Friday, October 31, 2008

Antonia Barber

Antonia Barber (1932-now)

Antonia Barber (born 1932) is an English author of the books for children and adults. Barber resides in Kent and Mousehole, Cornwall. Her award winning book, The Mousehole Cat has been made into an animated film and is being adapted as a stage musical. Her real name is Barbara Anthony. She graduated from University College London, and has a husband who is a structural engineer.


H Barber's Books:


[The Aeroplane Speaks]

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Cassius Dio

Cassius Dio

Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio (Dione. lib) was a Roman consul and a noted historian writing in Greek. Dio published a history of Rome in 80 volumes, beginning with the legendary arrival of Aeneas in Italy through the subsequent founding of Rome and then to 229; a period of about 1,400 years. Of the 80 books, written over 22 years, many survive into the modern age intact or as fragments, providing modern scholars with a detailed perspective on Roman history.



[Dio Rome Vol 6 | Dio Rome Vol 4 | Dio Rome Vol Iii | Dio Rome Vol Vi | Dio Rome Volume 1 | Dio Rome Volume V Books 61 76 a D 54 211]


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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Frederick Lewis Allen

Frederick Lewis Allen

Frederick Lewis Allen (July 5, 1890 Boston, Massachusetts - February 13, 1954 New York City) was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about what was at the time recent and popular history. He studied at Groton and graduated from Harvard University in 1912 and received his Master's in 1913. He taught at Harvard briefly thereafter before becoming assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1914, and then managing editor of The Century in 1916. He began working for Harper's in 1923, becoming editor-in-chief in 1941, a position he held until shortly before his death. His wife, Dorothy Penrose Allen, died just prior to the publication of Only Yesterday. Allen's popularity coincided with increased interest in history among the book-buying public of the 1920s and 1930s. This interest was met, not by the university-employed historian, but by an amateur historian writing in his free time. Aside from Allen, these historians included Carl Sandburg, Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Southall Freeman, Henry F. Pringle, and Allan Nevins (before his Columbia appointment). His best-known books were Only Yesterday, a book chronicling American life in the 1920s, and Since Yesterday, which covered the Depression of the 1930s. His last and most ambitious book, The Big Change, was a social history of the United States from 1900 to 1950. Allen also wrote two biographies, the first of which was about Paul Revere Reynolds, a literary agent of the era. This work is notable because it contains a chapter about Stephen Crane, but is difficult to find because it was privately published.



[Since Yesterday]

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Marc Laidlaw

Marc Laidlaw (1960-now)

Marc Laidlaw (born 1960) is an American writer of science fiction and horror and also a computer game designer with Valve Software. He is perhaps most famous for writing Dad's Nuke and The 37th Mandala, and for working on the popular Half-Life series.



[Soldier Songs And Love Songs]


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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Daniel Hack Tuke

Daniel Hack Tuke

Daniel is the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. According to the biblical book, at a young age Daniel was carried off to Babylon where he became famous for interpreting dreams and rose to become one of the most important figures in the court.



[Chapters In The History Of The Insane In The British Isles]

Marcel Lecomte

Marcel Lecomte (1900-1966)

Marcel Lecomte (25 September 1900, Saint-Gilles - 19 November 1966, Brussels) was a Belgian writer, member of the Belgian surrealist movement. In 1918 he was introduced to dadaism and Eastern philosophy by Clment Pansaers. He also started to study literature and philosophy at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles that year, but he left the studies in 1920. Between 1934 and 1945 he was a teacher at a secondary school, since then he was able to make a living by writing (especially to newspapers); from 1958 he also worked as a counsellor for the Brussels Museum of Art. In 1924 he founded a group named Correspondence with Paul Noug and Camille Goemans from which he was excommunicated the following year; however, they became close again thanks to common interest in surrealism. Yet he was not a strict surrealist, being more interestered in the metaphysics of the dailiness.



[Paula The Waldensian]


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Frederick Rolfe

Frederick Rolfe (1860-1913)

Frederick Rolfe (1860-1913)

Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric.



[Don Renato An Ideal Content | Don Tarquinio]


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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Adelma Simmons

Adelma Simmons

Adelma Simmons

Adelma Grenier Simmons (December 16, 1903 - December 3, 1997) was one of the leading herbal figures in America in the 20th century. A legend for her knowledge of herbal lore and history, she was also a prolific author and sparked an interest in herb gardening across the country. She owned and operated Caprilands Herb Farm in Coventry, Connecticut for over 55 years.



