Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)

Christian Friedrich Hebbel (March 18, 1813 - December 13, 1863), was a German poet and dramatist.

Friedrich Hebbel's Books:

[Schnock | Agnes Bernauer | Gyges Und Sein Ring | Herodes Und Mariamne | Judith | Mutter Und Kind]

Archie Frederick Collins

Archie Frederick Collins

Archie Frederick Collins (born South Bend, Indiana January 8, 1869. Died Nyack, New York January 3, 1952) was an early experimenter in wireless telephony and a prolific author of books and articles on a wide range of scientific and technical subjects.

Archie Frederick Collins's Books:

[A Discourse Concerning Ridicule And Irony In Writing | The Radio Amateur Hand Book]

Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881, Chicago, Illinois March 23, 1960, New York City, New York) was an American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A. ) and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. He was a prolific writer of light verse, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

Franklin Pierce's Books:

[Federal Usurpation]

Maureen F Mchugh

Maureen F Mchugh (1959-now)

Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995).

Maureen Mchugh's Books:

[Mothers And Other Monsters]

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]

Edward Egleston

Edward Egleston

Edward Eggleston (December 10, 1837 September 3, 1902) was an American historian and novelist.

Edward Egleston's Books:

[The Faith Doctor]

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]

August Derleth

August Derleth (1909-1971)

August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 - July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction and biography. A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing.

August Derleth's Books:

[Mcilvaine Star]

Elizabeth Elstob

Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756)

Elizabeth Elstob (16831756), the 'Saxon Nymph,' was born and brought up in the Quayside area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and, like Mary Astell of Newcastle, is nowadays regarded as one of the first English feminists. She was proficient in eight languages and became a pioneer in Anglo-Saxon studies, an unprecedented achievement for a woman in the period. In London she translated Madeleine de Scudery's Essay upon Glory in 1708 and an English-Saxon Homily on the Nativity of St Gregory in 1709. Both works are dedicated to Queen Anne, who is praised in feminist prefaces. From 1702, Elizabeth was part of the circle of intelligent women around Mary Astell, who helped to find subscribers for her Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue, the first such work written in English. The preface: An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities took issue with the formidable Jonathan Swift and seems to have caused him to amend his views. Elizabeth's brother William Elstob (16731715) was sent to Eton and Cambridge and entered the church. Like his sister, he was a scholar and edited Roger Ascham's Letters in 1703. Elizabeth may have lived with him at Oxford from 1696, and certainly did so in London from 1702. After William's death, Elizabeth eventually secured an apartment, where she lived 'surrounded by the congenial elements of dirt and books' until she died in 1756.

Elizabeth Elstob's Books:

[An Apology For The Study Of Northern Antiquities]

Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown (born October 1, 1862, died November 28, 1950) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, W. Va. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University. He lectured at various times at Leland Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, Cal., from 1896 to 1911. In the latter year he became dean of the Yale Divinity School

Charles Reynolds Brown's Books:

[Five Young Men]

