Sunday, July 26, 2009

Frank Johnson Goodnow

Frank Johnson Goodnow (1859-1939)

Frank Johnson Goodnow, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 18, 1859 - November 15, 1939) was an American educator and legal scholar, born in Brooklyn, New York.



[Companions Of The Corpse | Memphis Blues]

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Amber Reeves

Amber Reeves

Amber Reeves (1 July 1887 - 26 December 1981) was a British feminist writer and scholar. She is the daughter of Fabian feminist Maud Pember Reeves and New Zealand politician/social reformer William Pember Reeves.



[Bamboo Tales]

Friday, July 24, 2009

Mario Alberto Leon

Mario Alberto Leon

Mario Alberto Leon (born August 30, 1968, Tulancingo Hidalgo, Mexico) is a Mexican journalist and television executive. He is in charge of international news for Channel 40. He holds a licentiate in journalism.



[La Camicia Rossa]

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Helen Gray Cone

Helen Gray Cone

Helen Gray Cone (March 8, 1859January 31, 1934) was a poet and professor of English literature. She spent her entire career at Hunter College in New York City.



[Ride To The Lady]


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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Johnston Mcculley

Johnston Mcculley

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Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 - November 23, 1958) was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Many of his novels and stories were written under the pseudonyms Harrison Strong, Raley Brien, George Drayne, Monica Morton, Rowena Raley, Frederic Phelps, Walter Pierson, and John Mack Stone, among others.



[The Curse Of Capistrano The Mark Of Zorro | Tragedy Trail]

J Frank Dobie

J Frank Dobie

James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888-September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. As a public figure, he was known in his lifetime for his outspoken liberal views against Texas state politics, and for his long personal war against what he saw as bragging Texans, religious prejudice, restraints on individual liberty, and the assault of the mechanized world on the human spirit. He was also instrumental in the saving of the Texas Longhorn breed of cattle from extinction.



[Guide To Life And Literature Of The Southwest]


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Monday, July 20, 2009

Charles Butler

Charles Butler (1963-now)

Charles Butler is an English academic and author of children's fiction. Butler's works include: Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater, ed. (Thoemmes, 1995) The Darkling (Orion, 1997) Timon's Tide (Orion, 1998) Calypso Dreaming (HarperCollins, 2002) The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins, 2004) Death of a Ghost (HarperCollins, 2006) The Lurkers (Usborne, 2006) Teaching Children's Fiction, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper (Scarecrow/ChLA, 2006). This book won one of the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards, for Myth and Fantasy Studies. Kiss of Death (Barrington Stoke, 2007) Hand of Blood (Barrington Stoke, 2009) Butler is the sibling of Martin Butler (composer) and the grandchild of Montagu C. Butler.



[The Life Of Hugo Grotius]


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