Elio Vittorini | ... he passed four exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by | , Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works ... |
Philip José Farmer | ... s written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell. In 1975 real-world author | wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he pub ... |
H. G. Wells | ... ence fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian | written during the period 1936-38. Throughout the book, Wells describes hi ... |
Ellen Glasgow | ... s extensive and sometimes troubled past. The works of Pulitzer Prize winner | often dealt with social inequalities and the role of women in her culture. ... |
Edgar Wallace | ... ahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and | who lived at Bourne End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers ... |
Tennessee Williams | ... the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, written by | and staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in t ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by | , Arthur Miller, Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, ... |
Jack Higgins | ... rs who made Jersey their home. Contemporary authors based in Jersey include | , and Sinclair Forrest, author of the 2007 novel, The Dragon of Angur |
Thomas Hardy | ... nd a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a major role in the plot of | 's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll' ... |
Thomas Mann | ... prevented Hedwig and Alfred Pringsheim (whose daughter Katia was married to | ) from being arrested by the Gestapo |
François Rabelais | ... h a vengeance in the 16th century, when farcical texts such as the works of | tackled more serious issues (and incurred the wrath of the crown as a resu ... |
Jules Verne | Additionally, inspired by the fiction of | , Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | On December 12, 2003, he was appointed by then Governor General | as the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada. When sworn in as Prime Minis ... |
Nicholson Baker | Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of | 's novel The Fermata for director Robert Zemeckis, although the project wa ... |
James Branch Cabell | ... ities and the role of women in her culture. Glasgow's peer and close friend | wrote extensively about the changing position of gentry in the Reconstruct ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of | in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism. T ... |
James Ellroy | ... It had a number of photographs and recently was reissued with a foreword by | , the author of LA Confidential |
Evelyn Waugh | ... is brief role as a casket salesman in the film adaptation of The Loved One, | 's satire of the funeral business and movie industry in Southern Californi ... |
Robert Penn Warren | ... e procedure and, at times, changed it. The 1946 novel All the King's Men by | described a lobotomy, saying it "would have made a Comanche brave look lik ... |
Greg Bear | The setting for | 's City at the End of Time is one hundred trillion years in the future and ... |
Katherine Anne Porter | From 1892 to 1901 Kyle was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning author, | . Many of her most famous short stories such as Noon Wine are set in locat ... |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | ... during Wright’s time. One of the major works that influenced Native Son was | ’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel was published in 1852 and was not only th ... |
George Orwell | ... rld War I, with the creation of modest dwellings of the garden suburb type. | , who adopted this pseudonym while living here, lived and worked in 1932-3 ... |
Valerio Massimo Manfredi | ... ventors on the island of Ortygia near Syracuse. He is the main character in | 's novel Tyrant (2003). He is also featured in the 1962 film Damon and Pyt ... |
Marina Warner | The jury included musician Neil Tennant, author | , curator Fumio Nanjo and British Council officer Ann Gallagher, chaired b ... |
Tony Hillerman | ... Korry, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton and novelists | and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer Weegee and 60 Minutes creator an ... |
A. A. Milne | In 1926 | wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, chapter stories about an adorable bumbling teddy be ... |
George Orwell | ... monstrated in the documentary “The Corporation”. In the early 20th-century, | originally wrote a preface for his book “”, which focused on the British s ... |
Tennessee Williams | ... ge others with love but instead resorted to "high-grade carpentry work." In | 's 1958 play, Suddenly, Last Summer, the protagonist is threatened with a ... |
Neil Gaiman | In the late 1990s, Avary was hired by Warner Bros studio to adapt | 's comic series The Sandman to the big screen. He frequently sparred with ... |
Ivan Turgenev | ... es (1867), L'ogre (1868), and Le dernier sorcier (1869), all to libretti by | - and over fifty lieder. Her remaining two salon operas - Le conte de fées ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... f this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of | . In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called ... |
Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
Colette | ... us French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, | and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli Prize and ... |
Grazia Deledda | The writer | won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 |
Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit is a serial novel by | published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ns, later William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and | in the movie version), also provides general narration |
Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... hard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, | , Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli ... |
Harold Lamb | ... world for me." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, | , Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years ... |
Cesare Pavese | ... t year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale, | , Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg ... |
Khushwant Singh | ... nrolling at Somerville College, Oxford where she never finished her degree. | , who has personally known Indira Gandhi, has said that she felt uncomfort ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ry, but the word was considered vulgar. (Note the exclamation by Estella in | 's novel Great Expectations: "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!") Howe ... |
Talbot Mundy | ... ." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, Harold Lamb, | ," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years later |
Upton Sinclair | ... die Howe, entertainers like Boris Karloff and Ed Sullivan, and writers like | . From 1957 to 1979, the show featured many non-Canadians whose trips to T ... |
Françoise Sagan | ... aywrights and novelists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and | . In 1953, she received the Marika Kotopouli Prize and returned to Greece ... |
A. N. Wilson | The friendship of Winifred and Hitler is treated fancifully in | 's novel, Winnie and Wolf (2007) |
Jack Kerouac | ... n a cabin (which he dubbed "Marin-an") outside Mill Valley, California with | . It was also at this time that Snyder was an occasional student at the Am ... |
Frances Marion | Another adaptation by | was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, Cha ... |
Dashiell Hammett | ... s the sequel to the film The Thin Man. The movie presents Powell and Loy as | 's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dy ... |
Bryan Talbot | ... Art plates were illustrated by William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, | , Jill Thompson, Paul Chadwick, P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth ... |
Hilary Mantel | ... ical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris. The novelist | portrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wol ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... and Marcel Achard, and met famous French playwrights and novelists such as | , Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette and Françoise Sagan. In 1953, she received the ... |
Natsume Sōseki | As an author, he studied under | , who was a teacher at his high school in Kumamoto. Terada is best known f ... |
Louise Closser Hale | ... r Eric Baum (Gustav von Seyffertitz), boarding house keeper Mrs. Haggerty ( | ), French officer Major Lenard (Emile Chautard), and a mysterious Eurasian ... |
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | ... olish Righteous among the Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, | , Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
François Rabelais | ... wo major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were Giovanni Boccaccio and | . Other examples of Renaissance satire include Till Eulenspiegel, Reynard ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
John Steinbeck | Working at 20th Century Fox, Hitchcock adapted a script of | 's that chronicled the experiences of the survivors of a German U-boat att ... |
Harry Turtledove | In the alternate-history novel How Few Remain by | , Stuart is the commanding Confederate general in charge of the occupation ... |
Edward Rowe Snow | ... ppeared in True Tales of Buried Treasure, written by explorer and historian | in 1951. In this book he states he was given this set of symbols by Revere ... |
Annie Dillard | Norman Mailer's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and | 's novel The Maytrees are primarily based in Provincetown |
Thomas Keneally | ... ected by Fred Schepisi was an award winning historical drama from a book by | about the tragic story of an Aboriginal Bushranger |
Carlo Collodi | ... he Adventures of Pinocchio (, ; ) is a novel for children by Italian author | , written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 ... |
Ethan Hawke | ... emporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. | plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes ... |
Alexandre Dumas | ... nt of the Occitan Language. It is also the land of d'Artagnan, who inspired | 's character in The Three Musketeers. It is also home to the hero of the p ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... ok of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albe ... |
Tom Wolfe | ... history in works such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. | has occasionally dealt with his southern heritage in bestsellers like I Am ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... ry of structuration; Althusser was vehemently attacked by British historian | in his book The Poverty of Theory |
Simone de Beauvoir | ... st philosophy in the works of Kierkegaard, Shestov, Heidegger, and Jaspers. | , an important existentialist who spent much of her life as Sartre's partn ... |
Goethe | ... presentation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. | defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his ideal of a ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... f the original 'Beachcomber' D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, no relation to the artist | ); they had two daughters and one son. In 1953, he divorced his second wif ... |
Franz Kafka | ... e (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), | (1883–1924) and Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). Hoffmann's story Das Fräulei ... |
Karin Boye | ... include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and | |
Dashiell Hammett | The film's story was written by | , based on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or sho ... |
L. Sprague de Camp | ... historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominently in | 's historical novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965) as a patron of inventors ... |
Lucian | From Syria her worship extended to Greece and to the furthest West. | and Apuleius give descriptions of the beggar-priests who went round the gr ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... ters with Catholicism. Another author Merton began reading at this time was | , whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism. In August of t ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... including the philosophers François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire, 1694–1778) and | (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and Thomas Je ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... ch John investigates the brutal murder of a former girlfriend, Isabel by an | style magician, Josh Wright. The story introduces, or reintroduces many ch ... |
Mary Renault | ... river of boiling blood. A fictional version of Dionysius is a character in | 's historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominentl ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, | 's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 19 ... |
Frank Herbert | ... adimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by | . He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent ... |
William Styron | ... uction era, and challenged its moral code with Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. | approached history in works such as The Confessions of Nat Turner and Soph ... |
Marcel Proust | ... ionary proportions. His work is still widely read and frequently performed. | developed a fondness for Racine at an early age, "whom he considered a bro ... |
Chris Elliott | ... members of the show. Common contributors included bandleader Paul Shaffer, | , Calvert DeForest as "Larry 'Bud' Melman," announcer Bill Wendell, writer ... |
Peadar O'Donnell | Notable supporters of the Irish CND included | , Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Hubert Butler |
George MacDonald | ... l (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), | (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and Al ... |
Oscar Wilde | He befriended | in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. There, Wilde had the ... |
Philip Ridley | ... n Michael Mann's Heat. That same year she also played the role of Callie in | 's dark, adult fairy tale, The Passion of Darkly Noon |
Charlie Carlson | Author | claims to have spoken with a supposed St. Augustine-based secret society c ... |
Iain Banks | ... ht up in nearby Crossgates. In literature, the critically acclaimed author, | ; poet and novelist, John Burnside; Robert Gilfillan and Robert Henryson w ... |
Stephen Fry | ... rlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and V for Vendetta with | |
Ibn al-Nafis | ... nd Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, | , and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Musl ... |
August Strindberg | ... ho have acknowledged their debt to the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, | , J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound and Karin Boye |
Jules Verne | ... vehicles of every sort featured large in adventure stories such as those of | and the Tom Swift books. The masters of electricity, whether fictional or ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist | . It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of apprehension, an ... |
Tennessee Williams | ... n Antonio Bardem. She continued her stage career in the Greek production of | 's Sweet Bird of Youth (1960), under the direction of Karolos Koun. In 196 ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... d current affairs from a left wing perspective. It's named after the famous | poem. Suiting both Bell's anarchic artistic style and the paper's politica ... |
Brian Azzarello | ... interlude by Croatian writer Darko Macan, the series was then taken over by | , once again hired on the strength of his own series for Vertigo, 100 Bull ... |
Norman Mailer | ... Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in the festival. | 's novel Tough Guys Don't Dance and Annie Dillard's novel The Maytrees are ... |
Jean Genet | ... ame, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, | , and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albert Camus' co ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), | (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), George MacDonald (1824–1905), ... |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... nd's lush landscape has a strong bearing on its economy and culture. Author | drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setti ... |
Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
Jennifer Crusie | ... ite of the kind of hypocrisy that is typically attributed to women". Writer | interprets this as Cordelia's "lack of depth" becoming "her strength". She ... |
Peter Ackroyd | Other biographers, such as | , have offered a more sympathetic picture of More as both a sophisticated ... |
Peter Carey | ... German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and | , from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the s ... |
David Storey | ... ciate Artistic Director 1971–75, directing premiere productions of plays by | , among others |
Richard Adams | ... ith his warhorse Skylark, is featured prominently in the novel Traveller by | |
Victor Hugo | ... acuated to the UK for five years during the German occupation of 1940–1945. | wrote some of his best-known works while in exile in Guernsey, including L ... |
Richard Brooks | ... e Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), (directed by her second husband, | ), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of James Agee's nove ... |
Frank Miller | ... major changes to many of their major revenue-generating comic book series. | 's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of Wonder Woman in G ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... been imagined by the opposite side of the political spectrum. For example, | 's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress portrays an individualistic and libertaria ... |
Nikolai Gogol | ... d with realism that influenced such authors as Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), | (1809–1852), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), ... |
James Agee | ... and, Richard Brooks), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of | 's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending (1969), again direc ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... r death at their gloves' end as they piece and repiece the living wires" in | 's 1907 poem Sons of Martha. Electrically powered vehicles of every sort f ... |
James Wolcott | ... loating around for over a decade." The term was used by American journalist | in a 1975 article about musician Todd Rundgren, although with a different ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... s longevity. It is a frequently used plot device in age regression stories. | used the Fountain in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" to demonstrate that posi ... |
Richard Brooks | ... citizens; they divorced in 1960. On 1 November, 1960, she married director | ; they divorced in 1977. Although both men were significantly older than S ... |
Jonas Lie | ... ur Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, | , and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Nor ... |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | ... ttle, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, | , and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General | to call an election for June 28, 2004 |
Samuel Beckett | ... om novels, religion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially | , T. S. Eliot, and (and other Russian novelists) |
Ray Strachey | ... e best known of these essays, called Cassandra, was previously published by | in 1928. Strachey included it in The Cause, a history of the women's movem ... |
Cormac McCarthy | ... amed for Alexander W. Terrell, a Texas state senator. It is the setting for | 's novel No Country for Old Men, and the Academy Award winning film adapta ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... connotation. The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher | (1813–1855). In The Concept of Anxiety (also known as The Concept of Dread ... |
H. G. Wells | ... , Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was | who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity ... |
Kenneth Grahame | In 1908 | wrote The Wind in the Willows from his retired position as secretary of th ... |
Italo Calvino | ... other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, | , Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third pag ... |
Nigel Tranter | ... others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction. | wrote a historical novel titled The Wallace, published in 1975, which is s ... |
Bram Stoker | The Will o' the wisp makes an appearance in the first chapter of | 's Dracula, as the Count, masquerading as his own coach driver, takes Jona ... |
C. S. Lewis | Fantasy fiction is particularly rich in references to flat worlds. In | ' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the fictional world of Narnia is "round l ... |
Jonathan Lethem | ... Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt, | , Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom were aware of his li ... |
Ghassan Kanafani | ... ur civilians. Israel later claimed that the assassination of PFLP spokesman | was a response to the PFLP's involvement in masterminding the latter attac ... |
Charles Kingsley | ... eigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – | – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydg ... |
Charles Dickens | ... late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and | was serializing Oliver Twist. The majority of the book takes place sevente ... |
Mary Shelley | ... edical literature shortly after Galvani's work. These results were known to | when she authored Frankenstein (1819), although she does not name the meth ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... 14, by the formation of the Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, | , John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St Jo ... |
Donna Tartt | ... He attended Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers | , Jonathan Lethem, Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom wer ... |
Elinor Glyn | ... en ordre, edited by Abraham Mourant in 1865. Writers born in Jersey include | , John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and Augu ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... lan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and | , have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct a ... |
Charles Dickens | | makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mu ... |
Denise Mina | | was unknown in comics when she took over the title in 2006, but had three ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... es who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like Friedrich Schiller and | dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "courtly drama" too restricted by ... |
Nelson Algren | Native Son was the original title of Chicago writer | 's first novel Somebody in Boots, based on a piece of doggerel about the f ... |
Joan Collins | ... Burgess Meredith (the Penguin), Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt (Catwoman) and | (the Siren) added to the show's mass appeal. A two-part episode featuring ... |
C. S. Lewis | At least one line in the | book The Last Battle implies that Lewis learned of Narnia's events - and t ... |
Walker Percy | The protagonist of | 's novels, Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome, is "Dr Thomas More ... |
Ben Hecht | ... at the Germans would begin bombing London at any time. To accommodate this, | was called in to write the epilogue of the film, the scene in the radio st ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
Charles Dickens | The number of visitors increased, including Queen Victoria and | . Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework fro ... |
President Jimmy Carter | ... process. There was a hopeful precedent in the 1978 Camp David Accords where | was able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by Preside ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as Albert Camus and | . In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; however, when he def ... |
Roddy Doyle | Irish writer | wrote a short story by the same title about an Irish girl who brings home ... |
Thomas Malory | ... th the "Carduel" of the French romances. However, in the late 15th century, | created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in hi ... |
Richard Dreyfuss | ... stival, where it captured the attention of film critics like Rex Reed. When | appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, he described the film a ... |
Ki Longfellow-Stanshall | ... songs such as "Headbutts". In the mid 80s, he often appeared on Vivian and | 's showboat, the Old Profanity Showboat, in Bristol's Floating Harbour. Wh ... |
Dostoyevsky | ... biography was now fully developed and mature. He was greatly influenced by | , whose novels Strachey had been reading and reviewing as they appeared in ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | ... ange the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in | 's poem "The Last Leaf". Herman visited him in Boston, and his father turn ... |
Fritz Leiber | ... contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and | . Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including autho ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – | – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... bara Wootton. Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, | , A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric B ... |
Umberto Eco | ... v, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and | |
Benito Mussolini | ... him von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to | , the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranki ... |
Albert Camus | In the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as | and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; ... |
Jay McInerney | ... lis became closely associated and good friends with fellow Brat Pack writer | : the two became known as the "toxic twins". The writer became a pariah fo ... |
Mary Shelley | ... a book called The Horse And His Boy after the events related in the novel. | 's Frankenstein at one point features the narration of an Arctic explorer, ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... f the Craft, the first Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan | sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in ... |
Gustave Flaubert | ... thing new to say about him. However, as writers like Charles Baudelaire and | came onto the scene to soundly shake the foundations of French literature, ... |
Alexander Kielland | ... ire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and | . Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... né Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem. | argues that when talking about omnipotence, referencing "a rock so heavy t ... |
Robert E. Howard | The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of | , author of the Conan the Barbarian books |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... tured their own takes on space suit design. Science fiction authors such as | contributed to the development of fictional space suit concepts |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1923, he published a book on | ; however, when he defended pederasty in the public edition of Corydon (19 ... |
Dino Buzzati | The Italian novelist | was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian write ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... on of Christ, based on the 1951 (English translation 1960) novel written by | , who was introduced to the director by actress Barbara Hershey when they ... |
André Breton | ... and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, | and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heidegger's Being and Time was publish ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... and biting satire of institutions and individuals became a popular weapon. | was one of the greatest of Anglo-Irish satirists, and one of the first to ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, | ; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request ... |
Apuleius | ... stored through the intervention of a benevolent female spirit is taken from | ' The Golden Ass, while his being swallowed by a giant fish may owe someth ... |
Anton Chekhov | ... ive Speech) and the Chekhov Method originated by Michael Chekhov (nephew of | ) |
Mark Twain | ... ome sum for that day of one hundred dollars a month. Famous American author | , who saw the Pony Express in action first hand, described the riders in h ... |
Edward Abbey | ... experiment. Oracle was also the postal address for environmentalist author | , who never lived in the town but visited often. Oracle is becoming a bedr ... |
Mary Shelley | ... produced the hugely influential novel Frankenstein by Shelley's wife-to-be | and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The l ... |
August Derleth | | later made alterations to the biography of Alhazred, such as redating his ... |
Donald Davidson | ... t-winged Dryad of the trees", in his Ode to a Nightingale. In the poetry of | they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... on, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes. | 's novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique. The novel's exposito ... |
Alain Badiou | ... students became eminent intellectuals in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s: | , Étienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière in philosophy, Pierre Macherey in l ... |
Patrick Dennis | ... ny Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play in 1957 for her iconic role. | dedicated his second Auntie Mame book Around the World with Auntie Mame to ... |
Mickey Spillane | In the late 1940s | and a friend of his from the Army bought a woodlot on Rock Cut Road and li ... |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer | , who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprison ... |
Goethe | ... es Brahms in his Rinaldo, that—like the Walpurgisnacht—was set to a text by | . Other cantatas, Beethoven's Meeresstille, works of Brahms and many notab ... |
J. K. Rowling | ... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of | , where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President | from 1979–1981 |
Shirley Ann Grau | ... ces and to the political and business realms. For example, from literature: | , Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative jo ... |
Hope Mirrlees | ... ish fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and | . It is concerned with the adventures of a young man from the village of W ... |
Gary Gygax | ... nd Geneva Resort. Lake Geneva was also home to Dungeons and Dragons creator | until his death in 2008. Guns N' Roses lead singer, Axl Rose, also owned p ... |
Richard Dreyfuss | ... southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with the likes of | and Rob Reiner |
Thackeray's | Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in | work The Virginians. Keats addresses the nightingale as "light-winged Drya ... |
André Malraux | ... snais married Florence Malraux (daughter of the French statesman and writer | ); she was a regular member of his production team, working as assistant d ... |
Thomas Mann | ... arius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively. Such connections were taken up by | , who in his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes characteristics of a ... |
Virginia Stephen | ... s Thoby Stephen and Clive Bell, and they, together with sisters Vanessa and | (later Bell and Woolf respectively), eventually formed the Bloomsbury grou ... |
James Hannay | ... hor, journalist and broadcaster) lived in Dumfries for four years as a boy. | as well as being a novelist and journalist spent the last five years of hi ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator | , Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times |
Salman Rushdie | ... into seclusion, and are rarely heard from or seen in public, such as writer | . A related form of protection is the use of body doubles a person built s ... |
Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
Charles Lever | ... ical and cultural milieu"; guests at their salon included Sheridan le Fanu, | , George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson |
Gavin Lambert | | 's memoir, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, in which he claimed that Anderso ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... rds nationalism; and perhaps the most famous of proto-nationalist works was | 's I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Some read this novel as a thinly veil ... |
Franz Kafka | ... strife during the war. However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and | in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents | , Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ... |
Frank Miller | The Dark Knight Returns, written by | , takes place about 10 years after Batman "retires." It depicts an "Arkham ... |
Stephen Fry | ... her Blackadder series, to which the simple reply "No, no chance" was given: | has expressed the view that, since the series went out on such a good "hig ... |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ed to marry his fiancée until he cries "The earth is flat as a pancake". In | 's The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat, the protagonists spread the ... |
Saddam Hussein | All United Nations attempts to intervene as mediators were rebuffed. Under | , Baathist Iraq claimed the entire waterway up to the Iranian shore as its ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ould walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni." A fan of | 's The Jungle Book as a child, Calvino felt that his early interest in sto ... |
Georges Bataille | ... e audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, | , Louis Althusser, André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heideg ... |
Joseph Kanon | ... ney and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, based on the | novel of the same name |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... he nineteenth century it was largely rural with only scattered settlements. | lived at Hyde Farm in Kingsbury from 1771 to 1774. David William Murray, 3 ... |
Ken Kesey | ... House, a deteriorating house on the Siuslaw River that is said to have been | 's inspiration for the Stamper House in his novel Sometimes a Great Notion ... |
Joe R. Lansdale | ... modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, | , Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, ... |
Jay McInerney | ... ays Blair in the 1987 film adaptation of Less Than Zero. Allison Poole from | 's 1988 novel Story of My Life appears as a torture victim of Patrick's. 1 ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... und to a differentiated location in space contra transcendent omnipresence. | , a confirmed atheist, answered a variation of this question: what happens ... |
Lorenzo Mattotti | ... Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, Terry Moore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, | , Zander Cannon, Dave McKean, Jeff Smith, Trina Robbins & Steve Leialoha, ... |
Joseph Xavier Saintine | ... Pepoli, based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot and | , which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel Old Mortality. It was fir ... |
Orson Scott Card | ... re and journalism, BYU has produced several best-selling authors, including | '75, Brandon Sanderson '00 & '05, and Stephenie Meyer '95. Other media per ... |
Chuck Dixon | A three-part comic-book adaptation with script by | and Sean Deming and illustrated by David Wenzel was published by Eclipse C ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... , hosted 126,000 visitors annually. Famous visitors to the springs included | , Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. In those years t ... |
George Steiner | ... ewpoint has been supported by literary critics such as , Christopher Ricks, | , and James Fenton |
Emily's | ... vels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular Charlotte's Jane Eyre and | Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
George Orwell | ... only one work of that author. This includes such words as "Orwellian" (from | , referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Ballardesque" or "Ball ... |
Robert Graves | In The Greek Myths (1955), | views Oenopion as his perennial Year-King, at the stage where the king pre ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
Graham Greene | ... Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author | , and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval (1930–1996), foo ... |
