Al Gore

Al Gore (1948-now)

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. Gore is currently an author, businessperson, and environmental activist. He was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (197785), and later in the U.S. Senate (198593), and finally becoming Vice President in 1993. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College, and the election, to Republican George W. Bush when the U.S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election. He is a founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. In 2007 he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year.

Albert Cim's Books:

[Histoire Dun Baiser]

Marguerite Poland

Marguerite Poland (1950-now)

Marguerite Poland is a South African novelist. When she was two years old, the Poland family relocated to the Eastern Cape where she spent most of her formative years. After completing her secondary education at St Dominics Priory School in Port Elizabeth, Poland completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Rhodes University, majoring in Social Anthropology and Xhosa. In 1971, Marguerite Poland completed her honours degree in African languages at Stellenbosch University.

A Poland 's Books:

[Famous Men Of The Middle Ages]

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]

Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.

Bret Harte's Books:

[How Santa Claus Came To Simpsons Bar | Salomy Jane | A Drift From Redwood Camp | A First Family Of Tasajara | A Millionaire Of Rough And Ready | A Phyllis Of The Sierras | A Protge Of Jack Hamlin | A Sappho Of Green Springs | Bocetos Californianos | By Shore And Sedge | Clarence | Colonel Starbottle Client | Complete Poetical Works | Condensed Novels | Cressy | Devil Ford | Drift From Two Shores | East And West | Excelsior | Flip A California Romance | Found At Blazing Star | From Sand Hill To Pine | Her Letter | In A Hollow Of The Hills | In The Carquinez Woods | Jeff Briggs Love Story | Legends And Tales | Maruja | Mrs Skaggs Husbands | New Burlesques | On The Frontier | Openings In The Old Trail | Sally Dows | The Argonauts Of North Liberty | The Bell Ringer Of Angel | The Crusade Of The Excelsior | The Heritage Of Dedlow Marsh | The Queen Of The Pirate Isle | Dickens In Camp | Mr Jack Hamlin Mediation | Tarinoita Kalifornian Kultamailta | The Heritage Of Dedlow Marsh And Other Tales | Tri Noveloj De Usona Verkisto Bret Harte]

Horace Smith

Horace Smith

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 Smith's Books:

[Interludes]

Robert W Chambers

Robert W Chambers (1865-1933)

Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 December 16, 1933) was an American artist and writer.

Robert William Chambers's Books:

[A Matter Of Interest | Ailsa Paige | Between Friends | In Search Of The Unknown | In Secret | In The Quarter | Police | The Common Law | The Danger Mark | The Dark Star | The Fighting Chance | The Firing Line | The Green Mouse | The Hidden Children | The King In Yellow | The Maid At Arms | The Messenger | The Slayer Of Souls | The Tracer Of Lost Persons | The Younger Set]

Charles Bean

Charles Bean (1879-1968)

Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (18 November 1879 30 August 1968), usually identified as C.E.W. Bean, was an Australian schoolmaster, judge's associate, barrister journalist, war correspondent and historian. Bean is renowned as the editor of the 12-volume Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918. Bean wrote Volumes I to VI himself, dealing with the Australian Imperial Force at Gallipoli, France and Belgium. Bean was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian War Memorial, and of the creation and popularisation of the ANZAC legend. Bean was born in Bathurst, New South Wales. In 1889, his family moved to England where he was educated, firstly at Brentwood School in Essex, of which his father was headmaster, then from 1894 at Clifton College, Bristol, before winning a scholarship in 1898 to Hertford College, Oxford. He returned to Australia in 1904 and worked as a lawyer until June 1908 when he joined The Sydney Morning Herald as a reporter.

C W Bean's Books:

[Letters From France]

Frederick Starr

Frederick Starr

Frederick Starr (September 2, 1858 August 14, 1933), aka Ofuda Hakushi in Japan, was an American academic, anthropologist, and "populist educator" born at Auburn, New York.

Frederick Starr's Books:

[In Indian Mexico 1908]

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]

Charles Sprague

Charles Sprague

Charles Sprague (October 26, 1791 January 22, 1875) was an early America poet. He worked for 45 years for the State and Globe Banks and was often referred to as the "Banker Poet of Boston". His odes and prologues won several competitive prizes and were collected and published in 1841 as The Writings of Charles Sprague.

