Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 - August 2, 1980) was an American author and screenwriter.
Jos Maria de Ea de Queiroz or Ea de Queirs (November 25, 1845August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. The London Observer critics rank him with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Ea never officially rejected Catholicism, but was very critical of the Catholic Church of his time, and of Christianity in general as is evident in some of his novels. He used the old-fashioned spelling "Ea de Queiroz" and this is the form that appears on many editions of his works; the modern standard Portuguese spelling is "Ea de Queirs".
Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie (17 January 1883 - 30 November 1972) was a writer and a Scottish nationalist.
Henry Theophilus Finck (September 22, 1854 - 1926) was an American musical critic, born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and violincello. He taught himself Latin and Greek so thoroughly that he was able to enter Harvard as a sophomore in 1872. At Harvard, he studied philosophy, the classics, and music. He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. A subsequent fellowship from Harvard enabled him to spend three years in study in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. He became musical editor of the New York Evening Post
Aesop or Esop, known for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was by tradition born a slave () and was a contemporary of Croesus and Solon in the mid-sixth century BC in ancient Greece.
Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian. Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford. At university he took the Stanhope prize for an essay on Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley in 1877, became lecturer at Pembroke College in 1887, and fellow of All Souls College in 1901. He was Ford's lecturer in English history in 1900, and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in succession to Frederick York Powell in 1904. Firth's historical work was almost entirely confined to English history during the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by S.R. Gardiner, who wrote about the same period, his books were highly regarded. He was a great friend and ally of T.F. Tout, who was professionalising the History undergraduate programme at Manchester University, especially by introducing a key element of individual study of original sources and production of a thesis. Firth's attempts to do likewise at Oxford brought him into bitter conflict with the college fellows, who had little research expertise of their own and saw no reason why their undergraduates should be made to acquire such arcane, even artisan, skills, given their likely careers. They saw Firth as a power-seeker for the university professoriate as against the role of the colleges as proven finishing-schools for the country and empire's future establishment. Firth failed but the twentieth century saw universities go his and Tout's way. Firth's letters to Tout are in the latter's collection in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University.
Albert Bigelow Paine (10 July 1861 - 9 April 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse.