Stendhal | ... merent bonds are characterized by "entropy" crystallization as described by | in his 1821 treatise On Love, where a new love infatuation perceptually be ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and named the 1st Baron Hornblower. | is quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," a ... |
Mark Twain | ... in the past, among the most renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, | , Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian write ... |
Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
Charlotte's | ... he undoubtedly Romantic novels of the Brontë family appeared, in particular | Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, which were both published in 1847 |
Alessandro Barbero | | (2007). The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the ... |
Leonard Cohen | ... ayed the huge Isle of Wight Festival alongside Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, and | |
Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
Tomislav Ladan | ... of Croatian linguists, specifically Radoslav Katičić, Dalibor Brozović, and | , consider the appropriate name to be "Bosniak" rather than "Bosnian" whil ... |
Alan Moore | ... d fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, | , Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Ga ... |
Alan Moore | Arkham Asylum also features in other DC Universe publications. In | 's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by ... |
Walter Scott | In the early 19th century, | wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ... |
Charles Dickens | Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in | 's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge i ... |
Ian Fleming | ... persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, | , originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisione ... |
Andrei Bely | ... cians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, | , Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma La ... |
Antonia Fraser | ... itle character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette. Adapted from | 's book , the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola. The mov ... |
Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
Erlend Loe | ... theory was also used in the Norwegian book Organisten (The Organ Player) by | and Petter Amundsen. It has also been asserted that the pit may have been ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... Arafat established relationships with a variety of world leaders, including | and Idi Amin. Arafat was Amin's best man at his wedding in Uganda in 1975 |
Isaac Asimov | | claims that Gothic cavalry adopted technology reverse-engineered from the ... |
Anna Quindlen | ... during the Thomas hearings as the worst moment of his Senate career. Writer | said "[Kennedy] let us down because he had to; he was muzzled by the facts ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... n. In this position, two of Bancroft's appointees were Orestes Brownson and | . In 1844, he was the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Massach ... |
Gene Hackman | ... raffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( | ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car followi ... |
Rumer Godden | ... ade The River, his first color film. Based on the novel of the same name by | , the film is both a meditation on human beings' relationship with nature ... |
Saul Bellow | ... ists and musicians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate | , Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laure ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... t of Florestano de Fausto and Armando Brasini, well known architects of the | period in Italy. Brasini laid the basis for the modern-day arrangement of ... |
William Faulkner | ... minations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of | 's Intruder in the Dust |
Alan Moore | ... atman R.I.P. It is titled "" a play off of the classic Superman story "" by | . He also contributed a twelve-page Metamorpho story drawn by Mike Allred ... |
Giannina Braschi | Latin American writer | wrote the philosophical novel "United States of Banana" based on Walter Ka ... |
Goethe | ... ble review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of | . It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on th ... |
Graham Greene | ... than complimentary about his work, and Priestley began legal action against | for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul ... |
E. M. Forster | ... lloway (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia Warren Smith on Lopokova. | would later write in contrition: "How we all used to underestimate her" |
Dirk Bogarde | ... h Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring | and Laurence Olivier |
Henri Murger | ... y Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by | . The world premiere performance of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1 ... |
Daniel Defoe | The author, | (who attended school in Dorking and probably grew up in the village of Wes ... |
Jill Eisenstadt | ... ture novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and | . In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of Bennington is given ... |
Sue Townsend | In | 's , Adrian writes a book entitled Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland, in w ... |
Robert E. Howard | The pulp fiction author | , creator of the character Conan the Barbarian among others, lived in Cros ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by Budd Schulberg '36 and | |
William Weld | ... nvestigation, and had Kennedy losing a hypothetical Senate race to Governor | by 25 points |
Juan Carlos Onetti | ... onal Novel Prize in 1967, contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer | and by Gabriel García Márquez. This novel alone accumulated enough awards ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... ed from the cruel sexual practices Marquis de Sade described in his novels. | 's Cat's Cradle was the container of the Bokononism family of nonce words |
Carlo Collodi | In 1883 | wrote his puppet story, The Adventures of Pinocchio as a first Italian fan ... |
Gabriel García Márquez | ... contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and by | . This novel alone accumulated enough awards to place the author among the ... |
James De Mille | ... by Leonid Andreyev and "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by | |
Douglas Adams | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by | is referenced several times in Crowley's bad memories of the 14th Century. ... |
Susan Glaspell | ... o have arrived for the summer in Provincetown with "a trunk full of plays." | describes what was probably the first ever reading of Bound East for Cardi ... |
Jane Porter | In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in , and | penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in ... |
Selma Lagerlöf | ... ndrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates | and Albert Schweitzer, Andrei Tarkovsky Bruno Walter, and Alternative Nobe ... |
Philip Pullman | ... Weeks Later. The docklands also appear in The Ruby in the Smoke, a novel by | |
Philip K. Dick | In | 's novel The Man in the High Castle, each character comes into interaction ... |
Philip Larkin | ... el Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – | – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – Louis MacNeice ... |
Douglas Adams | ... chhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by | . Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later ... |
D. H. Lawrence | Lowell persuaded | to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writ ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... uses being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and | . In her novel Mrs Dalloway (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia War ... |
William Shatner | ... Chair". In the Family Guy episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" (2003), | is depicted as playing Tevye in a scene from Fiddler. The second episode o ... |
Jimmy Carter | On September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US president | and about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... ere is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in | 's |
R. A. Lafferty | Catholic science fiction writer | wrote his novel Past Master as a modern equivalent to More's Utopia, which ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... n Time editions (13 as of September 2010). In one he made an open attack on | , who had been imprisoned for perjury, when his wife, Mary Archer, was a f ... |
Shirley Jackson | ... or an Emmy Award.) She wrote the teleplay and directed a 1982 production of | 's story Come Along with Me, for which husband Newman provided the voice o ... |
Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author | first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of ... |
Patricia Highsmith | With the film Strangers on a Train (1951), based on the novel by | , Hitchcock combined many elements from his preceding films. He approached ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... which isolates them from local space-time at the instant of the collision. | 's short story, "The Last Question" was published in 1956. The story is br ... |
Steven Barnes | ... d Gen Jaramet-Sauner), and J.R. Rasmussen's "Research" in the anthology II. | 's novelization of "Far Beyond the Stars" partners with Greg Cox's (Volume ... |
Vilhelm Moberg | ... ncluding Erik Norelius, whose personal journals in part formed the basis of | ’s novels of the Swedish emigration to the United States, The Emigrants. M ... |
G. A. Henty | ... ed a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810. | wrote a novel in 1885 about this time period titled In Freedom's Cause. He ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1883 | wrote the classic pirate adventure novel Treasure Island. Traditionally co ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... bject of the 1939 film Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by | '36 and F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Eoin Colfer | ... ogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by | in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three ... |
Chrétien de Troyes | ... n of literature, including Andreas Capellanus, who served in her court, and | . She was literate in French and Latin and maintained her own library. A d ... |
Dalton Trumbo | ... 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, | , Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he re ... |
Tom Holt | ... bers of the audience to participate as Valkyries and as Gunther's vassals). | 's 1982 humorous fantasy novel, Expecting Someone Taller, includes many of ... |
Frank Brookhouser | ... es H. Webb, now a U.S. Senator from Virginia. It is also used by the writer | in his books Request for Sherwood Anderson (1947) and She Made the Big Tow ... |
Gore Vidal | Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author | prior to marrying Paul Newman. However, there was no real engagement: Vida ... |
Jill Paton Walsh | ... and which remained as fragments and notes at her death. It was completed by | and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's Paradis ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... hieve complete intuitive understanding), from Stranger in a Strange Land by | ; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by Wil ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... attention to what they perceived as being the limitations of Paganism. Thus | wrote: "The Pagan set out, with admirable sense, to enjoy himself. By the ... |
Piers Anthony | ... e proclamation "'LET THERE BE LIGHT!' And there was light—" the story ends. | 's soft science fiction novel Ghost, deals with the topic of an energy-poo ... |
John Buchan | ... itics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and | . Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the D ... |
Robert Stevenson | ... cated there. The Bass Rock features in numerous works of fiction, including | 's Catriona and The Lion is Rampant by contemporary Scottish novelist Ross ... |
Jerome K. Jerome | ... e visited there and John Wilkes was MP for Aylesbury. Later authors include | who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who ... |
Mary Mapes Dodge | Also in 1865, | published Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the story of a Dutch boy who ... |
Stephen R. Donaldson | ... the characters of Wagner's operas, and features the Ring and the Tarnhelm. | 's science-fiction space opera series The Gap Cycle also shares elements w ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he was not an existentialist and often criticized existentialist figurehead | . Although Ionesco knew Beckett and honored his work, the French group of ... |
John Kennedy Toole | ... or Medicine: Louis J. Ignarro and Andrew V. Schally. Other notables such as | , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces, Rudolph Matas, ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | The philosopher | claimed that divine omnipotence cannot be separated from divine goodness. ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... ous attention; this prejudice has held considereable influence to this day. | pursued a more journalistic type of satire, being famous for his The True- ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... gs, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and | ) and Richard Tarnas |
Philip K. Dick | ... , and was a science fiction script directed by Paul Verhoeven, based on the | short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Kindergarten Cop (199 ... |
C. S. Lewis | A version of Bacchus also appears in | ' Prince Caspian, part of The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis depicts him as d ... |
Douglas Coupland | The eponymous heroine of | 's novel Girlfriend in a Coma is Karen Ann McNeil. She collapses after a p ... |
Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 by | has several characters seeing a play called 'The Courier's Tragedy' by the ... |
Anton Chekhov | ... ican drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright | , Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindb ... |
Albert Maltz | ... fore the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, | , Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz ... |
Paul Laurence Dunbar | ... ert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets Langston Hughes and | . Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, vi ... |
Johanna Spyri | In 1880 | (1827–1901) published Heidi (1880) in Switzerland. The subtitle declared t ... |
Neil Gaiman | Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series The Sandman |
Nick Cave | ... —Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, | , Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music to be used in the film; specifica ... |
Karl Zuchardt | ... t moment right at the end. I cannot think of anyone else who ever had one." | 's novel, Stirb du Narr! ("Die you fool!"), about More's struggle with Kin ... |
Octave Mirbeau | In 1945 he made Diary of a Chambermaid, an adaptation of the | novel, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, starring Paulette Goddard and Bu ... |
Albert Camus | ... eckett, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on | ' concept of the absurd, claiming that Beckett and Ionesco better captured ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... hinly disguised version of the borough), Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse and | . Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous comedy team with Dudley Moore); the ... |
Algernon Blackwood | He also cited | as an influence, quoting The Centaur in the head paragraph of The Call of ... |
Nikolai Gogol | ... 77, Rimsky-Korsakov thought increasingly about the short story May Night by | . The story had long been a favorite of his, and his wife Nadezhda had enc ... |
Ralph Ellison | ... The term was used in this manner in the title of the book Invisible Man, by | , in reference to the protagonist, likely modeled after himself, being ove ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel. | has said |
Jonathan Lethem | ... nington College, which Ellis himself attended, where he met future novelist | and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's ... |
Walter Scott | ... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on | 's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ... |
Sylvia Plath | ... themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present. The poet | uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conju ... |
Edwin Muir | ... Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – William Morris – | – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – Geor ... |
Roald Dahl | ... Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow, | who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Blyton who lived in Beaconsfield and Ed ... |
Ivan Turgenev | The Villa Viardot in Bougival, near Paris, a gift to the Viardots by | in 1874, where so many musicians, painters and poets came, was restored in ... |
Jules Verne | ... nt of her journey in 1889 to see if she could beat the fictional journey in | ’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days |
Tom Wolfe | ... mination had, in fact, been made long before the movie was filmed, and even | 's book only states that this possibility was considered, not that it was ... |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by | . This film was a critical and box office failure, but the soundtrack reco ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... went on to co-found the Vorticists with his friend, the painter and writer | |
Langston Hughes | ... Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B. Du Bois, and poets | and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ father, the famous abolitionis ... |
Wu Ming | Examples in literature include the television set in | 's novel 5 |
Nick Cave | ... music of successful contemporary bands The Waifs and The John Butler Trio. | has been heavily influenced by the country artist Johnny Cash. In 2000, Ca ... |
Poul Anderson | The Big Crunch as the fate of the Universe was also explored in | 's 1970 novel Tau Zero which posits a cyclic universe where the big crunch ... |
Douglas Coupland | ... g), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; "McJob", from by | ; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita ... |
Compton Mackenzie | ... ley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir | , the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis ... |
Henri Murger | According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on | 's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ten abbreviated "HHGTTG" (as used on fan websites) or "H2G2" (first used by | as a chapter title in and later by the online guide run by the BBC). The s ... |
Charles Kingsley | ... (who set many of her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), | , Edmund Gosse and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous c ... |
Henry James | ... lay of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by | . The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Ol ... |
Richard Marius | A number of modern historians and writers, such as | , have evaluated More in his political capacity and have criticised him fo ... |
Simon Mawer | ... isand's Barwood Films, Gary Smith, and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to | 's book Mendel's Dwarf. In December 2008, she stated that she was consider ... |
Émile Zola | ... itional acceptance and integration of the Jews in Europe. He also supported | 's position in the Dreyfus affair |
Ian McEwan | Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome (erotomania) in fiction include | 's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called End ... |
Douglas Adams | The end of the universe has been used for satirical and comedic effect. In | 's science-fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the "Resta ... |
H. G. Wells | #The Man Who Could Work Miracles by | (1866–1946) |
Tom Wolfe | Sparta was stated as the hometown of Charlotte Simmons in | 's 2004 novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" |
Donna Tartt | ... where he met future novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers | and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of ... |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ... st famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator | (1900–1944, Mort pour la France) |
Jean Genet | The French director | 's 1950 fantasy-erotic film Un chant d'amour shows two inmates in solitary ... |
Doris Lessing | ... ton, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, | , Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... tists. (The private investigator, though not named in the story, is clearly | 's Philip Marlowe, and his ex-wife is the recurring character Linda Loring ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... and he is left to be brought up by a graveyard. It is heavily influenced by | 's The Jungle Book. , it had been on the New York Times Bestseller childre ... |
Hans Henny Jahnn | ... 964, the couple moved to West Berlin where Gudrun would began her thesis on | at the Free University |
Edward Bunker | Native Son is mentioned in | 's 1981 novel Little Boy Blue as being read by the main character, Alex Ha ... |
Thomas Love Peacock | ... e Mary lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend | who also lived there. John Milton lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cotta ... |
Robert Graves | Karl Kerenyi (and | ) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from Hesychius' listing o ... |
Jonathan Swift | Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of | 's satirical Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either or .. (Swif ... |
André Breton | ... ryman Tristan Tzara. Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, | , whom he revered. In Present Past, Past Present, Ionesco wrote, "Breton t ... |
Javier Cercas | Spanish writer | uses Urbana as the geographical background for two of his novels ("La velo ... |
Eoin Colfer | It was announced on 17 September 2008 that Artemis Fowl author | had been commissioned to write the sixth instalment entitled And Another T ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Lloyds, as well as nineteenth-century philanthropists and reformers such as | and Elizabeth Fry |
Chrétien de Troyes | The castle is mentioned for the first time in | ' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it do ... |
J. M. Barrie | ... sness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol | ) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detectiv ... |
Thomas Wolfe | ... econd half of the 15th century to the present (the last author discussed is | ) |
Larry McMurtry | Glasgow is mentioned in the novel Boone's Lick by | . The Cecil family stops journeys from Boone's Lick by wagon to meet a fla ... |
Gore Vidal | ... a comment which the network censors decided to cut from the broadcast tape. | once quipped to Claire Bloom, Roth's second wife: "You have already had Po ... |
Henry de Monfreid | ... and spearheads made of stingray stingers, used in Micronesia and elsewhere. | stated in his books that before World War II, in the Horn of Africa, whips ... |
Max Beerbohm | ... f Being Earnest is Wilde's most popular work and continually revived today. | called this play Wilde's "finest, most undeniably his own", saying that in ... |
Percival Everett | A large section of | 's Erasure (1999) contains a parody, entitled "Fuck," of Native Son |
Charles Dickens | ... umbrellas are sometimes called "gamps" after the character Mrs. Gamp in the | novel . Mrs. Gamp's character was well known for carrying an umbrella |
Ernest Hemingway | Among his friends were Orson Welles and | . Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eul ... |
DuBose Heyward | ... ning to New York City, he began writing Porgy and Bess with Ira, and author | . The opera, however, became a failure. Gershwin moved to Hollywood and co ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... authors to explore the more human-centric topics of fate and free will. In | 's classic novel Slaughterhouse Five, the primary character is a war veter ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of | . In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ... |
Paul Chadwick | ... y William Stout, Mike Mignola, Terri Windling, Bryan Talbot, Jill Thompson, | , P. Craig Russell, Mark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mu ... |
Chuck Austen | ... the meantime, Ultimate X-Men was launched, set in Marvel's revised imprint. | also began his controversial run on Uncanny X-Men |
Baroness Emmuska Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play and adventure novel by | , set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolut ... |
Larry Kramer | ... cember 2008, she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of | 's play The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s ... |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... lage (real or fictitious) featured in the 1770 poem The Deserted Village by | . Originally part of Cumberland County, the town became county seat of And ... |
Lew Wallace | ... ng liberties" with the young boys in their boarding house. She hired lawyer | , the author of , and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $20,000 ... |
Mercedes Lackey | ... derable interest from other best selling writers, including David Weber and | . The premise of the series is that, in about April 2000, irresponsible al ... |
Joseph Heller | ... of a book becomes the neologism, for instance, Catch-22 (from the title of | 's novel). Alternatively, the author's name may become the neologism, alth ... |
John Cournos | ... ll, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and | |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... sm in his books. He sold millions of copies in the Soviet Union alone. When | was expelled from the Soviet Union, he first took refuge in Heinrich Böll' ... |
Robert E. Howard | :For the metal band, see Atargatis (band). For the god in | 's Conan series, see Derketo (Conan |
Goethe | ... a during Mozart's lifetime, and throughout German-speaking Europe. In 1787, | wrote (concerning his own efforts as a librettist) |
Kenneth Grahame | He also adapted | 's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The t ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... am-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as James Joyce, | , and William Faulkner |
Charles Dickens | Other tourist attractions include the birthplace of | , the Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly the Sea Life Centre), Cumberland House ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... ch to Augustan British writers of the Enlightenment like Joseph Addison and | |
David Lodge | ... ting a precedent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, | , Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The ... |
August Strindberg | ... ht Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright | . His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacula ... |
Jane Austen | ... st in English during the peak Romantic period, other than Walter Scott, was | , whose essentially conservative world-view had little in common with her ... |
Richard Powers | University of Illinois English Professor and National Book Award winner | set his novel Galatea 2.2 at the multidisciplinary Beckman Institute for A ... |
Kovilan | ... ent Corner"). Thrissur is home to prominent malayalam literary figures like | , Kunhunni Mash, Sukumar Azhikode, K. Satchidanandan, Mullanezhi, Sarah Jo ... |
James Joyce | ... g use of stream-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as | , Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner |
Edward Bellamy | ... tivation of the arts and sciences. One classic example of such a utopia was | 's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is William Morris' News from ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... nvolved in ALP attempts to raise $500,000 during the election from the pre- | government of Iraq. No money had actually been paid, and no charges were f ... |
Cervantes | ... ical studies: Honoré de Balzac, Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, | , Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Giacomo Leopardi. Between 1972–1973 ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ril 2008 meeting between Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and former US President | , an understanding was reached in which Hamas agreed it would respect the ... |
Mark Twain | ... to shape an emerging nation's culture through its sense of the ridiculous. | was a great American satirist: his novel Huckleberry Finn is set in the an ... |
August Derleth | ... al newspapers. His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of the | Society |
William Faulkner | ... would be utilised by such later authors as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and | |
Jerome K. Jerome | ... y writers and music hall comics for many years in the late 19th century. In | 's book Three Men in a Boat no one at Waterloo knows the wanted train's pl ... |
Alex Haley | ... to maintain its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included | , Bill Cosby, and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Hen ... |
Tariq Ali | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include | , Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, ... |
Jack Vance | In the novelette Rumfuddle (1973), | presents a novel twist on the ecological utopia. His hero invents paratime ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... writing in The Red House Mystery (although this was severely criticised by | for the implausibility of its plot). But once Milne had, in his own words, ... |
Victor Cherbuliez | ... n, which had wide popularity, his work being commonly compared with that of | |
Abdullah Hussain | #Interlok by | . Book 2 was set in Simpang Empat, Penang, Seberang Perai and Book 3 was s ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... of creation, a day that would every day be the first day of new creations." | , a former associate of Breton and a champion of Ionesco's work, was a mem ... |
Kovilan | ... fessor Joseph Mundassery, it become the abode of writer’s like O V Vijayan, | , VKN, Uroob, Edassery, M T Vasudevan Nair, K G Sankarapillai and Sarah Jo ... |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... and the conceited swapping of obvious quotations", but judged it a failure. | in the New York Times called the book "engrossing, intelligent and provoca ... |
Rupert Everett | ... ted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002; it stars Colin Firth (Jack), | (Algy), Dame Judi Dench (Lady Bracknell), Reese Witherspoon (Cecily), Fran ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... ventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by | ' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their inco ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by | |
Tobias Smollett | Sarah died, in the words of | , "immensely rich and very little regretted, either by her own family or t ... |
Mary Wollstonecraft | In Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, | wrote extensively while visiting Risør in 1783, including the following re ... |
Stella Gibbons | ... urzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, | , Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, ... |
Harold Robbins | ... twin sisters and Where Love Has Gone (1964) was a romantic drama based on a | novel. Davis played the mother of Susan Hayward but filming was hampered b ... |
George Orwell | In his classic essay on the topic | distinguishes nationalism from patriotism, which he defines as devotion to ... |
Salman Rushdie | ... he Six Billionth Citizen". The essay was written by British-Indian novelist | , who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religi ... |
Richard Marius | ... nt religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as | , have been more critical, believing that such persecutions were a betraya ... |
Robert Graves | ... ephone, for whom Leuce seems to be a doublet, as a goddess of regeneration. | used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology. Gra ... |
Larry Kramer's | ... 0. In the mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright | early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart. In 1992, he starred in a Shakespear ... |
August Strindberg | File:August Stindberg.jpg| | . 1892. Oil on canvas, 120 × 90 cm. Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Swede |
Rupert Hughes | ... f whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: "Chambers is like | and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and educati ... |
Flaubert | ... nd Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, | , Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James ... |
Albert Camus | ... the former does not necessarily lead to the latter, as philosophers such as | believed. Happiness is not inextricably linked to optimism, nor is pessimi ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... e British authors of his time, Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. | 's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and T. S. El ... |
Richard Adams | ... asual manner. This down-to-earth style, also found in later fantasy such as | ' Watership Down and Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, accepts readers into ... |
Peter Dickinson | ... r consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal was | in 1981 |
Ian Fleming | Goldfinger is the seventh novel in | 's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 Mar ... |
Alexandros Papadiamantis | ... ikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, | , Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xeno ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... . The Science Museum is next to Pisuerga river. The only surviving house of | is also located in Valladolid. Although unfinished, Cathedral of Valladoli ... |
Philip K. Dick | "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a short story by | first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April 1966 ... |
Virginia Woolf | Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. She translated | 's The Waves over a 10-month period in 1937 |
Alan Moore | ... pany. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, | , Frank Miller, and Dave Sim each write a single issue |
Philip Pullman | ... nning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20 April, and the winner - | 's Northern Lights - was announced on 21 June at the British Library |
Henry Fielding | ... atchmen with tax moneys, beginning the shift to government control. In 1749 | began organizing a force of quasi-professional constables known as the Bow ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... s, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, | , Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine ... |
Bram Stoker | ... a major influence on later vampire fiction, particularly Dracula (1897) by | . Many of today's standard vampire tropes originated in Varney: Varney has ... |
Dickens | ... elding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, | , Flaubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century work ... |
Lynne Cheney | Several CC alumni are engaged in political careers. Its graduates include | , wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and their two daughters, ... |
Frank G. Slaughter | ... ticised, novelised account of Constantine's life written by American author | and published in 1965. It largely drew on Edward Gibbon's history of the R ... |
G. K. Chesterton | At the turn of the century, | and Hillaire Belloc drew together the disparate experiences of the various ... |
Malcolm Bradbury | ... campus novels, setting a precedent for later generations of writers such as | , David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associa ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Her tale is also mentioned in | 's Tanglewood Tales. Though his story titled "Dragon's teeth" is largely a ... |
William Shatner | ... Gene Evans. In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and | in the last episode, entitled "The Scarlet Ribbon", of NBC's western serie ... |
Edith Wharton | ... England perhaps London, circa 1890, we see a man pedaling a penny-farthing. | 's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) opens with a description of a perform ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... as first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read | ’s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism. ... |
Jonathan Swift | The term big-endian originally comes from | 's satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of Danny Cohen in 1980. In 17 ... |
