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]

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]

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 25 October 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular Middle English, rather than French or Latin.

Geoffrey Chaucer's Books:

[The Book Of The Duchess And Other Poems | The Canterbury Tales | The Legend Of Good Women | The Romaunt Of The Rose]

Amelia Ellis

Amelia Ellis

Amelia Ellis (born September 23, 1977 in Hamburg, Germany) is a British-German novelist and photographer best known for her mystery series featuring London private investigator Nea Fox. Her themes include guilt and redemption, integrity, courage and sacrifice, but also friendship, love and various aspects of lesbian relationships. Urban loneliness is another major subject of her books. Ellis' protagonist is a pensive but tough post-feminist woman in her early thirties searching for answers to life's persistent questions, often finding them in the course of her investigations. Her novels contain elements of hardboiled fiction, cozies and classic detective stories and cannot easily be assigned to a specific genre of mysteries. As a photographer, Ellis works primarily in the field of street photography. She is best known for her black and white pictures of London. Ellis is taking part in the London-based art project Camden17.

A Ellis's Books:

[The History Of The First West India Regiment]

Horace Brown Fyfe

Horace Brown Fyfe

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 Brown Fyfe's Books:

[A Transmutation Of Muddles | Exile | Fee Of The Frontier | Flamedown | Irresistible Weapon | Let There Be Light | Manners Of The Age | Satellite System | The Envoy Her | The Outbreak Of Peace | The Talkative Tree | The Wedge | This World Must Die | D 99]

Maureen F Mchugh

Maureen F Mchugh (1959-now)

Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995).

Maureen Mchugh's Books:

[Mothers And Other Monsters]

Justin Richards

Justin Richards

Justin Richards is a British writer. He has written many spin off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and he is Creative Director for the BBC Books range. He has also written for television, contributing to Five's soap opera Family Affairs. He is also the author of a series of crime novels for children about the Invisible Detective, and novels for older children.

Justin Richards's Books:

[Doctor Who The Sands Of Time]

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]

Adrian Dawson

Adrian Dawson (1971-now)

Adrian Dawson (born 26 January 1971) is a British author of thriller and horror fiction, currently best known for his 2010 debut novel Codex. Codex was written in 1999, and Adrian was signed to the Christopher Little Literary Agency,[1 1] on the strength of the novel, but they failed to find a publisher. Codex deals with cryptology, religion and high-end technology, with one publisher stating that most readers would turn to non-fiction, rather than fiction for such subject matter{1] - that self same publisher was thanked by Dan Brown in the 2003 published The Da Vinci Code. However, with the advent of the iPad, Adrian's novel was published in ebook format where it stormed the UK iBookstore's Best Seller list [2 2] and will be out in print in November 2010.

A Dawson's Books:

[Finn The Wolfhound | Jan | The Message | The Record Of Nicholas Freydon]

A J Jacobs

A J Jacobs (1968-now)

Arnold Stephen Jacobs, Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs (born March 20, 1968, New York City) is an American journalist and author.

W Jacobs's Books:

[A Master Of Craft | At Sunwich Port | Captains All | Deep Waters | Dialstone Lane | Lady Of The Barge | Light Freights | Many Cargoes | More Cargoes | Night Watches | Odd Craft | Sailor Knots | Salthaven | Sea Urchins | The Ghost Of Jerry Bundler | The Monkey Paw]

Edgar Wilson Nye

Edgar Wilson Nye (1850-1896)

Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (August 25, 1850 - February 22, 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang.

Edgar Wilson Bill Nye's Books:

[A Guest At The Ludlow And Other Stories]

Gustav Meyrink

Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932)

Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 December 4, 1932) was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem.

