Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)

Christian Friedrich Hebbel (March 18, 1813 - December 13, 1863), was a German poet and dramatist.

Friedrich Hebbel's Books:

[Schnock | Agnes Bernauer | Gyges Und Sein Ring | Herodes Und Mariamne | Judith | Mutter Und Kind]

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]

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]

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]

Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 - 8 July 1939) was a British sexologist, physician, and social reformer.

Havelock Ellis's Books:

[Essays In War Time | Impressions And Comments | Little Essays Of Love And Virtue]

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]

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]

Ernest Scott

Ernest Scott

Sir Ernest Scott KB (21 June 1867 6 December 1939) was an Australian historian, professor of history at the University of Melbourne from 1913.

Ernest Scott's Books:

[Laperouse | A Short History Of Australia | Life Of Laperouse | Terre Napoleon | The Life Of Captain Matthew Flinders]

Sarah Gorham

Sarah Gorham

Sarah Gorham is an American poet, writer and publisher. She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College. She is author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Bad Daughter.

J Gorham's Books:

[Alice In Wonderland]

Frederic Kidder

Frederic Kidder

Frederic Kidder (1804-85) was an American author and antiquarian. He was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, was mainly self-educated, and engaged in various business ventures in Boston and New York. He made special researches into the history of early New England

Frederic Kidder's Books:

[The Abenaki Indians]

William Hardy Mcneill

William Hardy Mcneill

William Hardy McNeill (born October 31, 1917) is a noted world historian and author and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1947.

William Hardy's Books:

[Pioneer]

Kris Ottman Neville

Kris Ottman Neville

Kris Ottman Neville (1925 - 23 December 1980) better known as Kris Neville was an American science fiction writer from California. He was born in St. Louis. His first science fiction work was published in 1949. His most famous work, the novel Bettyann, is considered an underground classic of science fiction. Well known science fiction writer and critic, Barry N. Malzberg, wrote the following biographical note about Kris Neville in his introduction to Neville's story Ballenger's People in the 1979 Doubleday collection Neglected Visions: Kris Neville could have been among the ten most honored science fiction writers of his generation; instead, he virtually abandoned the field after conquering it early on and made himself the leading lay authority in the world on epoxy resins, collaborating on a series of specialized texts that have become the basic works in their field. I can hardly blame him for this decision, and it was in any case carefully thought out. Neville, who sold his first story in 1949 and another fifteen by 1952, concluded early on that the perimeters of the field in the 1950s were simply too close to contain the kind of work he would have to do if he wanted to grow as a writer, and accordingly he quit. A scattering of stories has appeared over the last quarter of a century, and a couple of novels, but except for one abortive attempt to write full-time in the mid-1960s (the field simply could not absorb the kind of work he was doing), Neville has been in a state of diminshed production for a long time. Nowadays a short-short story shows up once a year or so in a magazine or original anthology; sometimes written in collaboration with his second wife, Lil, and always so astonishingly above the run of material surrounding it as to constitute an embarrassment to the other writers. Neville, whom I do not claim to know well at all but with whom I did correspond prolifically some years ago, may be among the most intelligent of science fiction writers (only A. J. Budrys seems to have his eclecticism and his breadth) and strikes me as among the few contented people I have ever known.... Neville has done some extraordinary political satire -- The Price of Simeryl, published way back in 1966, is an early, savage anti-Vietnam piece -- and in work like New Apples in the Garden manifests an extraordinary range of subject and character. Shortly after Neville's death in 1980, a remembrance by Malzberg was published in Locus Magazine, and later re-published in The Science Fiction of Kris Neville (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. ) It includes these additional observations: I never met Kris Neville. I collaborated with him on three short stories and an abortive novel and spoke to him on the telephone five to ten times. What I did was correspond with him for over a decade starting in 1969 and there must exist in my files somewhere at least 200,000 words of Nevilliliana.... I could not divest myself of any of these letters because what they are are the lucid and balanced evidence of a powerful mind focused by a powerful soul who inch by inch had worked his way through to a purifying and terrible clarity of vision... that a serious literary career was impossible in science fiction (impossible out of it too because there was simply no audience left for 'serious' fiction in this country. ) The limitations of the audience and the limitations of editing made no writer capable of doing an ambitious and improving body of work which would reach an audience and take that audience along. Neville ascribed virtually every failure in the modern history of the genre to meretricious, debased, or cowardly editors, not to the writers.... Neville by his own testimony had to leave science fiction in the early fifties. He began publishing in 1949, he found that he could very easily sell to the Bouchers, Golds, or Campbells of his time and quickly satisfied his original ambitions. What he could not do was to continue to follow the course of his vision. Quickly he ran up against the imposed borders of the field and almost as quickly he quit. There was a decade of near-total silence. In the mid-sixties as a fortieth birthday present to himself he financed a two-year attempt to establish a real position in science fiction but although many strange and wonderful stories appeared,... rotten agenting, the limitations of the field, and a certain powerful revulsion in Neville himself that made him unable to push for entrance into something which he knew had wrecked his spirit, drove him away again and in the last dozen years of his life he produced only a scattering of short stories for the magazines and the original anthologies, none of them longer than a few thousand words. Collaboration on important texts in the field of epoxy resins -- on which he knew more than any layman -- and employment in the chemical industry kept him busy, well remunerated, and content. By the late seventies he had achieved enough equivolcal peace to be able to come back to science fiction with a scholar's interest, a scholar's contribution.... He liked wine, hated Nixon, deplored the mass media, missed Tony Boucher, had grudging and deep respect for the memory of John W. Campbell, loved his children, had a deep suspicion of American industry and its products but no particular reverence for his Volvo, found [science fiction] conventions, finally, wearying and had a deep and abiding love for the science fiction community.