Bernard Cornwell | ... cdonald Fraser himself. Both companies took an extensive role in developing | 's Sharpe (TV series). No further news has been forthcoming since this tim ... |
A. E. W. Mason | Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to | 's fictional detective—Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté—who, first ap ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... k themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, | and Orson Welles |
Margaret Atwood | ... work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author | and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near fut ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and | , which are more often considered adult literature. The Hobbit has been ca ... |
Henry Williamson | ... three of his Great War contemporaries: Edmund Blunden, Edgell Rickword and | |
Dirk Bogarde | ... en by David Mercer, and a distinguished cast that included John Gielgud and | . The story shows an ageing, maybe dying, novelist grappling with alternat ... |
Dave Sim | ... his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and | each write a single issue |
Neil Gaiman | ... s story. During this run on the title, Grant Morrison (issues #25 & 26) and | (issue #27) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's st ... |
Nicholas Meyer | ... different manner to express living in the future. Taking cues from director | 's approach to , Zimmerman noted that even in the future humanity will sti ... |
Max Schott | The screenplay is very different from the | novella. In the Schott story, Murphy and Emma stay just platonic friends. ... |
Khushwant Singh | ... Anti-Sikh Riots. Sikh intellectual and author of 'A History of the Sikhs', | , credits members of the RSS with helping and protecting Sikhs who were be ... |
Nevil Shute | ... he movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel of the same name by | . It was directed by Irving Pichel |
François Rabelais | ... ic number. See, for example, the Apennine Sibyl, though sometimes, e.g. for | , ten was still the proverbial number: “How know we but that she may be an ... |
Philip Roth | The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by | . It is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is ... |
Langston Hughes | ... rs exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, | , Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... n extreme, crisis situations. Near the end of her time as governor general, | stated: "My constitutional role has lain in what are called 'reserve power ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... xteenth century sense, marrano was used by rival "Old Christians" to insult | , supposedly of Muslim or Jewish descent, to disparage him as a "New Chris ... |
Sterne | ... uixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, Defoe, Fielding, and | , as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flauber ... |
Allegra Huston | ... attorney and who is father of actor Jack Huston. Soma also had a daughter, | , as the result of an extramarital affair with John Julius Norwich; Huston ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of | , addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the po ... |
William Goldman | ... od for a long time. Receiving advice from director Rob Reiner, screenwriter | , and their friend writer/director Kevin Smith, the two made changes to th ... |
Stephen King | ... pular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in | 's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining |
Stanley Crouch | ... a close second). In his Newsweek article "The Problem With Jazz Criticism" | considers Miles Davis' playing of fusion as a turning point that led to sm ... |
Herman Melville | ... lt Whitman. The poetry of Emily Dickinson—nearly unread in her own time—and | 's novel Moby-Dick can be taken as epitomes of American Romantic literatur ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... ism in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in 1898 was also criticized in | 's 1919 book, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. According t ... |
Mary Shelley | ... im. This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by | and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel (th ... |
Thomas Pynchon | Mason is one of the titular characters of | 's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon |
Jimmy Carter | ... an outbreak of cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. President | eventually declared the Love Canal area a state of emergency, and all resi ... |
Ben Bova | ... Ford Coppola's new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by | was published in 1971 |
Saddam Hussein | ... i nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the regime of | from using the reactor for the creation of nuclear weapons |
Robert W. Chambers | ... tually "emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes"[20]), Oswald Spengler, | (writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clar ... |
Thomas Hardy's | ... till had a large audience; volumes of verse published in that time included | The Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson ... |
Thomas Love Peacock | ... William Morris – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – | – George Peele – Alexander Pope – Frederic Prokosch – Walter Ralegh – John ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
Jimmy Carter | ... gate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, | , the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President Gerald Ford, th ... |
Anne Rice | ... k Shadows, Mick St.John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in | 's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Mar ... |
Frederick Marryat | #The Phantom Ship by | (1792–1848) |
Mari Sandoz | ... anes made reference to pennyroyal as abortifacient in Lysistrata and Peace. | writes in her book, Slogum House, "She was the fifth of twelve children in ... |
Dorothy Baker | In 1938, | borrowed the titles of her friend Otis Ferguson's two articles and publish ... |
Dirk Bogarde | ... Burt Lancaster. Her final film was I Could Go On Singing (1963), costarring | |
Michael Korda | ... e, divorce, and her long struggle with manic depression. In Curtain (1991), | 's novel based on the marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Gielg ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors | and Hilaire Belloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponent ... |
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán | ... became 'More than a club' (Més que un club) for the Catalans. According to | , the best way for the Catalans to demonstrate their identity was by joini ... |
Hans Christian Andersen | Prévert adapted several | tales into animated or mixed live-action/animated movies, often in version ... |
Philip Larkin | ... St. John's College, Oxford, where he read English. It was there that he met | , with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. While at ... |
Gene Hackman | ... semble prep-school drama School Ties. In 1992, he landed a big part in with | and Jason Patric. Four years later, he auditioned for a small role in Cutt ... |
Leo Tolstoy | Important influences were Henry David Thoreau, | and Elisee Reclus. Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, free love, an ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 4th Infantry Division was able to capture | in December 2003. The 1st Cavalry Division will follow on the heels of the ... |
Victor Hugo | ... ies have consulate presence in the island. The French Consulate is based at | 's former residence at Hauteville House. The is based at local design and ... |
Charles Dickens | ... bling dens and brothels, and was known as a dangerous place to go. In 1842, | visited the area and was appalled at the horrendous living conditions he h ... |
Arthur Machen | ... when his grandfather would tell him Gothic horror stories. The influence of | , with his carefully constructed tales concerning the survival of ancient ... |
Orson Scott Card | ... cs. Other descendants include sculptor Mahonri Young, best-selling novelist | , women's right activist Susa Young Gates, NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve ... |
Delphine de Girardin | ... g his exile (where he participated also in many séances conducted by Madame | ), and in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that esp ... |
Dean Jonathan Swift | They couple were friends of | and, through him, of Alexander Pope. Pope encouraged the Delaneys to devel ... |
Tom Robbins | In the book Jitterbug Perfume by | , pennyroyal is used by Kudra to keep from becoming pregnant |
Leo Tolstoy | ... n the basic fundaments of insight and on the innermost character of things. | identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person t ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
Noah Gordon | In his book The Physician (1988) | tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himsel ... |
James Weldon Johnson | ... as well as white writers exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, | , Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
Lucian | ... he sun"), after learning of the description by the 2nd-century Greek author | , of a picture of Orion recovering his sight; Poussin included a storm-clo ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by President | on July 5, 1979 |
John Henry Newman | ... ed to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, | . Newman received him into the Church on 21 October 1866. On 5 May 1868 Ho ... |
Defoe | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, | , Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists S ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Elder writes that "he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as | or Raymond Carver. With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone descriptio ... |
Hugh Laurie | ... ed as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor/musician | 's musical talents. He often plays and sings show tunes and popular songs ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and | |
Arthur Conan Doyle | #The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir | (1859–1930) |
Morgan Llywelyn | ... novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, in passages that parody the style of Irish myths. | 's book Finn Mac Cool tells of Fionn's rise to leader of the Fianna and th ... |
Melvyn Bragg | ... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by | |
Alison Bechdel | ... t the 2000 census. It is the setting for Fun Home, a 2006 graphic memoir by | , who grew up there. Brittani Kline, winner of America's Next Top Model, C ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ember 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General | , stating |
Leo Tolstoy | Nilsson is mentioned briefly in | 's novel Anna Karenina |
Jay McInerney | ... of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and | . He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer ... |
George MacDonald Fraser | ... to take on the role of Harry Flashman in a film adaptation of the books by | |
Heinrich von Kleist | ... ortant writers were Ludwig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), | and Friedrich Hölderlin |
Joseph Conrad | #An Outcast of the Islands by | (1857–1924) |
Smollett | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of | , Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century nove ... |
Truman Capote | ... 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. Sylvia Plath, | , and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The Yaddo grounds ... |
Sylvia Plath | ... been home to 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. | , Truman Capote, and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The ... |
Rupert Hughes | ... n, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by | . It was directed by Alfred Santell |
Mary Astor | ... t renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included Joseph Cotten, | and Agnes Moorehead. The following year, Davis was cast as the lead in an ... |
Leonard Cohen | On 26 February 2012, Costello paid tribute to music legends Chuck Berry and | who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting exc ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... PCF's leading theoretician Roger Garaudy and the pre-eminent existentialist | —this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of Marx's thought, and the ... |
John Kennedy Toole | ... or other flowers. It also appeared in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by | on a sign composed by the main character |
Max Beerbohm | ... ed by Alexander in St. James's; he and Aynesworth resumed their lead roles. | said that the play was sure to become a classic of the English repertory, ... |
Tama Janowitz | ... as regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included | and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark techn ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... e Hurston", published in Ms Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of | , who inspired Walker's writing and subject matter. In 1973, Walker and fe ... |
Ameen Rihani | ... partnership with Saudi officials. Through his advisers St. John Philby and | , he granted substantial authority over Saudi oil fields to American oil c ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... ple narratives into one story are various novels written by American author | . Vonnegut includes the recurring character Kilgore Trout in many of his n ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... Radio 4 series Gush, a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of | . With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom My Dad's ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... d Alexandra after Olivier recommended him for the part. He also appeared in | 's version of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a young ... |
Diana Gabaldon | ... ing its early years; Carl Fallberg, Floyd Norman, Cecil Beard, Dick Kinney, | and Mark Evanier were among those who at some point did scripts for it. Fr ... |
Conrad Aiken | ... particularly "The Waste Land," was mixed. Some critics, like Edmund Wilson, | , and Gilbert Seldes thought it was the best poetry being written in the E ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... nd God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater are sprinkled with these plot descriptions. | 's later books (The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls a ... |
William S. Burroughs | Moore named | as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admire ... |
Ethan Mordden | ... also used to introduce the characters and situation to the audience. Author | described the effectiveness of this opening |
Sue Townsend | In the book Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by | , Adrian names the swan that terrorises him outside his apartment Gielgud ... |
Eric Bogosian | ... gh, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn, Judy Parfitt, John C. Reilly and | and directed by Taylor Hackford |
Frank Herbert | In the Dune series, | tells the story of Leto, Paul and Leto II of House Atreides, the enemies o ... |
Simon Maginn | ... awcett directed the film The Dark. Based on the novel book Sheep written by | , the movie tales the story of Adèlle, a divorced woman who travels to Wal ... |
John D. MacDonald | ... the motion picture "The Express", bestselling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, | , Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winnin ... |
Rudolfo Anaya | ... pared to Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck. Other important writers include | , Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author | lived in a cottage on Horton's estate for a time in the late 1930s |
Nick Cave | The 1980s saw a breakthrough in the independence of Australian rock— | said that before the 80s, "Australia still needed America or England to te ... |
Arthur Bernède | ... uddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and | formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to publish novels si ... |
Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
James Hilton | ... "—a place like Shangri-La, hidden in the Tibetan mountains and described by | in his utopian novel Lost Horizon (1933). Christopher Columbus followed di ... |
Benito Mussolini | Between 1924 and 1945, | 's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ... |
Piers Anthony | ... g from a dream. A novelization of the film (ISBN 0-380-70874-4), written by | , was published the year before the film was released |
Charles Dickens | ... in in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by | . He created the role in the original West End production, and reprised it ... |
Shirley Jackson | ... "The Express", bestselling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, | , and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Ca ... |
Tommy Steele | ... tish rock and rollers soon began to appear, including Wee Willie Harris and | . During this period American Rock and Roll remained dominant, however, in ... |
Carter administration | ... es had long been opposed to the socialist FSLN and after the revolution the | moved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. W ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... to fit into society and unhappy with the identities he creates for himself. | , in his book on existentialism Existentialism is a Humanism, quoted Dosto ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ercion by the paramilitary Blackshirts under the regime of Italian dictator | . Dissidents and regime opponents were forced to ingest the oil in large a ... |
Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ig Tieck, Novalis (Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1799), Heinrich von Kleist and | |
William Styron | ... w Urbanism projects. One is Port Warwick, named after the fictional city in | 's novel, Lie Down in Darkness. Port Warwick includes housing for a broad ... |
Martin Amis | ... econd half of the twentieth century." He was the father of English novelist | |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... e first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell who | has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observa ... |
José Antonio Villarreal | ... es's "Yo Soy Joaquin" is one of the first examples of Chicano poetry, while | 's Pocho is widely recognized as the first major Chicano/a novel. The nove ... |
Rupert Holmes | ... een famous in Puerto Rico since 1978, and it became more widely known after | released his song "Escape", commonly known as "The Piña Colada Song" |
Ernest Hemingway | In 1928 | and his pregnant wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W. Malcolm and Ruth ... |
Constantin Mille | ... cques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supérieure. | , a Romanian socialist writer and émigré in Paris, described the anti-Drey ... |
Carl Sandburg | ... 963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and | . Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is feat ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... in France than at home, but the romantic American novel developed fully in | 's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... s preceding films. He approached Dashiell Hammett to write the dialogue but | took over, then left over disagreements with the director. Two men casuall ... |
Arthur Koestler | ... f extrasensory perception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as | , Brian Inglis and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
Henry Miller | ... hoven, Van Gogh or Dostoyevsky, or the American writers he admired, notably | , Jackson Pollock or Walt Whitman |
Jane Austen | ... d as Northanger Abbey in the 2007 ITV dramatisation of that name during its | season |
C. S. Lewis | ... mmission that produced The Revised Psalter (1963). A harsh critic of Eliot, | , was also a member of the commission, where their antagonism turned into ... |
F. Van Wyck Mason | ... made Bermuda their home, or have had homes here, including A.J. Cronin and | , who wrote on Bermudian subjects |
Jack Vance | The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by | , first published in 1958, in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is a centra ... |
Dashiell Hammett | ... h, Hitchcock combined many elements from his preceding films. He approached | to write the dialogue but Raymond Chandler took over, then left over disag ... |
George Eliot | ... 3 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, | refers to this when she makes Jacob Storey say: "He thought it [Z] had onl ... |
Herman Melville | ... 90s, Stella created a large body of work that responded in a general way to | ’s Moby-Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s p ... |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... is, immortalized in the motion picture "The Express", bestselling novelists | , John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold; William Safire, Pu ... |
Brian Herbert | ... to the original Atreides of the Trojan War. In one of the prequel novels by | and Kevin J. Anderson, the Play The Oresteia is performed in Castle Calada ... |
Chekhov's | ... s. That production went far toward Gielgud's successful effort to establish | 's viability on the English-speaking stage. Gielgud's own performance as V ... |
Eddie Campbell | Both | and Grant Morrison have utilised the character. Morrison claims that the m ... |
Gustave Flaubert | ... st Kathryn Harrison argues is a rewrite (rather than simply a recycling) of | 's Madame Bovary (1856). In Vargas Llosa's version, the plot relates the d ... |
John Steinbeck | ... so been associated with a negative cultural stereotype first popularized by | 's novel "The Grapes of Wrath", which described the plight of uneducated, ... |
Gérard Bouchard | ... son of Alice (née Simard) and Philippe Bouchard. His brother is a historian | . Lucien Bouchard graduated from Jonquière Classical College in 1959, and ... |
John Cornwell | ... ople in the Vatican who were opposed to Luciani's policies. In the words of | , "they treated him with condescension"; one senior cleric discussing Luci ... |
Stephen King | In the book by | , Eddie Dean remembers hearing an audiobook version of The Lord of the Rin ... |
Ibn al-Nafis | ... iruni were mutakallimiin; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz; the physician | was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theolog ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... umbents publicly outshine the actual head of state; former governor general | alluded to what she saw as "an unspoken rivalry" that had developed betwee ... |
Thomas Nashe | ... in which the bishops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both | and Gabriel Harvey, two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ctober 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President | signed the Department of Energy Organization Act. Originally the post focu ... |
Billy Dee Williams | ... the Blues (1956) written by Holiday and William Dufty. The movie co-starred | as Holiday's lover, Louis McKay. The cast also included comedian Richard P ... |
Oscar Zeta Acosta | ... nt writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, | , John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto ... |
Nick Cave | ... ic scene which had sprung up in Melbourne came The Boys Next Door featuring | . The Boys Next Door would eventually become The Birthday Party |
Wilkie Collins | ... ok about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and | . In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves such inconsequent ... |
Gaston Leroux | ... re many similarities between Nilsson and the character of Christine Daaé in | 's novel Phantom of the Opera, and many believe Leroux based the character ... |
Jonathan Swift | More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer | . Swift wrote that More was "a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ... |
John Ralston Saul | ... ose made using the verb "to be". This is desirable according to philosopher | who claims that a state of "permanent psychological discomfort" can serve ... |
Robert Sherard | ... him to move to Paris between February and mid-May 1883. Whilst there he met | , whom he entertained constantly. "We are dining on the Duchess tonight", ... |
Wendell Berry | ... ldo Leopold (1887–1948), Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors | (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson (b. ... |
Stephen King | The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by | , published for the mass market by Viking in 1987. Previously, it was publ ... |
Marina Lewycka | ... setting for two popular novels, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by | and A Spot of Bother by |
Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by | . The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King nove ... |
George Sand | ... Charles Vidor, the film starred Cornel Wilde (as Chopin), Merle Oberon (as | ), Paul Muni (as Józef Elsner), Stephen Bekassy (as Franz Liszt), and Nina ... |
G. K. Chesterton | The English Roman Catholic writer | said of More that "He may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or a ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In literature, "The Maltese Cat" is the title of a short story by | . The story is about a polo match set in British colonial , told from the ... |
James Weldon Johnson | ... ncement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and | were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his earl ... |
C. S. Forester | | 's 1937 novel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a ... |
Alice Sebold | ... elling novelists Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and | ; William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian ... |
Ardal O'Hanlon | ... Spike Milligan, Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran, Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, | , Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes |
Jack Vance | ... novel The Book of the New Sun. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by | 's Dying Earth series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyma ... |
John Steinbeck | ... Bailey (1858–1954), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist | (1902–1968), historian A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist A ... |
William Makepeace Thackeray | In | 's novel 'Vanity Fair' "Was Rebecca guilty or not?" the Vehmgerich of tho ... |
Ana Castillo | ... a, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, John Rechy, | , Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Al ... |
Stephen King | The Long Walk is a novel by | published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback origi ... |
Max Schott | ... y film adapted by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch from a 1980 novel by | and directed by Martin Ritt. The film stars Sally Field (also executive pr ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... umerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like | and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that ... |
Bruce Wagner | ... 002, which union produced two daughters. She had previously been married to | |
Brendan Behan | ... popular works. He also references the music of The Pogues and the poetry of | , both of these being relevant to Ennis' Irish heritage |
George Meredith's | ... sts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, | Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's B ... |
James Webb | ... of shame." Two prominent early supporters of the project, H. Ross Perot and | , withdrew their support once they saw the design. Said Webb, “I never in ... |
Frederic Prokosch | ... oyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love Peacock – George Peele – Alexander Pope – | – Walter Ralegh – John Crowe Ransom – Christina Rossetti – Siegfried Sasso ... |
Alexander Prokhanov | ... wing aircraft shot down. According to Crile, who includes information from | , the Stinger was a "turning point". Milt Bearden saw it as a "force multi ... |
Larry McMurtry | ... miles by wagon for burial. The story is the inspiration behind Texas author | ’s novel, Lonesome Dove |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... important literary author also important to existentialism was the Russian | . Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground portrays a man unable to fit into s ... |
Julie Burchill | ... ate 1980s, with weekly columns in Time Out magazine where he took over from | , the short-lived Sunday Correspondent, and The Mail on Sunday (where he o ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... , during the Persian Gulf War, speculation on the survival of the regime of | in Iraq. Similar political stability concerns have from time to time drive ... |
John Rechy | ... Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, Oscar Zeta Acosta, | , Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto Gilb, Alici ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... ters appear often; the character of Fiddler's Green is modelled visually on | , both William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer appear as characters, as d ... |
Twain | ... s in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, | , and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... 1990–91, when the Intifada's intensity began to wear down, Arafat supported | 's invasion of Kuwait and opposed the US-led coalition attack on Iraq. He ... |
Jean Paul | ... Germany. He had however read Schiller, Goethe, Swift, Sterne, Rousseau, and | , and wrote part of a novel called Der Geheimnisvolle |
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles | ... se, Volume 2 of The Morland Dynasty a series of historical novels by author | . The lead female character, Nanette Morland, is educated alongside Cather ... |
George Sand | ... rd in Paris is his "Heroic" Polonaise, a song for Poland. The appearance of | , played by Merle Oberon, alters Chopin's life. Vidor portrays George Sand ... |
William James Henderson | ... the absence of a disruptive vibrato from his singing. The scholarly critic | wrote in The Sun newspaper, for example, that Caruso "has a pure tenor voi ... |
Terry Moore | ... ark Crilley, Elizabeth Johns, Michael Zulli, Robin Mullins, Lisa Snellings, | , Tony DiTerlizzi, Linda Medley, Lorenzo Mattotti, Zander Cannon, Dave McK ... |
Wendell Berry | ... thinkers are sometimes referred to as neo-Agrarian and include the likes of | , Paul B. Thompson, and Gene Logsdon. They are characterized by seeing the ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... Leicester Square house was the inspiration for the home of Dr Jekyll of the | novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Hunter's house had two en ... |
Stephen Crane | ... William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, | 's , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... in 1998. His final (silent) acting performance was in a film adaptation of | 's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter an ... |
Alexandros Papadiamantis | ... the most important poets of the 20th century. Novel is also represented by | and Nikos Kazantzakis |
George Orwell | ... nd with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after | 's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ord ... |
James Agee | ... there is the Huston look". The "Huston look" was also noted by screenwriter | , who adds that this "look proceeds from Huston's sense of what is natural ... |
Samuel Beckett | Like | , Ionesco began his theatre career late: he did not write his first play u ... |
Mary Austin | The home of author | , the author of "The Land of Little Rain", is preserved as a museum locate ... |
Jonathan Meades | In literature, Portsmouth is the chief location for | ' novel Pompey, in which it is inhabited largely by vile, corrupt, flawed ... |
Iain Banks | ... mple of a technological and libertarian socialist utopia is Scottish author | ' Culture |
Edith Wharton | ... he wanted to play the character "Mattie" in a proposed 1944 film version of | 's novel Ethan Frome (1911) |
Peter David | ... by Kevin Smith) and the final Supergirl story arc, "Many Happy Returns" (by | ), revealed that the Spectre (Hal Jordan) is aware of the Crisis on Infini ... |
Stephen Fry | ... the first three Macintosh in the UK — the other being bought by his friend | ). In So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, Arthur Dent purchases a compute ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... er years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries. | quipped: "Mr. Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home. Emily Dolvin, the aunt of | (the 39th U.S. President), lived in Roswell the majority of her life and w ... |
Jostein Gaarder | ... ildren's books that has been accepted into mainstream literature, alongside | 's Sophie's World (1991) and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997–200 ... |
Iain Banks | ... nnjin. The name is inspired by the science fiction novel Feersum Endjinn by | , an author whose novel The Wasp Factory was conceptual inspiration for Lu ... |
Lin Carter | ... i enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, | , Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to work at the ... |
Victor Hugo | ... The grotesque and tragic life of Victor Hugo a satirical biography mocking | 's status as a great figure in French literature. The Hugoliade includes e ... |
Jean Paul | ... han twenty years after the latter's death. The theme alludes to the work of | , who invented the term Doppelgänger the previous decade, and continued to ... |
Iain Banks | Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer | , published in 1987 |
W. Somerset Maugham | ... n the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage (1934), a film adaptation of | 's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim. Many actresses fe ... |
Ramsey Campbell | ... ki first appeared in "The Inhabitant of the Lake" (1964), an early story by | |
Beckett's | ... Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in | Endgame, saying that the play offered "nothing but loneliness and despair" ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both | and J. R. R. Tolkien before graduating in 1956. In the same year she marri ... |
Michael McLaverty | ... ediate School in west Belfast. The headmaster of this school was the writer | from County Monaghan, who introduced Heaney to the poetry of Patrick Kavan ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ore metaphysics. Herbert Marcuse criticized Being and Nothingness (1943) by | for projecting anxiety and meaninglessness onto the nature of existence it ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the 20th century. Novel is also represented by Alexandros Papadiamantis and | |
William Goldman | ... is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by | (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Bas ... |
Eric Rücker Eddison | ... hompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, | 's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer nov ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... s The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and | ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other ... |
Jane Austen | In | 's novel Pride and Prejudice, Pemberley—the country home of Fitzwilliam Da ... |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | ... ist, discovered that microorganisms can cause disease. A few years earlier, | , the American physician, poet and essayist, noted that sepsis in women fo ... |
Maxine Hong Kingston | ... 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker, | , author of The Woman Warrior; and Terry Tempest Williams, author of An Un ... |
Edwin Muir | Many critics were particularly enthusiastic about it. | maintained that it is one of the most moving poems Eliot wrote, and perhap ... |
Piers Paul Read | Criticisms against Opus Dei have prompted Catholics like | and Vittorio Messori to call Opus Dei a sign of contradiction, in referenc ... |
C. Northcote Parkinson | | , more famous for his invention of Parkinson's Law, has written a 'biograp ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... 15, the Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses and the second part of Don Quixote. | noted that, "Cervantes leaves open the pages of a book where the reader kn ... |
Stephen Fry | ... g light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook has been described by | as "the funniest man who ever drew breath", although his work was also con ... |
Iakovos Kambanelis | ... : Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, | , Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, Irene Papas etc. More t ... |
Patrick O'Brian | In | 's Aubrey-Maturin series, Portsmouth is most often the port from which Cap ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... al; members of the audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but | , Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A sel ... |
