Anne Carson

Anne Carson (1950-now)

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a former professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. In 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions of her books simply states Anne Carson lives in Canada.

Carson Jay Lee's Books:

[Oswald Langdon]

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Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh (18571915) was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. He is best known for his supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula was initially even more popular. The Beetle remained in print until 1960, and was subsequently resurrected in 2004 and 2007. Heldman was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He began to publish short stories, mostly adventure tales, as "Bernard Heldmann," before adopting the name "Richard Marsh" in 1893. Several of the prolific Marsh's novels were published posthumously. Marsh's grandson Robert Aickman was a notable writer of short "strange stories".

Richard Marsh's Books:

[The Beetle]

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Edward Dyson

Edward Dyson (1865-1931)

Edward George Dyson (18651931) was an Australian poet, journalist and short story writer. He was born at Morrisons near Ballarat in March 1865. His father, George Dyson, arrived in Australia in 1852 and after working on various diggings became a mining engineer, his mother came from a life of refinement in England. The family led a roving life during Dyson's childhood, moving successively to Alfredton, Bendigo, Ballarat and Alfredton again. Unconsciously the boy was storing for future use the life of the miners, farmers and bushmen, among whom he lived. At 12 he began to work as an assistant to a travelling draper, after that was a whimboy in a mine, and for two or three years an assistant in a factory at Melbourne. This was followed by work in a newspaper office. At 19 he began writing verse, and a few years later embarked on a life of free-lance journalism which lasted until his death. His first notable work was "The Golden Shanty", which appeared in the Bulletin, and many other short stories followed. In 1896 he published a volume of poems, Rhymes from the Mines, and in 1898 the first collection of his short stories, Below and On Top. In 1901 his first long story The Gold-stealers was published in London, which was followed by In the Roaring Fifties in 1906. In the same year appeared Fact'ry 'Ands, a series of more or less connected sketches dealing with factory life in Melbourne in a vein of humour. Various other stories and collections of stories were published in the Bookstall Series and will be found listed in Miller's Australian Literature. Another volume of verse Hello, Soldier! appeared in 1919. All through the years Dyson did an enormous amount of work until he broke down under the strain and died after a long illness on 22 August 1931. He married Miss Jackson who survived him with one daughter. Edward Dyson was the brother of Will Dyson and Ambrose Dyson.

Edward Dyson's Books:

[The Gold Stealers | The Missing Link | Below And On Top And Other Stories | Hello Soldier | In The Roaring Fifties]

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Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)

(born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29, 1688 - March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741 at the age of fifty-three he entered into a spiritual phase http://www. swedenborg. com/page. asppage_name=aboutswedenborgexpanded in which he eventually began to experience dreams and visions beginning on Easter weekend April 6, 1744. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works. Swedenborg explicitly rejected the common explanation of the Trinity as a Trinity of Persons, which he said was not taught in the early Christian Church. Instead he explained in his theological writings how the Divine Trinity exists in One Person, in One God, the Lord Jesus Christ, which he said is taught in Colossians 2:9. Swedenborg also rejected the doctrine of salvation through faith alone, since he considered both faith and charity necessary for salvation, not one without the other. The purpose of faith, according to Swedenborg, is to lead a person to a life according to the truths of faith, which is charity, as is taught in 1 Corinthians 13:13 and James 2:20. Swedenborg's theological writings have elicited a range of responses. Toward the end of his life, small reading groups formed in England and Sweden to study the truth they saw in his teachings. Several writers were influenced by him, including William Blake (though he ended up renouncing him), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, August Strindberg, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Baudelaire, Adam Mickiewicz, Balzac, William Butler Yeats, Sheridan Le Fanu, Jorge Luis Borges, Carl Jung and Helen Keller. Other notable figures who were adherents to his teachings were the theologian Henry James Sr., the artist George Inness, and mid-Western pioneer and nurseryman Johnny Appleseed. In contrast, one of the most prominent Swedish authors of Swedenborg's day, Johan Henrik Kellgren, called Swedenborg "nothing but a fool". A heresy trial was initiated in Sweden in 1768 against Swedenborg's writings and two men who promoted these ideas. In the two centuries since Swedenborg's death, various interpretations of his theology have been made, and he has also been scrutinized in biographies and psychological studies.

Emanuel Swedenborg's Books:

[Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets | The Gist Of Swedenborg | Angelic Wisdom Concerning The Divine Love And The Divine Wisdom | Heaven And Its Wonders And Hell | Spiritual Life And The Word Of God | The Delights Of Wisdom Pertaining To Conjugial Love]

Alex Morrison

Alex Morrison (1941-now)

William Alexander (Alex) Morrison, MSC, CD (born 1941) is a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Forces. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he is a graduate of Xavier Junior College. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968 from Mount Allison University. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1959 and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1990. While in the CF, he completed the year-long course at the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College (1970) and received a Master of Arts in war studies degree from Royal Military College of Canada

G Morrison's Books:

[An Australian In China]

E Marlitt

E Marlitt

E. Marlitt is the pseudonym of Eugenie John (18251887), a popular German novelist, born at Arnstadt. Her father was a portrait painter; her patroness was the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, who sent her to Vienna to study music. She became deaf, lived for 11 years at court, and then, withdrawing to Arnstadt, began there her novelistic career. Die zwlf Apostel (1865), Goldelse (1868), Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell (1868), Thringer Erzhlungen (1869), Reichsgrfin Gisela (1870), Heideprinzechen (1872), Die zweite Frau (1874), and other novels are familiar in English translations. Her collected works appeared in 10 volumes (Leipzig, 1888-90; second edition, 1891-94).

E Marlitt's Books:

[Amtmannin Maria | Aron Prinsessa]

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Lijia Zhang

Lijia Zhang (1964-now)

Lijia Zhang (born in May 1964 in Nanjing) is a writer and a journalist. She describes herself as a communicator between China and the world (interview on The China Beat) Early in life she wanted to become a writer. At the age of 16 she had to start working in a factory instead of finishing her promising school career. During the decade at the factory she taught herself English. In 1990 she was able to attend Goldsmiths, University of London in London, England to study journalism. Her articles have been published in many newspapers and magazines. She co-authored China Remembers (OUP, 1999) and her memoir 'Socialism is Great!' A Workers Memoir of The New China is published by Atlas & Co. and University of Western Australia Press. Her first novel, Lotus, will be released in 2010. Zhang was married to Calum MacLeod, a reporter for USA Today. She currently lives in Beijing with her two daughters.

Zhang Ni's Books:

[Qi Jing]

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