[The Handbook Of Soap Manufacture]


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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty February 8, 1850 August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. From 1892 to 1895, she wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, the Century, and Harper's Youth's Companion. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included "Desiree's Baby", a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893); "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The Storm "(1898). "The Storm" is a sequel to "The 'Cadian Ball," which appeared in her first collection of short stories, Bayou Folk. Chopin also wrote two novels: At Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899), which are set in New Orleans and Grand Isle, respectively. The people in her stories are usually inhabitants of Louisiana. Many of her works are set in Natchitoches in north central Louisiana. Within a decade of her death, Chopin was widely recognized as one of the leading writers of her time. In 1915, Fred Lewis Pattee wrote, "some of [Chopin's Chopin's] work is equal to the best that has been produced in France or even in America. [She displayed] what may be described as a native aptitude for narration amounting almost to genius."



[The Awakening Other Short Stories]


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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bront (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront sisters whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.



[Jane Eyre | Shirley | The Professor | Villette | Napoleon And The Spectre | Notes On The Pseudonums Used By The Bronte Sisters]

E E Smith

E E Smith (1890-1965)

E E Smith (1890-1965)

Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., also, E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 - August 31, 1965) was a food engineer and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others. He is sometimes referred to as the father of Space Opera.



[Skylark Three]


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Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber (born February 2, 1904, Elmer, Minnesota, died December 9, 1969, Santa Monica, California, USA) was an American writer, best known for his Westerns and his detective stories. He sometimes wrote under the pen names Stephen Acre, Charles K. Boston and John K. Vedder. Gruber wrote more than 300 stories for over 40 pulp magazines, as well as more than sixty novels and more than 200 screenplays and television scripts.



[Master Of Fear | Rough Diamonds | Three Dead Merchants]


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Friday, October 17, 2008

Al Young

Al Young

Al Young (May 31, 1939, Ocean Springs, Mississippi) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. On May 15, 2005 he was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In appointing Young as Poet Laureate, the Governor praised him: "He is an educator and a man with a passion for the Arts. His remarkable talent and sense of mission to bring poetry into the lives of Californians is an inspiration. " Muriel Johnson, Director of the California Arts Council declared: "Like jazz, Al Young is an original American voice. " Youngs many books include novels, collections of poetry, essays, and memoirs. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Paris Review, Ploughshares, Essence, The New York Times, Chicago Review, Seattle Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature, Chelsea, Rolling Stone, Gathering of the Tribes, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature.


E Young's Books:


[Moor Fires]


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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Gabriel Monod

Gabriel Monod

Gabriel Monod

Gabriel Monod (March 7, 1844 - April 10, 1912) was a French historian, the nephew of Adolphe Monod.



[Renan Taine Michelet]


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Frederik Van Eeden

Frederik Van Eeden

Frederik Van Eeden

Frederik Willem van Eeden was a late 19th century and early 20th century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885. He was a prolific writer, churning out novels, poetry, plays, and essays. He was widely admired in the Netherlands in his own time for his writings, as well as his status as the first internationally prominent Dutch psychiatrist. Van Eeden's psychiatrist practice included treating his fellow Tachtiger Willem Kloos as a patient starting in 1888. His treatment of Kloos was of limited benefit, as Kloos deteriorated into alcoholism and increasing symptoms of mental illness. Van Eeden also incorporated his psychiatric insights into his later writings, such as in a deeply psychological novel called "Van de koele meren des doods" ("The cool lakes of death"). Published in 1900, the novel intimately traced the struggle of a woman addicted to morphine as she deteriorated physically and mentally. His best known written work, "De Kleine Johannes" ("Little Johannes"), which first appeared in the premiere issue of De Nieuwe Gids, was a fantastical adventure of an everyman who grows up to face the harsh realities of the world around him and the emptiness of hopes for a better afterlife, but ultimately finding meaning in serving the good of those around him. This ethic is memorialized in the line "Waar de mensheid is, en haar weedom, daar is mijn weg. " ("Where mankind is, and her woe, there is my path. ") Van Eeden sought not only to write about, but also to practice, such an ethic. He established a communal cooperative called Walden, taking inspiration from Thoreau, in Bussum, North Holland, where the residents tried to produce as much of their needs as they could themselves and to share everything in common, and where he took up a standard of living far below what he was used to. This reflected a trend toward socialism among the Tachtigers; another Tachtiger, Herman Gorter, was a founding member of the world's first Communist political party, the Dutch Social-Democratic Party, in 1909. In his early writings, he was strongly influenced by Hindu ideas of selfhood, by Boehme's mysticism, and by Fechner's panpsychism. In his later life, van Eeden became a Roman Catholic. Van Eeden visited the U.S. He had contacts with William James and other psychologists. He met Freud in Vienna. He corresponded with Hermann Hesse and was a friend of the in London (UK) living Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin. Van Eeden also had an interest in Indian philosophy. He translated Tagores Gitanjali. He coined the term Lucid dream in the sense of mental clarity, a term that nowadays is a classic term in the Dream literarure and study, meaning dreaming while knowing that one is dreaming.



