Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995).
Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 - 24 January 1947) is a much translated author of Flanders. Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children in the family. He died in Lier, aged 60. He was an autodidact, and wrote plays, historical novels, religious works, and poems. His best-known book is Pallieter (1916). Timmermans also wrote under the pen-name Polleke van Mher. As well as an author, he was also a painter and drawer. During the first years of the Second World War, Timmermans was editor of the Flemish nationalist Volk. He also attended meetings of the Europische Schriftsteller-Vereinigung (European Writers Union), which was initiated by Joseph Goebbels. Because of this, and because of the Rembrandt prize he received in 1942 from the University of Hamburg, he was wrongly seen as a collaborator, which may have caused health problems and premature death.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (18 March 1830 - 12 September 1889) was a French historian. Born in Paris, of Breton descent, after studying at the cole Normale Suprieure he was sent to the French School at Athens in 1853, he directed some excavations in Chios, and wrote an historical account of the island. After his return he filled various educational offices, and took his doctor's degree with two theses, Quid Vestae cultus in institutis veterum privatis publicisque valuerit and Polybe, ou la Grce conquise par les Romains (1858). In these works his distinctive qualities were already revealed. His minute knowledge of the language of the Greek and Roman institutions, coupled with his low estimate of the conclusions of contemporary scholars, led him to go direct to the original texts, which he read without political or religious bias. When, however, he had succeeded in extracting from the sources a general idea that seemed to him clear and simple, he attached himself to it as if to the truth itself, employing dialectic of the most penetrating, subtle and even paradoxical character in his deduction of the logical consequences. From 1860 to 1870 he was professor of history at the faculty of letters at Strasbourg, where he had a brilliant career as a teacher, but never yielded to the influence exercised by the German universities in the field of classical and Germanic antiquities. It was at Strasbourg that he published his remarkable volume La Cit antique (1864), in which he showed forcibly the part played by religion in the political and social evolution of Greece and Rome. The book was so consistent throughout, so full of ingenious ideas, and written in so striking a style, that it ranks as one of the masterpieces of the French language in the 19th century. By this literary merit Fustel set little store, but he clung tenaciously to his theories. When he revised the book in 1875, his modifications were very slight, and it is conceivable that, had he recast it, as he often expressed the desire to do in the last years of his life, he would not have abandoned any part of his fundamental thesis. The work is now largely superseded. Fustel de Coulanges was the most conscientious of men, the most systematic and uncompromising of historians. Appointed to a lectureship at the cole Normale Suprieure in February 1870, to a professorship at the Paris faculty of letters in 1875, and to the chair of medieval history created for him at the Sorbonne in 1878, he applied himself to the study of the political institutions of ancient France. The invasion of France by the German armies during the Franco-Prussian War attracted his attention to the Germanic invasions under the Roman Empire. Pursuing the theory of JB Dubos, but singularly transforming it, he maintained that those invasions were not marked by the violent and destructive character usually attributed to them; that the penetration of the German barbarians into Gaul was a slow process; that the Germans submitted to the imperial administration; that the political institutions of the Merovingians had their origins in the Roman laws at least as much as, if not more than, in German usages; and, consequently, that there was no conquest of Gaul by the Germans. This thesis he sustained brilliantly in his Histoire des institutions politiques de l'ancienne France, the first volume of which appeared in 1874. It was the author's original intention to complete this work in four volumes, but as the first volume was keenly attacked in Germany as well as in France, Fustel was forced in self-defence to recast the book entirely. With admirable conscientiousness he re-examined all the texts and wrote a number of dissertations, of which, though several (e.g. those on the Germanic mark and on the allodium and beneficium) were models of learning and sagacity, all were dominated by his general idea and characterized by a total disregard for the results of such historical disciplines as diplomatic. From this crucible issued an entirely new work, less well arranged than the original, but rich in facts and critical comments. The first volume was expanded into three volumes, La Gaule romaine (1891), L'Invasion germanique et la fin de l'empire (1891) and La Monarchie franque (1888), followed by three other volumes, L'Alleu et le domaine rural pendant l'poque mrovingienne (1889), Les Origines du systme fodal: le bnfice et le patronat... (1890) and Les Transformations de la royaut pendant l'poque carolingienne (1892). Thus, in six volumes, he had carried the work no farther than the Carolingian period. The result of this enormous labour, albeit worthy of a great historian, clearly showed that the author lacked all sense of historical proportion. He was a diligent seeker after the truth, and was perfectly sincere when he informed a critic of the exact number of "truths" he had discovered, and when he remarked to one of his pupils a few days before his death, "Rest assured that what I have written in my book is the truth. " Such superb self-confidence can accomplish much, and it undoubtedly helped to form Fustel's talent and to give to his style that admirable concision which subjugates even when it fails to convince; but a student instinctively distrusts an historian who settles the most controversial problems with such impassioned assurance. The dissertations not embodied in his great work were collected by himself