Kris Ottman Neville's Books:

[Earth Alert | General Max Shorter | New Apples In The Garden]

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. " His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women. He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.

Sinclair Lewis's Books:

[Babbitt | Free Air | It Cant Happen Here]

Gaylord Dubois

Gaylord Dubois

Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (as it appears on his baptism certificate), or DuBois (August 24, 1899 Winthrop, Massachusetts October 20, 1993 Orange City, Florida) In his lifetime he wrote well over 3000 comic book stories and comic strips as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. An avid outdoorsman, Du Bois had a real affinity for writing stories with natural settings. His forte was in Westerns, as well as jungle comics and animal reality comics.

Dubois's Books:

[Moliere At Ninons Or The Reading Of Tartuffe]

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Romantic poet, writing in the Polish language, and described variously as a Pole, a Lithuanian or a Polish-Lithuanian. He is one of Poland's Three Bards a national poet of Poland and one of the greatest Slavic language poets alongside Alexander Pushkin. He has also been described as a transformation poet and Slavonic bard. He was the most prominent creator of Romantic drama in Poland,, compared both at home and in Western Europe to Byron and Goethe. He is known primarily as the author of the poetic novel Dziady and national epic Pan Tadeusz, which is considered the last great epic of Polish-Lithuanian noble culture. Mickiewicz's other influential works include Konrad Wallenrod and Grayna. All served as inspiration during regional rebellions and as foundations for the concept of Poland as "the Christ of Nations. " Mickiewicz was active in the struggle to achieve independence for his homeland, then part of the Russian Empire. Having spent five years in internal exile in central Russia for political activities, he left the Empire in 1829 and spent the rest of his life in exile, settling first in Rome, later in Paris, where he became professor of Slavic literature at the Collge de France. He died, probably of cholera, at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, where he had gone to help organize Polish forces to fight against Russia in the Crimean War. His remains were later moved to Wawel Cathedral in Krakw, Poland.

F Bernard's Books:

[Van Batavia Naar Atjeh Dwars Door Sumatra]

William Morison 1843 1937

William Morison 1843 1937 (1843-1937)

William Morison (1843-1937) was Scottish presbyterian minister, writer and biographer. He was born in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway. His father was Alexander Moffat, a master builder. and his mother was Catherine Campbell. He was educated at Moffat Academy, the University of Edinburgh where he graduated M.A. in 1862, and at the United Presbyterian College, Edinburgh. He married Anne Primrose Douglas on 24th March 1869. They had three daughters - Annie, Catherine and Helen. He died on 9th March 1937 at his home at Corstorphine, Edinburgh.

William Morison's Books:

[Andrew Melville]

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poemsthat the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet.

Emily Dickinson's Books:

[Poems Of Emily Dickinson Series 1 | Poems Of Emily Dickinson Series 2 | Poems Third Series | The Sleeping Flowers]

Charles Fort

Charles Fort

Charles Fort is an American poet.

Charles Fort's Books:

[The Book Of The Damned]

H Mencken

H Mencken

Henry Louis "H. L. " Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the "Monkey" trial. In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas. An opponent of World War II and democracy, Mencken wrote a huge number of articles about current events, books, music, prominent politicians, pseudo-intellectuals, temperance and uplifters. He notably attacked ignorance, intolerance, frauds, fundamentalist Christianity, osteopathy, and chiropractic.

H Mencken's Books:

[A Book Of Burlesques | A Book Of Prefaces | Damn | Europe After 815 | In Defense Of Women | Mark Twain Americanism | The American Credo]

Alexis Piron

Alexis Piron

Alexis Piron (July 9, 1689 January 21, 1773) was a French epigrammatist and dramatist. He was born at Dijon, where his father, Aim Piron, was an apothecary. Piron senior wrote verse in the Burgundian language. Alexis began life as clerk and secretary to a banker, and then studied law. In 1719, when nearly thirty years old, he went to Paris, where an accident brought him money and notoriety.

A Piron's Books:

[Du Service Des Postes Et De La Taxation Des Lettres Au Moyen | Du Service Des Postes]