly was born in Shoreham-By-Sea, West Sussex, England. After having a vested interest in film throughout his young life, Adam turned his attention to film-making at the tender age of sixteen, when, being an avid writer of poetry and short stories, particularly of the horror genre, he taught himself the art of screenwriting by adapting his stories into screenplays. From there, Adam turned his lifelong interest in film into a passion for film-making, quickly setting about learning the industry from the inside out. In March of 2009, Adam was offered a contract by Irish-based independent film and television production company Shadowhawk Films International as a Creative Executive, which had him assisting an Executive Producer to develop stories and scripts for film and television, as well as working in all areas of production as an Assistant Producer, making him one of the youngest and fastest-rising working producers in the world. After an impressive year, in January 2010, Kelly was promoted to Head of Production and Development (President) for the Shadowhawk Films International Administration & Operations Entertainment Group, where he manages the Television & Motion Picture Entertainment Group, Animation & Design Entertainment Group, and the Music & Records Entertainment Group. His chief responsibility is to oversee the in-house development of projects, including the hiring of writers, co-ordinating literary acquisitions, and managing budgeting, casting and production planning. As a writer and producer, Adam hopes to combine his experience to become a film director in the future. He cites his greatest influences as being film-makers Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth and Robert Rodriguez because of their rags-to-riches stories. His biggest influence on becoming a film-maker was his favourite film of all time, Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named for him.
Cyprian Bazylik (c. 1535 in Sieradz - c. 1600) was a Polish composer, usually designated as C.B. or C.S. (Cyprian of Sieradz). Besides writing music, he was also a writer, poet, and printer.
Confucius, literally "Master Kong", (traditionally September 28, 551 BC 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. These values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, such as Legalism () or Taoism () during the Han Dynasty (206 BC 220 AD). Confucius' thoughts have been developed into a system of philosophy known as Confucianism (). It was introduced to Europe by the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who was the first to Latinise the name as "Confucius". His teachings may be found in the Analects of Confucius (), a collection of "brief aphoristic fragments", which was compiled many years after his death. For nearly 2,000 years he was thought to be the editor or author of all the Five Classics () such as the Classic of Rites () (editor), and the Spring and Autumn Annals () (author). Kong Qiu (), as Confucius is commonly known, is a combination of his surname () and his given name (), and he was also known as Zhong Ni (), which is his courtesy name. He was born in 551 BC in the Lu state (This state was in the south of modern-day Shandong Province) in the later days of the Spring and Autumn Period. Confucius was from a warrior family. His father Shulianghe () was a famous warrior who had military exploits in two battles and owned a fiefdom. Confucius lost his father when he was three years old, and then his mother Yan Zhengzai () took him and left the fiefdom because as a concubine (), she wanted to avoid mistreatment from Shulianghe's formal wife. Thus, Confucius lived in poverty with his mother since childhood. With the support and encouragement of his mother, Confucius was very diligent in his studies. When Confucius was seventeen years old, his mother died as a result of illness and overwork. Three years later, Confucius married a young woman who was from the Qiguan family () of the. Though he had a mild tempered wife who loved him, he left his family to strive for his ideals. Confucius sought to revive the perfect virtue of Huaxia (Chinese civilization) and the classical properties of the Western Zhou Dynasty to build a great, harmonious and humanistic society.
Antoine Alexandre Barbier (11 January 1765 5 December 1825) was a French librarian and bibliographer. He was born in Coulommiers. He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801. In 1794 he became a member of the temporary commission of the arts, and was charged with the duty of distributing among the various libraries of Paris the books that had been confiscated during the French Revolution. In the execution of this task he discovered the letters of Huet, bishop of Avranches, and the manuscripts of the works of Fnelon. He became librarian successively to the French Directory, to the Conseil d'Etat, and in 1807 to Napoleon, from whom he carried out a number of commissions. He produced a standard work in his Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (4 vols., 18061809). Only the first part of his Examen critique des dictionnaires historiques (1820) was published. He had a share in the foundation of the libraries of the Louvre, of Fontainebleau, of Compigne and Saint-Cloud; under Louis XVIII he became administrator of the king's private libraries, but in 1822 he was deprived of all his offices. Barbier died in Paris, aged 60.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (March 18, 1813 - December 13, 1863), was a German poet and dramatist.
Eileen Egan (19122000) was a journalist, Roman Catholic pacifist and activist, and co-founder of the Catholic peace group, American PAX Association and its successor Pax Christi-USA, the American branch of International Pax Christi. Starting 1943 she remained an active member of Catholic Relief Services, and a longtime friend of Mother Teresa, she wrote her biography Such A Vision: Mother Teresa, the Spirit, and the Work, and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Selma..
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (December 11, 1849 April 25, 1926) was a Swedish feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the modern breakthrough. She is best known for her book "Barnets rhundrade" (1900), which was translated in English in 1909 as "The Century of the Child". " class="external free" title="http://runeberg. org/barnets/)" rel="nofollow">http://runeberg. org/barnets/)
