Robert Abernathy (1924 1990) was an American science fiction author during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known primarily for his short stories which were published in many of the pulp magazines that flourished during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Many of his stories have been included in various anthologies of classic science fiction.
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI (15 August 1822 3 February 1888), was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract.
Walter Scott Houston was an American popularizer of amateur astronomy. He wrote the "Deep-Sky Wonders" column in Sky and Telescope magazine from 1946 to 1993.
David K. Wyatt (September 21, 1937 - November 15, 2006) was an American historian, working on Southeast Asian topics, especially Thailand. His book Thailand. A Short History has become the authority on Thai history in the English language. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1937, he grew up in Iowa. Wyatt studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1959. He continued to study at Boston University, where he got an MA in history in 1960. He graduated from Cornell University with a PhD in History in 1966. Already before his graduation, he accepted a teaching position at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where he taught until 1968. After one year teaching at the University of Michigan, he returned to the Cornell University Department of History in 1969, serving for a time as the Department Chairman, and stayed there until his retirement in 2002. In October 2005, he sold his library consisting of roughly 15,000 volumes to the Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University. Wyatt was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1995, but he continued to travel extensively until his death. He died of emphysema and congestive heart failure in the Hospicare Residence in Ithaca, New York. He is survived by his wife Alene Wilson Wyatt, three sons and five grandchildren.
William Gilbert, (20 May 1804-3 January 1890) was a British novelist and Royal Navy surgeon, and the author of novels, biographies, histories and several popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered, however, as the father of dramatist W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Charles Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
Frank Andrew Munsey (21 August 1854 22 December 1925) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author. He was born in Mercer, Maine but spent most of his life in New York City. The village of Munsey Park, New York is named for him. Munsey is credited with the idea of using new high-speed printing presses to print on inexpensive, untrimmed, pulp paper in order to mass produce affordable (typically ten-cent) magazines. Chiefly filled with various genres of action and adventure fiction, thet were aimed at working-class readers who could not afford and were not interested in the content of the 25-cent "slick" magazines of the time. This innovation, known as pulp magazines, became an entire industry unto itself and made Munsey quite wealthy. He often shut down the printing process and changed the content of magazines when they became unprofitable, quickly starting new ones in their place.
