Saturday, March 31, 2012

Charles Norris Williamson

Charles Norris Williamson

Charles Norris (C N) Williamson (18591920) was a British writer, motoring journalist and founder of the Black and White (magazine) who was perhaps best-known for his collaboration with his wife, Alice Muriel Williamson, in a number of novels and travelogues. Born in Exeter, Williamson was educated at University College, London, where he studied engineering. He spent eight years as a journalist on the Graphic before establishing the Black and White (magazine) in 1891 as founding editor. He published a Life of Carlyle in 1881. Several of the Williamsons' short stories and novels later became films. Charles Norris Williamson wrote many of his published works in partnership with his wife, Alice who apparently said of him "Charlie Williamson could do anything in the world except write stories": she also said "I can't do anything else. " Charles wrote some novels on his own, as did Alice after her husband's death He died at Combe Down, Bath, on Sunday 3 October 1920.



[It Happened In Egypt]


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Friday, March 30, 2012

Abi Morgan

Abi Morgan (1968-now)

Abi Morgan (born 1968) is a British playwright and screenwriteer. She won the 2003-2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.


J Morgan's Books:


[Leaves From A Field Note Book]

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (March 28, 1873 - July 19, 1935) was an American-born British writer. The daughter of a businessman, she was born in Englewood, New Jersey but at age nine her family moved to London. Although she made return visits to the United States, she lived in England for the remainder of her life. In 1908, she married the British essayist and journalist, Basil de Slincourt. During World War I she and her husband were volunteer workers in hospitals and orphanages in France. Her novels explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans. He bestsellin novel Tante was made into a 1918 film, The Impossible Woman and The Little French Girl into a 1925 film of the same name. In 1931, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Four of her books were on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1912, 1924, 1927, and 1929 as determined by the New York Times. Anne Douglas Sedgwick died in Hampstead



[A Fountain Sealed | Amabel Channice | Franklin Kane | The Nest The White Pagoda The Suicide A Forsaken Temple | Tante]

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) title=

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.



[An Old Fashioned Girl | Eight Cousins | Jos Boys And How They Turned Out A Sequel To Little Men | Little Men Life At Plumfield With Jos Boys | Little Women | The Abbots Ghost Or Maurice Trehernes Temptation]

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Anna Seward

Anna Seward

Anna Seward

Anna Seward (12 December 1747 - 25 March 1809) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.



[Original Sonnets On Various Subjects And Odes Paraphrased From Horace]


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Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)

Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.



[Bardelys The Magnificent | Captain Blood | Casanovas Alibi | Love At Arms | Mistress Wilding | Scaramouche | St Martins Summer | The Chronicles Of Captain Blood | The Historical Nights Entertainment Second Series | The Historical Nights Entertainment | The Lions Skin | The Marquis Of Carabas | The Sea Hawk | The Shame Of Motley | The Snare | The Strolling Saint | The Suitors Of Yvonne | The Tavern Knight | The Trampling Of The Lilies]

Catherine Crowe

Catherine Crowe (1790-now)

Catherine Ann Crowe, ne Stevens, (born 20 September 1790 in Borough Green, Kent, died 14 June 1872 in Folkestone), was an English novelist, story writer and playwright.



[Esther Hammond Wedding Day | Round The Fire]

Anne Compton

Anne Compton (1947-now)

Anne Compton (born 1947) is a Canadian poet, critic, and anthologist.



[Ritual Conformity]


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Monday, March 26, 2012

Charles Foster Kent

Charles Foster Kent

Charles Foster Kent, Ph.D. (1867-1925) was an American Old Testament scholar, born at Palmyra, New York, and educated at Yale (A.B., 1889; Ph.D., 1891). He studied at the University of Berlin (1891-92). He became an instructor at the University of Chicago 1893-95 and professor at Brown and at Yale



[Charles Dickens As A Reader | The Making Of A Nation | The Origin And Permanent Value Of The Old Testament]


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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films.



[Dream Days | The Golden Age | The Reluctant Dragon | The Wind In The Willows]


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Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne (1946-now)

Anthony Edward Tudor Browne (born 11 September 1946) is a British author and illustrator of children's books, with nearly forty titles to his name. He is the current Children's Laureate.


