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| Michael Gurian is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty five books in twenty one languages and co-founder of the Gurian Institute, which conducts research, launches pilot programs, and trains professionals. He has pioneered efforts to bring neuro-biology and brain research into homes, schools, corporations, a....[more] |
| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[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] |
| Leigh BLACKMORE
is editor of Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror (Sydney: Coronet, 1993); author Harlan Ellison/Terry Dowling/Jack Dann: A Bibliographic Checklist (Sydney: R’lyeh Texts, 1996); co-author (with S.T. Joshi) H.P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: A Bibliographical Supplement 1980-84 (West Warwick, R....[more] |
| Michael C. Bussacco has a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Elementary Education from Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is a retired school teacher having taught 34 years in the Scranton School District educating gifted children in grades K-6. This includes teaching one year at the University Scho....[more] |
| Inspired by a lifelong love of nature, endless curiosity, and a belief in wonderful things, the author, writing as Amy Sterling Casil, is a 2002 Nebula Award nominee and recipient of other awards and recognition for her short science fiction and fantasy which has appeared in publications ranging from The Magazine of Fa....[more] |
| Carl Rollyson is a professor of English at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has written several biographies of prominent writers and has contributed essays to numerous reference works. He lives in Cape May, NJ. |
| 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] |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) is an important figure in modern Hebrew fiction. He is best known for his novels about the experience of Eastern European Jews. Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Agnon is often referred to as Shai Agnon. In English, Agnon’s works are publ....[more] |
| Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, and critic who coined the term “surrealism.” His play, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, is considered one of the earliest surrealist works. He is known as Guillaume Apollinaire.
Apollinaire....[more] |
| Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more] |
| William Beckford (1760-1844) is most commonly known for his works in literature, but he was also a politician and collector and patron of the arts. Beckford, who was raised in London, inherited a large fortune at the age of ten which included several sugar plantations in Jamaica and land at Fonthill in Wiltshire. He wo....[more] |
| William Blake (November 28,1757- August 12, 1827) Blake was an was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was the third of seven children. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. William never attended school, and was educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. The Bible was an early and profoun....[more] |
| Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) Browning was born in Camberwell, a suburb of London, England, the only child of Robert and Sarah Anna Browning. Browning’s father owned a library of about 6,000 books so Robert always had considerable literary resources. By age twelve Browning had written a book of p....[more] |
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