Black Francis

Black Francis (1965-now)

Black Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV on April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with 4AD, he left the label and formed a backing band, Frank Black and the Catholics. He reformed the Pixies in 2004 and continues to release solo records and tour as a solo artist, having re-adopted his current stage name in 2007. His vocal style has varied from a screaming, yowling delivery as lead vocalist of the Pixies to a more measured and melodical style in his solo career. In a recent interview on CBC's The Hour, Black described his musical transformation: "Pixies were quite abstract in their repertoire, it was kind of surrealist, kind of drop-out lyrics, but instinctively I knew I wasn't going to sing about all of my 'hard times' or whatever because it wouldn't have rang true. Now I've had a good life, I've had some ups and downs like everybody and so you feel you could be a little more Leonard Cohen or something. " His cryptic lyrics mostly explore unconventional subjects, such as surrealism, incest and Biblical violence, along with science fiction and surf culture. His use of atypical meter signatures, loud-quiet dynamics and distinct preference for live-to-two-track recording in his career as a solo artist give him a distinct style within alternative rock. As frontman of the Pixies, his songs received praise and citations from contemporaries, including Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Cobain once said that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was his attempt at trying to "rip off the Pixies."

Charles Thompson's Books:

[Biography Of A Slave]

Brian Oswald Donn Byrne

Brian Oswald Donn Byrne

Donn Byrne (born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne) (20 November, 1889 18 June 1928) was an Irish novelist. He was born in New York City where his Irish parents were on a business trip at the time, and soon after returned with them to Ireland. He grew up being equally fluent in Irish and English, growing up in an area where Gaelic was still spoken.

Brian Oswald Donn Byrne's Books:

[Messer Marco Polo | The Wind Bloweth]

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Sam Enrico Williams

Sam Enrico Williams (1979-now)

Sam Enrico Williams (born 15 September 1979) is a British magazine publisher, founder and currently the editor of Tramp. He was educated at Crofton Park and attended Lewisham College.

Sam Williams's Books:

[Free As In Freedom]

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Francisco De Moncada 3rd Marquis Of Aitona

Francisco De Moncada 3rd Marquis Of Aitona

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.

D Francisco De Moncada's Books:

[Expedicion De Catalanes Y Argoneses Al Oriente]

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Frank H Spearman

Frank H Spearman

Frank Hamilton Spearman (September 6, 1859 - December 29, 1937) was an American author. He was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads. Although he wrote prolifically about railroads, his actual career was that of a bank president in McCook, Nebraska and did not himself work for a railroad. Spearman was also a devout Roman Catholic convert and held political views best described as proto-libertarian, both of which beliefs are also reflected in his novels. His western novel Whispering Smith was made into a movie on six separate occasions, three silent films in 1915, 1926, and 1927, with later versions in 1935, 1948 and 1951. In 1961, NBC aired twenty episode of the television series Whispering Smith, starring Audie Murphy, a film star and World War II hero in the title role, and Guy Mitchell as detective George Romack.

Frank Spearman's Books:

[Held For Orders | Jimmy The Wind | The Daughter Of A Magnate | The Mcwilliams Special | The Mountain Divide | The Nerve Of Foley | The Sewing Machine Story | Laramie Holds The Range | Nan Of Music Mountain | Whispering Smith]

Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins is a British writer.

Charlotte Higgins's Books:

[The Angel Children]

Po Baroja

Po Baroja (1872-1956)