and (after his death) by his pupil, Camille Jullian, and published as volumes of miscellanies: Recherches sur quelques problmes d'Histoire (1885), dealing with the Roman colonate, the land system in Normandy; the Germanic mark, and the judiciary organization in the kingdom of the Franks; Nouvelles recherches sur quelques problmes d'histoire (1891); and Questions historiques (1893), which contains his paper on Chios and his thesis on Polybius. His life was devoted almost entirely to his teaching and his books. In 1875 he was elected member of the Acadmie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, and in 1880 reluctantly accepted the post of director of the cole Normale. Without intervening personally in French politics, he took a keen interest in the questions of administration and social reorganization arising from the fall of the imperialist rgime and the disasters of the war. He wished the institutions of the present to approximate more closely to those of the past, and devised for the new French constitution a body of reforms which reflected the opinions he had formed upon the democracy at Rome and in ancient France. But these were dreams which did not hold him long, and he would have been scandalized had he known that his name was subsequently used as the emblem of a political and religious party. He died at Massy in 1889. Throughout his historical career at the cole Normale and the Sorbonne and in his lectures delivered to the empress Eugnie his sole aim was to ascertain the truth, and in the defence of truth his polemics against what he imagined to be the blindness and insincerity of his critics sometimes assumed a character of harshness and injustice. But, in France at least, these critics were the first to render justice to his learning, his talents and his disinterestedness.
David Walton (science fiction writer) (born October 26, 1975) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer living in Philadelphia, PA. His novel Terminal Mind won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for the best paperback science fiction novel published in the United States, in a tie with Adam-Troy Castro's novel Emissaries from the Dead.
Qian Gang 11 August 1953-) is a Chinese non-fiction writer and journalists from Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, China who over four decades has written hundreds of articles and dozens of books.
Dr. Clifton E. Marsh (born August 10, 1946) is an American author, sociologist and educator. He has written a number of books that chronicle the history of various people of the African Diaspora. Dr. Marsh is best known for his examination of the Nation of Islam in The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in America. (Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1996) The book follows in the tradition of C. Eric Lincoln's The Black Muslims in America which first introduced the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X into the American consciousness. The Lost-Found Nation of Islam in America spans the history of the organization, while also covering its most recent milestones and benchmarks such as the emergence of Louis Farrakhan as a world leader; the International Saviour's Day Conference of 1994 in Accra, Ghana and the Million Man March in 1995.
Justin Richards is a British writer. He has written many spin off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and he is Creative Director for the BBC Books range. He has also written for television, contributing to Five's soap opera Family Affairs. He is also the author of a series of crime novels for children about the Invisible Detective, and novels for older children.
Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 - 27 November 1899) was an influential Dutch language writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium.
Homer Eon Flint (1888 as Homer Eon Flindt -1924) was a writer of pulp science fiction novels and stories. He began working as a scenarist for silent films (reportedly at his wife's insistence) in 1912. In 1918 he published "The Planeteer" in All-Story Weekly. His "Dr. Kinney" stories were reprinted by Ace Books in 1965, and with Austin Hall he co-wrote the novel The Blind Spot. Reportedly he died as a result of an involvement in a bank robbery attempt. According to his granddaughter the only witness was himself a gangster.
Berthold Auerbach (February 28, 1812 - February 8, 1882) was a German-Jewish poet and author.
Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 September 14, 1927) was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists. Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, Germany and was raised in a Protestant family. He studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg (19061907). In 1910, he moved to Berlin in order to become an actor and collaborated with Max Reinhardt.
Martha Finley (April 26, 1828 - January 30, 1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley, she was born on April 26, 1828, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Finley wrote many of her books under the pseudonym Martha Farquharson. She died in 1909 in Elkton, Maryland, where she moved in 1876.
Canon George Rawlinson (23 November 1812 - 7 October 1902) was a 19th century English scholar and historian. He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and was the younger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson.
George Makepeace Towle (27 August 1841, Washington, D.C. - 9 August 1893, Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer, politician, and author. His is best known for his translations of Jules Verne' s works, in particular his 1873 translation of Around the World in Eighty Days.
Charles Heavysege (2 May 1816 - 14 July 1876) was a Canadian poet. Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, Heavysege emigrated to Montreal in 1853 where he worked as a carver. He later became a reporter for the Montreal Daily Witness. His first published work was The revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts, published between 1852 and 1856. He published Sonnets in 1855, Saul: a drama in three parts in 1857, Count Filippo; or, the unequal marriage in 1860, and Jephthahs daughter in 1865. His great-grandson, Hector Heavysege, resided in Lachine (QC), where he operated the Maple Leaf Cabins on Cote-de-Liesse Road for many years.
