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Cynthia Clampitt

Fresh out of college, Cynthia Clampitt headed for corporate America. However, though she enjoyed considerable success, after ten years, it was clear that this was not where she belonged. She wanted to write—and she wanted to get away, to shake free of the corporate mindset and to test her limits. Australia was a lifelo....[more]

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of some 25 books, mostly in the field of the history of psychology (The Assault on Truth; Against Therapy; Final Analysis; A Dark Science; The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess)and the study of animal emotions (When Elephants Weep; Dogs Never Lie About Love; The....[more]

Sally Odgers

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler, English writer, artist, and satirist, was born on December 4th, 1835 in Nottinghamshire, England. The eldest of four children, Butler had a rather hostile relationship with his parents. Though his education started at home, he referred to his parents as “stupid” and soon began to reject his strict Angl....[more]

Robert Louis Stevenson

Anthony Trollope

Bill Bryson

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, History, Humor, Language Arts & Disciplines, Reference, Science, Travel

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. In 1973, Bryson went backpacking in England, where he eventually decided to settle. He wrote for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent, as well as supplementing his income by writing travel articles. Bryson moved back to the States in 1995. His first tra....[more]

Rick Steves

Foreign Language Study, Reference, Travel

Nature, Travel

There has never been any doubt about Poe's enormous literary significance, but, with regard to his ultimate artistic merit, there has been considerable disagreement. To some he is little more than a successful charlatan, whose literary performances are only a virtuoso's display of stunning, but finally shallow, effects....[more]