Klaus Mann | ... opheles, or Faust and Marguerite (1855), Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868), | 's Mephisto, and Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltzes |
William Kotzwinkle | ... cluding adaptations of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, | 's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's ... |
Eddie Campbell | Following a brief interlude by From Hell artist | , the series' direction was taken over by Paul Jenkins in 1995. He had bee ... |
Marguerite Duras | ... lm incomprehensible suffering. Then however in discussion with the novelist | a fusion of fiction and documentary was developed which acknowedged the im ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... ver a local road is named after Haggard). He was visited here by his friend | . In a letter to Haggard dated 20 July 1912, his daughter Lillias document ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... he title The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, together with photographs taken by | and |
George Orwell | ... lves destroying gentler, more-human places such as gardens. In 1984, author | described the Ministry of Truth as an "enormous, pyramidal structure of wh ... |
Hilary Mantel | ... shed satirical novel, An Island in the Moon. He is a principal character in | 's 1998 novel, The Giant, O'Brien |
Jimmy Carter | The surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was | , a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ... |
Hans Christian Andersen | ... by the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. Unlike the much later work of | , who was publishing his invented tales in Danish from 1835, these German ... |
Dumas | ... character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, and the mention in | 's The Three Musketeers of the old custom of branding a criminal with the ... |
William Horwood | ... Wind in the Willows won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. In the 1990s | came up with a series of sequels |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... assoon – John Skelton – Robert Southey – Edmund Spenser – Sir John Squire – | – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lo ... |
Katherine Anne Porter | ... bert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Sam Peckinpah's TV film of | 's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, she was the first woman to preside o ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... the classics The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World, by | |
Robert E. Howard | ... omas and Barry Windsor-Smith, and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture". She first appeared in the ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Two Will-o-the-wisps appear in | 's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795). They are desc ... |
Derrick Jensen | ... and freedom brought by division of labour. Authors such as John Zerzan and | consider that modern technology is progressively depriving humans of their ... |
Fazil Iskander | According to Soviet writer | , "Under the totalitarian regime, it was as if you were forced to live in ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... participated actively in the Surrealist movement. Together with the writer | and artist Marcel Duchamp, he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He ... |
Allan W. Eckert | ... Revolutionary War. This story, popularized in historical novels written by | in the late 1960s, remains well known in Ohio, where an outdoor drama cele ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... themes present in the political action of the Luddites and the writings of | , when primitivism emerged it was influenced more directly by the works of ... |
Barry Windsor-Smith | ... aracter, a high fantasy sword and sorcery heroine created by Roy Thomas and | , and loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in Robert E. Howard's 1934 sh ... |
Longus | ... by Harry Graf Kessler in 1926–27. He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by | (1937) and Chansons pour elle by Paul Verlaine (1939) |
Georgette Heyer | ... rge Eliot's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth. | 's detective/romance novel The Toll-Gate is set in 1817 around a fictional ... |
Émile Zola | ... al achievements who took positions on grounds of higher principle – such as | , novelists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poinca ... |
H. Rider Haggard | Sir | , novelist, was born in Bradenham, and later in his life spent his summers ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... portance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by | . First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it ... |
William Shatner | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, | and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captai ... |
John Steinbeck | In | 's novel East of Eden, the atmosphere of Jenny's whorehouse is described a ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... ed until a few established writers and critics, among them Jean Anouilh and | , championed the play |
Anatole France | ... unds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists Octave Mirbeau and | , mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, lib ... |
Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien | ... They have two children, Adam Reuel Tolkien and Rachel Clare Reuel Tolkien. | , his son by his first marriage, to Faith Faulconbridge, is a barrister an ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... at on other planets beings could exist in an unfallen state was explored by | in his novel |
Douglas Adams | The "Deep Thought" episode in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by | appears to be a parody of his short story "Answer" |
Alfred de Vigny | ... y among nineteenth-century French Romantics, poet, playwright, and novelist | created a French translation of Othello, titled Le More de Venise, which p ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... theorized that many of Treebeard's mannerisms are based on Tolkien's friend | , a loud, bombastic man known for his powerful stride and overwhelming pre ... |
Hunter S. Thompson | ... kshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of | 's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric ... |
Donna Tartt | In | 's novel The Secret History, four of the central characters hold a bacchan ... |
George Eliot | ... hen a character gets a train to Alfreton and walks to Crich to see a lover. | 's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth |
Octave Mirbeau | ... ok positions on grounds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists | and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, an ... |
Wendell Berry | ... essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1953). | Wendell Berry is an author of several books, essays, and poems whose writi ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... talitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Handmaid's Tale by | and Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley |
James Joyce | ... n the Oxford English Dictionary is the onomatopoeic tattarrattat, coined by | in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gi ... |
Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer | . It was published in 1984 |
D. H. Lawrence | Alfreton is mentioned in the novel Sons and Lovers by | , when a character gets a train to Alfreton and walks to Crich to see a lo ... |
Eoin Colfer | In 2001, | (born 1965) published the first installment of his Artemis Fowl series in ... |
James Fenimore Cooper | ... n Winkle (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the Leatherstocking Tales of | , with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape des ... |
Stephen King | | used a fictionalized version of Hemingford in three of his stories, with t ... |
N. Scott Momaday | ... drummer Steven Drozd. Notable authors include Pulitzer Prize winning author | , poet Don Blanding, and Hugo Award winner, C.J. Cherryh |
Charles Dickens | ... nce been extended to refer to any drunken revelry. In A Tale of Two Cities, | uses the words: "the law was certainly not behind any other learned profes ... |
Charles Dickens | ... in England and Wales since the Reformation lived in Finchley. The novelist | wrote Martin Chuzzlewit whilst staying at Cobley Farm near Bow Lane, North ... |
Frederick Nolan | ... merstein conceived the graduation scene that ends the musical. According to | in his book on the team's works: "From that scene the song "You'll Never W ... |
Nicholas Meyer | ... t during filming of Star Trek II to make him appear more muscular; director | replied that even in his sixties Montalbán had a vigorous training regimen ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... l. All classes of men and women are defined by the colours they wear (as in | 's dystopia Brave New World), drawing on color symbolism and psychology. A ... |
Jean Paul | ... imar performances, Mahler gave the piece the title Titan after the novel by | , although Mahler specified that the piece was not in any way "about" the ... |
Yevgeny Zamyatin | ... iction of totalitarian society, as is their lesser-known predecessor, We by | . Additional totalitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Ha ... |
Alain Robbe-Grillet | ... Year at Marienbad) (1961), which he made in collaboration with the novelist | . The tantalisingly fragmented and shifting narrative presents three princ ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... 978 in the famous Camp David Accords after negotiations hosted by president | . In accordance with the treaty, Israeli forces withdrew gradually from Si ... |
Oscar Wildian | ... itings of men like H.G. Wells and Graham Wallas, wrenching us away from the | dilettantism which had possessed undergraduate litterateurs for generation ... |
Tony Fletcher | ... of the tale. Another version of the night was recounted by Moon biographer | in the book Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legen |
J. K. Rowling | ... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and | 's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) |
Frank Miller | ... e DC Universe will never be the same." Along with Alan Moore's Watchmen and | 's , it contributed to the commercial and creative revitalization of DC Co ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author | in his 1942 story Waldo |
Philip K. Dick | ... of its genre and a superior example of it. It may have provided a model for | when he later created his own stories set in alternate personal realities. ... |
Michael Ignatieff | ... ing Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was immediately forced out and replaced by | , who quickly distanced the party from the coalition |
Victor Hugo | ... nken main road and then routed. , note 18 An episode famously used later by | in Les Miserables. The sunken lane acted as a trap which funnelled the fli ... |
Daphne du Maurier | ... gement with Plaid's Blaenau Gwent branch, and to a lesser extent with the . | , the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as ... |
Ring Lardner | ... g. The characters and the baseball park settings are apparently inspired by | 's well-known baseball short story "Alibi Ike" (1915), filmed in 1935 as t ... |
Robert Crumb | ... ings, and even a similar Keep On Truckin' figure later to be made famous by | . His characters were frequently seen chasing butterflies; when asked why ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ened in 1853 after Beacon Hill headland was dynamited to make space for it. | was said to have made readings there. In the 1900s a ballroom and a new se ... |
Brian Herbert | ... a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999-2001) by | and Kevin J. Anderson. The character is brought back as a ghola in the Her ... |
Doris Lessing | ... omen until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles. In contrast, | 's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) suggests that m ... |
George MacDonald | ... like Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie and The Princess and the Goblin by | , both of which influenced Tolkien and contain fantasy elements, it is pri ... |
Alan Moore | In | 's graphic novel , Bertie appears in the segment "What Ho, Gods of the Aby ... |
Herman Melville | ... leases of films. An example of this is the chapter The Town Ho's Story from | 's famous novel Moby-Dick, which tells a fully formed story of an exciting ... |
Victor Hugo | ... Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, a character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by | , and the mention in Dumas's The Three Musketeers of the old custom of bra ... |
Philip Larkin | ... ped in a pattern which was the inverse of that followed by his close friend | . Before becoming known as a poet, Larkin had published two novels; Amis, ... |
Stuart M. Kaminsky | ... . Besides directing, he also narrates portions of the story. Film historian | notes that Huston presents Sigmund Freud, played by Montgomery Clift, "as ... |
H. G. Wells | ... uthor of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight Mr Tom and | author, lived in Portsmouth during the 1880s. and actresses and actors Emm ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... in the 1950s and early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as | and Allen Ginsberg, he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and ... |
Ben Elton | ... appears to have a particular loathing of "Mockneys" such as Nigel Kennedy, | and Jo Brand. His other pet hates include Endemol, Peter Bazalgette and Bi ... |
Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
Raymond Queneau | ... tics, Le Chant du styrène. Poetry was brought to the project, literally, by | who wrote the narration for the film in rhyming couplets |
Neal Stephenson | | 's novel Cryptonomicon includes a fictitious U-691, a Type IXD/42, launche ... |
Joanna Russ | ... his sort were written in the 1970s; the most often studied examples include | 's The Female Man and Suzy McKee Charnas's Walk to the End of the World an ... |
Arthur Quiller-Couch | ... patron. The title "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered") was added by editor | when the poem was included in The Oxford Book of English Verse |
William Goldman | ... outbid Universal Pictures for the movie rights to Tom Wolfe's book, hiring | to write the screenplay. Goldman's adaptation focused on the astronauts, e ... |
Warren Ellis | | took over the title in 1999, after his work on Transmetropolitan which had ... |
Roald Dahl | In 1964 | wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the story of Charlie Bucket's adv ... |
Margaret Atwood | The Republic of Gilead is a fictional country that is the setting of the | dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale |
Sarah Orne Jewett | In Maine writer, | 's novel, Country of the Pointed Firs, one of the residents of Dunnet, Mai ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
Ernest Hemingway | ... cknowledgments and Notes". The later US hardcover edition adds a quote from | , has 43 chapters, drops the subtitle, and expands the Acknowledgements an ... |
Neil Gaiman | Jones' works are also compared to those of Robin McKinley and | . She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are ... |
Goethe | ... condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht. Scott drew his inspiration from | 's play Goetz von Berlichingen which he had translated, incorrectly |
Bruce Jay Friedman | Also in 1973, he starred in Steambath, a play by author | , on PBS with Valerie Perrine and Jose Perez |
J. K. Rowling | In 1990 | wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ... |
Ben Hecht | ... k. Also in 1946, he appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, also written by | , to help promote the creation of a Jewish state in Israel. Directed by St ... |
Neal Stephenson | | 's novel Cryptonomicon includes a fictitious U-553 which runs aground abou ... |
J. M. Barrie | ... ed (and often marketed as) a fantasy novel, but like Peter Pan and Wendy by | and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, both of which influen ... |
Lloyd Alexander | ... ou Trust Your Wife?", then "The Tonight Show". Well-known children's author | also lived in Drexel Hill with his wife and several cats |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... tural movement, mainly through the public prominence of two French writers, | and Albert Camus, who wrote best-selling novels, plays and widely read jou ... |
Isaac Asimov | Scientist/author | defined two types of scientifi |
Gregory Maguire | ... k Times publisher; Lew Rockwell, founder of Ludwig von Mises Institute; and | , novelist. Such alumni have been known to write characters as students of ... |
Nikos Kazantzakis | ... the Paul Schrader-scripted The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. Based on | 's controversial 1960 book, it retold the life of Christ in human rather t ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister | 's more conservative coalition partners |
Georges de Scudéry | ... mie française sur la tragi-comédie du Cid (1638). Even the prominent writer | harshly criticized the play in his Observations sur le Cid (1637). The int ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Brown also had the honor of being one of three dedicatees of | 's Stranger in a Strange Land |
Aleister Crowley | ... olden Dawn, making the policies a success. This secrecy was broken first by | , in 1905, and later by Israel Regardie himself in 1940, giving a detailed ... |
C. S. Lewis | In 1950 | (1898–1963) published the first of installment of his Chronicles of Narnia ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... her Hitchens author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, | , poet and author of the Jungle Book, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnig ... |
Bram Stoker | ... Florence Balcombe, a childhood sweetheart. She, however, became engaged to | and they married in 1878. Wilde was disappointed but stoic: he wrote to he ... |
Thomas Mann | ... annes Maria Verweyen were deported and died in concentration camps. In 1937 | was deprived of his honorary doctorate. His honorary degree was restored i ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ey claimed to recognize women's equality in employment. However, Hitler and | declared themselves as opposed to feminism, and after the rise of Nazism i ... |
Pierre de Marivaux | ... character from Harlequin. They appeared together in a number of comedies by | including L'Île des esclaves |
José de Alencar | ... ional identity, using the ideal of the heroic Indian. Some examples include | , who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and Gonçalves Dias, renowned by the ... |
Harry Turtledove | Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in | 's alternate history novel |
Aleister Crowley | ... ating the antagonistic character, Demon Constantine, with the assistance of | . The landmark hundredth issue gave more detail on John Constantine's fath ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when | 's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name |
Wyndham Lewis | ... chael Holroyd describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in | ' The Self-Condemned. In Wyndham Lewis' novel The Apes of God, he is seen ... |
Goethe | ... he late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by | , Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust i ... |
Patricia Highsmith | ... come known for choosing a wide variety of film roles, from his portrayal of | 's anti-hero Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to a fallen ange ... |
Albert Camus | ... y through the public prominence of two French writers, Jean-Paul Sartre and | , who wrote best-selling novels, plays and widely read journalism as well ... |
Mickey Spillane | ... for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The famous pulp writer | called Brown "my favorite writer of all time". Science fiction and fantasy ... |
Chris Elliott | ... t include Andy Griffith (who played Sir Walter Raleigh), William Ivey Long, | , Terrence Mann, and Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl |
Elizabeth Jane Howard | In 1963, Hilary discovered Amis's love affair with novelist | . Hilary and Amis separated in August; he went to live with Howard. He div ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... United States intelligence agencies issued a report that announced aides of | managed to acquire Belarusian passports while in Syria. The same report me ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... g, feeling human being incarnate — embodied — in a concrete world. Although | adopted the term "existentialism" for his own philosophy in the 1940s, Mar ... |
Mark Twain | ... ecommendation of economically motivated cannibalism. Again, some critics of | see Huckleberry Finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its a ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... e inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewis' The Self-Condemned. In | ' novel The Apes of God, he is seen in the character of Matthew Plunkett, ... |
Henry James | ... n in response to a request for a play "with no real serious interest". When | 's Guy Domville failed, Alexander turned to Wilde and agreed to put on his ... |
Ayn Rand | ... its opening, which is a complete two-sentence short-short story in itself. | singled out Brown for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The ... |
Keith Topping | ... elevision researcher Andrew Pixley and authors Paul Cornell, Martin Day and | in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Unauthorised and Unofficial Guide ... |
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | ... ountry. As a consequence, there are notable Kikuyu literature icons such as | and Meja Mwangi. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's literary works include Caitani Muthar ... |
Ayelet Waldman | ... married on 2 January 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers | and Michael Chabon |
J. B. Priestley | ... ul Nicholas, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cliff Parisi, Tim Pigott-Smith, | , Jonathan Pryce, Dizzee Rascal, Heath Robinson, John James Sainsbury, Pet ... |
Dylan Thomas | ... ing – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – | – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chid ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by Jeffrey Archer in which | tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly on July 4 |
Lloyd Alexander | ... igh fantasy include works for children by authors such as L. Frank Baum and | alongside the works of Gene Wolfe and Jonathan Swift, which are more often ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... Declaration document is at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by | in which Saddam Hussein tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly ... |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ... , or sexual at all — a famous early sexless example being Herland (1915) by | . Charlene Ball writes in Women's studies encyclopedia that use of specula ... |
James Joyce | ... y comes from the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake by | . On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the ... |
Terry Southern | ... who played the romantic interest "Penny Priddy", describes the film as "if | had written Star Wars. None of the characters are quite what they should b ... |
Louisa May Alcott | ... ritics, including Leslie Fiedler, Norman Mailer, and Russell Baker.) Writer | criticized the book’s publication as well, saying that if Twain "[could no ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... ind" are heard in the movie Places in the Heart, by the character Mr. Will. | dedicated his popular detective novel on anarchist terrorism, The Man Who ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... ime to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller and | , and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio de Janeiro during his stops in ... |
John Dickson Carr | ... micide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist | to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time |
Philip K. Dick | ... s ever written before 1965. His short story "The Waveries" was described by | as "what may be the most significant—startlingly so—story SF has yet produ ... |
Alan Moore | ... with the tagline that "the DC Universe will never be the same." Along with | 's Watchmen and Frank Miller's , it contributed to the commercial and crea ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | In | 's 1948 novel Space Cadet, aerobraking is used to save fuel while slowing ... |
Tom Wolfe | ... hartoff and Irwin Winkler outbid Universal Pictures for the movie rights to | 's book, hiring William Goldman to write the screenplay. Goldman's adaptat ... |
Hans Christian Andersen | ... te a chamber opera by the Danish Royal Opera, Copenhagen, on the subject of | 's infatuation with Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. Called The Secret Songs it ... |
Ernest Hemingway | Many subsequent critics, | among them, have deprecated the final chapters, claiming the book "devolve ... |
Howard Jacobson | ... enerations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and | . As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement |
Arthur Koestler | ... force is guiding the course of biological evolution was the science writer | (1967, 1978). Koestler provided examples of evolutionary development that ... |
Gregorios Xenopoulos | ... os Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, | , Constantine P. Cavafy, and Demetrius Vikelas. Two Greek authors have bee ... |
Robert Barr | ... Arm, an 1899 novel set in the Holy Roman Empire by British-Canadian author | |
Rudyard Kipling | Visited by Somerset Maugham, | , Noël Coward and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including | , Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhe ... |
Maxine Hong Kingston | ... y High School. Silhouette artist Kara Walker was raised in Stockton, as was | , author of The Woman Warrior. Mixed martial artists Nick and Nate Diaz we ... |
Walker Percy | The self-help world has become the target of parodies. | 's odd genre-busting Lost in the Cosmos has been described as "a parody of ... |
Arthur Machen | ... th M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and | . Many Hermetic, or Hermetically influenced, groups exist today, most of w ... |
Cornell Woolrich | ... ) and The Far Cry, powerful noir suspense novels reminiscent of the work of | , and The Lenient Beast, with its experiments in multiple first-person vie ... |
Lucian | ... ted by Viennese poet Franz Blei for his translation of Hellenistic satirist | 's Dialogues of the Courteseans. The book, limited to 450 copies, provided ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... fter high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, | , and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with som ... |
Paul Cornell | ... due to financial problems. Television researcher Andrew Pixley and authors | , Martin Day and Keith Topping in their book The Avengers Dossier: The Una ... |
Daniel Defoe | His work as therapist caught the attention of | , whose youngest daughter Sophia he married in 1729 |
Tom Sharpe | ... ent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, | and Howard Jacobson. As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement |
Michael Chabon | ... y 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers Ayelet Waldman and | |
Robert E. Howard | The character was loosely based on Red Sonya of Rogatino in | 's short story "The Shadow of the Vulture" (The Magic Carpet, January 1934 ... |
James Hilton | ... screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same title by | |
Almeida Garrett | ... uguese poetry develops its character from the work of its Romantic epitome, | , a very prolific writer who helped shape the genre with the masterpiece ( ... |
Alain Robbe-Grillet | ... with writers usually unconnected with the cinema, such as Marguerite Duras, | and Jorge Semprún |
David Brin | ... nsparent Society (1998) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author | in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of pr ... |
Charles Dickens | ... hail from Portsmouth or who have lived in the city include: famous authors | – famous for such works as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwic ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... was deemed excellent by doctors and recommended for lung disease patients. | , who suffered from tuberculosis, wintered in Davos in 1880 at the recomme ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | | had at least one strong connection with the Bass, as his cousin, David Ste ... |
Don DeLillo | ... (although frequently subterranean): for example, postmodern authors such as | and Thomas Pynchon seem to have been influenced by Gaddis (indeed, upon pu ... |
James Agee | ... Paramount Pictures. The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. | , in his review for The Dark Mirror (1946), noted the change, and stated t ... |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | ... sensible Camelot; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers | , Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city ... |
David Baddiel | ... t more racism. In April 2011, Jewish comedian, author and Chelsea-supporter | produced a short film stating that the anti-semitic chanting is as unaccep ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... r characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to | 's Waiting For Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almos ... |
Rosalind Miles | Cecil appears as a character in the novels I, Elizabeth by | , The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory and is a prominent secondary charact ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... staVision with Dolby Sound. Imagine a Star Wars-style space opera penned by | in the throes of a religious conversion. Wolfe has continued in full diapa ... |
Gene Hackman | On January 13, 2012, actor | was struck by a pickup truck while riding his bicycle in Islamorada |
Diderot | She wrote comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, | , and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputati ... |
Robert Graves | ... nd never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar. | interprets the use of the term nurse in Classical myths as identifying dei ... |
Alison Bechdel | ... 06, a resident of Marshall attempted to have the graphic novels Fun Home by | and Blankets by Craig Thompson removed from the Marshall Public Library. S ... |
Anatole France | ... ench society between those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as | , Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him (the ... |
Walter Scott | ... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young | , but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ... |
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Jack London | ... own, little or no interest, and whatever they could pay on a monthly basis. | describes the artists' colony in his novel, The Valley of the Moon. Among ... |
Roberto Bolaño | In | 's novel 2666, the philosophy professor Oscar Amalfitano begins his three- ... |
Dickens | ... here he had been publicized and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since | , he returned to England where Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed ... |
Paolo Giordano | ... y. Prime numbers are used as a metaphor for loneliness and isolation in the | novel , in which they are portrayed as "outsiders" among integers |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... h century as a reaction against then-dominant systematic philosophies, with | generally considered to be the first existentialist philosopher |
Patrick White | ... itle of the 1989 novel Ashes Under Uricon. The Nobel Prize winning novelist | named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and ... |
Tommaso Landolfi | ... Rome in Piazza Campo Marzio near the Pantheon and began editing the work of | for Rizzoli. Awarded the French Légion d'honneur in 1981, he also accepted ... |
Hiroshi Ōnogi | ... Kawamori attended Keio University in the same years as Macross screenwriter | and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, where they had a Mobile Suit Gun ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... n 1880 at the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour. | wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is a ... |
Stephen Fry | ... essed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. Eric Idle and | said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the newspapers had tri ... |
Poul Anderson | It was also an influence for | 's hard science fiction novel "Tau Zero |
Maupassant | ... pect, an influence which Bennett himself acknowledged was the French writer | whose "Une Vie" inspired "The Old Wives' Tale." Maupassant is also one of ... |
Raymond Williams | ... ncing that France had entered the race to industrialise. In his 1976 book , | states in the entry for "Industry": "The idea of a new social order based ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author | . It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Eart ... |
E. M. Forster | ... y in Wiltshire, although he maintained contact with a circle which included | and J. R. Ackerley. One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Den ... |
Thomas Pynchon | ... ntly subterranean): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo and | seem to have been influenced by Gaddis (indeed, upon publication of V., Py ... |
Sartre | ... k, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and | . A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud and studied with ... |
Tony Robinson | ... rogramme episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and | as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different his ... |
Ardal O'Hanlon | ... has since seen the presentation of theatre sized shows with comics such as | , Stephen K. Amos, Rich Hall, Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, and |
Álvaro Pombo | ... r in the book Política razonable, written with Fernando Savater, Rosa Díez, | , Albert Boadella and Carlos Martínez Gorriarán. He continues to write, bo ... |
Alan Moore | ... he League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the graphic novels of that title by | and Kevin O'Neill and make a more significant appearance in The Black Doss ... |
Mark Twain | ... st doubt on the protagonist's version of events. Another influence might be | 's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually ... |
Laura Z. Hobson | ... ct, Crossfire, which was also released the same year. The film was based on | 's 1947 novel of the same name |
Émile Zola | ... letter published in a Paris newspaper in January 1898 by the notable writer | . Progressive activists put pressure on the government to reopen the case |
Robert Graves | ... it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food. | was of the opinion that "Poseidon's attempts to take possession of certain ... |
Carlos Fuentes | ... xote, but it is most unlikely that Cervantes had ever heard of Shakespeare. | raised the possibility that Cervantes and Shakespeare were the same person ... |
Thomas Mann | ... t skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is also the setting of the | novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain). Between 1936 and 1938, Ernst Lu ... |
E. M. Forster | A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by | set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence mo ... |
C. S. Lewis | ... nished the story and then lent the manuscript to several friends, including | and a student of Tolkien's named Elaine Griffiths. In 1936, when Griffiths ... |
Craig Thompson | ... mpted to have the graphic novels Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and Blankets by | removed from the Marshall Public Library. Supporters of the books' removal ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwick Papers was born in Portsmouth, | Author of the Sherlock Holmes Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and hi ... |
Victor Hugo | As described in | 's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the medieval French referred to the ... |
Giannina Braschi | ... Ricky Martin were born in the city. Other notable residents include writers | and Tomas Blanco, award-winning actors Raúl Juliá and Benicio del Toro, an ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist | had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically-structured sonnet ... |
Mark Twain | ... ally intended for adults are now commonly thought of as works for children. | 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was originally intended for an adult aud ... |
