Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Christen Aagaard

Christen Aagaard

Christen Lauritsen Aagaard (27 or 28 January 1616, Viborg, Denmark - 5 February 1664, Ribe), was a Danish poet. He studied from 1635 to 1639 in Copenhagen. Since 1647 he was professor of poetry at the University of Copenhagen. In 1651 he became rector and in 1658 lecturer in theology at Ribe, in Jutland and also preacher at Vester-Vedsted.



[Esperanto Hearings Before The Committee On Education]


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Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)

Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, writer, historian and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.



[Lives Of The Most Eminent Painters Sculptors And Architects]


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Monday, January 30, 2012

Charles Maturin

Charles Maturin

Charles Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin (25 September 1782 30 October 1824) was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels.



[Leixlip Castle]


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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire, Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Though Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth. In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrestedalong with hundreds of othersand deported to Russia. Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940. During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution. Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.



[Anarchism And Other Essays | Marriage And Love | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 2 April 1906 | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 3 May 1906 | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 4 June 1906 | Anarchism What It Really Stands For | Francisco Ferrer And The Modern School | Minorities Versus Majorities | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 1 March 1906 | My Disillusionment In Russia | Patriotism A Menace To Liberty | Prisons A Social Crime And Failure | The Hypocrisy Of Puritanism | The Modern Drama | The Psychology Of Political Violence | The Traffic In Women | The Tragedy Of Woman Emancipation | Woman Suffrage]

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Heinrich Zschokke

Heinrich Zschokke

Heinrich Zschokke

Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (22 March 1771 - 27 June 1848) was a German author and reformer. Most of his life was spent, and most of his reputation earned, in Switzerland. He had an extensive civil service career, and wrote histories, fiction and other works which were widely known.



[Kaleri Orja | Kultala | The Bravo Of Venice | The Broken Cup]


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Federico De Roberto

Federico De Roberto (1861-1927)

Federico De Roberto (1861-1927)

Federico De Roberto (January 16, 1861 Naples July 26, 1927 Catania) was an Italian writer, who became well-known for his novel I Vicer (1894). He began his writing career as a journalist for national newspapers, where he met Giovanni Verga and Luigi Capuana, the most prominent writers of the Verismo style. Verga introduced him into the literary circles of Milan. De Roberto authored two books of short stories: La Sorte (1887), Documenti umani (1888). His first novel, Ermanno Raeli, (1889) is largely autobiographical; deeper in psychological analysis is the second, L'illusione (1891). In 1894 his novel I Vicer was published. It was the result of years of hard work, but obtained little success upon its release. Disillusionment and nervous disorders induced De Roberto to resume journalistic work: he became a writer for the Corriere della Sera and the Giornale d'Italia. Only later, after some experience as an playwright, he returned to the novel, with L'Impero, sequel to I Vicer (19081913, unfinished).



[Documenti Umani | Ermanno Raeli | Espasmo | Il Colore Del Tempo | La Messa Di Nozze]


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Anne Bronte

Anne Bronte

Anne Bront (17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bront literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Bront lived most of her life with her family at the small parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a boarding school. At the age of nineteen, she left Haworth working as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters and in short succession she wrote two novels. Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall appeared in 1848. Anne's life was cut short with her death of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was 29 years old. Anne Bront is often overshadowed by her more famous sisters, Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre; and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights. Anne's two novels, written in a sharp and ironic style, are completely different from the romanticism followed by her sisters. She wrote in a realistic, rather than a romantic style. Her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.



[Agnes Grey | The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall | Agnes Gray]

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Arturo Warman

Arturo Warman

Arturo Warman Gryj (September 9, 1937 - October 21, 2003) was a Mexican anthropologist, member of the cabinets of Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo, also an author of nine books, two of which have been translated to English. He also wrote multiple articles for the magazine Nexos.



[The Last Spike | Snow On The Headlight]


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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 21 June 1527) was an Italian philosopher and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, musician, and a playwright, but foremost, he was a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. In June of 1498, after the ouster and execution of Girolamo Savonarola, the Great Council elected Machiavelli as Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence. Machiavelli is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. Although he privately circulated The Prince among friends, the only work he published in his lifetime was The Art of War, about high-military science. Since the sixteenth century, generations of politicians remain attracted and repelled by the cynical approach to power posited in The Prince and his other works. Whatever his personal intentions, which are still debated today, his surname yielded the modern political word Machiavellianthe use of cunning and deceitful stratagem in politics.