Gustav Meyrink's Books:

[Le Golem | Der Violette Tod | Fledermuse]

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]

Mark Stephen Meadows

Mark Stephen Meadows

Mark Stephen Meadows is an American author and artist. In addition to his illustration, books, and travelogues he also develops software. He is the co-inventor of several US patents relating to artificial intelligence and avatars, and he lectures internationally on this work. Meadows is known for his hitchhiking adventures, specifically for visiting Baghdad in 2003, and his interviews with terrorists in Sri Lanka. He holds a USCG captain's license.

Mark Meadows's Books:

[Joy Ride]

Douglas Johnson

Douglas Johnson (1925-now)

Douglas Johnson (19252005), a British historian, was born in Edinburgh in 1925. He attended the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, and then Worcester College, Oxford, on a history scholarship. His academic career was as a historian of France; he held professorships, first, at the University of Birmingham, then at University College, London. His books included France and the Dreyfus Affair (1966), France (for the Thames & Hudson 'Nations and Peoples' series, 1969), An Idea of Europe (with Richard Hoggart, 1987) and The Age of Illusion: art and politics in France, 1918-1940 (with his wife Madeleine Johnson, 1987). From 1983 he was General Editor of the Fontana History of Modern France. Unashamedly Francophile, Johnson devoted his academic career to improving relations between France and Britain. He became an advisor to Margaret Thatcher on all matters concerning France, although his own political position was always something of a mystery. A collection of essays in his honour was compiled by Martyn Cornick and Ceri Crossley under the title Problems in French History and published by Palgrave in 2000.

Douglas Johnson's Books:

[Plain Words From America]

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)

Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 - 24 May 1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.

Charlotte Yonge's Books:

[A Book Of Golden Deeds | Beechcroft At Rockstone | Chantry House | Dynevor Terrace vol I | Dynevor Terrace vol Ii | Heartsease Or Brother Wife | Hopes And Fears | Lady Hester Or Ursula Narrative | Life Of John Coleridge Patteson | Love And Life | Magnum Bonum | My Young Alcides | Nuttie Father | Stray Pearls | That Stick | The Armourer Prentices | The Caged Lion | The Chaplet Of Pearls | The Daisy Chain Or Aspirations | The Dove In The Eagle Nest | The Long Vacation | The Pillars Of The House V1 | The Stokesley Secret | The Three Brides | The Two Sides Of The Shield | The Young Step Mother Or A Chronicle Of Mistakes | Two Penniless Princesses | Under The Storm Illustrated | Unknown To History A Story Of The Captivity Of Mary Of Scotland | Young Folks History Of England | Henrietta Wish | The Clever Woman Of The Family]

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]

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.

August Derleth's Books:

[Mcilvaine Star]

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.

Hal Evarts's Books:

[The Settling Of The Sage]

Hjalmar Bergman

Hjalmar Bergman

Hjalmar Fredrik Elgrus Bergman was a Swedish writer and playwright. The son of a banker in rebro, Bergman briefly studied philosophy at Uppsala University but soon broke off his studies and took up the life of a free writer. He married Stina Lindberg, the daughter of actor and stage producer August Lindberg. Up to his father's death in 1915 Bergman was heavily sponsored by the family patriarch; after the old man died from a stroke it turned out that the family business had become highly indebted and Bergman was forced to start making money out of his writing and court readers in a more outgoing and more entertaining manner. He rose to the challenge and in the following ten years reached the peak of his work. Much of his output takes place in a small town in mid-Sweden, which is growing into a parallel universe in a Balzacian manner. The shameful secrets of a dozen of interwoven families gradually come out of the closet as the stories grow increasingly symbolic. A pessimistic outlook is always counter-balanced by a grotesque humour - indeed in a book like Markurells i Wadkping the latter almost succeeds in completely shading the former. After an unsuccessful bout as a manuscript writer in Hollywood Bergman's alcoholism and narcotics abuse took over, from which he died prematurely; his final novel Clownen Jac mirrors his awareness of his drift into self-destruction as well as his belief in the honesty and purpose of artistic spectacle.

Hjalmar Bergman's Books:

[Eros Begravning | Mor I Sutre]