Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)
Edward Bellamy (26 March 1850 - 22 May 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Edward Bellamy
Bill Berry
Bill Berry (1958-now)
William "Bill" Thomas Berry is an American former musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer. Apart from his drumming duties, he played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M. records. After his retirement from the band he has maintained a low profile, making sporadic reunions with R.E.M.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
August Strindberg
August Strindberg (1849-1912)
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. The Royal Theatre rejected his first major play, Master Olof, in 1872; it was not until 1881, at the age of 32, that its premire at the New Theatre gave him his theatrical breakthrough. In his plays The Father (1887), Miss Julie (1888), and Creditors (1889), he created naturalistic dramas thatbuilding on the established accomplishments of Henrik Ibsen's prose problem plays while rejecting their use of the structure of the well-made playresponded to the call-to-arms of mile Zola's manifesto "Naturalism in the Theatre" (1881) and the example set by Andr Antoine's newly-established Thtre Libre (opened 1887). In Miss Julie, characterisation replaces plot as the predominant dramatic element (in contrast to melodrama and the well-made play) and the determining role of heredity and the environment on the "vacillating, disintegrated" characters is emphasised. Strindberg modelled his short-lived Scandinavian Experimental Theatre (1889) in Copenhagen on Antoine's theatre and he explored the theory of Naturalism in his essays "On Psychic Murder" (1887), "On Modern Drama and the Modern Theatre" (1889), and a preface to Miss Julie, the last of which is probably the best-known statement of the principles of the theatrical movement. During the 1890s he spent significant time abroad engaged in scientific experiments and studies of the occult. A series of psychotic attacks between 1894 to 1896 (referred to as his "Inferno crisis") led to his hospitalisation and return to Sweden. Under the influence of the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, he resolved after his recovery to become "the Zola of the Occult. " In 1898 he returned to playwriting with To Damascus, which, like The Great Highway (1909), is a dream-play of spiritual pilgrimage. His A Dream Play (1902)with its radical attempt to dramatise the workings of the unconscious by means of an abolition of conventional dramatic time and space and the splitting, doubling, merging, and multiplication of its characterswas an important precursor to both expressionism and surrealism. He also returned to writing historical drama, the genre with which he had begun his playwriting career. He helped to run the Intimate Theatre from 1907, a small-scale theatre, modelled on Max Reinhardt's Kammerspielhaus, that staged his chamber plays.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
W H Murray
W H Murray
William Hutchison Murray (18 March 191319 March 1996) was a Scottish mountaineer and writer, one of a group of active mountain climbers, mainly from Clydeside, before and just after World War II.
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An Collins
An Collins
An Collins is the otherwise unknown writer credited with the authorship of Divine Songs and Meditacions, a collection of poems and prose meditations published in 1653. All that is known of her life must be discovered in this volume. There is a strong strain of spiritual biography in her work, and from "To the Reader," the "Preface" and "The Discourse," it can be assumed that she lived in the country, probably with a disability or chronic illness.
Les Collins's Books:
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Edward Plunkett Of Dunsany
Edward Plunkett Of Dunsany (1878-1957)
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 - 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis.
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Howard Stern
Howard Stern (1954-now)
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality who has hosted The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM, an uncensored satellite radio service, since 2006. He gained national recognition in the 1990s while on terrestrial airwaves, and is labelled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and controversial shows. Stern is the highest-paid radio figure in the United States, as well as the most fined, after a history with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over indecency led to $2.5 million in fines being issued to station owners that carried his program. Stern wished for a radio career at five years of age. While attending Boston University, he worked at the campus radio station before a brief debut in 1975 at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1977, he gained on-air and managerial experience for two years at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Stern showed a more open personality throughout 1979 and 1980 at WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut and WWWW in Detroit, Michigan. In 1981, Robin Quivers joined Stern's morning program at WWDC in Washington, D.C., and the two work alongside each other to this day. Stern worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982, where differences with management led to his firing in 1985. He was hired at WXRK in New York that year before his departure for Sirius in 2005. In this time, The Howard Stern Show gained a peak audience of 20 million in 60 markets across the United States and Canada. It was rated the number one morning show in New York from 1994 to 2001. Stern describes himself as the "King of All Media" for his successes outside radio. His television career includes several late night shows, pay-per-views and home video releases. He is the author of Private Parts (1993) and Miss America (1995), that spent 20 and 16 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list respectively. The former was made into Private Parts (1997), a biographical comedy film starring Stern and his radio show staff as themselves. The film grossed over $41 million in the United States alone.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Adam Cayton Holland
Adam Cayton Holland
Adam Cayton-Holland is a newspaper columnist and stand-up comedian in Denver, Colorado. His column, "What's So Funny," appears weekly in Westword, a Denver alternative newspaper, where he frequently writes about 80s cartoon Duck Tales and his love of Chipotle burritos. Cayton-Holland also appears onstage frequently at Comedy Works, a popular comedy club in Denver, and won their 2006 new talent contest. He also performs at the Orange Cat Studio. He has a recurring dream that he is a pancake who is terrified of maple syrup and often wakes up damp and hungry.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Elfriede Moser Rath
Elfriede Moser Rath
Elfriede Moser-Rath was an Austrian ethnologist specializing in folk tales, and early modern literature. Moser-Rath received her doctorate in 1949 from the University of Vienna with the publication of her thesis: Studien zur Quellenkunde und Motivik obersteirischer Volksmrchen aus der Sammlung Pramberger, which was an analysis of the narratives in Irish fairytales. She took her first job at the Austrian Folkculture Museum (sterreichischen Museum fr Volkskunde). In 1955 she married Hans Moser, who was the Director of the Bavarian Folk Museum (Bayerischen Landesstelle fr Volkskunde) in Munich, but who was also an Austrian native. In 1969 she went to the University of Gttingen as an assistant professor to work under Professor Rolf Wilhelm Brednich on the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales (Enzyklopdie des Mrchens). In 1982 she became a full professor there. She is know primarily for the quality of her work on the Encyclopedia of Fairytales, and her analysis of literature from early modern times, and especially of Catholic sermons from the baroque period.
