Vicente Blasco Ibez

Vicente Blasco Ibez (1867-1928)

Vicente Blasco Ibez (29 January 1867 28 January 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis. Filmed in 1921 as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it was filmed again in 1962, reset in World War II. However, in his time he was a best-selling author inside and outside of Spain, and also known for his controversial political activities. While Sangre y arena and Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis are his most popular novels, particularly outside of Spain, his Valencian novels such as La barraca and Caas y barro are the ones most valued by scholars. He finished studying law, but hardly practiced. He divided his time between politics, literature and dalliances with women, of whom he was a deep admirer. He wrote with uncanny speed and energy. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes. His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had several stormy love affairs. He volunteered as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot Jos Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He travelled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature. Tired and disgusted with government failures and inaction, Vicente Blasco Ibez moved to Paris at the beginning of World War I. He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I. His themes include his native Valencia. He died in Menton, France, in 1928 at the age of 61, in the residence of Fontana Rosa (also named the House of Writers, dedicated to Cervantes, Dickens and Shakespeare) that he built.

Vicente Blasco Ibez's Books:

[El Prstamo De La Difunta | La Barraca | La Condenada | Luna Benamor | Mayflower flor De Mayo]

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Jake Farrow

Jake Farrow (1978-now)

Jake Farrow (born October 18, 1978) is a television writer and actor. He is most famous for the role of Gavin Mitchell on the TV series Drake & Josh.

G Farrow's Books:

[Dick Marjorie And Fidge | The Jungle Baby | The Wallypug In London]

Herbert Hudson Taylor

Herbert Hudson Taylor

Herbert Hudson Taylor (April 3, 1861 - June 6, 1950), British Protestant Christian missionary to China, author, speaker and eldest son of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission and Maria Jane Dyer. He served there for over 50 years the last three as one of the prisoners of the Japanese at the Weifang internment camp during World War II along with Eric Liddell and 1500 others. Herbert Taylor was four when his father founded the China Inland Mission. He had been born in London during his parents first furlough in England together. At the time of his birth, they were living with his aunt and uncle Amelia and Benjamin Broomhall at 63 Westbourne Grove, in Bayswater. In 1866 at the age of five Herbert and his parents, three siblings and sixteen other missionaries sailed to China aboard the Lammermuir (clipper) as part of the famous Lammermuir Party. During the four-month long voyage the ship was nearly wrecked by two typhoons. On arrival in China, the family adopted Chinese clothing and food and set off to find a place to establish a mission cente in Zhejiang. On the way, Herbert almost drowned when he fell overboard into the Grand Canal of China during their travels. Another scare happened shortly afterward when he was bitten by a dog on the face. His sister, Grace Dyer Taylor died of meningitis near Hangzhou within the first year. When he was six the family was nearly killed by a rioting mob during the Yangzhou riot in 1868. Finally in 1870 he was sent home with his surviving siblings with Emily Blatchley to live in London, separated from his parents. His mother died in China soon after they arrived home. Like his father, he enrolled in the Royal London Hospital medical college. After two years he decided to return to China to become one of the charter teachers at the newly founded China Inland Mission Chefoo School at. After marrying a fellow missionary, Jeanie Gray, they endured tumultuous years in China, including the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of the Qing dynasty, the Warlord era, and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937). In 1930 the China Inland Mission published Ren Ch'eng-Yan, A Tamarisk Garden Blessed with Rain. Or the Autobiography of Pastor Ren. Translated and edited by Herbert Hudson Taylor & Marshall Broomhall. At the age of 80 he was interned by the Japanese at the Weihsien or Weifang concentration camp after Japan had entered the war in 1941. Everyone at Weifang were liberated in 1945 by American paratroopers. Descendants of Herbert Hudson Taylor continued his full-time ministry today in the communities in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Grandson, the late Rev. James Hudson Taylor III (1929-2009) and his son Rev. James Hudson Taylor IV in Taiwan. Another of Herbert Taylors grandchildren is Mary Previte who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006.

J Hudson Taylor's Books:

[A Retrospect | A Ribband Of Blue | Separation And Service]

Brian Inglis

Brian Inglis

Brian Inglis (31 July 1916 11 February 1993) was an Irish journalist, historian and television presenter. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and retained an interest in Irish history and politics.

W Inglis's Books:

[A Report Of Major Hart Case Of Rice Frauds]

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Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole

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.

