Christopher Phelps

Christopher Phelps (1965-now)

Christopher Phelps (born 1965) is an American political and intellectual historian of the twentieth century. The subjects of his research and writing include philosophical pragmatism, concepts of class and labor in social thought, the fate of the American Left and the socialist ideal, and ideas of race in American and African American history. Phelps teaches in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham in England, having previously taught history at the Ohio State University, the University of Oregon, and Simon Fraser University in Canada. He has received the Fulbright Award twice, to teach philosophy at the University of Pcs in Hungary in 2000 and American Studies at the University of d in Poland in 2004-2005.

Ah Phelps's Books:

[The Merchants Of Venus]

Horace Brown Fyfe

Horace Brown Fyfe

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.

Horace Brown Fyfe's Books:

[A Transmutation Of Muddles | Exile | Fee Of The Frontier | Flamedown | Irresistible Weapon | Let There Be Light | Manners Of The Age | Satellite System | The Envoy Her | The Outbreak Of Peace | The Talkative Tree | The Wedge | This World Must Die | D 99]

Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 - May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.

Bret Harte's Books:

[How Santa Claus Came To Simpsons Bar | Salomy Jane | A Drift From Redwood Camp | A First Family Of Tasajara | A Millionaire Of Rough And Ready | A Phyllis Of The Sierras | A Protge Of Jack Hamlin | A Sappho Of Green Springs | Bocetos Californianos | By Shore And Sedge | Clarence | Colonel Starbottle Client | Complete Poetical Works | Condensed Novels | Cressy | Devil Ford | Drift From Two Shores | East And West | Excelsior | Flip A California Romance | Found At Blazing Star | From Sand Hill To Pine | Her Letter | In A Hollow Of The Hills | In The Carquinez Woods | Jeff Briggs Love Story | Legends And Tales | Maruja | Mrs Skaggs Husbands | New Burlesques | On The Frontier | Openings In The Old Trail | Sally Dows | The Argonauts Of North Liberty | The Bell Ringer Of Angel | The Crusade Of The Excelsior | The Heritage Of Dedlow Marsh | The Queen Of The Pirate Isle | Dickens In Camp | Mr Jack Hamlin Mediation | Tarinoita Kalifornian Kultamailta | The Heritage Of Dedlow Marsh And Other Tales | Tri Noveloj De Usona Verkisto Bret Harte]

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.

W Morrow's Books:

[The Ape The Idiot Other People | The Inmate Of The Dungeon]

Adrian Dawson

Adrian Dawson (1971-now)

Adrian Dawson (born 26 January 1971) is a British author of thriller and horror fiction, currently best known for his 2010 debut novel Codex. Codex was written in 1999, and Adrian was signed to the Christopher Little Literary Agency,[1 1] on the strength of the novel, but they failed to find a publisher. Codex deals with cryptology, religion and high-end technology, with one publisher stating that most readers would turn to non-fiction, rather than fiction for such subject matter{1] - that self same publisher was thanked by Dan Brown in the 2003 published The Da Vinci Code. However, with the advent of the iPad, Adrian's novel was published in ebook format where it stormed the UK iBookstore's Best Seller list [2 2] and will be out in print in November 2010.

A Dawson's Books:

[Finn The Wolfhound | Jan | The Message | The Record Of Nicholas Freydon]

Edgar Wilson Nye

Edgar Wilson Nye (1850-1896)

Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (August 25, 1850 - February 22, 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang.

Edgar Wilson Bill Nye's Books:

[A Guest At The Ludlow And Other Stories]