[Dante En Beatrice | De Kleine Johannes | The Bride Of Dreams]


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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle (1853-1911)

Howard Pyle (1853-1911)

Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration called the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term the Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz (later called the Brandywine School). Some of his more famous students were Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Allen Tupper True, Anna Whelan Betts, Ethel Franklin Betts, Harvey Dunn and Jessie Willcox Smith. His 1883 classic The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print to this day, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur that cemented his reputation. He wrote an original novel, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His novel Men of Iron was made into a movie in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth. Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy to study mural painting in 1910, and died there in 1911 of sudden kidney infection.



[Men Of Iron | Otto Of The Silver Hand | The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood | Book Of Pirates | Pepper Salt | The Rose Of Paradise | The Ruby Of Kishmoor]

Monday, October 13, 2008

Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty (1963-now)

Louise Doughty (born 4 September 1963, Melton Mowbray) is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romany background. Doughty is an alumna of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course. In 2006 Doughty contributed a weekly column to the Daily Telegraph inviting readers to write A Novel in a Year and the following year a weekly column on the life of a writer entitled "A Writer's Year". Doughty has also presented radio programmes for the BBC on literature, and was a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.



[The Call Of The World]


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Sunday, October 12, 2008

George Augustus Henry Sala

George Augustus Henry Sala

George Augustus Henry Sala

George Augustus Henry Sala (24 November 1828 - 8 December 1895), English journalist,



[Churchwardens Manual | How To Invest Money]


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Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff (1961-now)

Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency.



[Open Source Democracy]


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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Georgi Stamatov

Georgi Stamatov

Georgi Porfiriev Stamatov ( , 25 May 1869 - 9 November 1942) was a Bulgarian writer. He was born in Tiraspol, Bessarabia (then part of the Russian Empire), but the family moved to Bulgaria after the war of liberation in 1879. He graduated from military school in Sofia, and then studied law at Sofia University. He wrote mainly short stories. His first short story was published in the journal Thought in 1893. He also acted in several movies. He died in Sofia in 1942.



[Nuntempaj Rakontoj]


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Emil Petaja

Emil Petaja (1915-2000)

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Emil Petaja (12 April 19152000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. He was the author of 13 published novels, nearly 150 short stories, numerous poems, and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Though he wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror stories, detective fiction, and poetry, Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of "weird fiction. " Petaja was also a small press publisher. In 1995, he was named the first ever Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Of Finnish descent, Petaja's best known works are a series of science fiction novels based on the Kalevala, the Finnish verse epic. Petaja's series brought him readers from around the world, while his particular mythological approach to science fiction has been discussed in scholarly publications and included in related anthologies. In a statement published in Contemporary Authors (Gale Research, 1984), Petaja commented, "My writing endeavors have mainly been to entertain, except for the factual material concerning Hannes Bok and fantasy art in general, which serves to indicate my enthusiasm for these subjects. My novels about the Finnish legendary epic Kalevala: The Land of Heroes spring from a lifelong interest in this fine poetic work. I own six translations of the Kalevala, as well as the work in the original. Both of my parents were Finnish."



[The Perfumed Peril]

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Cornelia Adair

Cornelia Adair (1837-1921)

Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair (April 6, 1837 - September 22, 1921) was the matriarch of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland, now an Irish national park, and the large JA Ranch southeast of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle, a still active cattle ranch. She is also remembered for having become a naturalized British subject and as a published diarist.