E Rath's Books:
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 - February 20, 1980) was the oldest child of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. She was the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. Alice led an unconventional and controversial life. Despite her love for her legendary father, she proved to be almost nothing like him. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth, a party leader and 43rd Speaker of the U.S.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
David Goodis
David Goodis (1917-1967)
David Goodis (March 2, 1917 January 7, 1967) was an American noir fiction writer. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis had two younger brothers, but one died of meningitis at the age of three. After high school in Philadelphia, Goodis studied at Indiana University for a year before transferring to Temple University, where he graduated in 1938 with a journalism degree.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Auguste Arthur Comte De Beugnot
Auguste Arthur Comte De Beugnot
Count Auguste-Arthur Beugnot (b. at Bar-sur-Aube, 25 March 1797; d. at Paris, 15 March 1865) was a French historian and statesman. He was a son of Jacques-Claude Beugnot. Originally he adopted the profession of advocate, but soon abandoned it in order to devote himself entirely to the study of history and especially the history of the Crusades.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Antony Hickey
Antony Hickey
Antony Hickey (born in the Barony of Islands, Co. Clare, Ireland, in 1586; died in Rome, 26 June 1641) was an Irish Franciscan theologian.
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Harold Bell Wright
Harold Bell Wright
Harold Bell Wright (May 4, 1872 - May 24, 1944) was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and non-fiction during the first half of the 20th century. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between 1902 and 1942 Wright wrote 19 books, several stage plays, and many magazine articles. More than twenty one movies were made or claimed to be made from Wright's stories, including Gary Cooper's first major movie, The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) and the John Wayne film, The Shepherd of the Hills (1941).
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Albert L Lehninger
Albert L Lehninger (1917-1986)
Albert Lester Lehninger (February 17, 1917 March 4, 1986) was an American biochemist, and is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of bioenergetics. http://www. medicalarchives. jhmi. edu/sgml/lehninger. html He made fundamental contributions to the current understanding of metabolism at a molecular level. In 1948, he discovered, with Eugene P. Kennedy, that mitochondria are the site of oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotes, which ushered in the modern study of energy transduction. He is the author of a number of classic texts, including: Biochemistry, The Mitochondrion, Bioenergetics and, most notably, his quintessential series Principles of Biochemistry. The latter being a widely used text for introductory biochemistry courses at the college and university levels. As a dedicated educator, it was Lehninger's argument that a knowledge of biochemistry is useful for all well-informed citizens, no matter their callingslet alone the very real intellectual excitement it can offer.
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Fiz El Ghusein
FIz El Ghusein
Faiz El-Ghusein (1883-1968) was a sheikh from the Hauran, and a former official of the Turkish Government. He most widely remembered as the author of Martyred Armenia, an eyewitness account of the mistreatment of the Armenians in the name of Islam, during what is now known as the Armenian Genocide.
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Clarence A Walworth
Clarence A Walworth
Clarence Augustus Walworth (May 30, 1820 - September 19, 1900) was an American attorney, writer, ordained Roman Catholic priest, and missionary. Walworth was a well regarded writer who published numerous works related to the Roman Catholic Church.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Anna De Noailles
Anna De Noailles
Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (15 November 1876 30 April 1933), was a Romanian-French writer.