George Bethune English

George Bethune English

George Bethune English (March 7, 1787 - Washington, D.C., September 20, 1828) was an American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam. The oldest of four children, English was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was baptized at Trinity Church on April 1, 1787. He later attended Harvard College, where his dissertation won a Bowdoin Prize he received a Masters in theology in 1811. During his studies, however, English encountered doubts about Christian theology, and went on to publish his misgivings in a book entitled The Grounds of Christianity Examined, which earned him excommunication from the Church of Christ in 1814. English addressed some of the criticisms and controversies caused by his first book in a second tract, "A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Cary," as well as in published responses to Unitarian leader William Ellery Channing's (17801842) "Two Sermons on Infidelity. " Subsequently he edited a country newspaper, during which time he may have learned the Cherokee language. English was nominated by President James Madison on February 27, 1815 and commissioned on March 1, 1815 as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 and assigned to Marine Corps headquarters. He then sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known to have visited Egypt. Shortly after arriving in Egypt he resigned his commission, converted to Islam and joined Isma'il Pasha in an expedition up the Nile River against Sennar 1820, winning distinction as an officer of artillery. He published his Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar (London 1822) regarding his exploits. A colleague from Harvard, Edward Everett, published a rejoinder to English's book "The Grounds of Christianity Examined," to which English responded with his 1824 book "Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook. " After his work for Isma'il Pasha, English worked in the Diplomatic Corps of the United States in the Levant, where he worked to secure a trade agreement between the United States and the Ottoman Empire, which had trade valued at nearly $800,000 in 1822. In 1827, he returned to the United States and died in Washington the next year.

George Bethune English's Books:

[A Letter To The Reverend Mr Channing | A Narrative Of The Expedition To Dongola And Sennaar | Five Pebbles From The Brook]

Christopher Dyer

Christopher Dyer (1944-now)

Christopher Charles Dyer CBE FBA (born 1944) is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.

B Dyer's Books:

[About Sugar Buying For Jobbers]

Frank R Adams

Frank R Adams

Frank Adam (August 18 1968, Bruges) is a Flemish author, mostly writing plays and philosophical works. He began writing in 1992. He is a member of the editorial team of the Dutch-language literary periodical De Brakke Hond and is a teacher at the writers academy in Bruges. Adam studied Arabic, Ancient Greek, Germanic languages, and literature.

Frank Adams's Books:

[The Dame And Pythias]

Alexander George Craig

Alexander George Craig

Alexander George (Alec) Craig (18971973) was an author and poet, who wrote extensively about banned books. Craig was interested more generally in sexual behaviour and reform, and was also engaged with the socialist movement. He was involved with the Progressive League, reviewing books for their journal. His papers are in the archives of Senate House Library.

George Little's Books:

[A History Of Lumsden Battery C S A]

Ferdinand Raimund

Ferdinand Raimund

Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; June 1, 1790 September 5, 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist.

Ferdinand Raimund's Books:

[Das Maedchen Aus Der Feenwelt | Der Alpenkonig Und Der Menschenfeind | Der Barometermacher Auf Der Zauberinsel | Der Diamant Des Geisterknigs | Der Verschwender | Die Gefesselte Phantasie | Die Unheilbringende Krone Oder Knig Ohne Reich | Moisasurs Zauberfluch]

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (March 28, 1873 - July 19, 1935) was an American-born British writer. The daughter of a businessman, she was born in Englewood, New Jersey but at age nine her family moved to London. Although she made return visits to the United States, she lived in England for the remainder of her life. In 1908, she married the British essayist and journalist, Basil de Slincourt. During World War I she and her husband were volunteer workers in hospitals and orphanages in France. Her novels explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans. He bestsellin novel Tante was made into a 1918 film, The Impossible Woman and The Little French Girl into a 1925 film of the same name. In 1931, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Four of her books were on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1912, 1924, 1927, and 1929 as determined by the New York Times. Anne Douglas Sedgwick died in Hampstead

Anne Douglas Sedgwick's Books:

[A Fountain Sealed | Amabel Channice | Franklin Kane | The Nest The White Pagoda The Suicide A Forsaken Temple | Tante]

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)

Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.

Rafael Sabatini's Books:

[Bardelys The Magnificent | Captain Blood | Casanovas Alibi | Love At Arms | Mistress Wilding | Scaramouche | St Martins Summer | The Chronicles Of Captain Blood | The Historical Nights Entertainment Second Series | The Historical Nights Entertainment | The Lions Skin | The Marquis Of Carabas | The Sea Hawk | The Shame Of Motley | The Snare | The Strolling Saint | The Suitors Of Yvonne | The Tavern Knight | The Trampling Of The Lilies]

E Temple Thurston

E Temple Thurston

Ernest Temple Thurston (September 23, 1879 - March 19, 1933) was an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. He was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, and his family moved to Cork when he was aged ten. In 1901 he married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden, (1875-1911). The marriage did not last and they separated in 1907 and were formally divorced in 1910. E. Temple Thurston wrote forty books from which seventeen motion pictures were made. As well, he authored several theatrical plays, three of which were performed on Broadway and four were made into motion pictures. His best known work for the stage is The Wandering Jew, a play in four parts that was performed on Broadway in 1921 and made into a film in 1933. His third wife Emily published the play as a novel in 1934. His most successful books include The City of Beautiful Nonsense (1909) and The Flower of Gloster (1911) about a canal journey in England. E. Temple Thurston died from influenza and pneumonia in London

E Temple Thurston's Books:

[Sally Bishop]

Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989)

Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989) was an American social and political activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, and continued practicing his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion and radical activism of that era.