Kris Ottman Neville

Kris Ottman Neville

Kris Ottman Neville (1925 - 23 December 1980) better known as Kris Neville was an American science fiction writer from California. He was born in St. Louis. His first science fiction work was published in 1949. His most famous work, the novel Bettyann, is considered an underground classic of science fiction. Well known science fiction writer and critic, Barry N. Malzberg, wrote the following biographical note about Kris Neville in his introduction to Neville's story Ballenger's People in the 1979 Doubleday collection Neglected Visions: Kris Neville could have been among the ten most honored science fiction writers of his generation; instead, he virtually abandoned the field after conquering it early on and made himself the leading lay authority in the world on epoxy resins, collaborating on a series of specialized texts that have become the basic works in their field. I can hardly blame him for this decision, and it was in any case carefully thought out. Neville, who sold his first story in 1949 and another fifteen by 1952, concluded early on that the perimeters of the field in the 1950s were simply too close to contain the kind of work he would have to do if he wanted to grow as a writer, and accordingly he quit. A scattering of stories has appeared over the last quarter of a century, and a couple of novels, but except for one abortive attempt to write full-time in the mid-1960s (the field simply could not absorb the kind of work he was doing), Neville has been in a state of diminshed production for a long time. Nowadays a short-short story shows up once a year or so in a magazine or original anthology; sometimes written in collaboration with his second wife, Lil, and always so astonishingly above the run of material surrounding it as to constitute an embarrassment to the other writers. Neville, whom I do not claim to know well at all but with whom I did correspond prolifically some years ago, may be among the most intelligent of science fiction writers (only A. J. Budrys seems to have his eclecticism and his breadth) and strikes me as among the few contented people I have ever known.... Neville has done some extraordinary political satire -- The Price of Simeryl, published way back in 1966, is an early, savage anti-Vietnam piece -- and in work like New Apples in the Garden manifests an extraordinary range of subject and character. Shortly after Neville's death in 1980, a remembrance by Malzberg was published in Locus Magazine, and later re-published in The Science Fiction of Kris Neville (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. ) It includes these additional observations: I never met Kris Neville. I collaborated with him on three short stories and an abortive novel and spoke to him on the telephone five to ten times. What I did was correspond with him for over a decade starting in 1969 and there must exist in my files somewhere at least 200,000 words of Nevilliliana.... I could not divest myself of any of these letters because what they are are the lucid and balanced evidence of a powerful mind focused by a powerful soul who inch by inch had worked his way through to a purifying and terrible clarity of vision... that a serious literary career was impossible in science fiction (impossible out of it too because there was simply no audience left for 'serious' fiction in this country. ) The limitations of the audience and the limitations of editing made no writer capable of doing an ambitious and improving body of work which would reach an audience and take that audience along. Neville ascribed virtually every failure in the modern history of the genre to meretricious, debased, or cowardly editors, not to the writers.... Neville by his own testimony had to leave science fiction in the early fifties. He began publishing in 1949, he found that he could very easily sell to the Bouchers, Golds, or Campbells of his time and quickly satisfied his original ambitions. What he could not do was to continue to follow the course of his vision. Quickly he ran up against the imposed borders of the field and almost as quickly he quit. There was a decade of near-total silence. In the mid-sixties as a fortieth birthday present to himself he financed a two-year attempt to establish a real position in science fiction but although many strange and wonderful stories appeared,... rotten agenting, the limitations of the field, and a certain powerful revulsion in Neville himself that made him unable to push for entrance into something which he knew had wrecked his spirit, drove him away again and in the last dozen years of his life he produced only a scattering of short stories for the magazines and the original anthologies, none of them longer than a few thousand words. Collaboration on important texts in the field of epoxy resins -- on which he knew more than any layman -- and employment in the chemical industry kept him busy, well remunerated, and content. By the late seventies he had achieved enough equivolcal peace to be able to come back to science fiction with a scholar's interest, a scholar's contribution.... He liked wine, hated Nixon, deplored the mass media, missed Tony Boucher, had grudging and deep respect for the memory of John W. Campbell, loved his children, had a deep suspicion of American industry and its products but no particular reverence for his Volvo, found [science fiction] conventions, finally, wearying and had a deep and abiding love for the science fiction community.

Kris Ottman Neville's Books:

[Earth Alert | General Max Shorter | New Apples In The Garden]

Garrett P Serviss

Garrett P Serviss

Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York, and majored in science at Cornell. He took a law degree at Columbia, but never worked as an attorney. Instead, in 1876 he joined the staff of the New York Sun newspaper, working as a journalist until 1892 under editor Charles Dana.

Garrett Serviss's Books:

[Curiosities Of The Sky | Other Worlds | Pleasures Of The Telescope]

Joseph Hiam Levy

Joseph Hiam Levy

Joseph Hiam Levy (1838 - 1913) was an English author and economist. He was educated at the City of London School and joined the Civil Service. He later became a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College and an important figure in the Personal Rights Association. Levy also wrote an introduction to the English translation of Yves Guyot's 1893 work, The Tyranny of Socialism.

John Stuart Mill's Books:

[On Liberty | Utilitarianism]

A Merritt

A Merritt (1884-1943)

Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884-August 21, 1943) known by his byline, A. Merritt was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction.

A Merritt's Books:

[Dwellers In The Mirage]

Epifanio De Los Santos

Epifanio De Los Santos (1871-1928)

Epifanio de los Santos y Cristbal (April 7, 1871-April 18, 1928) was most distinguished as a Filipino historian, intellectual titan, literary critic, jurist, antiquarian, and patriot. He was appointed director of the Philippine Library and Museum by Governor General Leonard Wood in 1925.

Francisco Balagtas's Books:

[Florante At Laura | Florante]

William Hugh Clifford Frend

William Hugh Clifford Frend

The Reverend Professor William Hugh Clifford Frend (11 January 1916 - 1 August 2005) was an English ecclesiastical historian, archaeologist, and Anglican priest.

Hugh Clifford's Books:

[In Court And Kampong]

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]

Antonio De Morga

Antonio De Morga

Antonio de Morga Snchez Garay was a Spanish lawyer and a high-ranking colonial official in the Philippines, New Spain and Peru. He was also a historian. He published the book Sucesos de las islas Filipinas in 1609, one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He also led the Spanish in one naval battle against Dutch corsairs in the Philippines, in 1600.

Antonio De Morga's Books:

[History Of The Philippine Islands Vols 1 And 2]

Alan F Alford

Alan F Alford

Alan F. Alford, B. Com, FCA, MBA is a British writer and speaker on the subjects of ancient religion, mythology, and Egyptology. His first book Gods of the New Millennium (1996) drew on the ancient astronaut theory of Zecharia Sitchin and became a number 11 non-fiction bestseller in the UK.

G Alford's Books:

[How To Prosper In Boll Weevil Territory]

Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins is a British writer.

Charlotte Higgins's Books:

[The Angel Children]