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| Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who pioneered the field of media therapy. She teaches at Yale University, where she is a fellow at Calhoun College, and Princeton University, where she is a fellow at Butler College. She is also an adjunct professor at NYU and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medici....[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] |
| Russell Ash is best known as the creator and compiler of Top 10 of Everything (annual, 1989–) and related titles (Hamlyn, UK; Sterling, USA, and in various editions around the world). He has also written numerous books on art (principally 19th-century painters), popular reference (such as his annual Whitaker's World of....[more] |
| Suzaan Boettger's engagement with the field of visual art has been lifelong. After alternating between majors in studio art and psychology at San Francisco State, and completing both, an extended and expansive solo journey throughout Europe led her to the realization that she could combine the sensory and the analytica....[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] |
| 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] |
| Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists....[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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| A trip to China in 1975 and purchase of an antique Chinese robe one night with nothing to do I visited the Friendship Store led to a major collection of Chinese robes and shoes for bound feet. Researching these for international lectures led to writing my first book in 1998 SPLENDID SLIPPERS - A THOUSAND YEARS OF AN E....[more] |
| Geoffrey Smith is a publisher, writer and photographer living in Gloucestershire, England. |
| Carol Strickland is a freelance writer specializing in cultural topics. Author of numerous books on art, architecture, and literature, she regularly contributes feature stories to the Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com) and has written for newspapers like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street J....[more] |
| Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918) was an American, novelist, journalist and historian Adams is best known for his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams.
Adams was born on February 16, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts into the politically prominent Adams family. Adams was the fourth of seven children. His father....[more] |
| Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott, a well-known transcendentalist philosopher and educator, and Abigail May Alcott. In 1834, the Alcott family moved to Massachusetts, where they became acquainted with writers and ....[more] |
| A knight, a lawyer and philosopher among other titles, Sir Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in London, England, where he was tutored at home due to his poor health. Eventually, at age 12, he was deemed well enough to attend Trinity College where he excelled and soon caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth, who took to calling ....[more] |
| Born in France in 1915, Roland Barthes would go on to become one of the most revered critics of his generation. Growing up in a single parent home, Barthes learned a work ethic that would serve him well for the rest of his life. He attended the Sorbonne where he received degrees in classical literature and grammar and ....[more] |
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