John Dunning | ... r). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by | as "a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring." (Dunning, 2 ... |
Philippa Gregory | ... character in the novels I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles, The Other Queen by | and is a prominent secondary character in several books by Bertrice Small |
Margaret Drabble | ... tween different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought. | described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848" ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... wo consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and | |
Franz Kafka | ... urd has been prominent in literature throughout history. Søren Kierkegaard, | , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre an ... |
P. D. James | ... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for | ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ... |
James Joyce | ... p to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer | . Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce doubted Eliot's ability as a po ... |
Brian Azzarello | ... writers who have written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, | , Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
Jules Verne | ... the San Diego ComiCon in 1978. In 1982, at Skycon II, he was awarded the " | Award for Life-time achievement. |
Stephen Crane | ... on soldiers. While in the army during World War II, he became interested in | 's classic American Civil War novel of the same title. For the starring ro ... |
Max Beerbohm | ... sent a telegram to Ross: "Terribly weak. Please come." His moods fluctuated | ;relates how their mutual friend Reginald 'Reggie' Turner had found Wilde ... |
T. H. White | ... 0 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on | 's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King. The musical w ... |
Derrick Jensen | ... domestication or agriculture. Key theorists in the former category include | and John Zerzan while the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski belongs in the la ... |
Daniel Speer | ... ata à 7 for two cornetts, two trumpets, three trombones and basso continuo. | published a four part sonata in Neu-gebachene Taffel-Schnitz (1685). In 16 ... |
Joanna Russ | ... exts of this kind are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), | ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) an |
Leon Uris | ... ed when Hitchcock was unsatisfied with his score. Topaz (1969), (based on a | novel), is partly set in Cuba. Both received mixed reviews from critics |
Warren Ellis | ... o date. Other writers who have written for the series include Paul Jenkins, | , Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... otege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, | , Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Kei ... |
Mark Twain | ... e life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science church, and | , one of her most famous critics. Kilmer wrote the screenplay, describing ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... prominent in literature throughout history. Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, | and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus contai ... |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko | ... ely summed up in his response, reported in his Memoirs, to the Russian poet | ’s question, in his broken English: “You atheist?” Amis replied, “It’s mor ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... Hansen, George Sterling and his protege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, | , Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, Will ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... om were women) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl. | wrote of her |
Compton Mackenzie | ... took possession of Villa San Michele. This was described by Scottish author | in his diaries |
George Sand | ... encounters between d'Agoult, Liszt (Julian Sands), Chopin (Hugh Grant), and | (Judy Davis) |
Harry Mathews | ... es (1935) would later be highly esteemed by, among others, John Ashbery and | . Between 1936 and 1939 Riding and Graves lived in England, France, and Sw ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... extual criticism as pedantry. His classical controversies also called forth | 's Battle of the Books |
Rudyard Kipling | ... during this period. In 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to | |
Neil Gaiman | ... written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, | , Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
Bernard Cornwell | Fictional residents also include | 's Richard Sharpe, an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wa ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... e is also reflected in works of literature. For example, he is mentioned in | 's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in Th ... |
Mario Puzo | ... Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, | , Alvin Sargent, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Jimmy Carter | ... . To date, he has the longest retirement of any President. Former President | will surpass the length of Hoover's retirement on September 7, 2012. At th ... |
Stephen Fry | ... glas Adams (ISBN 1-85695-028-X) in 1994.To tie-in with the 2005 film, actor | , the film's voice of the Guide, recorded a second unabridged edition (ISB ... |
Cris Freddi | ... d a second goal, in The Complete Book Of The World Cup (HarperSport, 2006), | writes: "…and Bregy's free kick skimmed a defender's head on its way in (s ... |
Iris Murdoch | ... on display ranging over books such as Colin Wilson’s The Outsider (panned), | ’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or William Empson’s Milton’s God ( ... |
Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
Robert Bloch | ... e of the great letter writers of the century. Among his correspondents were | (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian se ... |
James Joyce | ... ly in modern Irish literature. Most notably he makes several appearances in | 's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the st ... |
Yukio Mishima | ... to the West End from 13 March – 23 May 2009, playing Madame de Merteuil in | 's Madame De Sade, directed by Michael Grandage as part of the Donmar seas ... |
Edward Bellamy | ... y type in the United States, with a circulation around 500,000. His brother | is the noted author of the socialist utopian novels Looking Backward (1888 ... |
John le Carré | ... after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate | , himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley ... |
Michael Frayn | ... him off the big screen for several years. One, Noises Off..., based on the | play, has subsequently developed a strong cult following, while the other, ... |
Denise Mina | ... e Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, | , and currently Peter Milligan |
George Eliot | ... Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, | , Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney No ... |
Robert J. Serling | ... President's Plane Is Missing (1973, a made-for-television production of the | novel of the same name), Nashville (1975), Close Encounters of the Third K ... |
J. R. Ackerley | ... though he maintained contact with a circle which included E. M. Forster and | . One of his closest friends was the young cricketer Dennis Silk. He forme ... |
Jimmy Carter | The act jump-started the peace process. United States President | invited both Sadat and Begin to a summit at Camp David to negotiate a fina ... |
Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian | published in 1958. The novel depicts influences of British colonialism and ... |
James H. Street | ... Muskogee. In literature, Lochapoka was the destination of the colonists in | 's 1940 novel Oh, Promised Land |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... e notion of the absurd has been prominent in literature throughout history. | , Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-P ... |
Simon Bisley | ... d on the series as well, such as John Ridgway (the original series artist), | , Mark Buckingham, Richard Corben, Steve Dillon, Marcelo Frusin, Jock, Dav ... |
Ian Miller | ... " that had the same impact as his adult-oriented films. British illustrator | and comic book artist Mike Ploog were hired to contribute backgrounds and ... |
Douglas Adams | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, | , George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, ... |
Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by | and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan a ... |
Marguerite Duras | ... in collaboration with writers usually unconnected with the cinema, such as | , Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jorge Semprún |
Willa Cather | Acomita is mentioned in | 's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Three Chapter 1 |
Bapsi Sidhwa | ... , as to which Mountbatten was the principal informant, and more latterly in | 's novel Ice Candy Man (published in the United States as Cracking India), ... |
Umberto Eco | In | 's novel Foucault's Pendulum the protagonist Casaubon claims that the idea ... |
Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by | , first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in ... |
John Irving | ... o major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of | 's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's ... |
Mark Twain | ... d about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, | wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: 'A few month ... |
Fanny Cradock | ... harine Whitehorn and played by Marsden, a development of Fanny Haddock, her | take-off from Beyond Our Ken |
David Markson | ... the same person), as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, | , and David Foster Wallace, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddi ... |
Ben Hecht | ... so became one of Hollywood's first major gangster films, and was written by | , a leading screenwriter. The film, notes critic Richard Corliss, while a ... |
Honoré de Balzac | ... es) and the University of Urbino. His interests included classical studies: | , Ludovico Ariosto, Dante, Ignacio de Loyola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Cyra ... |
James Branch Cabell | ... ger, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, | , Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Ru ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... 1953); and Beat the Devil (1953). Moby Dick (1956), however, was written by | , although Huston had his name added to the screenplay credit after the co ... |
Anatole France | ... Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, | , Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el Husseini". This p ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... In the 2003 film Al sur de Granada, Strachey was portrayed by James Fleet. | 's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel, The Waves, " ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | | wrote No Exit in 1944, an existentialist play originally published in Fren ... |
Ralph Connor | In 1912, | 's Corporal Cameron of the North-West Mounted Police: A Tale of the MacLeo ... |
Hella Wuolijoki | ... adical friends, including a future politician and SDKL member of parliament | , and, with their help, was hidden in the hold of a freighter. On the 13th ... |
Tom Wolfe | Novelist | coined the term Me decade in his article "The "Me" Decade and the Third Gr ... |
Ian Fleming | Amis became associated with | 's James Bond novels, which he greatly admired, in the late 1960s, when he ... |
Mickey Spillane | ... 's The Fan Man, Eric Rücker Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, Stephen Crane's , | 's Mike Hammer novels and an anthropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. ... |
Doug Marlette | ... ganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late | , and David Payne |
Claude Simon | ... e length in his 1978 work René Char: the Myth and the Poem. French novelist | likewise found Orion an apt symbol, in this case of the writer, as he expl ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... ædia Britannicas Great Books of the Western World, while the Russian author | called it "the ultimate and most sublime work of human thinking". It is in ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... #31 (Nov. 1989). A few months after this, the Spectre has a cameo in writer | 's The Books of Magic, a four-issue miniseries starring many DC occult cha ... |
Lloyd Osbourne | ... 90, Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son | sailed on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfa ... |
H. Rider Haggard | ... shortly after. To counter the force of the North Sea and the winds off it, | sloped the cliff on the edge of his property and experimented with growing ... |
Thomas Hardy | ... of Henry Vaughan. The deaths of three of his closest friends, Edmund Gosse, | and Frankie Schuster (the publisher), within a short space of time, came a ... |
Joseph McElroy | ... , Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same person), as well as authors such as | , William Gass, David Markson, and David Foster Wallace, who have all stat ... |
Andrea Dworkin | ... that they favoured censorship. Anti-pornography feminist activists such as | and Catharine MacKinnon made alliances with the religious right. This crit ... |
Laurie York Erskine | ... s who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were James Oliver Curwood, | , James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of Sam Steele) and Will ... |
Gerald Gardner | After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claim ... |
Dennis Lehane | ... on the Laeta Kalogridis screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by | , began in Massachusetts in March 2008 |
Robert Crumb | ... the East Side Book Store on St. Mark's Place, Bakshi came across a copy of | 's Fritz the Cat. Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the ... |
George Sand | ... ed. However, she remained on good terms with him for many years. Her friend | (who later based the heroine of her 1843 novel Consuelo on her) had a role ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... k, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author | described as "patronising and unfair" |
Oscar Wilde | ... cleaned." Thus the two men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with | 's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Charles Bukowski | ... works of artists such as Chuck Palahniuk, David Lynch, Crispin Glover, and | , and one often finds in their works a delicate balance between distastefu ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ollapsed owing to poverty, violence and social unrest. The Fascists, led by | , took over and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axi ... |
Robert Penn Warren | ... ion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist | , who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and ... |
Graham Greene | ... erious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon (1950) and | 's Brighton Rock (1947), both with Roy producing and John directing. They ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... the most influential proponents of this classical notion of patriotism was | |
James Oliver Curwood | ... he best-selling authors who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were | , Laurie York Erskine, James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by President | in 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above) |
Paul Gallico | ... Helen Deutsch was adapted from "The Man Who Hated People," a short story by | which appeared in the October 28, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. ... |
Benito Mussolini | In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of | as part of the Axis Powers' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small ... |
Robert Graves | ... in 1925, at the end of which year she went to England at the invitation of | and his wife Nancy Nicholson. She would remain in Europe for nearly 14 yea ... |
Thomas Pynchon | ... Durham savant John Bird Emerson makes an appearance in Mason and Dixon by | Emerson’s works include |
D. H. Lawrence | ... ped fan the Revival flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel (1921), | 's Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), Carl Van Vechten's essay ... |
E. O. Wilson | ... Council (NRC). It first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist | used it as the title of the proceedings of that forum |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... dstone. The last picture he exhibited at the Royal Academy was a scene from | 's The Deserted Village in 1857 |
Friedrich Hölderlin | ... ionysus and the figure of the Christ in Christian theology can be traced to | , whose identification of Dionysus with Christ is most explicit in Brod un ... |
Victor Hugo | The Emperor's erudition amazed Friedrich Nietzsche when both met. | told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus A ... |
Derrick Jensen | ... ters espousing green anarchism include those critical of technology such as | , George Draffan, and John Zerzan; the techno-positive Murray Bookchin; an ... |
James Joyce | In | 's Ulysses, the precocious Stephen Dedalus recalls with disdain his boyhoo ... |
Mariano José de Larra | ... e Espronceda. After him there were other poets like Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, | and the dramatist José Zorrilla, author of Don Juan Tenorio. Before them m ... |
W. G. Sebald | German writer (and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia) | in his second book The Rings of Saturn details a coastal walk along the Su ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... rkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of | and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdit ... |
Charles Dickens | ... also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and novels by | |
Ray Bradbury | ... thropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. He turned down offers to direct | 's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream ... |
Mary Shelley | An early example of technophobia in fiction and popular culture is | 's Frankenstein. It has been a staple of science fiction ever since, exemp ... |
Frances Marion | ... r, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner several years later. | was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930 |
Albert Camus | ... , Fyodor Dostoyevsky and many of the literary works of Jean-Paul Sartre and | contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdity of the world |
Jonathan Franzen | ... their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular. | , who in an essay in The New Yorker called Gaddis "an old literary hero of ... |
Radclyffe Hall | ... tina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and | |
Ivan Turgenev | ... iage did not stop the steady stream of infatuated men. The Russian novelist | in particular fell passionately in love with her after hearing her renditi ... |
David Foster Wallace | ... as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and | , who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recog ... |
C. S. Forester | ... n was already in Africa shooting The African Queen (1951), a story based on | 's popular novel. It starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in a co ... |
Chuck Palahniuk | ... lles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists such as | , David Lynch, Crispin Glover, and Charles Bukowski, and one often finds i ... |
Dylan Thomas | ... mmissioned and broadcast The Boy With A Note - 'an evocation of the life of | in words and music'. It was re-recorded and released on McTell's Leola lab ... |
Sir Walter Scott | The legend was actually formalised by | and was later instigated in a town festival called "The Cleikum Ceremonies ... |
James Joyce | ... in Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly | , and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance ... |
Peter O'Donnell | ... lood and breath,/ they give a man a taste for death" supplies the title for | 's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration f ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... ld Guy Fawkes" of the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of | and James George Frazer, which, at least for reasons of textual history, e ... |
C. S. Lewis | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of | , J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, M ... |
Osbert Sitwell | ... of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918. | , in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current ... |
James Agee | ... ights has been praised for its mixture of comedy and sentimentality. Critic | , for example, wrote in Life magazine in 1949 that the final scene in City ... |
Eve Gil | ... tic Ignacio Mondaca Romero, narrator César Gándara, essayist and journalist | , short story and novel writer Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny and poet and novelist ... |
Albert Camus | ... elation to the concept of the devastating awareness of meaninglessness that | claimed that "there is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and t ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... ed down offers to direct Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and | 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? He passed the latter to Ridley Sco ... |
Larry McMurtry | ... with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | is the only person who has won (for Brokeback Mountain) for adapting someo ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... rcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and | . He later became a fan of science fiction, reading the works of authors a ... |
Edna Ferber | ... gain (1953), The Blue Veil (1951) (another Oscar nomination), the remake of | 's So Big (1953), Magnificent Obsession (1954) (Oscar nomination), Lucy Ga ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... uivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. Cavaliere | ), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg Ritte ... |
Allan Gurganus | ... tration of residents who are nationally known authors, including Lee Smith, | , Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Dou ... |
Pirandello's | ... 928, and John made his radio debut there the following year in a version of | The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, which he was then performing at the ... |
Julian Rathbone | Tostig features in the novels The Last English King (2000), by | (where he is depicted as Edward the Confessor's catamite), Harold, The Las ... |
Bruce Marshall | Scottish writer | used Bass Rock as the miraculous destination of the "Garden of Eden", a da ... |
Mary Renault | | , in Funeral Games, translates the sobriquet into English: "One Eye. |
Rudyard Kipling | ... bell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, | . Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fan of science fict ... |
Bertha von Suttner | ... of "A memory of Solferino". Dunant began an exchange of correspondence with | and wrote numerous articles and writings. He was especially active in writ ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... hen, in 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of | 's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. They have said Bottom was oft ... |
Evelyn Scott | Happy to get away from the company of | , in 1923 Merton returned to Douglaston to live with the Jenkins family an ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later | (who became a courier for the French Resistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a briga ... |
Pat Barker | ... life of W. H. R. Rivers and his encounter with Sassoon was fictionalised by | in the Regeneration Trilogy, a series of three books including Regeneratio ... |
Jean Genet | ... berto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers of his time, such as | and Henri Michaux |
Robert E. Howard | ... mong his correspondents were Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and | (Conan the Barbarian series) |
Samuel R. Delany | ... of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, | , Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Ge ... |
Robert Graves | In the poem The Red Ribbon Dream, written by | not long after Rivers's death, he touches on the peace and security he fel ... |
George Orwell | ... contemporary account of the Spanish Civil War which also takes this view is | 's book Homage to Catalonia |
Annie Dillard | ... ionally known authors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, | , Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... r, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for | |
Billy Dee Williams | ... ay production, I Have a Dream, was directed by Robert Greenwald and starred | as King. In spring of 2006, a stage play Passages of Martin Luther King ab ... |
Georges Bataille | ... l Hegarty (2007) cites the work of noted cultural critics Jean Baudrillard, | and Theodor Adorno and through their work traces the history of "noise". H ... |
Brendan Behan | ... e into films. Theatre Workshop also championed the work of Irish playwright | , and Littlewood is often rumoured to have a significant role in his work |
Tom Wolfe | The Right Stuff is a 1983 American film adapted from | 's 1979 book The Right Stuff about the test pilots who were involved in hi ... |
Herman Melville | Huston had been planning to film | 's Moby Dick for the previous ten years, and originally saw it as an excel ... |
Michael Malone | ... ents who are nationally known authors, including Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, | , Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, Frances Mayes, the late Doug Marlette, and ... |
Alan Moore | ... became a fan of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as | , Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Th ... |
Raymond Benson | ... oldfinger, Bond "was presented as a complex character". Continuation author | agrees, and sees Goldfinger as a transitional novel, with Bond becoming mo ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... xistentialist themes are displayed in the Theatre of the Absurd, notably in | 's Waiting for Godot, in which two men divert themselves while they wait e ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... d-1970s had led to the growth of the religious right through televangelism. | , then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity; Rona ... |
André Breton | ... of 14 he discovered surrealism and through that an interest in the works of | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... utation suffered in the late 19th and early 20th century, when critics like | and H. L. Mencken pointed out the negative aspects of Puritan rule, leadin ... |
Sara Douglass | ... Gold, by Ray Bryant, and God's Concubine book 2 of The Troy Game series by | , The Bastard King by Jean Plaidy |
Dirk Bogarde | ... was portrayed by Geneviève Page in the 1960 film Song Without End, opposite | as Liszt, by Fiona Lewis in the 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania, opposit ... |
J. D. Salinger | During this period, Bakshi reread | 's The Catcher in the Rye, which he had first read in high school, and saw ... |
Mario Puzo | ... third pair of siblings to win in this category for No Country for Old Men. | is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted resulting in two sep ... |
Douglas Adams | ... he fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by | . Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... most extensive treatments of the existentialist notion of Angst is found in | 's monumental work Begrebet Angest |
Daniel Mainwaring | ... rring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by | (using the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank F ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... 35,000 men, with 80 battle tanks and 200 field artillery — was deployed, as | wanted the victory to be credited to Italy. On 9 March 1937, the Italians ... |
Alan Moore | ... to be guarding an entrance to Hell in a Swamp Thing Annual story by writer | . Then, in the conclusion to Moore's "American Gothic" serial in the regul ... |
Herman Melville | ... tion of the project. Although Huston had personally hired Bradbury to adapt | 's novel into a screenplay, Bradbury and Huston did not get along during p ... |
Harry Turtledove | ... al characters in the alternate history novel The Man with the Iron Heart by | |
James Joyce | ... ern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, | 's Ulysses |
Richard Aldington | ... anced himself from its vision of despair. On November 15, 1922, he wrote to | , saying, "As for The Waste Land, that is a thing of the past so far as I ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... Robert Heinlein Omnibus is an anthology of science fiction short stories by | published i |
Herman Melville | ... lay for the 1956 film Moby Dick, which was faithfully based on the novel by | and starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and ... |
William Goldman | ... e first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. James Goldman and | are the first pair of siblings to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Et ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... ted to the US House of Representatives. Mann was a brother-in-law to author | |
Alfred de Musset | At the age of 17, she met and was courted by | , who had earlier been taken with her sister Maria Malibran. Some sources ... |
James M. Cain | ... he pseudonym Geoffrey Homes), with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and | , from his novel Build My Gallows High (also written as Homes) |
Mary Renault | Thalestris is also the name of a character in | 's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological ... |
George Orwell | ... gh the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical. | wrote an essay called A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray |
Frances Mayes | ... ing Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Michael Malone, Annie Dillard, Hal Crowther, | , the late Doug Marlette, and David Payne |
Jules Verne | ... his role as Professor Aronnax in Walt Disney's classic 1954 film version of | 's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. By that time, however, he was, at age 63, ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Varley is often compared to | . In addition to a similarly descriptive writing style, similarities inclu ... |
William S. Burroughs | ... ape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Allen Ginsberg and | |
Robert Louis Stevenson | In 1890, | , his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson and her son Lloyd Osbourne sailed on ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both | 's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the A ... |
Daisy Ashford | Some books written for children, such as The Young Visiters by | (aged nine) or the juvenilia of Jane Austen, written to amuse brothers and ... |
Mark Z. Danielewski | The Whalestoe Letters (2000) by cult author | is an epistolary novella which more fully develops the literary correspond ... |
Conrad Aiken | Eliot wrote to | on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, wh ... |
E. M. Forster | ... was responsible for employing several eminent names as reviewers, including | and Charlotte Mew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Ar ... |
George Orwell | ... itical pessimism has sometimes found expression in dystopian novels such as | 's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Political pessimism about one's country often cor ... |
Sylvia Plath | ... teristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination, | , in her poem "Cut", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to th ... |
C. P. Snow | ... however, demands for change again grew. There was a concern (illustrated in | ’s Strangers and Brothers series of novels) that technical and scientific ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ces to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and | . Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of national archives ... |
Mario Vargas Llosa | ... ique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, | , Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine |
Rudyard Kipling | ... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for | . The ZIP code is 49780 |
David Mitchell's | ... chowskis are collaborating with Tom Tykwer on Cloud Atlas, an adaptation of | novel of the same name, for Warner Bros. Pictures. Tykwer and The Wachowsk ... |
Thomas Hughes | ... e a common device for this, beginning with Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by | and F.W. Farrar's Eric, or, Little by Little, although the framework had b ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... Leslie, set in colonial Massachusetts. He also makes a brief appearance in | 's The Scarlet Letter in the chapter entitled "The Minister's Vigil. |
H. G. Wells | ... Socratics and brought to it some of his most influential friends, including | , Arnold Bennett, Bertrand Russell and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conf ... |
Sarah Dunant | ... blishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like Janet Frame and | |
Frank Miller | ... ane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, | , and Dave Sim each write a single issue |
Samuel Beckett | ... had some limitations. It did, however, bring him into fruitful contact with | . He wanted to train in Psychoanalysis and in 1938 he began a training ana ... |
Mary Astor | ... with Huston. In addition, the supporting cast included other noted actors: | , Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet (his first film role), and his own fathe ... |
Ron Goulart | ... uary 9, 1954) and Mel Keefer (Jan. 11, 1954-May 21, 1955). Comics historian | in his book The Funnies states the frequent turnover of artists on the str ... |
Ronald Firbank | ... iters. They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels (often imitating | ), and had little success. The rejection of their great hope, The Last Day ... |
Janet Frame | ... n 1973, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like | and Sarah Dunant |
Witi Ihimaera | ... 02 drama film directed by Niki Caro, based on the novel of the same name by | . The film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a 12-year-ol ... |
Larry McMurtry | ... the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich co-wrote the screenplay with | , and it won the 1971 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. Bogdanovich cast th ... |
William F. Buckley, Jr. | ... ch as Robert Robb and Matthew Continetti have used a formulation devised by | to describe McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative", meaning tha ... |
Arnold Bennett | ... brought to it some of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, | , Bertrand Russell and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), ... |
Georges Perec | ... ure potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, | , and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production. Th ... |
Marcel Proust | ... earn the French language, he began teaching himself by reading the works of | . Living among the gathering of young artists in the Montparnasse quarter, ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... pace Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by | |
Jonathan Swift | ... to the British ambassador to the court of Hanover through the influence of | when the death of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, three months later put an ... |
Honoré de Balzac | ... rd Fauntleroy (1921), and changed the spelling of her name to "Bette" after | 's La Cousine Bette. She received encouragement from her mother, who had a ... |
Bolesław Prus | ... extraneous diversions from the plot. In his 1895 historical novel Pharaoh, | introduces a number of stories-within-the-story, ranging in length from vi ... |
A. A. Milne | ... managed to find a post as a teacher at Henley House School where he taught | |
Stephen King | ... eacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith in David Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of | 's The Dead Zone. That same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm alongs ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... sion was "firm, final, and unconditional." The eventual Democratic nominee, | , built little by way of a relationship with Kennedy during his primary ca ... |
C. S. Forester | ... ictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by | . He was later the subject of films and television programs |
Honoré de Balzac | ... brother, Étienne Vincent de (1802–1892), is said to have collaborated with | in The Heiress of Birague, and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of l ... |