Horace Walpole's Books:

[The Castle Of Otranto | Hieroglyphic Tales | Historic Doubts On The Life And Reign Of King Richard The]

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne (1961-now)

Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humour and satirical depictions of contemporary American society.

A Payne's Books:

[Cassell Vegetarian Cookery]

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Don Carlos Seitz

Don Carlos Seitz

Don Carlos Seitz was an American newspaper manager, born at Portage, Ohio in 1862. In 1880 he graduated from the Liberal Institute at Norway, Maine. He served as Albany correspondent (1887-89) and as city editor (1889-91) of the Brooklyn Eagle, was assistant publisher of the New York

Don Seitz's Books:

[Whistler Stories]

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Anthony C West

Anthony C West

Cathcart Anthony Muir West (19101988), who wrote under the name of Anthony C. West, was an Irish writer of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. The fifth child in a Protestant family, West was brought up in County Down and County Cavan. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After periods living in the United States, Canada, and England, he married an English woman, Olive, and settled with his family in Anglesey. He died in London in 1988.

E West's Books:

[Dadestan I Denig religious Decisions | Menog I Khrad The Spirit Of Wisdom | Sad Dar | Shayest Na Shayest Proper And Improper | The Bundahishn Creation Or Knowledge From The Zand | Zand I Vohuman Yasht]

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Joseph Samachson

Joseph Samachson

Dr. Joseph "Joe" Samachson (1906-1980) was a scientist and author, primarily of science fiction and comic books.

Joseph Samachson's Books:

[Dead Mans Planet]

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Charles Victor Langlois

Charles Victor Langlois

Charles-Victor Langlois (May 26, 1863, in Rouen - June 25, 1929, in Paris) was a French historian and paleographer, who specialized in the study of the Middle Ages and taught at the Sorbonne. Langlois attended the cole Nationale des Chartes and earned a doctorate in history in 1887. He taught at the University of Douai before moving to the Sorbonne. He was director of the National Archives of France from 1913 to 1929.

Charles Langlois's Books:

[Introduction To The Study Of History]

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Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881, Chicago, Illinois March 23, 1960, New York City, New York) was an American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A. ) and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. He was a prolific writer of light verse, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

Franklin Pierce's Books:

[Federal Usurpation]

Philip Alexander Bruce

Philip Alexander Bruce (1856-1933)

Philip Alexander Bruce (March 7, 1856 August 16, 1933) was an American historian who specialized in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Author of over a dozen volumes of history, Bruce's scope ranged from the first Virginia settlements to the early 20th century. He is notable for the first complete history of the University of Virginia, descriptions of the lives of the original settlers of Virginia, and for his insights into Thomas Jefferson's wide-ranging intellect. Bruce was born into a plantation family in Charlotte County, Virginia; his younger brother was William Cabell Bruce, later a US Senator from Maryland. Philip studied literature and history at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1876; he went on to get an LL.B. from Harvard University in 1879. Bruce began a long career as a published historian in 1889 with the publication of The Plantation Negro as a Freeman. His most notable research came with a series of three works on seventeenth century Virginia, covering the economic, social, and institutional frameworks of the first Virginia settlers, published between 1896 and 1910. Bruce was the corresponding secretary of the Virginia Historical Society. He was awarded honorary doctorates by both The College of William and Mary and Washington and Lee University. In the last decade of his life, Bruce authored a five-volume history of the first hundred years of the University of Virginia, which is credited for expanding the historical perspective on the talents of Thomas Jefferson, and co-authored a five-volume history of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He died after a long illness at his home near Charlottesville. He is remembered for attempts to raise the consciousness of Northern readers to Virginias contributions to the history of the United States through a series of letters to the New York Times on such topics as the claim of Virginia's House of Burgesses as the second elected legislature after the British Parliament and the importance of Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

Alexander Philip's Books:

[Essays Towards A Theory Of Knowledge]

Agnes Mary Clerke

Agnes Mary Clerke

Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 - 20 January 1907) was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born at Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London.

Agnes Clerke's Books:

[A Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century]

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William Barton

William Barton

William Renald Barton III (born September 28, 1950) is an American science fiction writer. In addition to his standalone novels, he is also known for collaborations with Michael Capobianco. Many of their novels deal with themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera. Barton also has written short stories that put an emphasis on sexuality and human morality in otherwise traditional science fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's and Sci Fiction, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Sidewise Award, and the HOMer Award, and three of his novels (The Transmigration of Souls, Acts of Conscience, and When We Were Real) have been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.

