Classical Writers

Monday, January 31, 2011

Alfred Sutro

Alfred Sutro OBE (August 7, 1863, London - 1933) was a British author and dramatist. He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French. Afterward turning his attention to the drama, he at first collaborated with Arthur Bourchier in producing The Chili Widow (1896), then wrote in rapid succession The Cave of Illusion (1900), Arethusa (1903), A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1904), and finally made a great success with The Walls of Jericho, produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, on October 21, 1904. Sutro married Esther Stella Isaacs, the sister of the 1st Marquess of Reading, in 1894.

Alfred Sutro's Books:

[Five Little Plays]

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Barbara Field

Barbara Field (1935-now)

Barbara Field (born 1935) is a playwright whose work has been seen at theaters across North America and Europe. Currently a resident of Minneapolis, Ms. Field is a co-founder of The Playwrights' Center, and served as playwright-in-residence at the Guthrie Theater for eight years. She has held fellowships from numerous organizations; the Shubert, Bush, McKnight, and Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships are among her many awards.

Al Field's Books:

[Watch Yourself Go By]

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill (1846-1917)

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory, near LeClaire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872.

H Cody's Books:

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Herbert Baxter Adams

Herbert Baxter Adams (1850-1901)

Herbert Baxter Adams (April 16, 1850 July 30, 1901) was an American educator and historian. Adams was born to Henry & Fanny (Maguire) Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his father's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings (colonist) who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Adams received his early training in the Amherst, Massachusetts public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872, and received the degree of Ph.D. at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1876. He was a fellow in history at Johns Hopkins University from 1876 to 1878, associate from 1878 to 1883, and was appointed associate professor in 1883. He is credited with bringing the study of politics into the realm of the social sciences. At Johns Hopkins, in 1880, he began his famous seminar in history, where a large proportion of the next generation of American historians trained. Adams founded the "Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical and Political Science," the first of such series, and brought about the organization in 1884 of the American Historical Association. His historical writings introduced scientific methods of investigation that influenced many historians, including Frederick Jackson Turner and John Spencer Bassett. He authored Life and Writings of Jared Sparks (1893) and many articles and influential reports on the study of the social sciences. He was the secretary of the American Historical Association at its foundation in 1884. In 1873 he went to Europe and devoted three years to travel and study. His principal writings are The Germanic Origin of the New England Towns; Saxon Tithing-Men in America; Norman Constables in America; Village Communities; Methods of Historical Study, and Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States. All these papers are published in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, edited by Prof. Adams, 4 vols. (Baltimore, 1883-'86). Although less known for his contributions to the history of education, Adams was essential to its early development. He edited the circular series titled, "Contributions to American Educational History," which was printed and distributed by the U.S. Bureau of Education. Herbert B. Adams died in 1901.

Herbert Adams's Books:

[Death Of A Viewer | The Chief Witness]

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Alice Mildred Cable

Alice Mildred Cable (1878-1952)

Alice Mildred Cable (21 February 1878-30 April 1952) was born in Guildford, she was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China, serving with the China Inland Mission. Trained as a pharmacist, she joined the China Inland Mission in 1901, meeting Evangeline (Eva) French who was returning to China following her first home leave they were together for the rest of their lives. Stationed in in Huozhou, Shanxi, they travelled constantly in the surrounding area. Eva's younger sister, Francesca, joined them in 1910 (although some sources say 1908) and they became a well-known trio. In the words of Mildred Cable: "From Etzingol to Turpan, from Spring of Wine to Chuguchak, we... spent long years in following trade-routes, tracing faint caravan tracks, searching out innumerable by-paths and exploring the most hidden oases.... Five times we traversed the whole length of the desert, and in the process we had become part of its life" In June 1913, all three set out for Central Asia. Travelling 1500 miles (2,414 km) over the next eight months, evangelizing as they went, they reached Zhangye (then referred to as Kanchow). Zhangye was the last city inside of the Great Wall. A Chinese evangelist was already working there, and at his request they set up a Bible school over the winter. When summer came they were on the road again, this time with some of the Chinese believers that they had trained. This time they went past the Great Wall, all throughout the Gobi Desert, selling Bibles and other Christian literature. They travelled to England via Russian Siberia. After their return to Suchow, they took a year-long journey into Xinjiang (then known as Chinese Turkestan), on the way being detained by a Dongan leader, Ma Zhongying, to tend his wounds. In 1932, they made their first journey into the Gobi, where Cable was badly injured by a kick from a wooden donkey. They returned to Suchow, via the Soviet Union, for the last time in 1933. In August 1936, all foreigners were ordered to leave Suchow and the trio retired to Dorset. During her retirement, Cable was much in demand as a speaker, making several international tours. She and Francesca French continued writing. Mildred Cable served as a Vice President for the British and Foreign Bible Society until her death in Dorset in 1952.

G Cable's Books:

[Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War]

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Helen Johnson

Helen Johnson, who was better known as Helene Johnson (19061995) was an African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a cousin of author Dorothy West. She spent her early years at her grandfathers house in Boston. The rest of her formative years were spent in Brookline, Massachusetts. Johnson's literary career began when she won first prize in a short story competition sponsored by the Boston Chronicle. She also received an honorable mention in a poetry contest organized by Opportunity, the journal of the National Urban League that was one of the leading showcase for the talents of African-American artists. She reached the height of her popularity in 1927 when her poem "Bottled", a work with unconventional rhythms and innovative slang, was published in the May issue of Vanity Fair. She and Dorothy West moved to Harlem in the 1920s. She attended Columbia University, but did not graduate. Both were a part of the Harlem Renaissance and became friends with such artists as Zora Neale Hurston. In 1935, Johnsons last published poems appeared in Challenge: A Literary Quarterly. She married William Hubbel soon after, and had one child, Abigail. She spent many years composing poems just for herself, continuing to write a poem a day for the rest of her life, though she stopped publishing after 1937. She died in Manhattan at the age of 89.