Iris Murdoch | ... kespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of writer | in Iris in 2001 (with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman); for Mr ... |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... ressed. A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as | and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government. While ... |
Jane Austen | ... such as The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford (aged nine) or the juvenilia of | , written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. Ann ... |
Benito Mussolini | Thenceforth, the National Fascist Party of | successfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... xample is the recurrent use of the vocative phrase, O (my) Best Beloved, by | in his Just So Stories. This use of O may be considered a form of clitic, ... |
André Malraux | The term has been used in | ’s novel (1933) and René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La ... |
Jaishankar Prasad | ... and the literary figures belonging to this school are known as Chhayavaadi. | , Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma and Sumitranandan Pant, are ... |
Tennessee Williams | The Two-Character Play by | has a concurrent double plot with the convention of a play within a play. ... |
Boucher | Groff Conklin described the novel as "a thoroughly delightful job". | and McComas praised it as "easily the most plausible, carefully detailed p ... |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, | , Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... sudden burst of charitable giving in Britain to Dickens's novella; in 1874, | waxed enthusiastic after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to gi ... |
V. S. Pritchett | ... se. The opera was also adapted into a 1983 short story form by the novelist | for publication by the Metropolitan Opera Association |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker | ;, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of ... |
Blake Morrison | ... accused Heaney of being "an apologist and a mythologizer" of the violence, | suggests the poet "has written poems directly about the Troubles as well a ... |
Dashiell Hammett | For his first directing assignment, Huston chose | 's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon, a film which had already failed ... |
Michael Chabon | ... the term "power pop" was not widely used until around 1978. As the novelist | has written, "Power pop in its essential form... did not come into existen ... |
Matilda Betham | In 1816, the English poet | wrote a long poem about Marie de France in octosyllabic couplets, The Lay ... |
Camilo Castelo Branco | ... hur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, | and James Cooley Fletcher |
Hugh Laurie | ... n the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by (Tim McInnerny), with | playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince ... |
Elizabeth von Arnim | ... including the American birth-control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist | . In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whos ... |
Erskine Caldwell | The author | was born in Moreland in 1903. Newspaper columnist Lewis Grizzard grew up i ... |
Bradbury's | ... dith) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence. This notion, akin to | "The Pedestrian", is also alluded to in "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", i ... |
Juozas Kralikauskas | ... omualdas Granauskas' Jaučio aukojimas (The Offering of the Bull, 1975), and | ' Mindaugas (1995) |
Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... and managing his farm. While living at Arrowhead, he befriended the author, | , who lived in nearby Lenox. Melville was tremendously inspired and encour ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... ham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, | , Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James Cooley Fletcher |
Paul Gallico | Prince Philip is a minor character in | 's novel Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Moscow, in which Mrs. Ada Harris, the main ch ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under | in the 1930s |
George Orwell | ... father into the Indian Imperial Police, where he was posted to Burma (like | a generation later). Two years later, having contracted malaria, he resign ... |
Peter Straub | ... brary of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by | , and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the "definitive editi ... |
Disraeli | The British Prime Minister | 's Tory administration in London did not want a war with the Zulus. "The f ... |
Bohumil Hrabal | The main action of the novel Closely Observed Trains, by Czech author | , takes place on the night of the first raid |
Louisa May Alcott | ... ne (Christmas Shadows, 1850), Horatio Alger (Job Warner's Christmas, 1863), | (A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True, 1882), and others who followed S ... |
Osbert Sitwell | ... ew, and commissioned original material from "names" like Arnold Bennett and | . His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxford he was introdu ... |
Italo Calvino | If on a winter's night a traveler is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer | . The narrative is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a win ... |
Mikhail Lermontov | ... eventual recognition as Russia's greatest poet. Other Russian poets include | (A Hero of Our Time, 1839), Fyodor Tyutchev (Silentium!, 1830), Yevgeny Ba ... |
André Gide | ... , who have produced a number of original biographies and monographs on him. | , on whom Wilde had such a strange effect, wrote, In Memoriam, Oscar Wilde ... |
Rupert Holmes | ... Way in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of | , including "On My Own" (from Les Misérables), a medley of "How Are Things ... |
Sarah Fielding | ... tle by Little, although the framework had been explored as early as 1749 by | in The Governess, or The Little Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer ... |
Henry Miller | ... took a job as a journalist. He soon became friends with the American writer | , and the French writers. Léon-Paul Fargue and Jacques Prévert. In the lat ... |
Herman Rosenblat | ... e that satirized the recent scandal over a fake Holocaust memoir written by | . Since 2010 Terry Bradshaw has been hosting television shows produced by ... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | ... nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and | , based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Ro ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ded soirees that included soldiers, politicians, literary lights (including | , Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins), and artists (in ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... ts within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. Janet and | describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic ... |
Frank Herbert | ... ouse Atreides is a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by | . One of the Great Houses of the feudal interstellar empire known as the I ... |
David Mitchell | Author | described himself as being "magnetised" by the book from its start when he ... |
Gerald Gardner | It was at Spielplatz that Ross Nichols first met | |
D. H. Lawrence | ... er. Among them were Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, author | and his wife, Frieda von Richthofen. Artist Dorothy Brett came to Taos in ... |
Stephen Fry | ... s the basis for the 1997 film Wilde, directed by Brian Gilbert and starring | as the title character |
Stephen Fry | ... ard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, | , Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (totalling twent ... |
Bradbury's | ... that today's technology-dependent world, where books have become passé (cf. | "The Pedestrian"), could render an outage both a liberator and an executio ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... cations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend holiday homes. | first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidayi ... |
Mary Astor | ... following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with | , Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray ... |
Ayn Rand | ... tivism is a philosophy created by Russian-American philosopher and novelist | (1905–1982). Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independ ... |
Józef Mackiewicz | ... etation of the events called "Symphony No. 1 (In Memorium, Dresden, 1945)". | , a Polish writer, included a shockingly realistic description of the bomb ... |
Gabriel García Márquez | Also, In the short story "La Santa," by Nobel Prize | a character is named after Zavattini. In the story, the character is a tea ... |
Arnold Bennett | ... ter and Charlotte Mew, and commissioned original material from "names" like | and Osbert Sitwell. His artistic interests extended to music. While at Oxf ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... led the Empire novels or trilogy) is a science fiction sequence of three of | 's earliest novels, and extended to one short story. They are connected by ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... is or her experiences. Individuals are thus defined by their choices alone. | 's principle that existence precedes essence, as he explains in "Existenti ... |
Martin Amis | # | , a novelist, twice married: first in 1984 (divorced) to Antonia Phillips, ... |
Stendhal | ... d by France, with Balzac and Flaubert in literature and Courbet in painting | ;and Goya were important precursors of Realism in their respective media. ... |
Jack London | ... ed four times as a film). As another sign of influence, the American author | cited her novel Signa, which he read at age eight, as one of the eight rea ... |
Robert Clark Young | ... w generation of authors interested in writing about the Far East, including | , whom he mentored. Snyder is now professor emeritus of English |
Ben Elton | ... lled in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, | , Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and ano ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... e of the Iraqi Supergun (Project Babylon) scandal. It had been owned by the | government, via front companies, and closed amidst much controversy and ba ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... rab Emirates. The sense of regional uncertainty was further heightened when | 's Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the 1991 Persian Gulf War |
Catherine Helen Spence | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as John Stuart Mill and | , Hare popularised the idea of proportional representation worldwide. The ... |
Elizabeth Jane Howard | Kingsley Amis was married a second time, to the novelist | from 1965 to 1983, with whom he had no children |
Jonathan Safran Foer | ... erspective of the RAF pilots as well as the Germans in Dresden at the time. | 's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) incorporates the bombi ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... er of Bards, Ovates and Druids. In turn he attracted both fellow Druids and | , who later established his first coven at Bricket Wood in his development ... |
Nevil Shute | ... nate history novels. Prince Philip also appears as a fictional character in | 's novel In the Wet (1952) |
Richard Aldington | | – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – W. H. Auden – William ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ader, but some find this "difficulty" rewarding. Wolfe said, in a letter to | : "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educat ... |
Mark Twain | ... ttle Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in the | stories (1876 and 1885) once Aunt Polly's ineffectual tutelage is shaken o ... |
Philip Roth | ... n 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the | story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo. Ray Be ... |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... ne of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to | , Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted "an in ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the |
William S. Burroughs | ... g on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by | . Oswald discovered in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase ... |
José Rizal | ... emiere park, Rizal Park, which was erected for the country's national hero, | . Besides having parks and green areas, Manila is the home to several plaz ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... od, attempting to gain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by | 's March on Rome, the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 Nove ... |
Jimmy Carter | However, in December 1978, U.S. President, | announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the ... |
George Orwell | ... om a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened "Winston" (after the antihero of | 's novel Nineteen Eighty-four). Their debut performance was in October 197 ... |
Jim Harrison | ... unning conversations between Snyder and poet, writer and longtime colleague | , filmed mostly on the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California. The film al ... |
Mussolini | ... ri developed into the most important port city of the region. The legacy of | can be seen in the imposing architecture along the seafront |
Colm Tóibín | ... assination of his family members and close friends, lynchings and bombings. | wrote, "throughout his career there have been poems of simple evocation an ... |
Brian Azzarello | ... en" banner. Among the creators involved are writers J. Michael Straczynski, | , Darwyn Cooke, and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. G. Jones, Adam H ... |
Arthur de Gobineau | ... Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, | , Frédéric Mistral, Alessandro Manzoni, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castel ... |
Nick Cave | ... music, from the internationally renowned work of the Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, | , Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular loc ... |
Yair Lapid | ... u Topaz's entertainment show (In which Naor Zion was discovered) as well as | 's talk show (which had guest appearances by Adi Ashkenazi, Adir Miller an ... |
Jean Genet | ... t how many contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, | , and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the existentialist belief that w ... |
Mary Austin | ... one of the first outdoor theatres west of the Rockies, was built, with poet | and actor/director Herbert Heron leading the endeavor. Numerous groups inc ... |
Laurence Sterne | ... le in the early revival of Gothic architecture. Tristram Shandy, a novel by | (1759–67) introduced a whimsical version of the anti-rational sentimental ... |
Chinua Achebe | ... guage means knowing how to intersperse speech with a good dose of proverbs. | (in Things Fall Apart) describes proverbs as "the palm oil with which word ... |
Tony Robinson | ... o entwined with their servant, all from the Baldrick family line (played by | ). Each generation acts as the dogsbody to his respective Blackadder. They ... |
Wilkie Collins | ... rary lights (including Oscar Wilde, Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and | ), and artists (including John Millais). Many of her stories and character ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... Europe in the 1940s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers | , Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other schol ... |
Saddam Hussein | Chemical weapons employed by | killed and injured numerous Iranians, and possibly Iraqis. According to Ir ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | An early German influence came from | , whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout E ... |
D. H. Lawrence | ... as written about his appreciation of writers of similar sensibilities, like | , William Butler Yeats, and some of the great ancient Chinese poets. Willi ... |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, | 's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia. The form was immensely po ... |
Simone de Beauvoir | ... s and 1950s associated with the works of the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, | , Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus. Other scholars extend the term ... |
Charles Dickens | ... uired to do much of the housework. She enjoyed reading, especially books by | in her father's small den, and she took a strong interest in flowers, whic ... |
John Birmingham | ... p (in his capacity as a World War II naval officer) is a minor character in | 's Axis of Time series of alternate history novels. Prince Philip also app ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... uced at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, on May 18, 1917, that was conceived by | , with design by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Leonid Massine, and music ... |
August Derleth | ... brief (and only) mention it is not clear what Lovecraft meant Hastur to be. | developed Hastur into a Great Old One in his controversial reworking of Lo ... |
Pietro di Donato | ... istorical marker was dedicated on May 22, 2010 to novelist and screenwriter | , and placed at Bergenline Avenue and 31st Street, where di Donato once li ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... y the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s. It was adopted by | who, on October 29, 1945, discussed his own existentialist position in a l ... |
Stephen King | ... lculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction". | called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the cla ... |
H. G. Wells | ... ught of using a space theme. Nishikado drew inspiration for the aliens from | ' The War of the Worlds—he had watched the 1953 film adaptation as a child ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
Alexander Pushkin | ... the Cold, 1803). However the principal exponent of Romanticism in Russia is | (The Prisoner of the Caucasus, 1820–1821; The Robber Brothers, 1822; Rusla ... |
Eudora Welty | ... rialized by leading Mississippi and national authors, both black and white: | , James Baldwin, Margaret Walker and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers Col ... |
Wyndham Lewis | ... ing on foreign accounts. On a trip to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist | , he met the writer James Joyce. Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce ... |
Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
Elinor Glyn | After a long affair with the romance novelist | , Curzon married in 1917 the former Grace Elvina Hinds, the wealthy Alabam ... |
Walter Scott | ... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young | . Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as | , Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the ... |
August Strindberg | ... tists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual | , whom he painted in 1892. During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched ... |
Chrétien de Troyes | In several early French works such as | ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section ... |
Lion Feuchtwanger | Alfonso was the subject for | 's novel Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo), in which is narrated ... |
Jack Higgins | ... en most dangerous areas in France with flashbacks to her growing up. Author | wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who ha ... |
Margaret Atwood | ... 9), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) and | 's Handmaid's Tale (1985) |
Virginia Woolf | ... mic effects and uses simpler spatial shifts. This device is similar to both | 's mixing of different characters' soliloquies and Gustave Flaubert's coun ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... England never had and never again will have its like". Two centuries later | said he was "the person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced" ... |
Dornford Yates | ... uel Mercer; and her nephew, Cecil William Mercer, became a famous writer as | . Charles Munro was an Inspector-General for the Burmese Police |
August Derleth | ... m House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, | and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute |
Carl Hiaasen | She also has narrated several audio books, including | 's novel Nature Girl |
Victor Hugo | ... uildings (about 5,000), including those on the quays, are from this period. | found the town so beautiful he once said: "take Versailles, add Antwerp, a ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... licence, or in some cases cloned, on several continents. Former Iraqi ruler | often carried a Browning Hi-Power. Former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi car ... |
Margaret Walker | ... pi and national authors, both black and white: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, | and Anne Moody. In 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, ... |
Charles Dickens | ... was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and | had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... illaise" as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by | , and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwan ... |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... al community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of | 's novel Anne of Green Gables, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, a ... |
John Steinbeck | ... en is a 1939 film based on the novella of the same title by American author | . It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickfor ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ), a short story written by Marcel Schwob—a French novelist and a friend of | —was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris. In this ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is | 's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, Thomas Disch identified | and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too many have already gone ... |
George MacDonald Fraser | Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by | (1925–2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schoolda ... |
C. S. Lewis | For his seventh birthday, Gaiman received | 's The Chronicles of Narnia series. He later recalled that "I admired his ... |
Jules Verne | ... His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), a whimsical parody of | 's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and a ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... looked abroad for literary inspiration. Two French figures, existentialist | and novelist Gustave Flaubert, influenced both his technique and style. Sa ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... odern anaesthetics, who was born above a shop overlooking the Market Place. | stayed in Aylsham in 1732 and enjoyed a meal at the Black Boys Inn. Parson ... |
Mark Twain | ... y and the rest of the black community fled the town. This incident prompted | to write the essay The United States of Lyncherdom. A 2007 PBS documentary ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... the United States began to campaign for the overthrow of Iraq's President, | . The United States, under the administration of George W. Bush, argued th ... |
Michael Cunningham | ... He also produced the 2004 movie A Home at the End of the World, based upon | 's novel |
Oscar Wilde | ... – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – | – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wor ... |
Neil Jordan | ... orsese's next film, Hugo, and has signed up to appear in the new feature by | and John Boorman entitled Broken Dream |
Robert Sherard | ... biography he was more sympathetic to Wilde. Of Wilde's other close friends, | , Robert Ross, his literary executor; and Charles Ricketts variously publi ... |
Gustave Flaubert | ... spiration. Two French figures, existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and novelist | , influenced both his technique and style. Sartre's influence is most prev ... |
Shinichi Hoshi | ... (named after Tezuka's longtime friend, the Japanese science fiction writer | ) becomes their ally throughout the series. He is the only person who know ... |
Marcel Proust | He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France | mentions Fantin-Latour's work in In Search of Lost Time |
Rainer Maria Rilke | | 's poetry partially inspired the movie; Wenders claimed angels seemed to d ... |
Leo Tolstoy | The Russian writer | wrote in his journal, in 1896, about a tiny shoot of burdock he saw in a p ... |
Thomas Disch | When asked the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, | identified Isaac Asimov and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too ... |
Nisio Isin | ... Eve, Otto, and Renner. Lon Nol (1913–1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. | is a Japanese novelist and manga writer, whose real name (西尾 維新, Nishio Is ... |
James Agee | ... the film achieved widespread public and critical acclaim. Hollywood writer | called it "one of the most beautiful and visually alive moves I have ever ... |
Michael MacLaverty | ... t Belfast Festival 2010 in celebration of his mentor, the poet and novelist | , who had helped Heaney to first publish his poetry |
Lauren Willig | ... a concept created by Philip Jose Farmer. In addition, a series of novels by | , beginning with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (2005), chronicl ... |
A. A. Milne | ... nfluenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced | , Noël Coward, and P. G. Wodehouse |
Günter Grass | ... ) and even after World War II (as the 'Static' poet). He was referred to in | 's book, My Century, meeting with his ideological opposite, Bertolt Brecht ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... mocks the aspects of time traveling such as the grandfather paradox and the | short story "A Sound of Thunder". It also parodies Australian people and a ... |
Ben Elton | ... is and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and | . The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000 the fourth series, Blacka ... |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... r is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author | . An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones ... |
Hugh Laurie | In the movie Spice World, Hercule Poirot ( | ) is about to blame a weapons-packing Emma Bunton, but after she flashes h ... |
Henry Bellamann | The Fulton area owns national acclaim to a novel written by | , who was born in Fulton in 1882, raised there and attended college there. ... |
Chrétien de Troyes | ... period, captured the popular imagination. Writers and poets like Taliesin, | and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, L ... |
Søren Kierkegaard | | and Friedrich Nietzsche were two of the first philosophers considered fund ... |
Raymond Queneau | ... a in the Square de Châtillon. Nicknamed L'ironique amusé, he was invited by | in 1968 to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of e ... |
Budd Schulberg | In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by | , Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillip ... |
G. A. Henty | ... readers, pursuing the vogue for sea stories represented by such writers as | , rediscovered Melville's novels, he experienced a modest revival of popul ... |
Shashi Tharoor | ... overnment sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece | ;, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Ministe ... |
Alfred Duggan | ... onze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itself with his siege of Rhodes. | 's novel Elephants and Castles provides a lively fictionalised account of ... |
George Sand | She spent many happy hours at | 's home at Nohant, with Sand and her lover Frédéric Chopin. The warmth of ... |
Margaret Kennedy | The Constant Nymph is a 1924 novel by | . It tells how a teenage girl falls in love with a family friend, who even ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, | , and John Locke. The original position figures prominently in his book, A ... |
Colm Tóibín | ... and delicately weighted poems...a wonderful and humane achievement". Writer | described Human Chain as "his best single volume for many years, and one t ... |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... s Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and | |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualism | had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ... |
Oscar Wilde | It is also possible that the play Salomé by | , published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The K ... |
Albert Camus | ... ilosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and | . Other scholars extend the term to Kierkegaard, and yet others extend it ... |
D. H. Lawrence | Inspired by the area and artists, | (1885–1930) painted while in Taos, signing his work "Lorenzo"; Nine of his ... |
L. Sprague de Camp | Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in | 's historical novel, The Bronze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itse ... |
R. L. Stine | ... icago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Your School, children's author | , cartoonist Paul Palnik, and Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner. Also s ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by | , originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Octo ... |
Daniel Defoe | Writer | devotes a few pages to the town in A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great ... |
Thomas Malory | ... opular imagination. Writers and poets like Taliesin, Chrétien de Troyes and | wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Galaha ... |
José María Arguedas | ... of land and rural life made famous by Peru's foremost novelist at the time, | . Vargas Llosa wrote of Arguedas's work that it was "an example of old-fas ... |
James Ellroy | ... aken from a work in Housman's More Poems. The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by | takes its title from Housman's poem "Reveille", and a line from Housman's ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... was shot by the 77 year-old cinematographer Henri Alekan, who had worked on | 's La Belle et la Bête). It represents the angels' point of view in monoch ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by | and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The ... |
Anne Rice | The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in , a 1994 film based on | 's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daugh ... |
William Harrison Ainsworth | ... ic interest was partly fuelled by contemporary writers, of whom the work of | was particularly influential. In he created a vivid image of underground t ... |
Stefan Zweig | ... were translated into more than twenty languages. His German translator was | He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of World Wa ... |
Marcel Pagnol | ... the drama Fanny with Leslie Caron and Charles Boyer, an updated version of | 's "Marseilles Trilogy." In 1962, he filmed Panic Button; (not released un ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... hort story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by | , Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Cowa ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... ng a rich, thriving industrious place full of weaving, knitting and dyeing. | in his Tour of the whole Island of Great Britain (1724) wrote of the City |
George Orwell | ... y those in enemy and occupied territories who often had to listen secretly. | broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II |
Neil Gaiman | ... in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Cabell was also a major influence on | , acknowledged as such in the rear of Gaiman's novels Stardust and America ... |
Saddam | ... as an “anti-American radical” who “routinely repeats the propaganda of the | regime” and, along with all of the 99 other professors in his book, , Horo ... |
William Faulkner | ... s, and arguably the most influential on his writing career, is the American | . Vargas Llosa considers Faulkner "the writer who perfected the methods of ... |
Gregory Benford | A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and | , is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a ... |
Marcel Schwob | ... Roi au masque d'or" ("The king in the gold mask"), a short story written by | —a French novelist and a friend of Oscar Wilde—was published in 1893 while ... |
Kazuo Ishiguro | ... me; established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include | and Ian McEwan. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre ... |
William Lindsay Gresham | ... ound in Home's belongings after his death. According to Randi 'around 1960' | told Randi he had seen these mouth organs in the Home collection at the So ... |
Hugo Pratt | ... , a complex sailor-adventurer. It was created by Italian comic book creator | in 1967. The Corto Maltese series has been translated into numerous langua ... |
Angus Wilson | ... own for its creative writing programme; established by Malcolm Bradbury and | , its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. The university camp ... |
George Borrow | ... ed the City as a courtier to King Charles II in 1671 and described it thus: | in his semi-autobiographical novel Lavengro (1851) wrote of Norwich as |
Stendhal | ... or her novels and criticism and her affairs with Chopin and several others. | is today probably the most highly regarded French novelist of the period, ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's | "—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on" |
Boris Pasternak | ... all critics of Marxism as reactionary. One example of this took place after | was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago. O ... |
Walter Scott | ... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir | 's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... ces, (notably from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and the writings of | ) it also included sections written in an antique (or mock-antique) style, ... |
Robert L. Forward | ... m. This concept, called a laser-pushed lightsail, was analyzed by physicist | in 1989 as a method of Interstellar travel that would avoid extremely high ... |
Alexander Pushkin | ... groundwork for the great writers of the nineteenth century, especially for | . Catherine became a great patron of Russian opera (see Catherine II and o ... |
Jules Verne | ... Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois, reading such authors as H.G. Wells, | , and his favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs who wrote novels such as T ... |
Natsume Sōseki | ... ura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. Mori Ōgai and | studied in the West and introduced a more modern view of human life |
J. M. Coetzee | ... Glass's Waiting for the Barbarians, written by University of Texas alumnus | ). The Austin Symphony Orchestra performs a range of classical, pop and fa ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... ho were heavily influenced by Gnosticism in this period include Hans Jonas, | and Harold Bloom, with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg being more moderate ... |
Israel Zangwill | ... ibe the densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side in | 's play The Melting Pot, which was an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... l oil reserves were created to ease any future short term shocks. President | started phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ... |
Goethe | ... ic Language. His cycle of poems had widespread influence on such writers as | and the young Walter Scott, but there was controversy from the outset abou ... |
Tom Robbins | Author | is a long-time resident of La Conner. Many of his books, most notably Anot ... |
Hans Christian Andersen | Between 1835 and 1848 | (1805–1875) of Denmark published his beloved fairy tales: The Little Merma ... |
Mussolini | ... itic ethnic origin, and African civilization. As an innocuous example: when | 's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of ... |
Nathaniel Benchley | ... rge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), | (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... it), Jorge Luis Borges (who included it in many of his short stories), and | , with figures such as Hermann Hesse being more moderatedly influenced. Re ... |
Hugh Laurie | ... Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and idealistic Edwardian twit Lieutenant George ( | ). General Melchett (Stephen Fry) rallies his troops from a French château ... |
Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is the American novel that turned its author | into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit ... |
Kim Newman | The Anno Dracula series by | —named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel—is a work of fan ... |