A Browne's Books:


[The Story Of The Kearsarge And Alabama]

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Hendrik Conscience

Hendrik Conscience

Hendrik Conscience title=

Henri "Hendrik" Conscience (December 3, 1812 Antwerp - September 10, 1883 Elsene) was a Belgian writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. He was the son of a Frenchman, Pierre Conscience, from Besanon, who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte, and who was appointed under-harbourmaster at Antwerp in 1811, when that city formed part of France. Hendrik's mother was a Fleming, Cornelia Balieu. When, in 1815, the French abandoned Antwerp after the Congress of Vienna, they left Pierre Conscience behind them. He was a very eccentric person, and he took up the business of buying and breaking-up worn-out vessels, of which the port of Antwerp was full after the peace. The child grew up in an old shop stocked with marine stores, to which the father afterwards added a collection of unsellable books; among them were old romances which inflamed the fancy of the child. His mother died in 1820, and the boy and his younger brother had no other companion than their grim and somewhat sinister father. In 1826 Pierre Conscience married again, this time a widow much younger than himself, Anna Catherina Bogaerts. Hendrik had long before this developed an insatiable passion for reading, and revelled all day long among the ancient, torn and dusty tomes which passed through the garret of The Green Corner on their way to destruction. Soon after his second marriage Pierre took a violent dislike to the town, sold the shop, and retired to the Kempen region which Hendrik Conscience so often describes in his books, the desolate flat land that stretches between Antwerp and Venlo. Here Pierre bought a little farm, with a great garden round it, and here, while their father was buying ships in distant havens, the boys would spend weeks, and even months, with no companion but their stepmother. At the age of seventeen Hendrik left the paternal house in the Kempen region to become a tutor in Antwerp, and to prosecute his studies, which were soon broken in upon by the Revolution of 1830. He volunteered as a private in the new Belgian army, and served in barracks at Venlo, and afterwards at Dendermonde, until 1837, when he retired with the grade of sergeant-major. Thrown in this way with Flemings of every class, and made a close observer of their mental habits, the young man formed the idea of writing in the despised idiom of the country, an idiom which was then considered too vulgar to be spoken, and much less written in, by educated, Francophone Belgians. Although, close by, across the Scheldt, the Dutch possessed a rich and honored literature, many centuries old, written in a language scarcely to be distinguished from Flemish, a foolish prejudice denied recognition to the language of the Flemish provinces of Belgium. As a matter of fact, nothing had been written in it for many years, when the separation in 1831 served to make the chasm between the nations and the languages one which could never be bridged over. It was therefore with the foresight of a prophet that Conscience wrote, in 1830: "I do not know how it is, but I confess I find in the real Flemish something indescribably romantic, mysterious, profound, energetic, even savage. If I ever gain the power to write, I shall throw myself head over ears into Flemish composition. " His poems, however, written while he was a soldier, were all in French. He received no pension when he was discharged, and going back idle to his fathers house, he determined to do the impossible, and write a Flemish book for sale. A passage in Guicciardini fired his fancy, and straightaway he wrote a series of vignettes set during the Dutch Revolt, with the title In 't Wonderjaar 1566. His father thought it so vulgar of his son to write a book in Flemish that he turned him out of doors, and the celebrated novelist of the future started for Antwerp, with a fortune which was strictly confined to two francs and a bundle of clothes. An old schoolfellow found him in the street and took him to his home; and soon various people of position, amongst them the eminent painter Wappers, interested themselves in the brilliant and unfortunate young man. Wappers even gave him a suit of clothes, and presented him to the king, who expressed a wish, which was not immediately carried out in consequence of some red tape, that the Wonderjaar should be added to the library of every Belgian school. But it was under the patronage of Leopold I that Conscience published his second work, Fantasy, in the same year, 1837. A small appointment in the provincial archives relieved him from the actual pressure of want, and in 1838 he made his first great success with the historical romance called The Lion of Flanders, which still holds its place as one of his masterpieces, and whose influence extended far beyond the strictly literary sphere.



[Argent Et Noblesse | Avondstonden | Bavo En Lieveken | De Baanwachter | De Omwenteling Van 1830 | De Ziekte Der Verbeelding | Eene Gekkenwereld | Histoire De Deux Enfants Douvrier | Hoe Men Schilder Wordt | La Nia Robada | La Tombe De Fer | Le Pays De Lor | Redevoeringen | The Amulet | The Poor Gentleman]

Friday, March 23, 2012

Ernest Raymond

Ernest Raymond

Ernest Raymond (1888 1974) was a British novelist, best known for his 1922 book, Tell England, set in World War I. His next biggest success was We, The Accused which was made into a BBC drama starring Ian Holm in 1980. He wrote over fifty novels. Raymond's post-war autobiography, Please You, Draw Near, was published in 1969. He was awarded an OBE in 1972, and died in 1974.



