William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.

William Cullen Bryant's Books:

[A Discourse On The Life | The Little People Of The Snow]

Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius (ca. 125 ADafter 180 AD), was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today.

Aulus Gellius's Books:

[Stories From Aulus Gellius]

Constantin Franois Chassebuf

Constantin Franois Chassebuf

Constantin Franois de Chassebuf, comte de Volney (3 February 1757 25 April 1820) was a French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician. He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate, but afterwards assumed the name of Volney.

C Volney's Books:

[The Ruins Or Meditation On The Revolutions Of Empires]

Donald Bain

Donald Bain (1935-now)

Donald Bain (born 1935) is a United States author and ghostwriter, having written over 80 books in his 40-year career. A graduate of Purdue University, he is the recipient of many writing awards. Bain is a professional jazz musician as well as a writer. He is married to Rene Paley-Bain, who is also a writer.

F Bain's Books:

[An Essence Of The Dusk 5th Edition | The Substance Of A Dream]

Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy (1931-now)

Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is best known for her first major play Funnyhouse of a Negro. Many of Kennedy's plays explore issues of race, kinship, and violence in American society, and many of her works are "autobiographically inspired.

E Kennedy's Books:

[With The Immortal Seventh Division]

Horace Elisha Scudder

Horace Elisha Scudder

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 Elisha Scudder's Books:

[Noah Webster | Seven Little People And Their Friends]

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]

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]

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]

John C Champion

John C Champion

John C. Champion was an American producer and screenwriter.

D Champion's Books:

[The Man Who Wasnt There | The Man Without A Head]

Guido Gezelle

Guido Gezelle (1830-1899)

Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 - 27 November 1899) was an influential Dutch language writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium.

Guido Gezelle's Books:

[Kerkhofblommen | Laatste Verzen]

Fyodor Doestoyevsky

Fyodor Doestoyevsky

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 Doestoyevsky's Books:

[The Peasant Marey]

Alexander C Irvine

Alexander C Irvine

Alexander C. Irvine is an American fantasist and science fiction writer. Many of his works have appeared under the simpler moniker "Alex Irvine. " He should not be confused with the Ulster-born author and evengelist Alexander Irvine, for whom see Antrim, County Antrim

Alexander Irvine's Books:

[From The Bottom Up | In The Glow Of A Peat Fire | My Lady Of The Chimney Corner]

Arnobius

Arnobius

Arnobius of Sicca was an Early Christian apologist, during the reign of Diocletian (284 305). According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius, before his conversion, was a distinguished rhetorician at Sicca Veneria (El Kef, Tunisia), a major Christian center in Proconsular Africa, and owed his conversion to a premonitory dream. Arnobius writes dismissively of dreams in his surviving book, so perhaps Jerome was projecting his own respect for the content of dreams. According to Jerome, to overcome the doubts of the local bishop as to the earnestness of his Christian belief he wrote an apologetic work in seven books that St. Jerome calls Adversus Gentes but which is entitled Adversus Nationes in the only (9th-century) manuscript that has survived. Jerome's reference, his remark that Lactantius was a pupil of Arnobius and the surviving treatise are all that we know about Arnobius.

Arnobius's Books:

[Arnobius Against The Heathen V1 | Arnobius Against The Heathen V2 | Arnobius Against The Heathen V3 | Arnobius Against The Heathen V4 | Arnobius Against The Heathen V5 | Arnobius Against The Heathen V6 | Arnobius Against The Heathen V7]

Armin Wolf

Armin Wolf

Armin Wolf (born August 19, 1966) is an Austrian journalist and well-known television anchor. Since 2002 he has been presenting ORF's (Austria's public television network) daily news show ZiB 2, the most respected news program in Austria with a market share of almost 30 percent. Wolf is also one of the hosts of the Sunday morning interview show Pressestunde (ORF's version of Meet the Press). For his interviews he was distinguished with numerous awards, e.g.

C Wolf's Books:

[Apis Mellifica]

William Claxton

William Claxton

William Caxton (ca. 1415~1422 ca. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. As far as is known, he was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of printed books (his London contemporaries in the same trade were all Dutch, German or French).