William Barton's Books:

[His Last Week]

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David Mark Chalmers

David Mark Chalmers

David Mark Chalmers is an American author and historian.

Amy V Chalmers's Books:

[Madge Morton Captain Of The Merry Maid | Madge Morton Secret | Madge Morton Trust | Madge Morton Victory]

Claude Phillips

Claude Phillips (1846-1924)

Sir Claude Phillips (January 29, 1846August 9, 1924) was an English writer, art historian and critic for the Daily Telegraph, Manchester Guardian and other publications during the late 19th century. He was the first keeper of the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, writing its first catalogue, and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service. Phillips was considered one of the most eminent critics in Victorian Britain, and his numerous scholarly and art history books were widely read.

Claude Phillips's Books:

[The Earlier Work Of Titian]

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)

Ivan Turgenev Born October 28, 1818(1818-10-28)Oryol, Russian Empire Died September 3, 1883 (aged 64)Bougival, Seine-et-Oise Occupation Novelist and Playwright Genres Realism Notable work(s) A Sportsman's Sketches Fathers and Sons A Month in the Country Influences Shakespeare, Goethe, Pushkin, Belinsky, Lermontov, Byron, Schiller, Hegel, Schlegel, Schopenhauer, Bakunin Influenced Theodor Storm, Gustave Flaubert, Herman Bang, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Irne Nmirovsky, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (November 9 1818 - September 3 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

Ivan Turgenev's Books:

[A Desperate Character | A House Of Gentlefolk | A Lear Of The Steppes | A Nobleman Nest | A Reckless Character | Asja | Dream Tales And Prose Poems | Fathers And Children | Knock Knock Knock And Other Stories | Kuningas Lear Arolla | Liza | Luutnantti Jergunovin Juttu | The Diary Of A Superfluous Man And Other Stories | The Jew And Other Stories | The Rendezvous]

Albert Edward Winship

Albert Edward Winship

Albert Edward Winship (1845-1933) was a pioneering American educator and educational journalist, born at West Bridgewater, Mass. He attended Andover Theological Seminary in 1875. He was a pastor from 1876 to 1883. He had transferred himself over to the field of education by 1886 when he became editor of the Journal of Education, Boston, which grew to become one of the most influential educational magazines in the country. From 1903 to 1909, A. E.

A Winship's Books:

[Jukes Edwards]

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Charles Mclean Andrews

Charles Mclean Andrews

Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 September 9, 1943) was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history. He is especially known as a leader of the "Imperial school" of historians who studied, and generally praised the British Empire in the 18th century.

Charles Mclean Andrews's Books:

[British Committees Commissions | The Fathers Of New England]

Everett B Cole

Everett B Cole

Everett B. Cole was an American writer of science fiction short stories and a professional soldier. He worked as a signal maintenance and property officer at Fort Douglas, Utah. His first science fiction story, "Philosophical Corps" was published in the magazine Astounding in 1951. His fix-up of that story and two others, The Philosophical Corps, was published by Gnome Press in 1962. A second novel, The Best Made Plans, was serialized in Astounding in 1959, but never published in book form. He also co-authored historical books about the south Texas region.

Everett Cole's Books:

[Alarm Clock | Final Weapon | Indirection | Millennium | The Best Made Plans | The Players | The Weakling]

Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri

Antonio Neri was a Florentine priest who published LArte Vetraria or The Art of Glass in 1612. His father was a physician, and he was an herbalist, alchemist, and glassmaker. Neri traveled extensively in Italy and Holland.

Antonio Negri's Books:

[In Gondoleta]

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Witter Bynner

Witter Bynner

Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 June 1, 1968) was an American poet, writer and scholar, known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at what is now the Inn of the Turquoise Bear.

Witter Bynner's Books:

[The New World]

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Eugene Demolder

Eugene Demolder (1862-1919)

Eugene Demolder (16 December 1862 - 8 October 1919) was a Belgian author. He is probably best known among English speakers for his romantic novel Le jardinier de la Pompadour, (Madame de Pompadour's Gardener). A novelist, short story writer, and art critic he was also educated in law. His memoirs, Sous la robe (Under the Robe), offers a cultural view of the Belgian professional class of the late 19th century and its involvement in literary reform. His use of symbolism and mastery of ambience sets his novels apart from earlier romance pieces. He was a member of La Jeune Belgique (The Young Belgium), a literary review journal which encouraged a literary renaissance movement of 19th century Belgium. This movement was influential in raising the national consciousness of Belgians, ushering in modernism and discouraging romanticism. Demolder contributed to La Jeune Belgique as an art critic and published an early monograph on symbolist artist, James Ensor in 1892. Among his contemporaries were Emile Verhaeren, Max Sulzberger, Edouard Fetis. Demolder was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek and died in Corbeil-Essonnes, France.