Charles Sprague's Books:

[An Ode Pronounced Before The Inhabitants Of Boston]

Frank R Adams

Frank R Adams

Frank Adam (August 18 1968, Bruges) is a Flemish author, mostly writing plays and philosophical works. He began writing in 1992. He is a member of the editorial team of the Dutch-language literary periodical De Brakke Hond and is a teacher at the writers academy in Bruges. Adam studied Arabic, Ancient Greek, Germanic languages, and literature.

Frank Adams's Books:

[The Dame And Pythias]

Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles/Alfred H. Miles (1848 - 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer who published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry (The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 10 vols. ), warfare (Wars of the Olden Times, Abraham to Cromwell) to household encyclopaedias with information for every conceivable contingency, and even advice to the lovelorn. He was Guardian of the Poor for six years and a member of the London Borough of Lewisham from 1904-06. He was editor of The Fifty-two Library, a series of children's adventure stories published by Hutchinson & Co., London in the nineteenth century. He compiled some fifty volumes that appeared at five shillings apiece.

Alfred Miles's Books:

[Fifty Two Stories For Girls | Successful Recitations]

Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown (born October 1, 1862, died November 28, 1950) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, W. Va. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University. He lectured at various times at Leland Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, Cal., from 1896 to 1911. In the latter year he became dean of the Yale Divinity School

Charles Reynolds Brown's Books:

[Five Young Men]

Edward Lear

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.

Edward Lear's Books:

[A Book Of Nonsense | Book Of Nonsense | Laughable Lyrics | Nonsense Books | More Nonsense | Nonsense Drolleries | Nonsense Song | The Book Of Nonsense | The Jumblies]

Andre Gunder Frank

Andre Gunder Frank

Andre Gunder Frank (Berlin, February 24, 1929 - Luxembourg, April 23, 2005) was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who was one of the founders of the Dependency theory and the World Systems Theory in the 1960s. He employed some marxian concepts on political economy, but rejected Marx's stages of history, and economic history generally.

Ben Frank's Books:

[Easy Money | Vacation And No Mistake]

Charles Alexander And Book

Charles Alexander And Book (1954-now)

Charles Alexander (born 1954) is an American poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press, one of the only independent presses which specializes in innovative poetry and the book arts. Alexander also served as the Director of the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts from 1993 until 1995, and as book artist there through 1996. Alexander lives in Tucson, AZ with his wife the visual artist Cynthia Miller and his two daughters.

Book 1's Books:

[Julius Caesar Civil War Commentaries | Julius Caesar War Commentaries]

Frank Dilnot

Frank Dilnot

Frank Dilnot (1875-1946) was an English author and journalist, born in Hampshire. He was educated privately and began as a newspaper reporter in 1900 on the staff of the Central News, London, which he left two years later for the Daily Mail (1902-10). He was editor of the Daily Citizen, a British labour organ (1912-15), and thereafter was a correspondent for the Chronicle to investigate social and economic conditions in England.

Frank Dilnot's Books:

[Lloyd George]

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire, Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Though Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth. In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrestedalong with hundreds of othersand deported to Russia. Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940. During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution. Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.

Emma Goldman's Books:

[Anarchism And Other Essays | Marriage And Love | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 2 April 1906 | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 3 May 1906 | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 4 June 1906 | Anarchism What It Really Stands For | Francisco Ferrer And The Modern School | Minorities Versus Majorities | Mother Earth Vol 1 No 1 March 1906 | My Disillusionment In Russia | Patriotism A Menace To Liberty | Prisons A Social Crime And Failure | The Hypocrisy Of Puritanism | The Modern Drama | The Psychology Of Political Violence | The Traffic In Women | The Tragedy Of Woman Emancipation | Woman Suffrage]

Edward W Bok

Edward W Bok

Edward William Bok (9 October 1863 1930) was a Dutch born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was editor of the Ladies Home Journal for thirty years. Bok is credited with coining the term, living room as the name for room of a house that had commonly been called the parlor or drawing room.

Edward Bok's Books:

[A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After | The Americanization Of Edward Bok | The Young Man In Business]

Epifanio De Los Santos

Epifanio De Los Santos (1871-1928)

Epifanio de los Santos y Cristbal (April 7, 1871-April 18, 1928) was most distinguished as a Filipino historian, intellectual titan, literary critic, jurist, antiquarian, and patriot. He was appointed director of the Philippine Library and Museum by Governor General Leonard Wood in 1925.

Francisco Balagtas's Books:

[Florante At Laura | Florante]