Algernon Blackwood | ... s wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, | , and Arthur Machen |
Reginald Berkeley | The first theatrical representations of Nightingale was | in his "The Lady with the Lamp", premiering in London in 1929 with Edith E ... |
Mori Ōgai | ... ukiyo-e. Okakura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. | and Natsume Sōseki studied in the West and introduced a more modern view o ... |
H.D. | ... group: his former fiancée Hilda Doolittle (who had started signing her work | ) and her future husband Richard Aldington. These two were interested in e ... |
Edward Abbey | ... ater visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz and | |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of | . The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; t ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... re's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by | , Doctor Destiny escapes the asylum to wreak havoc on both the real and dr ... |
George Sand | ... , whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872. | took over from Germaine de Staël as the leading female writer, and was a c ... |
Rousseau | ... mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by | and took responsibility herself for Vigny's early education |
Hermann Hesse | ... t in many of his short stories), and Aleister Crowley, with figures such as | being more moderatedly influenced. Rene Guenon founded the gnostic review, ... |
John B. Keane | The Field is a play written by | , first performed in 1965. It tells the story of the hardened farmer "Bull ... |
Ian McEwan | ... Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and | . The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art ... |
Arthur Machen | ... ing cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, Algernon Blackwood, and | |
Herman Wouk | ... n Europe during World War II. The series was based on a successful novel by | , and is noted for its accurate, and graphic, depiction of the Holocaust. ... |
H. C. Andersen | ... tomte would gain popularity. In the English editions of the fairy tales of | the word nisse has been inaccurately translated as goblin (a more accurate ... |
Mary Shelley | ... rial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about | and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee |
Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
Jimmy Carter | ... eign policy towards Latin America remained largely static until election of | to the presidency in 1977 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... of Lowry's final work in progress, La Mordida, and his screen adaptation of | 's Tender Is the Night have also been published |
E. Arnot Robertson | ... was well received by critics and made a profit of $2.2 million. The critic | observed that "only Bette Davis . . . could have combated so successfully ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... follows the model of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation ( | and John Gay, in particular) |
Pushkin | ... came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Soon after meeting | at a dinner, Tolstoy began reading his prose, and once had a fleeting dayd ... |
Théophile Gautier | ... lfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant | , whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872 ... |
Chinua Achebe | In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer | , author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in hi ... |
Richard Aldington | ... da Doolittle (who had started signing her work H.D.) and her future husband | . These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially S ... |
Lucian | | includes a picture with Orion in a rhetorical description of an ideal buil ... |
Sir Thomas Malory's | ... Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s. | Le Morte d'Arthur ("The Death of Arthur"), written in 1485, was important ... |
Stephen J. Cannell | ... April 27, 1982 in Santa Barbara, California. Sarah was the sister-in-law of | and had previously been married to Randy Stonehill from 1975–1980. They fi ... |
Eudora Welty's | ... dom Singers paid tribute to Evers in the haunting "Ballad of Medgar Evers." | short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From," in which the speaker is the ... |
John O'Hara | ... he age of 38 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital following surgery for the tumor. | remarked: "George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to beli ... |
Scarlett Thomas | Novelist and lecturer | uses it to teach innovative contemporary fiction, as an example of differe ... |
Akira Toriyama | ... rick Bags, and Dragons. Many monsters in the series were designed by | |
Edgar Wallace | ... as early as 1924, making his debut in Who Is the Man? and appearing in the | -based thriller The Clue of the New Pin (1929), he did not make an interna ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... and Valiente, but containing sections adopted from various sources, such as | , Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even Rudyard Kipling, went on ... |
Simone de Beauvoir | French philosopher | provided a Marxist solution and an existentialist view on many of the ques ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... too"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led by playwrights | , Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The pre ... |
Mark Twain | ... gon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book Tramps Abroad, writer | spoke of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: "Now comes a si ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... of other authors that he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, | , and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main goals of his non-fiction works are to ack ... |
Bo Yang | ... nder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese writer | 's book Zhongguo Diwang Huanghou Qinwang Gongzhu Shixi Lu (中國帝王皇后親王公主世系錄) ... |
G. K. Chesterton | ... rooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – | – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest – W. J. Cory – John Davidson – Donal ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by | , which she had enjoyed as a child. The chant in question stated that |
Stephen Fry | ... transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington (played by | ) |
Albert Camus | ... depict events just preceding an execution. The latter explanation points to | 's novel The Stranger, in which a young man confesses to an impulsive murd ... |
Brendan Behan | ... but from the continent, led by playwrights Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey and | . Alan Simpson was later released. The presiding judge, Justice O'Flynn, r ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister | proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ... |
Jamesian | ... s. And the book's narrative style, a huge departure from the stately, semi- | prose of Roth's earlier novels, has often been likened to the stand-up per ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... s, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even | , went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca |
Albert Camus | ... ry criticisms of other authors that he has admired, such as García Márquez, | , Ernest Hemingway, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main goals of his non-fictio ... |
Sartre | ... himself agree that it was ethical; the religious suspends the ethical), and | 's final words in are "All these questions, which refer us to a pure and n ... |
Philip Larkin | Other Coventrians in the arts include the highly acclaimed poet | , actors Billie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Brendan Price and Clive Owen, a ... |
Leo Tolstoy | The Battle of Austerlitz is a major event in | 's novel War and Peace. As the battle is about to start, Prince Andrei, on ... |
Smith Hempstone | ... were no longer tolerated. Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador | , to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991 |
James McGee | ... out the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He also plays a significant role in | 's thriller Crow's War. Another is Fire by Sebastian Junger. Junger was on ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ter Stapleton (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President | , seeks out Flynt and urges him to give his life to Jesus. Flynt seems mov ... |
André Gide | ... ghe and his friend, the famous French writer (and later Nobel Prize winner) | who informed Marthe Verhaeren of the death of her husband |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, and | . The main goals of his non-fiction works are to acknowledge the influence ... |
Robert W. Chambers | The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by | and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fi ... |
Roald Dahl | ... with whom tourist attractions have been established: for example the author | who included many local features and characters in his works |
Alfred de Musset | French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include | , Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gau ... |
George Orwell | ... did Catalonia recover its autonomy and reconstitute the Generalitat (1979). | served with the POUM in Catalonia from December 1936 until June 1937. His ... |
Ellen Glasgow | ... maintained a close and lifelong friendship with well-known Richmond writer | , whose house on West Main St. was only a few blocks from Cabell's family ... |
Akira Toriyama | ... eo game series to have a stable key development team; Yuji Horii (creator), | (artist) and Koichi Sugiyama (composer). The original concepts, used since ... |
Jack London | ... er. He also knows and meets various real-life historical figures, including | , Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick R ... |
Mary Shelley's | ... "Dark satanic mills" of Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time". | novel Frankenstein reflected concerns that scientific progress might be tw ... |
Kyokutei Bakin | On the other hand, the famous 18th century writer | renounced his allegiance to Matsudaira Nobunari, in whose service Bakin's ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ated from the former dumping ground characterized as "a valley of ashes" in | 's The Great Gatsby. The site, known at the time as the Corona Ash Dumps, ... |
Philip K. Dick | ... the University of California, San Diego. His doctoral thesis, The Novels of | , was published in 1984 |
Julian Barnes | England, England (1998) is a satirical science fiction novel by | which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel is set in the Britai ... |
Jeffrey Archer | ... British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist | . Somewhere between $3 million and $20 million was expended on the failed ... |
Giorgio Bassani | In 1952 Calvino wrote with | for Botteghe Oscure, a magazine named after the popular name of the party' ... |
Albert Camus | ... sm in this period include Hans Jonas, Philip K. Dick and Harold Bloom, with | and Allen Ginsberg being more moderately influenced. A number of ecclesias ... |
Jim Webb | ... 2006, both parties have seen success. In the 2006 Senate election, Democrat | won on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ... |
Pat Barker | The novel Regeneration, by | , is a fictionalised account of this period in Sassoon's life, and was mad ... |
Leo Tolstoy | ... ; ) (sometimes anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer | , published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The ... |
Johann von Goethe | The castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poet | once walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmak ... |
William S. Burroughs | ... . Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, | , Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in ... |
Mark Twain | ... abell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including | , Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. A ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... and cultural celebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were | , Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gers ... |
Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
Natalia Ginzburg | ... he interviewed one of his literary idols, Ernest Hemingway, travelling with | to his home in Stresa |
Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
Alfred de Vigny | ... t known as the originator of the story of Carmen, with his novella of 1845. | remains best known as a dramatist, with his play on the life of the Englis ... |
Günter Grass | German author | is one of a number of intellectuals and commentators who have also called ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name. | explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ... |
Umberto Eco | ... the life of a Byzantine girl during the carnage and falls in love with her. | 's novel Baudolino begins shortly after the Sack of Constantinople |
Ernest Hemingway | ... nows and meets various real-life historical figures, including Jack London, | , Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conra ... |
Julio Cortázar | ... a major Latin American writer, alongside other authors such as Octavio Paz, | , Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. In his boo ... |
Dave Gibbons | ... twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist | , and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during ... |
Tennessee Williams | The Rose Tattoo is a | play. It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and a film adaptation was re ... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | ... ude the late Herb Brooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late | ; Jesse Ventura, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler ... |
George Orwell | ... en of necessity, effort which can instead be expended on artistic creation. | summarised, "In effect, the world will be populated by artists, each striv ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and | tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ... |
Alan Moore | Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer | , artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was publishe ... |
Raymond Chandler | ... about such topics for shock value. Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as | , Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, J ... |
David Thomson | ... for Hughes, including Angel Face, directed by Otto Preminger. According to | "if she had made only one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of w ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state. | said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to c ... |
Laurence Sterne | ... night a traveler is a good indicator of this novel which is reminiscent of | 's Tristram Shandy. The book commences on a hypothesis of novelistic eleme ... |
Jean Paul Richter | In 1804, the author | moved from Coburg to Bayreuth, where he lived until his death in 1825 |
Heliodorus of Emesa | The Hellenistic novelist | in his Aethiopica refers to the dancing of Tyrian sailors in honor of the ... |
John W. Campbell | ... round in time to adjust their ages a bit." The novel "worried and bothered" | , who said "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, t ... |
Thomas Heggen | Mister Roberts is a 1946 novel written by | |
Gerald Gardner | ... agic was heralded by the repeal of the last Witchcraft Act in 1951. In 1954 | published a book, Witchcraft Today, in which he claimed to reveal the exis ... |
H. G. Wells | The topic of heat death was explored in science fiction as early as 1895 in | ' The Time Machine, which includes an evocation of the heat death of the u ... |
Joseph Hergesheimer | ... a number of his peers, including Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, | , and Jack Woodford. Although now largely forgotten by the general public, ... |
Nelson Algren | ... for shock value. Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, | , William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reas ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | | 's novel (1969) was a satirical novel that used some elements from his exp ... |
Poul Anderson | The Fourth Crusade is depicted in | 's novel There Will Be Time from the point of view of a 20th Century time- ... |
Hubert Selby, Jr. | ... Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and | , saw no reason why the content in their works couldn't translate well to ... |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... which embodies many of the educational and philosophical tenets espoused by | - and Maria and 's Practical Education: The History of Harry and Lucy (178 ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by | , who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ... |
Sloan Wilson | ... e for R&R for soldiers from nearby Camp Blanding, including Andy Rooney and | who went on to write the classic 1950s novel The Man in the Gray Flannel S ... |
Prosper Mérimée | ... ch Romanticism, stating that "there are no rules, or models". The career of | followed a similar pattern; he is now best known as the originator of the ... |
Emil Petaja | ... downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, | , Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His f ... |
Anton Chekhov | In | 's The Seagull there are specific allusions to Hamlet: in the first act a ... |
Nikolai Gogol | ... rtunity—to write for the Imperial Theaters and to compose an opera based on | 's short story Christmas Eve, a work on which Tchaikovsky had based his op ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... a fable of the forest". In 1948, he interviewed one of his literary idols, | , travelling with Natalia Ginzburg to his home in Stresa |
Jean Cocteau | ... Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, | , Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his camera |
Carlos Fuentes | ... Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez and | . In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva Novela), Fuentes of ... |
Robert Graves | According to the personal mythology of | , Persephone is not only the younger self of Demeter, she is in turn also ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and | . His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 19 ... |
Ken Follett | ... d movies have been made about Ahmad Shah Massoud. Massoud is the subject of | 's Lie Down With Lions, a novel about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ... |
Lloyd C. Douglas | The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion written by | . The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the ... |
Hermann Hesse | ... ious real-life historical figures, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, | , Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, ... |
Theodore Dreiser | ... th noted writers including H. L. Mencken, Ellen Glasgow, Sinclair Lewis and | , correspondence with family, friends, editors and publishers, newspaper c ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... Good Companions (1933), the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), | in The Prime Minister (1940), Cassius in Julius Caesar (1953) (BAFTA Award ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... fton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers | , Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Will ... |
Gabriel García Márquez | ... gside other authors such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, | and Carlos Fuentes. In his book The New Novel in Latin America (La Nueva N ... |
William Faulkner | ... kov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by | , who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is current ... |
John W. Cunningham | ... imilarities between Foreman's outline and the short story "The Tin Star" by | , which led Foreman to purchase the rights to Cunningham's story and proce ... |
Hugh Laurie | ... Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in their usual roles, this series starred | as the Prince Regent, and Helen Atkinson-Wood as Mrs. Miggins. The series ... |
James Joyce | ... rk on the art of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as | , Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud ... |
Gore Vidal | ... or McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of | 's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh. Other journalists compared him to ... |
Norman Mailer | Factoid was coined by | in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer described a factoid as "fa ... |
Ring Lardner | ... n in Chicago, he was the son of Ellis (Abbott) and journalist and humorist, | . After being educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Princeton Univers ... |
Heinrich Mann | Albert Einstein and | sent a letter to the International League for Human Rights in Paris appeal ... |
Elie Wiesel | | is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, ... |
Thomas Berger | In outline there are some similarities to | 's 1964 novel Little Big Man, in which a 121-year-old man recounts his num ... |
Hugh Laurie | ... e butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the prince is played by | as a complete fop and idiot). Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and ... |
Peter Ackroyd | Little Dorrit formed the backdrop to | 's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982) |
Judith Tarr | The second volume of | 's trilogy The Hound and the Falcon - titled The Golden Horn - also depict ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers |
Conrad Aiken | ... d Advocate published some of his poems, and he became lifelong friends with | , the American novelist |
Jimmy Carter | #Redirect | |
Søren Kierkegaard | ... was derived from the two-volume book of the same name by Danish philosopher | , whose works generally deal with themes such as existential despair, angs ... |
Saddam Hussein | On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by | , invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ... |
John Steinbeck | ... 81, she appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the novel by | . Her portrayal of main antagonist Cathy Ames won her a Golden Globe. In 1 ... |
Miguel de Unamuno | ... s. Of those, some have been notable Spanish scholars, such as Basque writer | , Rector of the University of Salamanca from 1901 until 1936 |
Alexander Trocchi | ... D. H. Lawrence Memorial. Another novelist who lived for a while in Taos was | |
Merrill Markoe | ... ff responsible for preparing Late Night consisted of Letterman's girlfriend | in the head writing role, in addition to seasoned TV veteran Hal Gurnee di ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... l style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of Philip José Farmer, and | helped develop the series (and was originally going to be its co-author). ... |
Alex Haley | ... g them QB VII, and Rich Man, Poor Man. The most successful, Roots, based on | 's novel, became one of the biggest hits in television history. Combined w ... |
Alexander Pushkin | From 1830 to 1834 Russian poet | published his Russian folklore-based fairy tales in verse: The Tale of the ... |
James Joyce | ... res, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, | , Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian gen ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the Alexandrians Janet Farrar and | decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much of the Gardnerian ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, | , Hippocrates, and Jesus. Each of the letters tend to be droll and witty, ... |
Nick Cave | ... ey Cricket Ground, also included performances by Powderfinger, Silverchair, | , John Butler Trio, Finn Brothers and others |
Lynn Abbey | Over the next few years, he created and edited (with his then-wife, | ) the Thieves' World series of shared world anthologies, credited as the f ... |
Émile Zola | ... n Beast (La Bête Humaine) (1938), a film noir tragedy based on the novel by | and starring Simone Simon and Jean Gabin |
Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
George Orwell | ... opened on February 6, 1984. The first book checked out of Davis Library was | 's 1984. The R.B. House Undergraduate Library is located between the Pit a ... |
Harry Turtledove | ... fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in | 's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium |
Aleister Crowley | ... or practice various forms of magic. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, | 's Thelema and their subsequent offshoots, influenced by Eliphas Levi, are ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... ofessional collaboration with his father. Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by | , jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, whi ... |
Victor Hugo | ... nces. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as Charles Darwin, | and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur ... |
Orhan Pamuk | ... nd did not or could not do enough for God in this world. The Turkish writer | , in the book , further elaborates on the added meaning hüzün has acquired ... |
Philip José Farmer | ... period. The metafictional style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of | , and Neil Gaiman helped develop the series (and was originally going to b ... |
Anthony Boucher | Even the "avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man", | , writing for The New York Times appeared to enjoy Goldfinger, saying "the ... |
James Joyce | ... work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, | , Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
Langston Hughes | ... he Jeffers family. Among them were Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, | , Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors h ... |
Kenji Miyazawa | ... d a section at the end of the book to his translations of eighteen poems by | |
Robert Graves | ... oits. On 27 July 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; the citation read: | described Sassoon as engaging in suicidal feats of bravery. Sassoon was al ... |
Woolf | ... riting "a major text of English feminism, a link between Wollstonecraft and | . |
Jean Giraudoux | ... ssigny in France's Haute-Marne department. His father-in-law was the writer | , who was married to Pineau's mother. Later, Christian Pineau would say th ... |
Stephen Fry | ... nto contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( | ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ... |
Janet Morris | ... els and stories outside the anthologies, beginning with Beyond Sanctuary by | , the first "authorized" Thieves World novel, published in 1985. Janet Mor ... |
James Joyce | ... me as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own ingenious wordplay. | , author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, is another noted word-player. For ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President | following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ... |
Ford Madox Ford | ... Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, | , Allen Upward and John Cournos |
William Shatner | ... , sudden off-beat pauses, and strange speech rhythm, in a manner similar to | , which was subject to parody in a Robot Chicken episode. He is revered fo ... |
Gavin Lambert | ... re he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist | ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics; and Magdalen College, ... |
Jack Woodford | ... cluding Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and | . Although now largely forgotten by the general public, his work was remar ... |
Malcolm Bradbury | ... is especially well-known for its creative writing programme; established by | and Angus Wilson, its graduates include Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan. The ... |
Samuel R. Delany | ... dia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and | was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerful and generally libe ... |
Richard L. Tierney | Sonja has been featured in several novels by David C. Smith and | with covers by Boris Vallejo |
Neil Gaiman | ... protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by | . One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greate ... |
James Joyce | ... as Carol), or a pollyanna (from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name). | 's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined ... |
Marcel Schwob | ... nter Melvin Day) and literary criticism (e.g., in the "Vies imaginaires" by | , "Uccello le poil" by Antonin Artaud and "O Mundo Como Ideia" by Bruno To ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... nest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, | , Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern von Sternberg ... |
Chris Heimerdinger | The curelom and cumom have appeared in Mormon literature. For example, | , a popular LDS novelist, chose to make cureloms mammoths in his time-trav ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ll's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of the Cabell Society. | was greatly inspired by Cabell's boldness, and originally described his fa ... |
Frederick Rolfe | ... g Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, | , Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern ... |
Herman Melville | ... nostic thought extensively and were influenced by it, and even figures like | and W. B. Yeats were more tangentially influenced. Jules Doinel "re-establ ... |
Dickens | ... ous young readers' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of | and Shakespeare. By contrast, offering readers modern teenage-oriented fic ... |
Claude McKay | ... Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as Gertrude Stein and | . Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in America, with and w ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... er and weaker. He was listed as a primary influence of the much more famous | . Kurt Vonnegut based his character Kilgore Trout on Theodore Sturgeon |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | ... the Charlottetown Festival, hosted at the Confederation Centre of the Arts. | , who was born in Clifton (now New London) in 1874, wrote some 20 novels a ... |
Cardinal Newman | ... 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine, | and Walter Pater |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ... minated by Germans, but also because it explicitly acknowledges its debt to | (himself a composer, amongst other things) and, by so doing, establishes a ... |
Don DeLillo | ... autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray" in | 's 1991 novel Mao II. (DeLillo was a friend of Gaddis.) The characters "Ri ... |
Stevenson's | Catriona is | 1893 sequel to Kidnapped. Both novels are set in the aftermath of the Jaco ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... t Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President | . It has been enshrined in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest s ... |
Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens ( | ) made his last public appearance on June 9, 1909, at the commencement cer ... |
Gavin Lambert | ... g for the influential Sequence magazine (1947–52), which he co-founded with | and Karel Reisz; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Si ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | ... e Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), | , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investig ... |
Philip José Farmer | The event was used by the science fiction writer | in his "biographies" of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and ) as the ba ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as Carl Sagan, | , B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
Gerald Gardner | ... al calendar, as they desired more frequent celebrations. Their High Priest, | , was away visiting the Isle of Man at the time, but he did not object whe ... |
Mike Carey | Following Azzarello's run, writer | took over the title, following his Eisner award-winning title Lucifer, set ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... ndon bombings, and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, | 's capture, and Fahrenheit 9/11 |
G. K. Chesterton | ... in and Abel, and Fiddler's Green, a sailor's dream of paradise who emulates | when in human form. He recruits or creates (or re-creates) servants to per ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... he consorted with Nazi industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that | and Adolf Hitler attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 ... |
William Trevor | ... Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in | 's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea ... |
Joseph Conrad | In 1947, he graduated with a Master's thesis on | , wrote short stories in his spare time, and landed a job in the publicity ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... ed as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Novelist | was known for his satirical stories such as Babbitt, Main Street, and It C ... |
DuBose Heyward | Based on the novel Porgy by | , the action takes place in the fictional all-black neighborhood of Catfis ... |
Agnes Boulton | ... ime they had one son, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (1910–1950). In 1917, O'Neill met | , a successful writer of commercial fiction, and they married on April 12, ... |
Giannina Braschi | ... to' Trinidad, baseball superstar Carlos Delgado, writers Ana Lydia Vega and | , and Guatemala's Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. Kennedy, while serv ... |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | ... pictures including Cross Creek (1983) and Doc Hollywood (1991). The home of | , where she wrote The Yearling and Cross Creek, is in nearby Cross Creek. ... |
Victor Hugo | ... famously The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both of 1844. | published as a poet in the 1820s before achieving success on the stage wit ... |
Mark Twain | ... e Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included | , Charles Dickens and Christopher Marlowe |
Jack Vance's | ... lark Ashton Smith are, in background, close to those of Cabell's Poictesme. | Dying Earth books show considerable stylistic resemblances to Cabell; Cuge ... |
Ann-Marie MacDonald | Canadian playwright | 's 1988 award-winning play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a ... |
Mark Twain | ... ls (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, | and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
Bram Stoker | ... playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, | . It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of Jame ... |
Val Gielgud | Gielgud's brother | became the head of BBC Radio Production in 1928, and John made his radio d ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... escribes an umbrella as a "screen commonly used by women to keep off rain." | 's Robinson Crusoe constructs his own umbrella in imitation of the ones he ... |
Fritz Leiber's | ... medy of Justice), features Jurgen, an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei. | Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Charles G. Finney's famo ... |
Roald Dahl | ... ed by her monster boyfriend in what turns out to be a movie within a dream. | 's story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is about a rich bachelor who f ... |
Simone de Beauvoir | ... sexual conquests. His genuine empathy towards women is evident in his books | ;spoke highly of him in The Second Sex. He seems to have preferred desire ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... ude ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist/screenwriter | , political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, c ... |
Jack London | ... sh the town's literary base. He was associated with Mary Austin, as well as | , who also spent considerable time in the Carmel and Monterey area. In San ... |
Evelyn Waugh | ... Egypt, Turkey, Sweden, Belgium, and Japan were also present. British author | was also present, penning a contemporary report on the event, and American ... |
Daphne du Maurier | ... first American movie, set in England and based on a novel by English author | . The film starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodra ... |
Jules Verne | ... ong his output was the modern novelisation of the Irwin Allen production of | 's Five Weeks in a Balloon, two books in the "Llarn" series; five books ab ... |
Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer | , describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape ... |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... iarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by | . Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon ... |
Dalton Trumbo | ... d of America Award for Best Written Comedy but lost to Ian McLellan Hunter, | , and John Dighton for Roman Holiday |
