Gertrude Barrows Bennett

Gertrude Barrows Bennett

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (18831948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy. " Among her most famous books are Claimed (which H. P. Lovecraft called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read") and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear. Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919).

E Barrows's Books:

[Companion To The Bible]

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Alex Standish

Alex Standish (1963-now)

Alex Standish (born 1963) is an intelligence analyst and military expert. He is current project manager for returns and reintegration in the United Nations Development Programme in Kosovo where he is in charge of budget US$ 6,865,008. He is editor of Strategic Intelligence Review, is a former BBC Panorama producer, a former foreign correspondent for the BBC and The Economist, and occasional TV and radio personality. From 2000 until 2006 he was editor of Jane's Intelligence Digest. He particularly reports on geopolitical, global security, and terrorism issues in the Balkans, Russia, Central Europe, and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Institution. He is an Honorary Research Associate in Durham University's Department of Anthropology. From 1995-1997 he was the associate editor of Metal Bulletin and chaired the International Aluminium Conferences in 1995 and 1996. As a broadcaster, his television and radio documentary credits include 78 Days: an Audit of War (BBC2); Moral Combat: NATO at War (BBC Panorama); With Us or Against Us (BBC Radio 4); Death of a Sister (C4); The Killing of Sister Guilford (C4); Guantanamo Guidebook (Channel 4); What Do They Know About Us (BBC Radio 4) and New Europeans (BBC World Service). He also provides regular current affairs analysis for BBC Newsnight; the BBC World Service; BBC Radio 4; CNN; CNBC and other international news services. He was a principal ITN news analyst in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA and the main BBC Radio 4 and World Service commentator during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. His most controversial television role was as the military intelligence expert in the Channel Four experimental documentary Guantanamo Guidebook (February 2005) which examined in graphic detail US interrogation techniques authorised for use on Guantanamo Bay detainees suspected of being terrorists. A graduate of St Chad's College, University of Durham, and former sabbatical officer of Durham Students' Union, he returned to his former college as Senior Research Fellow in 2003. He also currently serves as Director of Development and Alumni Relations at St Chad's College, and is Coach of the Rugby team. His publications include Kosovo One Year On: the Crisis and its Consequences (CRCE, 2000) and he was joint-author of Albanian Identities: Myth and History (Hurst, 2002).

Hal Standish's Books:

[Fred Fearnot New Ranch]

Sam Merwin Jr

Sam Merwin Jr (1910-1996)

Samuel Kimball Merwin Jr. (April 28, 1910, Plainfield, New Jersey - January 13, 1996, Los Angeles, California) was an American mystery fiction writer, science fiction author and editor. He mostly published fiction as Sam Merwin, Jr., but his pseudonyms included Elizabeth Deare Bennett, Matt Lee, Jacques Jean Ferrat and Carter Sprague.

Samuel Merwin's Books:

[Calumet K | The Road To Frontenac]

Carl L Becker

Carl L Becker

Carl Lotus Becker (September 7, 1873 April 10, 1945) was an American historian.

Carl Becker's Books:

[The Eve Of The Revolution A Chronicle Of The Breach With England]

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Shirley Graham Du Bois

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 - March 27, 1977) was an American-born author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes, as well as spouse of noted African-American thinker, writer, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois.

W B Du Bois's Books:

[Darkwater | The Conservation Of Races | The Negro]

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Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison, ne Fancourt (b. 1921) was a British writer of romance novels from 1965 to 1995. She was the ninth elected Chairman (1977-1979) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Elizabeth Harrison's Books:

[In Story Land]

Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937)

Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 September 13, 1937) was an American author. Butler was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically. Working from his home in Flushing New York, Butler wasby every measure and by many timesthe most published author of the pulp fiction era. Amongst others he wrote twenty-five stories to Woman's Home Companion between 1906 and 1935. The stories in the Companion were illustrated by artists including May Wilson Preston, Frederic Dorr Steele, Herbert Paus and Rico Le Brun. Between 1931 and 1936, at least seventeen of Butler's stories published in newspapers were enhanced by noted illustrator Ethel Hays. His career spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Don Marquis, Will Rogers and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Despite the enormous volume of his work, Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. A founding member of both the Dutch Treat Club and the Author's League of America, Butler was an always-present force in the New York City literary scene. He died in Williamsville, Massachusetts and was interred in Flushing Cemetery.

Ellis Parker Butler's Books:

[An Experiment In Gyro Hats | Below Zero | Billy Brad And The Forbidden Fruit | Geoffrey Panklaggephone | Goat Feathers | Kilo | Lover Leap | Mike Flannery | Philo Gubb | Pigs Is Pigs | The Chromatic Ghosts Of Thomas | Mike Flannery On Duty And Off | Philo Gubb Correspondence School Detective | Solander Radio Tomb | The Boiled Ham Mystery | The Detective Club | The Locked Drawer Mystery | The Thin Santa Claus | The Water Goats And Other Troubles]