Ross Rocklynne

Ross Rocklynne (1913-now)

Ross Rocklynne (February 21, 1913 - October 29, 1988) was the pen name used by Ross Louis Rocklin, an American science fiction author active in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Born in 1913 in Ohio, Rocklynne was a regular contributor to the science fiction pulps. He was a professional guest at the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. Despite his numerous appearances and solid writing, Rocklynne never quite achieved the fame of his contemporaries Robert A. Heinlein, L.

Ross Rocklynne's Books:

[Sorry Wrong Dimension]

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Adela Rogers St Johns

Adela Rogers St Johns

Adela Rogers St. Johns (ne Adela Nora Rogers; May 20, 1894-August 10, 1988) was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She wrote a number of screenplays for silent movies and, late in life, appeared with other early twentieth-century figures as one of the 'witnesses' in Warren Beatty's Reds, but she is best remembered for her groundbreaking exploits as a "girl reporter" during the 1920s and 1930s.

C W Johns's Books:

[Babylonian And Assyrian Laws Contracts And Letters | The Oldest Code Of Laws In The World]

Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880 - 25/28 June 1958) was an English poet, best known for his ballads, The Highwayman and The Barrel-Organ.

Alfred Noyes's Books:

[Collected Poems | Rada A Drama Of War In One Act | The Lord Of Misrule | The New Morning | Rada | Watchers Of The Sky]

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William Black

William Black

William Black (13 November 1841 - 10 December 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his own lifetime Black's novels were immensely popular, and were compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. However, his fame and popularity did not survive long into the twentieth century.

William Black's Books:

[Goldsmith]

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Charles Heber Clark

Charles Heber Clark

Charles Heber Clark (July 11, 1847 - August 10, 1915), was an American novelist and humorist. Most of his work was written under the pseudonym Max Adeler. Earlier, he used the "John Quill" pseudonym He was born in Berlin Md, the son of William J. Clark, an Episcopal clergyman whose abolitionist sympathies made his stay short in Southern parishes. Charles was educated at a school in Georgetown, D.C., and at the age of fifteen became an office boy in a Philadelphia commission house.

Charles Heber Clark's Books:

[Elbow Room | Frictional Electricity]

Raffaello Carboni

Raffaello Carboni (1456-1875)

Raffaello Carboni (December 15, 1817 October 24, 1875) was an Italian revolutionary and writer. He is primarily remembered now as the author of the main eyewitness account of events at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Australia.

Carboni Raffaello's Books:

[The Eureka Stockade]

Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867)

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Bulfinch supported himself through his position at the Merchants' Bank of Boston.

Thomas Bulfinch's Books:

[Bulfinchs Mythology]

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