[Tell England]


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Thursday, March 22, 2012

E Temple Thurston

E Temple Thurston

Ernest Temple Thurston (September 23, 1879 - March 19, 1933) was an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. He was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, and his family moved to Cork when he was aged ten. In 1901 he married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden, (1875-1911). The marriage did not last and they separated in 1907 and were formally divorced in 1910. E. Temple Thurston wrote forty books from which seventeen motion pictures were made. As well, he authored several theatrical plays, three of which were performed on Broadway and four were made into motion pictures. His best known work for the stage is The Wandering Jew, a play in four parts that was performed on Broadway in 1921 and made into a film in 1933. His third wife Emily published the play as a novel in 1934. His most successful books include The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1909) and The Flower of Gloster (1911) about a canal journey in England. E. Temple Thurston died from influenza and pneumonia in London



[Sally Bishop]

Friedrich Rckert

Friedrich Rckert

Friedrich Rckert (16 May 1788 - 31 January 1866) was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.



[Rostem Und Suhrab]


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Frederick Palmer

Frederick Palmer

Frederick Palmer

Frederick Palmer (Jan 29, 1873 - Sep 2, 1958) was an American journalist and writer. He was born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The New York Press hired Palmer in 1895 as its London correspondent; and this opportunity evolved into a long career.



[My Year Of The War | The Last Shot]


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Monday, March 19, 2012

Frank Luther Mott

Frank Luther Mott

Frank Luther Mott (April 4, 1886 Rose Hill Iowa - October 23, 1964 in Columbia, Missouri) was an American historian and journalist of Quaker descent. He taught English at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa and was the head of the Journalilsm department at the University of Iowa (UI) for twenty years until his appointment as Dean of the University of Missouri (MU)'s School of Journalism in 1942. After having coined the term photojournalism in 1924, Mott was influential in the development of photojournalism education: the first photojournalism class was taught at UI during his tenure, and the first photojournalism program, directed by Clifton C. Edom, started at MU in 1943 upon his request. His book A History of American Magazines won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History and Volume 4 of said work won the Bancroft Prize in 1958.


F Mott's Books:


[The Brain And The Voice In Speech And Song]

Epicurus

Epicurus (341-270)

Epicurus (341-270)

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators. For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia, peace and freedom from fear, and aponia, the absence of pain, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or punish humans, that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space.


Epicurus's Books:


[Letter To Menoeceus | Principal Doctrines]


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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Sir Archibald Alison Baronet

Sir Archibald Alison Baronet

Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet (29 December 1792 23 May 1867) was a British lawyer, who held several prominent legal appointments, historian and baronet. He was the younger son of the Scottish cleric and author Archibald Alison.



[Travels In France During The Years 1814 1815]


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Francisco De Moncada Of Aitona

Francisco De Moncada Of Aitona

Francisco De Moncada Of Aitona title=

Francisco de Moncada, 3rd Marquis of Aytona, (1586 - 1635) was a Spanish diplomat, soldier and writer of the early 17th century. He was also a governor of the Spanish Netherlands.



[Expedicion De Catalanes Y Argoneses Al Oriente]

Saturday, March 17, 2012

A W Khan

A W Khan (1947-now)

Abdul Waheed Khan was born in 1947 of Indian nationality, holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication (1973) and a Masters degree in Agricultural Journalism (1970) from University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA), and a Masters degree in Agricultural Extension (1965) from Agra University (India). Khan is the author of a number of books and articles published in various academic journals, especially on development communication, distance education and multi-media technology applications.



[Bah World Faith | Foundations Of World Unity | The Secret Of Divine Civilization]

Tom Godwin

Tom Godwin

Tom Godwin (1915-1980) was a science fiction author. Godwin published three novels and thirty short stories. His controversial hard SF short story "The Cold Equations" is a notable example of the mid-1950s science fiction genre. "Space Prison" is perhaps a great science fiction novel.



[And Devious The Line Of Duty | Cry From A Far Planet | Space Prison | The Helpful Hand Of God | The Nothing Equation]


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Friday, March 16, 2012

Adolph Ernst Knoch

Adolph Ernst Knoch

Adolph Ernst Knoch (December 19, 1874 - March 28, 1965) was the author of numerous theological writings and a Bible publisher. Knoch founded the Concordant Publishing Concern and the Concordant Version of the Bible.



[Die Verdorrten]


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David Belasco

David Belasco

David Belasco

David Belasco (July 25, 1853 May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer.



[The Girl Of The Golden West | The Return Of Peter Grimm]


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Frances Margaret Taylor

Frances Margaret Taylor

Frances Margaret Taylor title=

Frances Margaret Taylor (name in religion Mother Magdalen of the Sacred Heart) 20 January 1832; died in London, 9 June1900) was an English nurse, editor and writer, nun, and Superior General and founder of the Roman Catholic religious congregation the Poor Servants of the Mother of God.



