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| Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in the idyllic hamlet of South Haven, Michigan. Her family moved to Evanston, Illinois when she was little; she has lived in or near Chicago for most of her life.
She began making prints in 1978 under the tutelage of William Wimmer. Miss Niffenegger trained as a visual artist at ....[more] |
| Born in Basle, Switzerland in 1907, Frithjof Schuon was the twentieth century's pre-eminent spokesman for the perennialist school of comparative religious thought.
The leitmotif of Schuon's work was foreshadowed in an encounter during his youth with a marabout who had accompanied some members of his Senegalese village....[more] |
| Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928. He was adopted as an infant by Reid Albee, the son of Edward Franklin Albee of the powerful Keith-Albee vaudeville chain. He was raised in great affluence and sent to preparatory and military schools. ending his formal education after a year and a half at Trinity College in Hart....[more] |
| Alan Axelrod was born on August 25, 1952, in New York. He was educated at Northeastern Illinois University and University of Iowa. He is a leading writer about American history, and is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History. In his books, Axelrod presents the facts, details, and faces that have he....[more] |
| A native of Switzerland, John Bernhard traveled North America extensively before settling in Houston, Texas. For more than two decades he has chosen the medium of photography to explore the everyday world from new perspectives, breaking away into different pathways of artistic expression. He continues to devote all his....[more] |
| Jeanne Brasile is currently the Director of the
Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University in South
Orange, New Jersey. Jeanne earned a Bachelor’s
Degree in studio art and art history at Ramapo
College of New Jersey, and a Master's Degree in
Museum Studies at Seton Hall University. During her
career of nearly twenty ....[more] |
| TITUS BURCKHARDT, a German Swiss, was born in Florence in 1908 and died in Lausanne in 1984. An eminent member of the perennialist school, he is perhaps best known to the general public as an art historian. He won much acclaim for producing and publishing the first successful full-scale facsimiles of the Book of Kells,....[more] |
| Artist, writer and renegade Mississippian, my novels are mostly family sagas with settings in various places I've lived: Mississippi,New York and the Seattle area. I write theater and art reviews for The News Tribune and the Weekly Volcano in Tacoma, Washington and The Olympian in Olympia, Washington. |
| First and foremost, I am a word smith. Writing is the craft of using words to fulfill the need to express oneself. Self-expression is the basis of self-confidence, which is a most worthy achievement. My list of published titles includes fiction and nonfiction. Each one was written to entertain, delight, touch and inspi....[more] |
| Nicola Courtright, who received her B.A. at Oberlin College, her M.A. at Yale, and a Ph.D at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1990, has taught the art and architecture of early modern Europe in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College since 1989. She has also taught at the Univ....[more] |
| John Grant is author of some seventy books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels like The World, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window and most recently The Dragons of Manhattan and Leaving Fortusa. His "book-length fiction" Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hu....[more] |
| Ed Gray is a writer and co-founder with his wife Rebecca of Gray's Sporting Journal. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire. |
| Lois V. Harris, author of Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter, and the new Charlie Russell: Tale-Telling Cowboy Artist, writes to inspire children to follow their dreams. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in children’s magazines and the L.A. Times. Harris belongs to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Ill....[more] |
| I was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, but grew up in Nigeria, Boston (Lincolnshire) and Ripon (North Yorkshire). I read 'Modern History' at St John's College, Oxford, and did an MA in Art History at the University of Sussex and a PhD at the University of London.
I currently live in Oxford. |
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