J Howard's Books:

[Memoir Of William Watts Mcnair]

Douard Glissant

Douard Glissant

douard Glissant is a French writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as being one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. He studied at the Lyce Schoelcher, named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, where the poet Aim Csaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher. Csaire had met Lon Damas there; later in Paris they would join with Lopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the concept of ngritude. Csaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him; another student at the school at that time was Frantz Fanon. Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his PhD, having studied ethnography at the Muse de l'Homme and History and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959, as a result of which Charles de Gaulle barred him from leaving France between 1961 and 1965. He returned to Martinique in 1965 and founded the Institut martiniquais d'tudes, as well as Acoma, a social sciences publication. He now divides his time between Martinique, Paris and New York, where he has been visiting professor of French Literature at CUNY since 1995. In January 2006, douard Glissant was asked by Jacques Chirac to take on the presidency of a new cultural centre devoted to the history of slave trade. An English translation of Chirac's speech can be found here

Edouard Le Roy's Books:

[A New Philosophy Henri Bergson]

Marquis De Sade

Marquis De Sade (1740-1814)

Donatien Alphonse Franois, marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and Sade denied being their author. He is best known for his erotic novels, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting bizarre sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life; eleven years in Paris (10 of which were spent in the Bastille) a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bictre, a year in Sainte-Plagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. During the French Revolution he was an elected delegate to the National Convention. Many of his works were written in prison. The term "sadism" is derived from his name.

D F De Sade's Books:

[Aline Et Valcour Tome I | Aline Et Valcour Tome Ii | Les Crimes De Lamour]

Charles Alexander And Book

Charles Alexander And Book (1954-now)

Charles Alexander (born 1954) is an American poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press, one of the only independent presses which specializes in innovative poetry and the book arts. Alexander also served as the Director of the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts from 1993 until 1995, and as book artist there through 1996. Alexander lives in Tucson, AZ with his wife the visual artist Cynthia Miller and his two daughters.

Book 1's Books:

[Julius Caesar Civil War Commentaries | Julius Caesar War Commentaries]

Mike Brotherton

Mike Brotherton

Mike Brotherton (born March 26, 1968) is an American science fiction writer and astronomer. He began writing in 1980.

Mike Brotherton's Books:

[Star Dragon]

Francis William Reitz

Francis William Reitz (1844-1934)

Francis William Reitz, Jr. (Swellendam, 5 October 1844 - Cape Town, 27 March 1934) was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist and poet, member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State Secretary of the South African Republic at the time of the Second Boer War, and the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa. Reitz had an extremely varied political and judicial career that lasted for over forty-five years and spanned four separate political entities: the Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic, and the Union of South Africa. Trained as a lawyer in Cape Town and London, Reitz started off in law practice and diamond prospecting before being appointed Chief Justice of the Orange Free State. In the Orange Free State Reitz played an important role in the modernisation of the legal system and the state's administrative organisation. at the same time he was also prominent in public life, getting involved in the Afrikaner language and culture movement, and cultural life in general. Reitz was a popular personality, both for his politics and his openness. When State President Brand suddenly died in 1888, Reitz won the presidential elections unopposed. After being re-elected in 1895, subsequently making a trip to Europe, Reitz fell seriously ill, and had to retire. In 1898, now recovered, he was appointed State Secretary of the South African Republic, and became a leading Afrikaner political figure during the Second Boer War. Reluctant to shift allegiance to the British, Reitz went into voluntary exile after the war ended. Several years later he returned to South Africa and set up a law practice again, in Pretoria. In the late 1900s he became involved in politics once more, and upon the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Reitz was chosen the first president of the Senate. Reitz was an important figure in Afrikaner cultural life during most of his life, especially through his poems and other publications.

F Reitz's Books:

[A Century Of Wrong]