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| 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] |
| Bruce Cook has earned credits as writer, producer, or director on eleven independent feature films as well as commercials. He has written more than twenty screenplays, including the films Husbands, Wives, Money & Murder; Line of Fire; and Nightwish.
Since 1973 he has taught at a number of film schools, including US....[more] |
| Jonathan Gil Harris (1963 - ) was born in New Zealand, completed his PhD in England, and lives in the United States, where he has taught for 20 years. He is the author of several books on English Renaissance literature, drama, and culture, including (most recently) "Shakespeare and Literary Theory" and "Untimely Matter....[more] |
| Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, she moved at age two to Texas and grew up there. With her marriage to a professional Boy Scout Executive, she followed his profession to Oklahoma and back to Texas and retired from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, in 1987. She left Houston and retired in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, where....[more] |
| John Puzzo is a graduate of the University of Connecticut. He attended Yale University, the Sorbonne (Paris), the University of the Americas (Mexico), Boston University, the Art Institute of Boston (Photography), and holds certificates from the University of Connecticut (Latin American Studies) and from the French Mini....[more] |
| Born in Dubuque, Iowa, Rabe was educated at Loras College and Villanova. His service in Vietnam has had a major influence on his work, particularly in his early plays. In 1971 both The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, which traces a soldier's life from basic training to an ugly and ironic death in Vietnam, and Sticks an....[more] |
| Robert J. Sawyer was born in Ottawa on April 29, 1960, but raised in Toronto. In 1980, while still in high school, Sawyer submitted a short story to the the Rochester Museum and Science Center, which was running a contest for light show ideas. Sawyer didn't win, but the Museum purchased his story Motive anyway and it r....[more] |
| Thomas Walters is an accomplished professional art educator, art historian and art critic. His bachelors degree in Art Education is from Atlantic Union College, where he concentrated in the arts of sculpture, drawing and ceramics. His masters degree in Art Education is from Andrews University with a concentration in Ar....[more] |
| An ancient Greek playwright, Aeschylus is often called the father of tragedy. Among his revolutionary ideas, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for more interesting plots. Aeschylus was born around 525 B.C. to a wealthy family in a small town north of Athens. According to him, he started writing tra....[more] |
| Ciro Alegría Bazán was born in 1909 in Sartimbanba, Peru. His upbringing there in the Huamachuco province provided him with a deep interest in and understanding of the native people of Peru and would inspire him to write many of his works later in life, detailing the oppression and hardships of the local Indian commun....[more] |
| Best known for her relationships with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé was also an important writer in her own right. During her career, Andreas-Salomé wrote more than 10 novels and several non-fiction books. Later in life, she became a psychoanalyst after studying under F....[more] |
| Aristophanes (446-386 B.C.) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. He wrote at least forty plays during his lifetime, eleven of which survive today. Because these eleven plays are the primary surviving relics of the genre known as Old Comedy, Aristophanes is considered the Master of Old Comedy. He is believed to ....[more] |
| Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher who wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, morality, biology, botany, agriculture, and zoology. He was a student of the Classical Greek philosopher Plato and went on to te....[more] |
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