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Dikken Zwilgmeyer
Dikken Zwilgmeyer
Dikken Zwilgmeyer (Barbara Hendrikke Wind Daae Zwilgmeyer, 20 September 1853 - 28 February 1913) was a Norwegian children's writer, and is regarded among the most significant innovators of Norwegian children's literature around 1900.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Edwin Emery Slosson
Edwin Emery Slosson
Edwin Emery Slosson (1865 - 1929) was an American editor, author and chemist. He was born in Albany, Kansas, and was educated at the University of Kansas (B.S., 1890; M.S., 1892) and at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1902). From 1891 to 1903 he was professor of chemistry at the University of Wyoming, and chemist at the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station. He was connected with the Independent thereafter as literary or managing editor.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Lady Agatha Russell
Lady Agatha Russell
Lady (Mary) Agatha Russell (1853-23 April 1933) was the daughter of the 1st Earl Russell and Frances, the Countess of Russell, and the aunt of Bertrand Russell. She was the co-editor of her mother's posthumously published memoirs, Lady John Russell: A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence.
Agatha Russell's Books:
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Christopher Locke
Christopher Locke
Christopher Locke. Photo by Jerry Michalski. Christopher Locke (born November 12, 1947) is a widely read blogger, author and the editor of the Entropy Gradient Reversals e-newsletter since 1995.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 1905 March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 19351936. She first achieved fame in 1943 with her novel The Fountainhead, which in 1957 was followed by her best-known work, the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged. Rand's political views, reflected in both her fiction and her theoretical work, emphasize individual rights (including property rights) and laissez-faire capitalism, enforced by a constitutionally limited government. She was a fierce opponent of all forms of collectivism and statism, including fascism, communism, socialism, and the welfare state, and promoted ethical egoism while rejecting the ethic of altruism. She considered reason to be the only means of acquiring knowledge and the most important aspect of her philosophy, stating, "I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."
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William Henry Venable
William Henry Venable (1836-1920)
William Henry Venable (April 29, 18361920) was an American author and educator.
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Horace Green
Horace Green
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Frank Heller
Frank Heller
Frank Heller was the pen name used by Swedish writer Gunnar Serner (July 20, 1886 - October 14, 1947). He wrote a string of light books about shady business transactions in an international milieu.
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Christian Karl August Ludwig Von Massenbach
Christian Karl August Ludwig Von Massenbach
Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach (April 16, 1758 - November 21, 1827), Prussian soldier, was born at Schmalkalden, and educated at Heilbronn and Stuttgart, devoting himself chiefly to mathematics. He became an officer of the Wrttemberg army in 1778, and left this for the service of Frederick the Great in 1782.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 - March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works included Indian Myth and Legend, Celtic Folklore and Myths of China and Japan. He was born in Cromarty and began his career in Glasgow. Between 1903 and 1910 he owned and edited The North Star in Dingwall, and then moved to the People's Journal in Dundee. From 1916 he represented the Glasgow paper, The Bulletin, in Edinburgh. As well as writing books, articles and poems, he often gave lectures, and also broadcast talks on Celtic mythology. He was the friend of many specialist authorities in his areas of interest. He died in Edinburgh on March 2, 1936 and was buried in Cromarty.
Donald Mackenzie's Books:
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Woods Hutchinson
Woods Hutchinson
Woods Hutchinson (1862-1930) was an American physician, born at Selby, Yorkshire, England. He graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1880 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan four years later. He worked as a professor of anatomy at the State University of Iowa between 1891 and 1896 and then became a professor of comparative pathology at the University of Buffalo until 1900. While at Buffalo, he also edited The Polyclinic and lectured at the London Medical Graduates' College and the University of London, starting in 1899. Besides The Polyclinic, he edited Vis Medicatrix early in his career, (from 1890 to 1891). In 1903, he became the Oregon State Health Officer; he held that post for two years. Following the post in Oregon, he became a professor of clinical medicine at the New York Polyclinic
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Georg Bchner
Georg Bchner (1813-1837)
Karl Georg Bchner (17 October 1813 - 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Bchner. Bchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death, he might have attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Cordelia Mendoza
Cordelia Mendoza
Cordelia (Scott) Mendoza is an antiques expert, philanthropist and San Diego retailer. Her volunteer work began at age 13 when she and her twin sister, Cathleen Scott, were named and represented the San Diego County Heart Association for a year as the Heart Fund Twins, after Mendoza successfully underwent repair of a congenital heart defect, a surgery that at the time was rare. Mendoza, with her sister, was awarded a Key to the City by then-Mayor Charles C. Dail.
Cordelia's Books:
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Bertha Runkle
Bertha Runkle
Bertha Runkle (1879-1958) was an American novelist and playwright born in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. From a literary family, she wrote five novels. Her first and best known, The Helmet of Navarre, was made into a Broadway play.
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Franois Mignet
Franois Mignet
Franois Auguste Marie Mignet (8 May 1796 - 24 March 1884) was a French journalist and historian.
F M Mignet's Books:
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Charles Erskine Scott Wood
Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944)
Charles Erskine Scott Wood (or C.E.S. Wood) (February 20, 1852 January 22, 1944) was an author, civil libertarian, soldier, and attorney. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, Heavenly Discourse.
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