Po Baroja y Nessi (December 28, 1872 October 30, 1956) was a Spanish Basque writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family, his brother Ricardo was a painter and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja was a well known anthropologist. He was born in San Sebastian, Spain. Although educated as a physician, Baroja only practised this trade briefly. As a matter of fact, he would use his student's memories - some of them he would consider terrible - as the raw material for his novel "The Tree of Knowledge". He also managed the family bakery for a short time and ran unsuccessfully on two occasions for a seat at the Cortes (Spanish parliament) as a Radical Republican. Baroja's true calling, however, was always writing, which he began seriously at the age of 13. His first novel --La casa de Aizgorri (The House of Aizgorri, 1900)-- is part of a trilogy called La Tierra Vasca. This trilogy also includes El Mayorazgo de Labraz (The Lord of Labraz, 1903) which became one of his most popular novels in Spain. However, he is best known internationally by another trilogy entitled La lucha por la vida (The Struggle for Life, 1922-1924) which offers a vivid depiction of life in Madrid's slums. John Dos Passos greatly admired these works and wrote about them. Another major work --Memorias de un Hombre de Accin (Memories of a Man of Action, 1913-1931)-- offers a depiction of one of his ancestors who lived in the Basque region during the Carlist uprising in the 19th century. Another of his trilogies is called La mar (The sea) and comprises La estrella del capitn Tximista, Los Pilotos de altura, and Los mercaderes de esclavos. Baroja also wrote the biography of Juan Manuel Antonio Julian Van Halen, a mariner who lived in the late 18th century. However, some believe his masterpiece to be El rbol de la ciencia (1911), a pessimistic Bildungsroman that depicts the futility of the pursuit of knowledge and of life in general. The title is ironically symbolic: The more the chief protagonist Andres Hurtado learns about and experiences life, the more pessimistic he feels and the more futile his life seems. In keeping with Spanish literary tradition, Baroja often wrote in a pessimistic, picaresque style. His deft portrayal of the characters and settings brought the Basque region to life much as Benito Prez Galds' works offered an insight into Madrid. Baroja's works were often lively, but could be lacking in plot and are written in an abrupt, vivid, yet impersonal style. Sometimes he is even accused of grammatical errors, which he never denied. Baroja as a young man believed loosely in anarchistic ideals, as other members of the '98 Generation. However, later he would derive into simple admiration of men of action, somehow similar to Nietzsche's superman. His vitalistic vision of life -although pessimistic- led his novels, his ideas and his figure to be considered somehow a precursor of a kind of Spanish fascism. In any case, he was not loved by Catholic and traditionalist ideologists and his life was at risk during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Ernest Hemingway was greatly influenced by Baroja.

Pio Baroja's Books:

[Zalacain El Aventurero]

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Eugene Walter

Eugene Walter

Eugene Ferdinand Walter, Jr. (November 30, 1921 - March 29, 1998) was an American screenwriter, poet, short-story author, actor, puppeteer, gourmet chef, cryptographer, translator, editor, costume designer and well-known raconteur. During his years in Paris, he was nicknamed Tum-te-tum. A friend once observed that Walter had lived a "pixilated wonderland of a life."

Eugene Walter's Books:

[The Easiest Way Representative Plays By American]

Dwight V Swain

Dwight V Swain

Dwight Vreeland Swain (19151992), born in Rochester, Michigan, was an American writer. His first published story was "Henry Horn's Super Solvent", which appeared in Fantastic Adventures in 1941. He contributed stories in the science fiction, mystery, Western, and action adventure genres to a variety of pulp magazines. His first published book was The Transposed Man (1955), which appeared as Ace Double D-113, bound dos--dos with J.T. McIntosh's One in Three Hundred. He joined the staff in the extremely successful Professional Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma training writers of commercial fiction and film. He pioneered scripting documentaries and educational/instructional films using dramatic techniques rather than the previously common talking heads. In the 1960s, he scripted a motion picture, Stark Fear, starring Beverly Garland and Keith Toby. He later wrote non-fiction books about writing, including Techniques of the Selling Writer, Film Scriptwriting, Creating Characters, and Scripting for Video and Audiovisual Media, and was much in demand as a speaker at writers' conferences throughout the US and Mexico.

Dwight Swain's Books:

[Henry Horn X Ray Eye Glasses | The Transposed Man]

Alan K Simpson

Alan K Simpson (1931-now)

Alan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States senator from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party. His father, Milward L. Simpson, was also a member of the U.S. Senate from Wyoming (19621967) and a former governor of Wyoming (19551959) as well.