Eugene Demolder's Books:

[Le Jardinier De La Pompadour]

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Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)

Chikamatsu Monzaemon was a Japanese dramatist of jruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. Encyclopdia Britannica writes that he is "widely regarded as the greatest Japanese dramatist. " His most notable plays deal with double-suicides of honor bound lovers.

Chikamatsu's Books:

[The Almanac Of Love]

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Hermynia Zur Mhlen

Hermynia Zur Mhlen

Hermynia Zur Mhlen (1883-1951) was an Austrian writer and translator.

Hermynia Zur Mhlen's Books:

[The Runaway Countess]

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Anna Hunger

Anna Hunger

Anna Hunger was an American writer, whose sole published book length work was The Man Who Lived Forever, co-authored with R. DeWitt Miller. The book originally appeared in 1938 in Astounding Science Fiction, under the title The Master Shall Not Die, by Miller alone, but in 1956 it was re-released by Ace Books in their dos--dos format, as by Miller and Hunger.

Anna Hunger's Books:

[The Man Who Lived Forever]

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Hristo Botev

Hristo Botev (1848-1876)

Hristo Botev (January 6, 1848 June 2, 1876), born Hristo Botyov Petkov, was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.

Hristo Botev's Books:

[Satirical Prose bulgarian | The Poems Of Hristo Botev]

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Derek Jewell

Derek Jewell

Derek Jewell, was a British writer, broadcaster and music critic. A music critic for the London Sunday Times for twenty three years, Jewell wrote extensively about jazz, and also introduced British audiences avant garde jazz, rock and improvisational music, especially through live performances on his BBC Radio show, Sounds Interesting.

F Jewell's Books:

[Little Abe]

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Warwick Deeping

Warwick Deeping

George Warwick Deeping (May 28, 1877April 20, 1950) was a prolific English novelist and short story writer, whose most famous novel was Sorrell and Son.

Warwick Deeping's Books:

[Laughing House | The Cleric Secret]

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Fitzjames Brien

Fitzjames Brien

Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; December 31, 1828 - April 6, 1862) was an Irish-born American writer, some of whose work is often considered one of the forerunners of today's science fiction.

Fitzjames Brien's Books:

[My Wife Tempter | The Golden Ingot | The Lost Room A Play By Frank J Morlock]

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

Amy Lowell's Books:

[Dome Of Many Coloured Glass | Men Women And Ghosts | A Dome Of Many Coloured Glass | In A Time Of Dearth | Many Swans Sun Myth Of The North American Indians | Quincunx | Songs Of The Pueblo Indians | Sword Blades And Poppy Seed | The Blue Scarf | The Book Of Stones And Lilies | The Paper Windmill]

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Antonio Botto

Antonio Botto

Antnio Botto was a Portuguese aesthete and modernist poet.

Antonio Botto's Books:

[Cancoes]

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)

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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Books:

[Um Club Da Ma Lingua | A Gentle Spirit | Carnet Dun Inconnu | The Crocodile | The Double | The Grand Inquisitor]

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Laozi

Laozi (604-6)

Laozi was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, and best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching. His association with the Tao Te Ching has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of Taoism (also spelled "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of the Taoist religion, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones". Laozi literally means "old master", and is generally considered honorific. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC. Historians variously contend that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures, that he is a mythical figure, or that he actually lived in the 4th century BC, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period. A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

Laozi's Books:

[Tao Te Ching]

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David Beresford

David Beresford

David Beresford is an award-winning British journalist for the Guardian newspaper. He is also the author of Ten Men Dead, a book about the Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison near Lisburn, County Down. He was the Guardian's Irish correspondent at the time and has since become their Johannesburg correspondent.

J Beresford's Books:

[H G Wells | The Hampdenshire Wonder | The Jervaise Comedy | The Looking Glass | The Psychical Researcher Tale The Sceptical Poltergeist]

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Benson John Lossing

Benson John Lossing

Benson John Lossing (February 12, 1813 - June 3, 1891) was a prolific and popular American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War and features in Harper's Magazine. He was a charter trustee of Vassar College.

Benson Lossing's Books:

[Our Country Vol 2 | Our Country Vol I | Washington And The American Republic Vol 3]

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