[Exercises In Knitting]

E Cobham Brewer

E Cobham Brewer

The Reverend Dr. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (10 May 1810, Norwich 6 March 1897, Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire), was the compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook, Victorian reference works. E. Cobham Brewer was the son of Elisabeth ne Kitton and John Sherren Brewer, a Norwich schoolmaster associated with the Baptist congregation of St Mary's Chapel in Norwich.



[Character Sketches Of Romance Fiction And The Drama]


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Frances Browne

Frances Browne

Frances Browne (January 16, 1816 - 1879) was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair.



[Granny Wonderful Chair]


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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Donald Keyhoe

Donald Keyhoe (1897-1988)

Donald Edward Keyhoe (June 20, 1897 - November 29, 1988) was an American Marine Corps naval aviator, writer of many aviation articles and stories in a variety of leading publications, and manager of the promotional tours of aviation pioneers, especially of Charles Lindbergh. In the 1950s he became well-known as an UFO researcher, arguing that the U.S. government should conduct appropriate research in UFO matters, and should release all its UFO files. Jerome Clark writes that "Keyhoe was widely regarded as the leader in the field" of ufology in the 1950s and early-to-mid 1960s.



[The Flying Saucers Are Real | The Staffel Invisible]


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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Feng Menglong

Feng Menglong

Feng Menglong was a Chinese vernacular writer/poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in then Changzhou now Suzhou in Jiangsu Province. Feng was a proponent of the school of Li Zhi which supported the importance of human feelings and behavior in literature. Most of his literary work was in editing and compiling histories, almanacs, novels, etcetera. Two noteworthy novels of his are Pingyao Zhuan and Qing Shi. Another of his novels has recently drawn more attention and turned into a TV show is Dongzhou Lieguo Zhi (Romance of Eastern Zhou Kingdoms). In 1620 he published the Gujin Xiaoshuo ("Stories Old and New").



[Stories From A Ming Collection]


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Monday, October 6, 2008

Josiah Ober

Josiah Ober

Josiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist. He is currently the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University. His teaching and research links ancient Greek history and philosophy with modern political theory and practice. Ober was educated at the University of Minnesota (B.A., Major in History, 1975) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D., Department of History, 1980). He was a Professor of Ancient History at Montana State University (1980-1990), and then at Princeton University (1990-2006). He has received fellowships from numerous institutions, including the American Council of Learned Societies (1989-90) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1997). He delivered the 2002-2003 Sigmund H. Danziger Jr Memorial Lecture at the University of Chicago http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Sigmund_H. _Danziger,_Jr. _Memorial_Lecture_in_the_Humanities. Ober was a student of the distinguished American ancient historian Chester Starr, and has been the teacher of many scholars, such as the classicist John Ma and the political theorist Ryan Balot. His early work has been criticized by scholars such as M.H. Hansen for over-emphasizing the ideological aspect of Athenian democracy against its institutional dimension, and his more recent writing has been accused by P.J. Rhodes of abandoning scholarly impartiality in favour of democratic advocacy. On the whole, however, Ober's work has been well received. For example, Paul Cartledge has called Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens 'a seminal work', and Jennifer Roberts has called Political Dissent in Democratic Athens 'a major contribution to a dialogue of enormous import'.


C Ober's Books:


[Out Of The Fog]


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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Cassius Dionysius

Cassius Dionysius

Cassius Dionysius of Utica was an ancient Greek agricultural writer of the 2nd century BC. The Roman nomen, Cassius, combined with the Greek cognomen, Dionysius, make it likely that he was a slave (perhaps a prisoner of war), originally Greek-speaking, who was owned and afterwards freed by a Roman of the gens Cassia. Cassius Dionysius compiled a farming manual in Greek, now lost.



[Against The Sabellians | Containing Epistles Or Fragments Of Epistles | Containing Various Sections Of The Works | The Works Of Dionysius]


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Friday, October 3, 2008

Otis A Singletary

Otis A Singletary

Otis Arnold Singletary (October 31, 1921 - September 21, 2003) was a historian and served as the 8th president of the University of Kentucky.



[Adsl Bandwidth Management Howto]


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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Amanda Mckittrick Ros

Amanda Mckittrick Ros (1860-1939)

Anna Margaret Ross (ne McKittrick; 8 December 1860 - 2 February 1939), known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. Her works were not read widely, and her eccentric, over-written, "purple" circumlocutory writing style is alleged by some critics to be some of the worst prose and poetry ever written.



[Irene Iddesleigh]