Author Listings (History & Criticism)
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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] |
| Bill Bridges is a game designer at CCP/White Wolf. He is the co-creator of Holistic Design’s Fading Suns science fiction game universe, and was the lead designer of the award-winning Storytelling system rules for White Wolf's World of Darkness games. He designed and developed the award-winning games Mage: The Awakening....[more] |
| Prolific artist and writer, Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo B.A., M.A., Ed.D. writes and illustrates Pennsylvania Voices I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII which are a series of fiction and non-fiction works. Books support The American Cancer Society. By 2009, a total of twenty books will be published for the nat....[more] |
| Debra Evans is an American writer known for her books on issues related to contemporary Christian spirituality, reproductive health, women's wellness, and family relationships. She has written over 20 non-fiction books.
Her writing career began in 1968, when Evans created and edited an alternative newspaper, The Zei....[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] |
| Thomas Forrest Kelly is professor of music at Harvard University. |
| Robert D Schick (1929-1997) was a concert pianist, critic, and professor of piano at West Chester University. He earned his doctorate in piano performance and pedagogy at the Eastman School of Music. |
| Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica and while growing up in the ghettoes of Trench Town created and invented the word- Reggae and with my brethrens such as Junior Braithwaite, and Garth Dennis gave the name -Wailing Wailers to Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. Bob then formed his group of singers and musicians ....[more] |
| With over 100 published books to his name, pop culture historian Dave Thompson is one of rock'n'roll's leading experts. Ferociously self-opinionated, relentless controversially but writing, too, with irresistible charm and finesse, Thompson's sharply-honed eye for culture and historical context ensure a no-nonsense ....[more] |
| Kimifusa Abe (1924-1993) was a Japanese novelist, poet, and playwright. The surrealist, absurdist, and avant-garde nature of his work earned Abe comparisons to Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Samuel Becket. He wrote under the pseudonym Kobo Abe.
Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Kita, Tokyo, b....[more] |
| Best known for his contributions to the field of philosophy but also a music composer and critic, Theodor Adorno proved popular culture was a phenomenon worth analyzing. This German-born author, who lived from September 11, 1903 to August 6, 1969, was a member of the Frankfurt School, along with such other luminaries s....[more] |
| Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, is most well-known for his fairy tales, which include ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’. Andersen was born to poor parents, a washerwoman and a shoemaker, in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. Odense was the only town outside of Denmark’s capital to have a thea....[more] |
| William H. Armstrong (September 14, 1911 – April 11, 1999) was an American children’s book author. He is best known for his young adult novel Sounder (1969) which won the John Newbery Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1970. In 1972, Sounder was adapted to film. Sounder is the story of an African-American boy....[more] |
| Born in Austria in 1888, Vicki Braum grew up an only child in a wealthy family. She was first published at age fourteen and became an exceptional harp player, spending six years at a music conservatory and then joining an orchestra. After marrying Richard Lert, Braum stopping playing music and instead took a job as an ....[more] |
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