A Simpson's Books:

[Days Of Heaven Upon Earth]

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Abraham Cahan

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)

Abraham "Abe" Cahan (July 7, 1860 - August 31, 1951) was a Lithuanian-born American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician.

Abraham Cahan's Books:

[The Imported Bridegroom | The Rise Of David Levinsky | A Sweatshop Romance | Circumstances | Yekl A Tale Of The New York Ghetto]

John Kendrick Bangs

John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 January 21, 1922) was an American author, editor and satirist. He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father was a lawyer in New York City. He went to Columbia University from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines. After graduation in 1883, Bangs entered Columbia Law School but left in 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life under Edward S. Martin. Bangs contributed many articles and poems to the magazine between 1884 and 1888. During this period, Bangs published his first books. In 1888 Bangs left Life to work at Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Young People. From 1889 to 1900 he held the title of Editor of the Departments of Humor for all three Harper's magazines and from 1899 to 1901 served as active editor of Harper's Weekly. Bangs also served for a short time (January-June, 1889) as the first editor of Munsey's Magazine and became editor of the American edition of the Harper-owned Literature from January to November, 1899. He left Harper & Brothers in 1901 and became editor of the New Metropolitan magazine in 1903. In 1904 he was appointed editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine of its day. In this period, he revived his earlier interest in drama. In 1906 he switched his focus to the lecture circuit. Agnes Hyde Bangs, his wife with whom he had three sons, died in 1903. Bangs then married Mary Gray. In 1907 they moved from Yonkers to Ogunquit, Maine. John Kendrick Bangs died from stomach cancer in 1922 at age fifty-nine, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

John Kendrick Bangs's Books:

[A House Boat On The Styx | Mrs Raffles | Pursuit Of The House Boat | R Holmes Co | The Enchanted Type Writer]

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Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

Giordano Bruno (1548 February 17, 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, who is best known as a proponent of the infinity of the universe. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in identifying the Sun as just one of an infinite number of independently moving heavenly bodies: he is the first European man to have conceptualized the universe as a continuum where the stars we see at night are identical in nature to the Sun. He was burned at the stake by authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. After his death he gained considerable fame; in the 19th and early 20th centuries, commentators focusing on his astronomical beliefs regarded him as a martyr for free thought and modern scientific ideas. Recent assessments suggest that his ideas about the universe played a smaller role in his trial than his pantheist beliefs, which differed from the interpretations and scope of God held by Catholicism. In addition to his cosmological writings, Bruno also wrote extensive works on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. More recent assessments, beginning with the pioneering work of Frances Yates, suggest that Bruno was deeply influenced by the astronomical facts of the universe inherited from Arab astrology, Neoplatonism and Renaissance Hermeticism. Other recent studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial paradigms of geometry to language.

Giordano Bruno's Books:

[The Heroic Enthusiast Part Ii | The Heroic Enthusiasts]

Conrad Busken Huet

Conrad Busken Huet

Conrad Busken Huet (December 28, 1826, The Hague - 1 May 1886, Paris), was a Dutch literary critic. He was trained for the Church, and, after studying at Geneva and Lausanne, was appointed pastor of the Walloon chapel in Haarlem in 1851. In 1863 conscientious scruples obliged him to resign his charge, and Busken Huet, after attempting journalism, went out to Java in 1868 as the editor of a newspaper. Before this time, however, he had begun his career as a polemical man of letters, although it was not until 1872 that he was made famous by the first series of his Literary Fantasies, a title under which he gradually gathered in successive volumes all that was most durable in his work as a critic. His one novel, Lidewyde, was written under strong French influences. Returning from the East Indies, Busken Huet settled for the remainder of his life in Paris. For the last quarter of a century he had been the acknowledged dictator in all questions of Dutch literary taste. Perfectly honest, desirous to be sympathetic, widely read, and devoid of all sectarian obstinacy, Busken Huet introduced into Holland the light and air of Europe. He made it his business to break down the narrow prejudices and the still narrower self-satisfaction of his countrymen, without endangering his influence by a mere effusion of paradox. He was a brilliant writer, who would have been admired in any language, but whose appearance in a literature so stiff and dead as that of Holland in the fifties was dazzling enough to produce a sort of awe and stupefaction. The posthumous correspondence of Busken Huet has been published, and adds to our impression of the vitality and versatility of his mind. Also, Huet used papers by Peter Thaborita for his description of Pier Gerlofs Donia.

Conrad Busken Huet's Books:

[Lidewyde]

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Hannah More

Hannah More (1745-1833)

Hannah More (2 February 1745 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, Romantic and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.

Hannah More's Books:

[Essays On Various Subjects | Percy]

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Henry Blake Fuller

Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929)

Henry Blake Fuller (January 9, 1857 1929) was an American novelist and short story writer, born in Chicago, Illinois.

Henry Blake Fuller's Books:

[Bertram Cope Year | On The Stairs | The Cliff Dwellers]

Karl May

Karl May (1842-1912)

Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 March 30, 1912) was a German writer, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East. In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America. May also wrote poetry and a play, as well as composing music; he was proficient with several musical instruments. May's musical version of Ave Maria became very well known. Many of his works were filmed, adapted for the stage, processed to audio dramas or transcribed into comics.

Karl May's Books:

[Das Hamail | Durch Die Wuste | Durchs Wilde Kurdistan | Von Bagdad Nach Stambul | Winnetou]

William F Kirk

William F Kirk

William Frederick Kirk (1877-1927) was a well-known poet, songwriter, humorist and baseball writer. A longtime newspaperman, he first worked at The Chippewa Falls Herald and The Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1905 he signed a contract with the Hearst organization and moved to New York, where he was employed at two of William Randolph Hearsts papers: The New York American and The New York Evening Journal. After returning to Chippewa Falls in 1918 he continued working as a nationally syndicated columnist.

William Kirk's Books:

[The Norsk Nightingale]

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (as in French, ne Aikin, 20 June 1743 9 March 1825) was a prominent English Romantic poet, essayist, and children's author. A "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when female professional writers were rare. She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative children's writer; her primers provided a model for pedagogy for more than a century. Her essays demonstrated that it was possible for a woman to be publicly engaged in politics, and other women authors emulated her. Even more important, her poetry was foundational to the development of Romanticism in England. Barbauld was also a literary critic, and her anthology of 18th-century British novels helped establish the canon as known today. Barbauld's literary career ended abruptly in 1812 with the publication of her poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticized Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars. Vicious reviews shocked Barbauld and she published nothing else during her lifetime. Her reputation was further damaged when many of the Romantic poets she had inspired in the heyday of the French Revolution turned against her in their later, more conservative, years. Barbauld was remembered only as a pedantic children's writer during the 19th century, and largely forgotten during the 20th century, but the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1980s renewed interest in her works and restored her place in literary history.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Books:

[Eighteen Hundred And Eleven]

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Jackson van Dyke (10 November 1852 10 April 1933, aged 80) was an American author, educator, and clergyman.

Henry Van Dyke's Books:

[The Spirit Of Christmas | Days Off | Fighting For Peace | Fisherman Luck | Golden Stars | Joy Power | Little Rivers | Music And Other Poems | Out Of Doors In The Holy Land | The Americanism Of Washington | The Blue Flower | The Broken Soldier And The Maid Of France | The First Christmas Tree | The House Of Rimmon | The Lost Word | The Mansion | The Poems Of Henry Van Dyke | The Red Flower | The Ruling Passion | The Sad Shepherd]

James Cuthbert Hadden

James Cuthbert Hadden (1861-1914)

J. Cuthbert Hadden (18611914) was a prolific Scottish author, journalist, biographer and organist. He was born in Banchory, Aberdeenshire on 9th September 1861. His father was James Hadden, a general labourer, and his mother was Elizabeth Mathieson. He began his working life as a booksellers assistant in Aberdeen and afterwards studied music in London while employed in the publishing house of George Routledge & Sons. He entered the musical profession and returned to Aberdeen as an organist. In 1881, he became organist of St Michaels Parish Church, Crieff. In 1886, he married Elizabeth Couper Gordon and they had one daughter. He removed to Edinburgh in 1889, where he abandoned music in favour of literature and his remarkable literary output is shown below. His recreations are listed as 'walking and gardening. ' Hadden wrote at least 98 articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is taken from the following site http://en. wikisource. org/wiki/Author:James_Cuthbert_Hadden though it may not be complete. Articles written by him in the DNB were designated by the initials "J. C. H. He died in Edinburgh on 2nd May 1914.

J Cuthbert Hadden's Books:

[Haydn]

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Benito Prez Galds

Benito Prez Galds (1843-1920)

Benito Prez Galds (May 10, 1843 - January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist. Considered second only to Cervantes in stature, he was the leading Spanish realist novelist. He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, and, when nineteen years old, he moved to Madrid, where he spent most of his adult life. In Spain, his most popular works are the early Episodios nacionales (46 volumes) and Fortunata y Jacinta, while outside Spain his Novelas espaolas contemporneas are better known. The early novels mix historical and fictional characters and are the result of documentary research. As in Balzac's novels, some characters reappear in different novels. They cover the time from 1805 to the end of the 19th century, providing glimpses of Prez Galds's radical and anti-clerical views, which are developed in the contemporary novels. In Doa Perfecta (1876) a young radical arrives to a stiflingly clerical town. In Marianela (1878) a young man regains his eyesight after a life of blindness and rejects his best friend Marianela for her ugliness. In Miau (1888) a pretentious family lose their livelihood when the father, an aged civil servant, loses his job because of a change in government, and eventually kills himself. Prez Galds's masterpiece is Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-1887). Almost as long as War and Peace, it concerns the fortunes of four characters: a young man-about-town, his wife, his lower-class mistress, and her husband. ngel Guerra (1891) tells of an unbalanced man who attempts to win a devout and inaccessible woman, swinging from agnosticism to Catholicism in the process. In 1886 then prime minister Prxedes Mateo Sagasta appointed him as the (absent) deputy for the town and district of Guayama, Puerto Rico at the Madrid parliament; he never visited the place, but had a representative inform him of the status of the area, and felt a duty to represent its inhabitants appropriately. In 1897, Prez Galds was elected to the Real Academia Espaola (Royal Spanish Academy). In 1907 he became a deputy for the Republican Party in the parliament. He went blind in 1912 but continued to dictate his books for the rest of his life. Prez Galds died at the age of 76. Shortly before his death, a statue in his honour was constructed in the Parque del Retiro, the most popular park in Madrid, financed solely by public donations. Galds was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. He remains popular in Spain, and galdosistas (Galds researchers) considered him Spain's equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. As recently as 1950, few of his works were available translated to English, although he has slowly become popular in the Anglophone world. While his plays are generally considered to be less successful than his novels, Realidad (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre. His novels have yielded many cinematic adaptations: Beauty in Chains (Doa Perfecta) was directed by Elsie Jane Wilson in 1918; Viridiana (1961), by Luis Buuel, is based upon Halma; Buuel also adapted Nazarn (1959) and Tristana (1970); La duda was filmed in 1972 by Rafael Gil, El Abuelo (1988) (The Grandfather), by Jos Luis Garci, was internationally released a year later; it previously had been adapted as the Argentine film, El Abuelo (1954). The Galds museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, features a portrait of the writer by Joaqun Sorolla.

Benito Perez Galdos's Books:

[Dona Perfecta | Fortunata Y Jacinta | Cadiz | Electra | Heath Modern Language Series Mariucha | La De Bringas | Marianela | Misericordia | Bailen | La Desheredada | La Fontana De Oro | Tormento]

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George Macdonald

George Macdonald (1824-1905)

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S. Lewis who wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier. " G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence. " Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling. " Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.