Clara Morris (March 17, 1849 November 20, 1925) (her birth date is sometimes given as 1846/48) was an American actress.
William Roscoe Thayer (1859-1923) was an American author and editor. Thayer was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 16, 1859. He graduated from Harvard in 1881 and was editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine from 1892 until 1915. Thayer was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1914, he was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters and he received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Brown and other universities. Thayer served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1913 until 1919. He was president of the American Historical Association
Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson, (May 8, 1835 May 9, 1909) was an American Southern author and one of the pillars of Southern literature. She wrote nine novels: Inez (1850), Beulah (1859), Macaria (1863), St. Elmo (1866), Vashti (1869), Infelice (1875), At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887), A Speckled Bird (1902), and Devota (1907). Given her support for the Confederate States of America from the perspective of a Southern patriot, and her literary activities during the American Civil War, she can be deemed as having contributed decisively to the literary and cultural development of the Confederacy in particular, and of the South in general, as a civilization.
Volter Kilpi, born Volter Ericsson, (December 12, 1874 June 13, 1939) was a Finnish author best known for his two-volume novel Alastalon salissa (1933) often considered one of the best written in the Finnish language.
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (24 March 1844 - 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist La Jeune Belgique group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was Salon de Bruxelles (1863), a collection of art criticism. His best known novel is Un Mle (1881).
Hermann Hagedorn (1882, New York City - d. 1964) was an American author, poet and biographer. He was born in New York City and educated at Harvard University, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University. From 1909 to 1911, he was an instructor in English at Harvard. Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. He also served as Secretary and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Drawing upon his friendship with Roosevelt, Hagedorn was able to elicite the support of Roosevelt's friends and associates' personal recollections in his biography of TR which was first published in 1919 and then updated in 1921 and which is oriented toward children. The book has a summary questions for young readers at the end of each chapter. Drawing on the same friends and associates of Roosevelt, Hagedorn also published the first serious study of TR's experience as a rancher in the Badlands after the death of his wife and mother in 1884. Hagedorn's access to TR's associates in these two books has been utilized by historian, Edmund Morris
Sir Arthur Leycester Scott Coltman (May 24, 1938 2003), published as Leycester Coltman, was the British ambassador to Cuba from 3 March 1991 to 1994. Coltman was educated at Rugby School and Magdalene College, and spent a sabbatical year at the Manchester Business School. After joining the British Diplomatic Service, he served in Copenhagen, Cairo, Braslia, Mexico City, and Brussels, and served as the British ambassador to Cuba and to Colombia.
Fanny Carrin de Fierro is a poet, literary critic, essayist and university professor. She received a Doctorate in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor's degree (Licenciatura) in Education from the Central University of Ecuador. She has written and published essays on several topics, including political, cultural and social issues.
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, (11 November 1821 9 February 1881) was a Russian writer and essayist, best known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called the "best overture for existentialism ever written" by Walter Kaufmann. A prominent figure in world literature, Dostoyevsky is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature.
Robert Gilbert (born Robert David Winterfeld) (September 29, 1899, Berlin, Germany - March 20, 1978, Minusio, Switzerland) was a German composer of light music, lyricist, singer, and actor. His father was Max Winterfeld, a composer and conductor who went by the pen name of Jean Gilbert. His brother was Henry Winterfeld, an author of children's books.
Harry Warner, Jr. (December 19, 1922-February 17, 2003), was an American journalist. He spent 40 years working for the Hagerstown, Maryland, Herald-Mail. He was also an important science fiction fan and historian of fandom and Washington County, Maryland, as well as a classical musician.
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) was an American librarian and author. He was a writer of the "true crime" literary genre. He is best-known for his account of the notorious Lizzie Borden murder case.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
The death of Edgar Allan Poe on October 7, 1849, has remained mysterious: the circumstances leading up to it are uncertain and the cause of death is disputed. On October 3, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died at 5 a.m. on Sunday, October 7.
Alexander C. Irvine is an American fantasist and science fiction writer. Many of his works have appeared under the simpler moniker "Alex Irvine. " He should not be confused with the Ulster-born author and evengelist Alexander Irvine, for whom see Antrim, County Antrim
Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850 1922) was an American author of miscellaneous books, including the "Witch Winnie Books," the series of "Vassar Girls Abroad," Romance of the Feudal Chteaux (1900), and many more. She was the wife of J. W. Champney. She received her A.B. from Vassar College in 1869, a graduate of the second Vassar class.