William Claxton's Books:

[The Mastery Of The Air]

Hermann Sudermann

Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928)

Hermann Sudermann (September 30, 1857 - November 21, 1928) was a German dramatist and novelist.

Hermann Sudermann's Books:

[Dame Care | El Deseo | El Molino Silencioso Las Bodas De Yolanda | Fires Of St John | Honor A Play In Four Acts | Iolanthe Wedding | John The Baptist A Play | Kissanporras | Magda | Morituri Three One Act Plays | Poet Lore A Quarterly Magazine Of Letters | Regina | Roses Four One Act Plays | The Indian Lily | The Joy Of Living es Lebe Das Leben]

Viktor Rydberg

Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895)

Abraham Viktor Rydberg (Jnkping, December 18, 1828 - Djursholm, September 21, 1895) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877-1895. "Primarily a classical idealist", "Viktor Rydberg, poet, novelist, essayist, idealist philosopher and one of the prominent figures in Swedish intellectual life in the latter half of the nineteenth century", has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 was "generally regarded in the first rank of Swedish novelists. " "The leading cultural figure of his day, he also wrote works on philosophy, philology, and aesthetics. " As "an idealist faithful to the Romantic tradition in poetry and thought, but with a mind receptive to the ideas of a new age, he achieved an unequalled position of authority in Swedish literature" and "with his broad range of achievements, greatly influenced Swedish cultural life" He came to be described by subsequent biographer Judith Moffett as "a 'man of letters': a journalist, novelist, poet, religious historian, an expert on Norse mythology and the history of ideas, an all-around cultural leader. " Of him, a trio of scholars at the University of Cambridge in 1951, write: "One writer, par excellence, represents the transition from idealism of the 'Nyromantik' ['New Romantic'] to the Naturalism of the '80s. Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) was a radical, largely self-educated journalist, who ended up as a professor at the newly founded University (Hgskola) of Stockholm, and the Grand Old Man of the Swedish Academy, novelist, poet, philosopher, he owes his place in the history of Swedish literature before 1879 principally to his ideological novel The Last Athenian ('Den siste Athenaren', 1859) and his philosophical treatise The Bible's Doctrine Concerning Christ (Bibelns lra om kristus, 1862). In both of these works he attacks the narrow orthodoxy of the Church, implicitly or explicitly. Rydberg was a fighter for broader perspectives and loftier ideals, in fact for a better world. " Fredrik Bk sums up Rydberg as a metaphysical: "He saw the ideas of things, not the things themselves, the eternal, the overall patterns not the shifting multicolor phenomena of this world. " "It is as an exegetic researcher that Rydberg's influence on the history of ideas is the greatest. " His work has "plainly been seen as the breakthrough of religious liberalism in Sweden. " Rydberg's works on the history of religion and comparative Indo-European studies has not been recognized to the same extent, but [p p]riority for Sweden should be given to the writer and poet Viktor Rydberg who, although an amateur, was a forerunner of comparative Indo-European studies. "He was a constant student of the customs, philosophies, and religions of the ancients, and in a utilitarian age he avoided that close analytical study of the conditions of life about him which gives us our realists of this era. " "Rydberg fell between idealism and Naturalism, for as a novelist, poet, and critic, he began as a radical journalist and ended as a professor and author of philosophical poems. " "Viktor Rydberg, perhaps the most important of Sweden's writers in the second half of the nineteenth century, whose Platonic ideas were extremely influencial", as an idealist and a romantic, had little influence on the next generation of writers, dominated by realism. "With the death of Rydberg, the last ideal barrier against the invading realism falls."

Viktor Rydberg's Books:

[De Vandrande Djaeknarne]

Christopher Dyer

Christopher Dyer (1944-now)

Christopher Charles Dyer CBE FBA (born 1944) is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.

B Dyer's Books:

[About Sugar Buying For Jobbers]

The Three Doctors Motivational Speakers

The Three Doctors Motivational Speakers

The Three Doctors is a group of African-American motivational speakers, authors, and doctors.

George Sampson's Books:

[A Day With Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy]