Christopher Phelps

Christopher Phelps (1965-now)

Christopher Phelps (born 1965) is an American political and intellectual historian of the twentieth century. The subjects of his research and writing include philosophical pragmatism, concepts of class and labor in social thought, the fate of the American Left and the socialist ideal, and ideas of race in American and African American history. Phelps teaches in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham in England, having previously taught history at the Ohio State University, the University of Oregon, and Simon Fraser University in Canada. He has received the Fulbright Award twice, to teach philosophy at the University of Pcs in Hungary in 2000 and American Studies at the University of d in Poland in 2004-2005.

Ah Phelps's Books:

[The Merchants Of Venus]

Miguel De Unamuno

Miguel De Unamuno (1864-1936)

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.

Miguel De Unamuno's Books:

[San Manuel Bueno Martir]

Clara Morris

Clara Morris (1849-1925)

Clara Morris (March 17, 1849 November 20, 1925) (her birth date is sometimes given as 1846/48) was an American actress.

Clara Morris's Books:

[Stage Confidences]

Hermann Hagedorn

Hermann Hagedorn

Hermann Hagedorn (1882, New York City - d. 1964) was an American author, poet and biographer. He was born in New York City and educated at Harvard University, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University. From 1909 to 1911, he was an instructor in English at Harvard. Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. He also served as Secretary and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Drawing upon his friendship with Roosevelt, Hagedorn was able to elicite the support of Roosevelt's friends and associates' personal recollections in his biography of TR which was first published in 1919 and then updated in 1921 and which is oriented toward children. The book has a summary questions for young readers at the end of each chapter. Drawing on the same friends and associates of Roosevelt, Hagedorn also published the first serious study of TR's experience as a rancher in the Badlands after the death of his wife and mother in 1884. Hagedorn's access to TR's associates in these two books has been utilized by historian, Edmund Morris

Hermann Hagedorn's Books:

[Makers Of Madness]

Henry Hasse

Henry Hasse

Henry Louis Hasse (1913 - 1977) was an American science fiction author and fan. He is probably best known for being the co-author on Ray Bradbury's first published story, "Pendulum" (November 1941 in Super Science Stories). Hasse's novelette "He Who Shrank" is anthologized in both Isaac Asimov's memoir of 1930s science fiction Before the Golden Age and in the classic 1946 collection Adventures in Time and Space, edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas.

Henry Hasse's Books:

[One Purple Hope | The Beginning | Walls Of Acid | Were Friends Now]

Nat Schachner

Nat Schachner

Nat Schachner (full name Nathaniel Schachner; January 16, 1895 - 1955), also appearing as "Nathan Schachner" and under other bylines, was an American author. His first published story was "The Tower of Evil," written in collaboration with Arthur Leo Zagat and appearing in the Summer 1930 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly. Schachner, who was trained as a lawyer and a chemist, achieved his greatest success writing biographies of early American historical figures, after about a decade of writing science fiction short stories. Schachner was one of Isaac Asimov's favorite authors. Schachner's first eleven stories were all written with Zagat, and after their collaboration dissolved he wrote under his own name and the pseudonyms Chan Corbett and Walter Glamis. He only published one science fiction novel in book form, Space Lawyer (1953), which originally appeared in Astounding in 1941. His science-fiction career went into a decline after 1941, possibly from changing expectations of the editorial and reading public, or possibly because of increasing time spent on his historical works. In addition to his works of science fiction, he is the author of a number of non-genre historical novels and several biographies of early American political figures, most notably his two volume work on Thomas Jefferson.

Nat Schachner's Books:

[Crystallized Thought]

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]

Ellen Emerson White

Ellen Emerson White

Ellen Emerson White is an American author who has written a number of young adult fiction novels.

Ellen White's Books:

[Desire Of Ages | Steps To Christ | The Great Controversy Between Christ And Satan]

Dicks

Dicks (1823-1891)

Edmond de la Fontaine (24 July 1823 24 June 1891), better known by his pen name of Dicks, was a Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language. He is considered the national poet of Luxembourg, and, along with Michel Lentz and Michel Rodange, one of the most important figures in the history of Luxembourgian literature. In addition, his Luxemburger Sitten und Bruche was one of the most influential early ethnographies on the Luxembourgian people.

Edmond About's Books:

[Germaine | Germana | La Mre De La Marquise | La Nariz De Un Notario | Lhomme Loreille Casse | The Man With The Broken Ear | The Roman Question | La Mere De La Marquise]

Gil Student

Gil Student (1972-now)

Gil Ofer Student (born August 8, 1972) is the Managing Editor of OU Press, and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism, including modern, controversial topics. He is an ordained non-pulpit serving Orthodox rabbi.

A Student's Books:

[Etheric Vision And What It Reveals]

Back Alley John

Back Alley John (1955-2006)

Back Alley John (b. John Carl David Wilson, Ottawa, Ontario, February 10, 1955; d. Calgary, Alberta, June 22, 2006) was a Canadian blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player.

G Alley's Books:

[Report Of The National Library Service For The Year Ended 31]

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.

Rafael Sabatini's Books:

[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.

Catherine Crowe's Books:

[Esther Hammond Wedding Day | Round The Fire]

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]

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]

Terence Lucy Greenidge

Terence Lucy Greenidge

Terence Lucy Greenidge (14 January 1902 18 December 1970) was an English author and actor. He was a first generation Barbadian born in England and second son of Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (who came up to study and remained at Oxford as an academic) and his wife Edith Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of William Lucy, at that time the sole owner of Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle Ironworks, in Walton Well Road, Jericho, Oxford. The Greenidge family trace their ancestry in Barbados to John of Greenwich who left London on 2 May 1635 on the ship Alexander. Within one generation the etymon, meaning Green Port or Trading Place of the surname had assumed the distinctly West Indian orthographic format of Greenidge, whilst maintaining a very similar phenomic identity. Greenidge was a friend of Evelyn Waugh, whom he met at Oxford, and collaborated with him in producing the Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama. Evelyn Waugh in Letters (editor by Charles E. Linck) was published posthumously in 1994, which details many of Greenidge's recollections of Evelyn Waugh.

A J Greenidge's Books:

[A History Of Rome Vol 1]

Charles Timothy Brooks

Charles Timothy Brooks

Charles Timothy Brooks (June 20, 1813 June 14, 1883) was a noted American translator of German works, a poet, Transcendentalist and a Unitarian pastor.

Charles Brooks's Books:

[Chimney Pot Papers | Journeys To Bagdad | Wappin Wharf]

James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

James Branch Cabell, pronounced /kbl/ (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his works were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare. " Interest in Cabell declined in the 1930s, a decline that has been attributed in part to his failure to move out of his fantasy niche. Alfred Kazin said that "Cabell and Hitler did not inhabit the same universe". Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. H. L. Mencken disputes Cabell's claim to romanticism, characterized him as "really the most aciduous of all the anti-romantics. His gaudy heroes... chase dragons precisely as stockbrockers play golf. " Cabell saw art as an escape from life, but once the artist creates his ideal world, he finds that it is made up of the same elements that make the real one.

James Branch Cabell's Books:

[Jurgen A Comedy Of Justice]

Douard Glissant

Douard Glissant

douard Glissant is a French writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as being one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. He studied at the Lyce Schoelcher, named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, where the poet Aim Csaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher. Csaire had met Lon Damas there; later in Paris they would join with Lopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the concept of ngritude. Csaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him; another student at the school at that time was Frantz Fanon. Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his PhD, having studied ethnography at the Muse de l'Homme and History and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959, as a result of which Charles de Gaulle barred him from leaving France between 1961 and 1965. He returned to Martinique in 1965 and founded the Institut martiniquais d'tudes, as well as Acoma, a social sciences publication. He now divides his time between Martinique, Paris and New York, where he has been visiting professor of French Literature at CUNY since 1995. In January 2006, douard Glissant was asked by Jacques Chirac to take on the presidency of a new cultural centre devoted to the history of slave trade. An English translation of Chirac's speech can be found here

Edouard Le Roy's Books:

[A New Philosophy Henri Bergson]

Craig Scanlon

Craig Scanlon (1960-now)

Craig Scanlon (born 7 December 1960) is a British guitarist, best known as a member of The Fall between 1979 and 1995. During this period he co-wrote over 120 of the group's songs; Mark E. Smith excepted, this tally is unmatched by any other musician to have passed through the group.

C M Scanlon's Books:

[A Switch In Time | Another Job For Homicide | Check And Double Check | Close To A Corpse | Half A Grand | Lincoln Letter | Page The Murderer | The Shock]