[El Principe | The Art Of War | The Prince]


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Amelia Edwards

Amelia Edwards

Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (7 June 1831 - 15 April 1892) was an English novelist, journalist, lady traveller and Egyptologist. Born in London to an Irish mother and a father who had been a British Army officer before becoming a banker, Edwards was educated at home by her mother, showing considerable promise as a writer at a young age. She published her first poem at the age of 7, her first story at age 12. Edwards thereafter proceeded to publish a variety of poetry, stories and articles in a large number of magazines that included Chamber's Journal, Household Words and All the Year Round. She also wrote for the newspapers, the Saturday Review and the Morning Post. Edwards' first full-length novel was My Brother's Wife (1855). Her early novels were well received, but it was Barbara's History (1864), a novel of bigamy, that solidly established her reputation as a novelist. She spent considerable time and effort on their settings and backgrounds, estimating that it took her about two years to complete the researching and writing of each. This painstaking work paid off, her last novel, Lord Brackenbury (1880), emerged as a run-away success which went to 15 editions. In the winter of 1873-1874, accompanied by several friends, Edwards toured Egypt, discovering a fascination with the land and its cultures, both ancient and modern. Journeying southwards from Cairo in a hired dahabiyeh, the companions visited Philae and ultimately reached Abu Simbel where they remained for six weeks. During this last period, a member of Edwards' party, the English painter Andrew McCallum, discovered a previously-unknown sanctuary which bore her name for some time afterwards. Having once returned to the UK, Edwards proceeded to write a vivid description of her Nile voyage, publishing the resulting book in 1876 under the title of A Thousand Miles up the Nile. Enhanced with her own hand-drawn illustrations, the travelogue became an immediate bestseller. Edwards' travels in Egypt had made her aware of the increasing threat directed towards the ancient monuments by tourism and modern development. Determined to stem these threats by the force of public awareness and scientific endeavour, Edwards became a tireless public advocate for the research and preservation of the ancient monuments and, in 1882, co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund with Reginald Stuart Poole, curator of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. Edwards was to serve as joint Honorary Secretary of the Fund until her death some 14 years later. With the aims of advancing the Fund's work, Edwards largely abandoned her other literary work to concentrate solely on Egyptology. In this field she contributed to the ninth edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, to the American supplement of that work, and to the Standard Dictionary. As part of her efforts Edwards embarked on an ambitious lecture tour of the United States in the period 1889-1890. The content of these lectures was later published under the title Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers (1891). After catching influenza Amelia Edwards died on 15 April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare. She had lived at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol since 1864. She bequeathed her collection of Egyptian antiquities and her library to University College London, together with a sum of 2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology. She was buried in St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. Her grave is marked by an obelisk at the foot of which lies a stone ankh.



[Personal Recollections Of Birmingham And Birmingham Men]


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Thursday, January 26, 2012

William Hardy Mcneill

William Hardy Mcneill

William Hardy McNeill (born October 31, 1917) is a noted world historian and author and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1947.



[Pioneer]

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

John Dalberg Acton 1st Baron Acton

John Dalberg Acton 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 - 19 June 1902), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English historian, the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.



[A Lecture On The Study Of History | Lectures On Modern History]


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Edward King

Edward King (1612-now)

Edward King (16121637), the subject of Milton's Lycidas, was born in Ireland in 1612, the son of Sir John King, a member of a Yorkshire family which had migrated to Ireland. Edward King was admitted a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, on June 9, 1626, and four years later was elected a fellow.



[Remarks Concerning Stones Said To Have Fallen From The | Remarks Concerning Stones Said To Have Fallen From The Clouds Both In These Days And In Antient Ti]