[Little Bear At Work And At Play]

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Felicia Skene

Felicia Skene

Felicia Mary Frances Skene (18211899) was a Scottish author, philanthropist and prison reformer in the Victorian era. Skene used the pseudonym Erskine Moir and was a friend of Florence Nightingale (18201910). There is a blue plaque for Felicia Skene, installed on 2 July 2002 by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, located at 34 St Michael's Street, Oxford, England.



[A Test Of The Truth | Penitentiaries And Reformatories | Scenes From A Silent World | The Inheritance Of Evil Or The Consequence Of Marrying A Deceased Wife Sister | The Tutor Ward Vol 1 | The Tutor Ward Vol 2]

Alexander Miller

Alexander Miller

Alexander "Lex" Miller (1908 - May 15, 1960) was a New Zealand Presbyterian minister, author, and Stanford University theologian. Violence towards black activists during the Montgomery Bus Boycott led Miller to question commitments to nonviolence as noted by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself in letter sent April 1957.


J Miller's Books:


[Girls Faults And Ideals | Making The Most Of Life | Personal Friendships Of Jesus]


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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of virtually all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.



[La Fiammetta]


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Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989)

Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) title=

Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989) was an American social and political activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, and continued practicing his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion and radical activism of that era.


J Howard's Books:


[Memoir Of William Watts Mcnair]

Avery Corman

Avery Corman

Avery Corman (born November 28, 1935, in the Bronx, New York) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novel Kramer vs. Kramer (1977) which created a sea change in attitudes toward child custody with the public and in the courts in the United States and internationally. Robert Benton wrote the screenplay and directed the movie of the same name Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep. It won 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screen Play.


Al Avery's Books:


[A Yankee Flier Over Berlin]


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Adam Mars Jones

Adam Mars Jones (1954-now)

Adam Mars-Jones (born 26 October 1954) is a British novelist and critic. He was born in London, studied at Westminster School, and read Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, and BBC Television's Newsnight Review. His first collection of stories, Lantern Lecture (1981), won a Somerset Maugham Award. Other works include Monopolies of Loss (1992) and The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis (1987), which was co-written with Edmund White. His first novel, The Waters of Thirst, was published in 1993. Blind Bitter Happiness (1997), a collection of essays, includes 'Venus Envy', which was originally published in the CounterBlasts series in 1990. Pilcrow (2008) is his second novel. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.



[A Wild Education | Another Pawn Of Fate | The Way Of The Wild]


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August Derleth

August Derleth (1909-1971)

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 - July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction and biography. A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing.



[Mcilvaine Star]

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Evarts Boutell Greene

Evarts Boutell Greene

Evarts Boutell Greene (1870 - 1947) was an American historian, born in Kobe, Japan, where his parents were missionaries. He graduated Harvard University (B.A., 1890; Ph.D., 1893), and began teaching American history (1894) at the University of Illinois, where he was also (1906-13) dean of the college of arts and literature. Called to Columbia University in 1923, Green was appointed (1926) the first De Witt Clinton professor of history and held that chair until his retirement in 1939. He also served (1936-39) as chairman of Columbia's Institute of Japanese Studies. Greene was a noted authority on the colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history. His principal works were The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America (1898); Provincial America, 1690-1740 ("American Nation" series, 1905, repr. 1964); The Foundations of American Nationality (1922; rev. ed. 1935, repr. 1968); A Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American History (1600-1800) in the City of New York (with Richard B. Morris, 1929); American Population before the Federal Census of 1790 (with Virginia D. Harrington, 1932, repr. 1953); and The Revolutionary Generation, 1763-1790 ("History of American Life" series, Vol. IV, 1943, repr. 1971). He was the grandson of the Rev. Daniel Greene and Mary Evarts, and the great-great-grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman.



[The Settling Of The Sage]

Adolf Stern

Adolf Stern

Adolf Stern (real name, Adolf Ernst) (1835-1907) was a German literary historian and poet, born in Leipzig. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Jena, and in 1868 was appointed professor of the history of literature in the Polytechnikum of Dresden. His publications include the compilation Fnfzig Jahre deutscher Dichtung (1871); two collections of essays, Aus dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert (1874), Geschichte der neuern Litteratur (seven volumes, 1882-85); Grundriss der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte (fourth edition, 1906); and editing of Hauff, Herder, and Krner, Sr. His literary works include: Gedichte (1860); fourth edition, 1900); Die Wiedertufer (1866), stories; the novels Die letzten Humanisten (1880); Camons (1887); and Die Ausgestossenen (1911), a fragment. His selected works appeared in eight volumes (Leipzig, 1908).



[The Little Immigrant]


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