David Rains Wallace is an author of geography and geology related books.
Albert Goodwin (2 August 1906 22 September 1995) was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford (where he had previously been a student) and later Professor of Modern History in the University of Manchester. He outlined his liberal ideas on the reasons behind the French Revolution in his book of the same name.
Willem Bilderdijk (Amsterdam, September 7, 1756 - Haarlem, December 31, 1831), Dutch poet, the son of an Amsterdam physician. When he was six years old an accident to his foot incapacitated him for ten years, and he developed habits of continuous and concentrated study. His parents were ardent partisans of the House of Orange-Nassau, and Bilderdijk grew up with strong monarchical and Calvinistic convictions.
Bjrnstjerne Martinius Bjrnson (8 December 1832 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjrnson is considered as one of The Four Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. Bjrnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet".
Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was an English clergyman, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.
Howard Dudley (18201864) wrote the first illustrated history of Horsham, West Sussex, in 1836. The book was entitled The History and Antiquities of Horsham and its Vicinities. He also produced the lithographs and woodcuts that were used as the illustrations, and then went on to print the book himself. Dudley was only 15 at the time. This was Dudleys second book; the first being a wider ranging history of Sussex entitled Juvenile Researches of which he produced two editions in 1835 and 1836.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 - August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat".