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Kris Ottman Neville

Kris Ottman Neville

Kris Ottman Neville (1925 - 23 December 1980) better known as Kris Neville was an American science fiction writer from California. He was born in St. Louis. His first science fiction work was published in 1949. His most famous work, the novel Bettyann, is considered an underground classic of science fiction. Well known science fiction writer and critic, Barry N. Malzberg, wrote the following biographical note about Kris Neville in his introduction to Neville's story Ballenger's People in the 1979 Doubleday collection Neglected Visions: Kris Neville could have been among the ten most honored science fiction writers of his generation; instead, he virtually abandoned the field after conquering it early on and made himself the leading lay authority in the world on epoxy resins, collaborating on a series of specialized texts that have become the basic works in their field. I can hardly blame him for this decision, and it was in any case carefully thought out. Neville, who sold his first story in 1949 and another fifteen by 1952, concluded early on that the perimeters of the field in the 1950s were simply too close to contain the kind of work he would have to do if he wanted to grow as a writer, and accordingly he quit. A scattering of stories has appeared over the last quarter of a century, and a couple of novels, but except for one abortive attempt to write full-time in the mid-1960s (the field simply could not absorb the kind of work he was doing), Neville has been in a state of diminshed production for a long time. Nowadays a short-short story shows up once a year or so in a magazine or original anthology; sometimes written in collaboration with his second wife, Lil, and always so astonishingly above the run of material surrounding it as to constitute an embarrassment to the other writers. Neville, whom I do not claim to know well at all but with whom I did correspond prolifically some years ago, may be among the most intelligent of science fiction writers (only A. J. Budrys seems to have his eclecticism and his breadth) and strikes me as among the few contented people I have ever known.... Neville has done some extraordinary political satire -- The Price of Simeryl, published way back in 1966, is an early, savage anti-Vietnam piece -- and in work like New Apples in the Garden manifests an extraordinary range of subject and character. Shortly after Neville's death in 1980, a remembrance by Malzberg was published in Locus Magazine, and later re-published in The Science Fiction of Kris Neville (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. ) It includes these additional observations: I never met Kris Neville. I collaborated with him on three short stories and an abortive novel and spoke to him on the telephone five to ten times. What I did was correspond with him for over a decade starting in 1969 and there must exist in my files somewhere at least 200,000 words of Nevilliliana.... I could not divest myself of any of these letters because what they are are the lucid and balanced evidence of a powerful mind focused by a powerful soul who inch by inch had worked his way through to a purifying and terrible clarity of vision... that a serious literary career was impossible in science fiction (impossible out of it too because there was simply no audience left for 'serious' fiction in this country. ) The limitations of the audience and the limitations of editing made no writer capable of doing an ambitious and improving body of work which would reach an audience and take that audience along. Neville ascribed virtually every failure in the modern history of the genre to meretricious, debased, or cowardly editors, not to the writers.... Neville by his own testimony had to leave science fiction in the early fifties. He began publishing in 1949, he found that he could very easily sell to the Bouchers, Golds, or Campbells of his time and quickly satisfied his original ambitions. What he could not do was to continue to follow the course of his vision. Quickly he ran up against the imposed borders of the field and almost as quickly he quit. There was a decade of near-total silence. In the mid-sixties as a fortieth birthday present to himself he financed a two-year attempt to establish a real position in science fiction but although many strange and wonderful stories appeared,... rotten agenting, the limitations of the field, and a certain powerful revulsion in Neville himself that made him unable to push for entrance into something which he knew had wrecked his spirit, drove him away again and in the last dozen years of his life he produced only a scattering of short stories for the magazines and the original anthologies, none of them longer than a few thousand words. Collaboration on important texts in the field of epoxy resins -- on which he knew more than any layman -- and employment in the chemical industry kept him busy, well remunerated, and content. By the late seventies he had achieved enough equivolcal peace to be able to come back to science fiction with a scholar's interest, a scholar's contribution.... He liked wine, hated Nixon, deplored the mass media, missed Tony Boucher, had grudging and deep respect for the memory of John W. Campbell, loved his children, had a deep suspicion of American industry and its products but no particular reverence for his Volvo, found [science fiction] conventions, finally, wearying and had a deep and abiding love for the science fiction community.



[Earth Alert | General Max Shorter | New Apples In The Garden]

Monday, January 23, 2012

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonymssuch as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapieror anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.



[Gullivers Travels | Los Viajes De Gulliver]


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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown (1955-now)

Andrew Brown (born 1955 in London)is a journalist and writer; editor of the Belief section of the Guardian's Comment is Free. He writes a weekly print column about the Web, along with other work for the newspaper. He is author of Fishing in Utopia which won the 2009 Orwell Prize, Watching the Detectives, The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man, and In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite.



[Company K Twentieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry]


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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) title=

Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 August 9, 1962) was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi), each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.



[Knulp | Siddhartha]

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Brian Wayne Peterson

Brian Wayne Peterson

Brian Wayne Peterson title=

Brian Wayne Peterson is a screenwriter and television producer. He wrote the script for 1999 film But I'm a Cheerleader and has worked on many episodes of Smallville as writer and producer since 2002. His consistent writing partner on Smallville is Kelly Souders. Shortly after Peterson graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts, Jamie Babbit, the director for But I'm a Cheerleader, asked Peterson to write a script for her film after reading a story he had written about a gay cowboy.