Robert Graves | ... n written, one of which, Count Belisarius, was written by poet and novelist | in 1938 |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, | , H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
J. B. Priestley | On 2 November 1957, the New Statesman magazine published an article by | on "Britain and the Nuclear Bombs", which was critical of Aneurin Bevan fo ... |
Craig Ferguson | ... tars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, | , Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began their careers. The stand-up comedy ... |
Chuck Palahniuk | ... 1968) (now republished as Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick and Fight Club by | all distort the line between reality and appearance while simultaneously e ... |
Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness is a novella written by | . Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) i ... |
Flannery O'Connor | ... rrison's Grave", which once again brought Taylor some MTV exposure, and the | inspired "Harder to Believe Than Not To". Some stores also pulled the albu ... |
James Joyce | ... Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of | , including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail. Du ... |
Margaret Drabble | ... arrilow (Etruscan Publications, 1966). Also, Arnold Bennett: A Biography by | (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1974) |
Robert Bloch | ... on (Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), | , H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur ... |
Leo Tolstoy | ... ave led some to Christian anarchism, including the notable Russian novelist | , author of the nonfiction book The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
Norman Maclean | ... st Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. | , a former professor at the University of Chicago and author of A River Ru ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... s" in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in | 's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray ... |
Ayn Rand | In | 's novel Atlas Shrugged, the protagonist's secret hideaway was in a beauti ... |
Brian Herbert | In the | /Kevin J. Anderson Legends of Dune novels, the Atreides family line goes b ... |
Christopher Isherwood | ... nce encounter in a Los Angeles bookstore with the British expatriate writer | gave Bradbury the opportunity to put The Martian Chronicles into the hands ... |
Joseph Heller | ... thousand syllogisms" in the persuasion of the public to accept a criticism. | 's most famous work, Catch-22, satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator | |
Benito Mussolini | The Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator | , and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ... |
Richard Wright | Native Son (1940) is a novel by American author | . The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African Ameri ... |
Lawrence Durrell | ... avie – C. Day Lewis – Walter De la Mare – Ernest Dowson – Michael Drayton – | – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy ... |
Virginia Woolf | Contemporary critics— | in particular—perceived weaknesses in his work. To her and other Bloomsbur ... |
Winston Groom | Bayou La Batre is mentioned in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and in | 's book of the same name on which the movie is based as the home of Forres ... |
Émile Zola | ... g distance between himself and literary contemporaries such as Flaubert and | , whose realist and naturalist novels were now exceeding the popularity of ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... and enrolled at the American Theater Wing, working off Broadway, including | 's The Victors. He also attended the Geller Drama School in Los Angeles on ... |
William Rotsler | ... some cases, the X ratings were applied by reviewers or film scholars, e.g. | , who wrote "The XXX-rating means hard-core, the XX-rating is for simulati ... |
H. G. Wells | ... in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, | (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M ... |
James Joyce | ... laubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of | , Giannina Braschi, and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also ins ... |
Charles Maturin | ... stian, and the titular character of Melmoth the Wanderer; a gothic novel by | , Wilde's great-uncle. Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the D ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... of sub-stories in the Season 17 episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". | 's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples ... |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ... neously espousing strong existentialist themes. Ideas from such thinkers as | , Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gill ... |
Elio Vittorini | ... the Arts Faculty. A year later, he was initiated into the literary world by | , who published his short story "Andato al comando" (1945; "Gone to Headqu ... |
Giannina Braschi | ... ille, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, | , and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also inspired the 19th-cen ... |
Edmond de Goncourt | ... experience of the Commune. A more pragmatic lesson was drawn by the diarist | , who wrote, three days after La Semaine Sanglante, "…the bleeding has bee ... |
Thorne Smith | ... oore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, | , and Gene Wolfe |
Alisa Kwitney | ... n set in the Dreaming, most notably a series of the same name (chief author | ) |
J. B. Priestley | ... uch as W. H. Auden, composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as | . Among the best known films of the movement are Night Mail and Coal Face |
Poul Anderson | ... ack Williamson, but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such | 's The Big Rain, and James Blish's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involv ... |
Tobias Smollett | ... literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were Samuel Johnson, | , Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also gave considerably ... |
A. A. Milne | Piglet is a fictional character from | 's Winnie-the-Pooh books. Piglet is Winnie-the-Pooh's closest friend among ... |
Stephen Fry | ... ificant number of celebrities and personalities elected as rectors, such as | and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and Joh ... |
Sir Thomas Malory's | ... The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well as | Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histor ... |
Charles Dickens | ... press Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, | and Christopher Marlowe |
John Fowles's | ... man (1980), written by Harold Pinter, is a film-within-a-film adaptation of | book. In addition to the Victorian love story of the book, Pinter creates ... |
Ben Elton | | 's arrival after the first series heralded the more frequent recruitment o ... |
Stephen Fry | ... e, notably re-recordings of "Marvin" and "Reasons To Be Miserable", sung by | , along with some of the "Guide Entries", newly written material read in-c ... |
Jon Crosby | ... ter and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist | . The band is signed to 2blossoms, an independent record company created b ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ut for Bluehouses at the Nevill Ground, where he sometimes played alongside | . He also played cricket for his house at Marlborough College, once taking ... |
Alan Caillou | ... Lord) Ferguson McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge. The voice of English actor | is dubbed for MacMurray's as Lord Douglas. The plot centers around Lord Do ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... rish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | , Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill at the bottom of a ... |
Apuleius | ... s of Bidpai, Hitopadesha and Vikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by | and Metamorphoses by Ovid extend the depths of framing to several degrees. ... |
C. P. Snow | ... both theoretically and experimentally. The well-known historian of physics, | , says about him, "If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could w ... |
Carrie Fisher | ... friends, they set each other up with their respective best friends, Marie ( | ) and Jess (Bruno Kirby). The four go to a restaurant, where Marie and Jes ... |
Fredric Brown | ... Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, | , Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. His first published ... |
Vardis Fisher | ... to the canyon of the Boise River near Caldwell. However, both John Rees and | believed it was named for the Snake River canyon which forms a natural bou ... |
Richard Wright | ... rded scholar of African-American literary works. This edition also contains | 's 1940 essay How 'Bigger' Was Born |
Gustave Flaubert | ... ; Taine found it insincere, Barbey d'Aurevilly complained of its vulgarity, | found within it "neither truth nor greatness", the Goncourts lambasted its ... |
Franz Kafka | ... st themes. Ideas from such thinkers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, | , Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Har ... |
Haruki Murakami | ... i, during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China. | 's 1995 novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle deals greatly with Manchukuo thro ... |
Robert Cantwell | Critic | wrote in his unpublished memoir Twigs of Folly |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... on-fiction also became a popular topic. Irreverence and satire, typified in | 's Breakfast of Champions, were common literary elements. The horror genre ... |
Kim Newman | ... d Duran Duran, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with | . Even though Gaiman thought he did a terrible job, the book's first editi ... |
James Baldwin's | ... he book was criticized by some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. | 1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as protest ficti ... |
Tommy Steele | Likewise, | , The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were teen idols, especially during th ... |
Chandler Brossard | Characters based on Gaddis include "Harry Lees" in | 's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in Jack Kerouac's autobi ... |
Ada Leverson | ... lloway and, shunning attention, went into hiding at the house of Ernest and | , two of his firm friends. Edward Carson approached Frank Lockwood QC, the ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... opia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s. | 's Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffer ... |
Chris Ware | ... ted literary narrative, it rivals in artistic merit, say, masterpieces like | 's 'Acme Novelty Library' or almost any part of the witty and brilliant wo ... |
Alan Moore | ... t Victoria Station in 1984, Gaiman noticed a copy of Swamp Thing written by | , and carefully read it. Moore's fresh and vigorous approach to comics had ... |
Nick Tosches | In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and | , whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and h ... |
Amy Huberman | ... by Irish Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan and stars IFTA award winning actress | . The film sees Martin Sheen play parish priest, Daniel Barry, whose love ... |
Brendan Behan | ... rly 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, | , Maeve Binchy, and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary ... |
Stephen King | ... mmon literary elements. The horror genre also emerged, and by the late '70s | had become one of the most popular genre novelists |
Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
Maeve Binchy | ... y. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, | , and Roddy Doyle. Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are fo ... |
Stewart Farrar | ... r of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and | . In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of solitary practitioner ... |
Rita Mae Brown | Crozet is also the setting for author | 's Mrs. Murphy series |
Chuck Palahniuk | ... "Always",Hamish and Andy (Australia),ESPN,KHQ's "The Derby", and also in by | . It has also been featured on CMT. Lind also is surrounded by fields of w ... |
Jim Webb | The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... nced as un-American or unpatriotic. In one typical instance in 1923, author | was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an Industrial W ... |
Walter Scott | ... macy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir | called him, of great local fame—James Veitch of Inchbonny—a man who was pa ... |
Mark Twain | ... sh Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as | and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics. Comedians of this era often ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | ... traditionally heard in silence. Whitlam responded to McEwen by stating that | had been heckled in his maiden speech, and had responded, "The time will c ... |
Natalia Ginzburg | ... i. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, | , Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He ... |
James Elroy Flecker | ... wson – Michael Drayton – Lawrence Durrell – Jean Elliot – George Farewell – | – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... l Cody), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President | in 1977. Cody and four other civilian scouts who rendered distinguished se ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... mber 1980, the highest in history. By the time of 1980, when U.S. President | was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the s ... |
Carrie Fisher | ... y the producers of Dynasty, who used it as the fictional hotel The Carlton. | was originally contracted to portray Miss Scarlet but withdrew to enter tr ... |
Robert Graves | ... 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st Battalion in France. There he met | and they became close friends. United by their poetic vocation, they often ... |
Jonathan Swift | A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by | |
Leigh Brackett | ... the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, | , and Jack Williamson. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilem ... |
Alan Moore | After forming a friendship with comic book writer | , Gaiman started writing comic books, picking up Marvelman after Moore fin ... |
Rita Mae Brown | Author | along with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, have written a mystery series common ... |
Charles Dickens | ... rature contains many references to him, for example in A Christmas Carol by | , and in this folk rhyme |
Jimmy Carter | ... tion, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President | |
Poul Anderson | ... ibertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, | , Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples), and his work ... |
Roddy Doyle | ... writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, and | . Ireland's biggest libraries and literary museums are found in Dublin, in ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... anuary 1880 – 12 January 1951), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into ... |
Ben Hecht | ... f writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, | , James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and B ... |
Elizabeth Massie | ... ue's Descent and The Salem Branch, and Dreams of the Dark by horror authors | and Stephen Mark Rainey |
Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
Virginia Woolf | ... many high-profile biographical works of literary figures, such as those of | , Agatha Christie, and J.R.R. Tolkien |
Shirley Jackson | Some notable writers whose works were used in the collection include | (Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), R ... |
C. S. Lewis | In recent times, | has adopted a scholastic position in the course of his work The Problem of ... |
Joris-Karl Huysmans | ... German grammars, some Ancient Greek texts, Dante's Divine Comedy, En Route, | 's new French novel about Christian redemption; and essays by St Augustine ... |
Edgar Lee Masters | ... rt Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. It was the home of famous poet/writer | in his early days; he wrote the famous Spoon River Anthology (1915). Fulto ... |
Stephen Mark Rainey | ... Salem Branch, and Dreams of the Dark by horror authors Elizabeth Massie and | |
Cesare Pavese | ... y Giulio Einaudi. Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with | , Natalia Ginzburg, Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectual ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... to the right-wing libertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction ( | , Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples ... |
H. G. Wells | ... g a planet for habitation precedes the use of the word 'terraforming', with | describing a reverse-terraforming, where aliens in his story The War of th ... |
Michael Crichton | She appeared in | 's 1973 sci-fi western, Westworld as a prostitute |
David Storey | ... , as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in | 's Home, in both London and on Broadway |
Jules Verne | ... commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games. Together with | and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science F ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, | , and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a r ... |
Ken Follett | ... ntury Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as Roald Dahl, | , Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones. In pa ... |
Charles Dickens | ... ll children regardless of their ability to pay, and was keenly supported by | |
Stephen Crane | ... mother, he bought the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like | and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . Six years later, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to King by | . King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 |
James Joyce | ... which reversed a ban by the Customs Department against the book Ulysses by | . The ACLU only achieved mixed results in the early years, and it was not ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... of the year, the Germans had succeeded in occupying Liguria and setting up | 's puppet Republic of Salò in northern Italy. Now twenty years old, Calvin ... |
Brian Herbert | The prequel trilogy Prelude to Dune (1999–2001) by | and Kevin J. Anderson chronicles the upbringing of young Leto I prior to t ... |
Éric Rohmer | ... of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and | who had created the Nouvelle Vague ("New Wave") by making their own films, ... |
J. B. Priestley | ... t James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, | and Joseph Rotblat |
Thomas Pynchon | ... Dick's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Dick 1993, 101) and in | 's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49. The Pynchon novel features "The Scope" ... |
Peter De Vries | ... w the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as Saul Bellow and | , who both released poorly received novels at the start of the decade. Rac ... |
James Hilton | ... Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, | , John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, ... |
Frank Miller | ... Watchmen as a "revisionary superhero narrative." He considers Watchmen and | 's to be "the first instances ... of [a] new kind of comic book ... a firs ... |
Roald Dahl | ... the 12th century Welsh leader Ifor Bach and to more recent figures such as | , Ken Follett, Griff Rhys Jones and the former Blue Peter presenter Gethin ... |
Victor Hugo | ... ent, though this role would soon be usurped by one of Vigny's best friends, | . Unlike his friend, Vigny retained his Royalist sympathies in politics: " ... |
John Steinbeck | ... nd Tortilla Flat (1942) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by | . White Cargo, one of Lamarr's biggest hits at MGM, contains arguably her ... |
Goethe | ... during Sturm und Drang, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by | or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats. In t ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... d to look after the family's shipping business. During these travels he met | , then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, ... |
Ken Kesey | A damning portrayal of the procedure is found in | 's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and its 1975 movie adaptatio ... |
Frank Miller | ... dividual issues were collected and sold in trade paperback form. Along with | 's 1986 mini-series, Watchmen was marketed as a "graphic novel", a term wh ... |
Michel Houellebecq | ... ry There Are More Things in memory of Lovecraft. Contemporary French writer | wrote a literary biography of Lovecraft called . Prolific American writer ... |
Julian Hawthorne | ... the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like Stephen Crane and | and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer, own ... |
John Updike | ... novels at the start of the decade. Racism remained a key literary subject. | emerged as a major literary figure. Reflections of the 1960s experience al ... |
John Dickson Carr | ... ond [sic]. I have every book he ever wrote. The other is the mystery writer | , whose style I admire tremendously... and of course the old standbys - Me ... |
Ellery Queen | Sturgeon ghost-wrote an | mystery novel, The Player on the Other Side (Random House, 1963). This nov ... |
Joseph McElroy | ... de Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), David Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), | (A Smuggler's Bible) and Stanley Elkin (The Magic Kingdom) |
Jane Porter | ... arry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and | and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
Benito Mussolini | ... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to | , this system politicizes everything spiritual and human |
Shusaku Endo | Scorsese anticipates filming an adaptation of | 's novel Silence, a drama about the voyages of two Portuguese Jesuit pries ... |
Charles Dickens | ... y), and this work sometimes led Wells to be touted as a worthy successor to | . Wells also wrote abundantly about the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes ( ... |
Libby Purves | ... Midweek, during which he booked Arthur Mullard as a stand-in presenter for | (interviewing Prof. A. J. Ayer). That programme was featured on the BBC Ra ... |
Jonathan Swift's | Micropsia has also been related to | novel Gulliver's Travels. It has been referred to as "Lilliput sight" and ... |
Audre Lorde | ... wave, such as Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, | , Maxine Hong Kingston, and many other black feminists, sought to negotiat ... |
Mark Twain | ... ipment and the most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, | and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish sto ... |
Charles Dickens | ... Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall (1996), "Josiah Bounderby" in | ' Hard Times (1998) and a part in the 2001 BBC Radio 4 version of The Thir ... |
John Marsden | ... Mao's Last Dancer; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of | 's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom ... |
Roald Dahl | ... Unexpected spoof "Tales Of The Much As We Expected". This involved Cook as | , explaining his name had been Ronald before he dropped the "n". The cast ... |
Lord Dunsany | Furthermore, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of | with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, mov ... |
Victor Hugo | ... story Carmen by Prosper Mérimée and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, | 's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Miguel de Cervantes' La Gitanilla.The R ... |
Robert Graves | ... Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – | – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea ... |
Remy de Gourmont | In an article in La France , 1915, the French critic, | described the Imagists as descendants of of the French Symbolistes and in ... |
Mussolini | ... gure could be found for Danes. However, Munk's attitude towards Hitler (and | ) turned to outspoken disgust, as he witnessed Hitler's persecution of the ... |
Charles Dickens | The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on | ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" ma ... |
George Orwell | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as Aldous Huxley and | to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the dangers of the sw ... |
Joyce Carol Oates | ... ience also found roots in the literature of the decade through the works of | and Morris Wright. With the rising cost of hard-cover books and the increa ... |
Aidan Higgins | ... o Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the | novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster ... |
Jonathan Tropper | ... n between 20th Century Fox and Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios, and novelist | had written the adaptation for the new version. Spielberg approached Tom H ... |
Daniel Handler | ... hing, and parallels a character in the main story and hints at his actions. | 's introduction in Lemony Snicket's continually introduces a new story abo ... |
Egon Hostovský | Stefan Zweig was related to the Czech writer | . Hostovský described Zweig as "a very distant relative"; some sources des ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... writers than those experiencing it at first hand. The first major figure is | , a minor aristocrat who had remained a royalist throughout the Revolution ... |
Boris Akunin | In | 's novel, The Diamond Chariot, Erast Fandorin investigates the plot to ass ... |
Miguel de Cervantes | ... based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and | ' La Gitanilla.The Romani were also heavily romanticized in the Soviet Uni ... |
Selma Lagerlöf | ... An angry tomte is featured in the popular children's book by Swedish author | , Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (Nils Holgersson's Wonderf ... |
Sophie Kerr | The college is known nationally as the home of the | Prize, which is awarded to the graduating senior with the most literary po ... |
James Agee | ... whined". Some reviewers criticized Davis for the excess of her performance | ;wrote that she "demonstrates the horrors of egocentricity on a marathonic ... |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772, | was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Youn ... |
Brontë sisters | Following the release of Devotion, a Hollywood biography of the | filmed in 1943 but withheld from release during the suspension and litigat ... |
R. L. Stine | ... r to launch a series, such as L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. Enid Blyton and | have specialized in open-ended series. Sometimes a series will outlive its ... |
George Ade | Kentland is the birthplace of the famous turn-of-the-century humorist | , author of such plays as The College Widow, Artie, and The Sultan of Sulu ... |
August Strindberg | ... ert Edelfelt, the Norwegian painter Adam Dörnberger, and the Swedish writer | |
Sylvia Plath | Other sources include | 's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with ... |
Stanley Elkin | ... avid Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and | (The Magic Kingdom) |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... Herein arose the clerical philosophers—Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, | —whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Roma ... |
Jack London | ... most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain and | . A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish stories of municip ... |
Budd Schulberg | ... cht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and | , with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited i ... |
Sebastian Shaw | ... s used in the 2004 DVD release of , where he was inserted in place of actor | as the ghost of Anakin Skywalker. This was one of the most controversial c ... |
Billy Childish | ... 4, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Rapture. Elsewhere, the Oblivians from Memphis, | and The Buff Medways from Britain, The (International) Noise Conspiracy fr ... |
Will Eisner | ... hern California at the age of 81. In 2006 Gottfredson was inducted into the | Comic Industry Awards' Hall of Fame. He also was awarded an Inkpot Award i ... |
Robert Olen Butler | Past residents include | , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journal ... |
André Breton | ... ar later the two collaborated on Les malheurs des immortels, and then, with | whom Ernst met in 1921, on the magazine Litterature. In 1922, unable to se ... |
George Orwell | ... p the anti-enclosure feeling, and has been repeated in many variants since: | wrote in 194 |
Ellery Queen | Mystery author | can also be considered a "fictional artist" of sorts, though the proverbia ... |
Daniel Defoe | ... er, these three statues were later speculatively 'identified' by the writer | (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for t ... |
Philip Pullman | ... rry Potter series), and later had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of | 's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. In the summer of 2006, she published her f ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... urces as Gardner had initially claimed, but from the works of the occultist | , from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, from the Key of Solomon and a ... |
Prosper Mérimée | ... t of criminality.Particularly notable are classics like the story Carmen by | and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of ... |
Robert Graves | ... Tilman survived the battle, along with the British writers J.R.R. Tolkien, | , David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister Harold Macmill ... |
Maxine Hong Kingston | ... s Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, | , and many other black feminists, sought to negotiate a space within femin ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... ike many young writers of his generation, Hugo was profoundly influenced by | , the famous figure in the literary movement of Romanticism and France's p ... |
Ivan Turgenev | The Russian writer | based his novel Smoke (1867) in Baden-Baden, describing it as a place wher ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... g the first blacks in the U. S. Signal Corps. Among its faculty members was | ; a historic marker is placed at the house where she lived while teaching ... |
Robert Graves | ... il Murderer (1913), was a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy. | , in describes it as a "parody of Masefield which, midway through, had for ... |
Thomas Malory | ... ories which became popular among children were written in the 15th Century. | 's Morte d'Arthur (1486) and the tales of Robin Hood (c. 1450) were not wr ... |
Walter Scott | ... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir | and Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
David Markson | ... rs clearly influenced by Gaddis include Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), | (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and Stanley Elk ... |
Adélaïde Filleul | ... Flahaut de La Billarderie, beheaded at Arras in February 1793, and his wife | , afterwards Mme de Souza-Botelho. Charles de Flahaut was generally recogn ... |
Gertrude Atherton | ... be divided into large parcels and would not contain businesses. The author | , daughter-in-law to Faxon D. Atherton wrote in "The Californians", "Menlo ... |
Charles Dickens | ... character Little Dorrit (Amy) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper (née Mitton): | sometimes visited her and her family; they lived in The Cedars, a house on ... |
Apuleius | ... m Syria her worship extended to Greece and to the furthest West. Lucian and | give descriptions of the beggar-priests who went round the great cities wi ... |
H. G. Wells | ... approach by Wyndham (itself more than a little reminiscent of that taken by | in The War of the Worlds) was a reaction against what he described as the ... |
Erich Segal | ... early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned storytelling, especially with | 's Love Story. The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respe ... |
Nick Cave | ... elicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers. Others influenced by the genre include | , Paul Kelly, The John Butler Trio and |
Rabelaisian | ... y's New York Times obituary described him via a character sketch: "He was a | figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of w ... |
Aldous Huxley | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as | and George Orwell to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the ... |
Alan Moore | ... ances in the comic book series Swamp Thing, where he had been introduced by | during his authorship of the title, the character was given his own comic ... |
William Shatner | ... BC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man. | corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... es, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | . Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan ... |
Jostein Gaarder | ... ibiki Unbalance manga, being translated and published by Del Rey/Tanoshimi. | 's books often feature this device. Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, wh ... |
Éric Rohmer | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially | , Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and pr ... |
Oliver Goldsmith | ... en condemned as a gigantic swindle on the part of large landowners. In 1770 | wrote The Deserted Village, deploring rural depopulation. An anonymous pro ... |
Ross Laidlaw | ... venson's Catriona and The Lion is Rampant by contemporary Scottish novelist | |
Charles Dickens | Novelists such as | often used passages of satiric writing in their treatment of social issues ... |
William Makepeace Thackeray | ... feelings; and a peep at the Frontispiece sets the animal spirits capering". | in Fraser's Magazine (February 1844) pronounced the book, "a national bene ... |
Aleister Crowley | ... rituals of the Ordo Templi Orientis which had been devised by the occultist | . Gardner had gained access to these rituals in 1946, when he had purchase ... |
Jean-Paul Sartre | ... ussed by a number of twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including | and Noam Chomsky |
Lisa Scottoline | ... rk), El McMeen (guitarist), Norman Pearlstine (editor-in-chief of Time) and | (author of legal thrillers) |
Jonathan Franzen | ... 2) likely are based on Gaddis. Authors clearly influenced by Gaddis include | (The Corrections), David Markson (Epitaph for a Tramp), Joseph McElroy (A ... |
Adam Gopnik | ... rt of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in Kirk Varnedoe and | 's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Art at New York's ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include | , Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably m ... |
Romain Rolland | ... of the Ministry of War, and soon acquired a pacifist stand like his friend | , recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915. Zweig remained a pacif ... |
Saul Bellow | ... eventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as | and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start ... |
Samuel Richardson | ... cal articles and newspapers. Almost by accident, in anger at the success of | 's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Fielding took to writing novels in 1741 and ... |
Albert Camus | ... f a Condemned Man) would have a profound influence on later writers such as | , Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary shor ... |
Lucian | ... onification, which he carried far in his rendering of Calumny, described by | , in which an innocent youth is falsely accused by Ignorance, Envy, Treach ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... alloping hoofbeat rhythm, is a prime late Victorian example of this, though | had written a scathing reply, The Last of the Light Brigade, criticising t ... |
Jonathan Swift | ... uel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, | and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the ... |
Antonia Fraser | ... Baron Burgh in 1529, at the age of seventeen. However since the release of | The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six ... |
Christopher Isherwood | ... radbury's work is sharply divided. In his review of The Martian Chronicles, | wrote |
Saddam | ... ts pedestal. The pro-Chávez website Aporrea wrote: "Just like the statue of | in Baghdad, that of Columbus the tyrant also fell this October 12, 2004 in ... |
Alan Moore | ... s the streetwise magician John Constantine, following his popularity in the | run on Swamp Thing. It has been published continuously since January 1988, ... |