George Macdonald's Books:

[Lilith | Phantastes | The Princess And Curdie | The Princess And The Goblin | A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul | A Double Story | A Hidden Life And Other Poems | Adela Cathcart Vol 1 | Adela Cathcart Vol 2 | Adela Cathcart Vol 3 | At The Back Of The North Wind | Cross Purposes And The Shadows | England Antiphon | Far Above Rubies | Heather And Snow | Home Again | Hope Of The Gospel | Miracles Of Our Lord | Phantastes A Faerie Romance | Portent And Other Stories The | Rampolli | Ranald Bannerman Boyhood | Salted With Fire | Seaboard Parish Vol 1 | Seaboard Parish Vol 2 | Seaboard Parish Vol 3 | The Day Boy And The Night Girl | The Elect Lady | The Flight Of The Shadow | The Golden Key | The History Of Gutta Percha Willie | The Light Princess]

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Jan Jakob Lodewijk Ten Kate

Jan Jakob Lodewijk Ten Kate

Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (December 23, 1819 - December 24, 1889), Dutch divine, prose writer and poet, was born at The Hague. He started in life as a lawyer's clerk. It was his friend, Dr Heldring, pastor at Hemmen, in Gelderland, who, discovering in Ten Kate the germs of poetical genius, enabled him to study theology at the University of Utrecht

J L Ten Kate's Books:

[Nieuwe Bloemlezing Uit De Dichtwerken Van J J L Ten Kate]

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Alan G Thomas

Alan G Thomas

Alan G. Thomas, born on 19 October, 1911, was a Bournemouth-based antiquarian bookseller (of Commin's Bookshop, Bournemouth, England), bibliophile and Lawrence Durrell scholar. He came to know the young writers-in-the-making Lawrence and Gerald Durrell soon after their family moved to Bournemouth in 1932 'becoming a kind of extra brother to the boys and a lifelong friend' and correspondent.

J Thomas's Books:

[Froudacity]

Alfred Hermann Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried (11 November 1864 - 5 May 1921) was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911.

Hermann Lns's Books:

[Der Wehrwolf]

John Peel

John Peel (1954-now)

John Peel (born 1954) is a British writer, best known for his books connected to several television series. He has written under several pseudonyms, including John Vincent and Nicholas Adams. He lives in Long Island, New York and his wife is a U.S. citizen, but Peel still travels under a British passport.

W Peel's Books:

[Round Games With Cards]

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Baird T Spalding

Baird T Spalding (1872-1953)

Baird Thomas Spalding (18721953) was an American writer. He is the author of the spiritual book series : Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.

J Spalding's Books:

[Education And The Higher Life | Means And Ends Of Education]

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Isabel Mackay

Isabel Mackay (1875-1928)

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (November 25, 1875 August 15, 1928), born Isabel Ecclestone Macpherson, was a Canadian writer.

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay's Books:

[Fires Of Driftwood]

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Ezra Meeker

Ezra Meeker

Ezra Meeker (December 29, 1830 - December 3, 1928) was an early pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart as a young man. Beginning in his 70s, he worked tirelessly to memorialize the trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. He was the principal founder of Puyallup, Washington. Meeker was born in Huntsville, Ohio, to Jacob and Phoebe Meeker; his family relocated to Indiana in 1840.

Ezra Meeker's Books:

[Ox Team Days On The Oregon Trail]

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Isabelo De Los Reyes

Isabelo De Los Reyes

Isabelo de los Reyes, Sr., also known as Don Belong (July 7, 1864 - October 10, 1938), was a prominent Filipino politician, writer and labor activist in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was the founder of the Aglipayan Church, an independent Philippine national church. For his writings and activism with labor unions, he was called the Father of Filipino Socialism. As a young man, he followed his mother's footsteps by initially turning to writing as a career; he won a prize at the age of 23 for his first book. He became a journalist, editor, and publisher in Manila, and was imprisoned in 1897 for revolutionary activities. He was deported to Spain, where he was jailed until 1898. While living and working in Madrid, he was influenced by the writings of European socialists and Marxists. Returning to the Philippines in 1901, he founded the first labor union in the country. He also was active in seeking independence from the United States. After serving in the Philippine Senate, he settled into private life and religious writing.

Isabelo De Los Reyes's Books:

[Ang Singsing Nang Dalagang Marmol]