[The White Feather Hex]


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Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster (1946-now)

Alan Dean Foster (1946-now)

Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.


Dean Ing's Books:


[Tight Squeeze]


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Friday, January 20, 2012

Garrett P Serviss

Garrett P Serviss

Garrett P Serviss title=

Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York, and majored in science at Cornell. He took a law degree at Columbia, but never worked as an attorney. Instead, in 1876 he joined the staff of the New York Sun newspaper, working as a journalist until 1892 under editor Charles Dana.



[Curiosities Of The Sky | Other Worlds | Pleasures Of The Telescope]

Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.



[A Little Norsk | Cavanaugh Forest Ranger | Main Travelled Roads | Other Main Travelled Roads | Prairie Folks | The Eagle Heart | The Forester Daughter | The Light Of The Star | The Moccasin Ranch]


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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Ed Earl Repp

Ed Earl Repp (1901-1979)

Ed Earl Repp (1901 - 1979) was an American writer, screenwriter and novelist. His stories appeared in several of the early pulp magazines including Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories. After World War II, he began working as a screenwriter for several western movies



[Quick Pay For Maverick Men | Song Of Death]

Thomas More Madden

Thomas More Madden

Thomas More Madden (1838-14 April 1902) was an Irish physician and writer, son and biographer of Richard Robert Madden.



[Lutopie | Utopia]


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Monday, January 16, 2012

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. " His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.



[Babbitt | Free Air | It Cant Happen Here]

Gaylord Dubois

Gaylord Dubois

Gaylord Dubois title=

Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (as it appears on his baptism certificate), or DuBois (August 24, 1899 Winthrop, Massachusetts October 20, 1993 Orange City, Florida) In his lifetime he wrote well over 3000 comic book stories and comic strips as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. An avid outdoorsman, Du Bois had a real affinity for writing stories with natural settings. His forte was in Westerns, as well as jungle comics and animal reality comics.


Dubois's Books:


[Moliere At Ninons Or The Reading Of Tartuffe]

Alva Johnston

Alva Johnston

Alva Johnston (18881950) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and biographer. He started out at the Sacramento Bee in 1906. From 1912-1928 he wrote for The New York Times and from 1928-1932 for the New York Herald Tribune. From 1932 until his retirement he wrote articles for The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker magazines. He won the Pulitzer in 1923 for articles he wrote during a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1922.



[Kings Of The Talkies]

Rynosuke Akutagawa

Rynosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)

Rynosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) title=

was a Japanese writer active in the Taish period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story". He committed suicide at age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.



[Hana | In A Grove | Rashoumon | Yabu No Naka]

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara (1928-1988)

Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced the same way) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division prior to the Korean War.



[Conquest Over Time | Wainer]


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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Virginia Sharpe Patterson

Virginia Sharpe Patterson

Mrs Anne Virginia Sharpe Patterson was an American author, who also wrote under the pseudonym Garry Gaines. Anne Virginia Sharpe was the daughter of George W. Sharpe, the youngest member of the Maryland Senate, and Caroline Snyder. Home-educated by her father until his death, she then attended the Delaware Female Seminary for three years. Upon marriage she moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio. Her first articles appeared in the Cincinnati Gazette. A series of satires, 'The Girl of the Period', proginally written for the Bellefontaine Examiner, was republished under the pen-name Garry Gaines in 1878. Despite bad health from 1881 onwards, she continued an active life. In 1889 she was vice-president of the Ohio Women's Press Club. In 1890 she founded the Woman's Club of Bellefontaine, Ohio.



[Dickey Downy]


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Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford (18631935) was a British born American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies' Home Journal, he sometimes signed his artwork as "O Herford". In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the "Little Book of Bores". He also wrote short poems like "The Chimpanzee" and "The Hen", as well as writing and illustrating "The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten" (1904) and "Excuse It Please" (1930). His sister Beatrice Herford was also a humorist. Ethel Mumford and Addison Mizner wrote a small book The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903 as a Christmas present and added Herford's name as an author as a joke. The printer made up more copies to sell and to everyone's surprise it was an astounding success. When Herford found out about it he wanted 90% of the royalties. He was awarded an equal third.



[Robert Browning]


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Joseph Hiam Levy

Joseph Hiam Levy

Joseph Hiam Levy (1838 - 1913) was an English author and economist. He was educated at the City of London School and joined the Civil Service. He later became a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College and an important figure in the Personal Rights Association. Levy also wrote an introduction to the English translation of Yves Guyot's 1893 work, The Tyranny of Socialism.



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