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Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885-1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to 1919. His first collection of short stories, You Know Me, Al (1916) revealed his talent for the racy sports idiom he... Read more
blowgun
blowgun hollow tube from which a dart or an arrow is blown by a person's breath. The arrow was usually tipped with a poison, such as curare , which would stun or kill the struck prey. Blowguns were widely used by prehistoric peoples. In modern times they are still employed in SE Asia and by some i... Read more
Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone , 1892-1986, American historian and editor, b. Coldwater, Miss. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1923 and was an instructor of history at Yale (1919-23) and associate professor (1923-26) and professor (1926-29) at the Univ. of Virginia. He was an editor of the Dictionary of American ... Read more
Count Folke Bernadotte
Count Folke Bernadotte , 1895-1948, Swedish internationalist; nephew of King Gustavus V. He was active in the Swedish Red Cross and became its president in 1946. Early in 1945 he arranged the evacuation of Danish and Norwegian prisoners from German concentration camps and conveyed a peace offer from... Read more
Perry Miller
Perry Miller 1905-63, U.S. historian, b. Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Chicago in 1931 and taught at Harvard from 1931 until his death. A towering figure in the field of American intellectual history, Miller wrote extensively, especially about colonial New England. In The New En... Read more
Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash 1902-71, American poet, b. Rye, N.Y., studied at Harvard. He was popular for a wide assortment of witty and immensely quotable doggerel verses, ranging from urbane satire to absurdity in their subject and rhyme. For several decades his work appeared regularly in The New Yorker magazine... Read more
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Rothschild Parker), 1893-1967, American short-story and verse writer, b. West End, N.J. While serving as drama critic for Vanity Fair (1916-17) and book critic for The New Yorker (1927), she gained an almost legendary reputation for her sardonic wit. Her first volume of ... Read more
William Beckford
William Beckford 1760-1844, English author. A wealthy dilettante, Beckford had a great desire to ascend to the nobility. Unfortunately his erratic and strange behavior often worked against his ambitions. About 1796 he built in Wiltshire an extravagant Gothic castle, Fonthill Abbey, where he lived i... Read more
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin , 1915-98, American critic, b. New York City, grad. College of the City of New York (B.S., 1935) and Columbia (M.A., 1938). Kazin was one of the outstanding literary critics of his time. His first book, the influential and pioneering On Native Grounds (1942), is a critical study of Am... Read more
S. N. Behrman
S. N. Behrman (Samuel Nathaniel Behrman) , 1893-1973, American dramatist, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Harvard 1916. His sophisticated comedies often attempt to probe the consciences of the wealthy and privileged. They include The Second Man (1927), Rain from Heaven (1934), No Time for Comedy ... Read more

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John George Diefenbaker
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...It was from this love of books that young John learned of...the Opposition Party. In a stunning upset in the 1957 election...legislation flooded the statute books, helping pensioners and farmers...Diefenbaker, although an official biography has been in preparation. The...
Chaim Herzog
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of Israel. Reviewing Chaim Herzog's biography suggests how his background, education...stressful period preceding Israel's stunning victory in the June Six Day War, Reserve...next three years writing an acclaimed book on the 1973 war, lecturing abroad, and...
Albert Schweitzer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...received and quickly became a standard source book. Renunciation and Dedication Meanwhile, Schweitzer's biography of J. S. Bach, written in 1905, had...spring morning in 1905, he experienced a stunning religious revelation: it came to him...

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Zhang Yimou
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Quarterly, Winter 1999. On ZHANG YIMOU: book— Wang, Pin, Chang I-mou...March 1992. "Zhang Yimou," in Current Biography, August 1992. Hoberman, J., "China...characterized by their stark humanity and stunning visual imagery. Through 1995, they would...
Jennings, Talbot
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Hathaway) Publications By JENNINGS: books— No More Frontier (play...model of historical adventure, with stunning action setpieces such as the raid on...Edison the Man is one of the best film biographies, a sincere drama that succeeded in humanizing...
Sharaff, Irene
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Dearest (Perry) Publications By SHARAFF: book— Broadway and Hollywood: Costumes...Dance Magazine, November 1993. Current Biography, March 1997. * * * Making motion pictures...Sharaff merely sketched pretty dresses for stunning starlets, prestigious MGM studios would...
Midnight Express
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...and Best Score, 1978. Publications Books: Hayes, Billy and William Hoffer, Midnight...1993. "Parker, Alan," in Current Biography, vol. 55, no. 3, March 1994...to Rolling Stone, he "found the same stunning ignorance of international law among college...

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BOOKS: Stunning biography from a happy author; John Stuart Mill - Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves. Atlantic Books. pounds 30.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 12/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...on BBC2 and wrote a book called Happy Mondays...fact, having read the book, I got a very different answer. This is a stunning achievement: a biography of a man famous for...preferred a man who sold books to one who wrote them...that so many earlier biographies made it. Instead...not ...
The strange affair of Bill Clinton, the 'stunning divorcee' and a kiss that wasn't what it seemed Book row: Doctored photo intensifies furore over muck-raking biography of Hillary Clinton
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 6/26/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...over a muck-raking biography of Hillary Clinton has...that a photograph in the book was doctored to support...cropped photograph in the book of former President Clinton...torrid affair with a stunning divorcee in her early...the picture is the 'stunning divorcee'. But the...
Biography of Roosevelt Is Solid if Not Stunning
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/7/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...not just because Bill Clinton clinched the White House. Biographies of Truman, JFK and Lincoln (and Eleanor Roosevelt) grabbed...little fanfare at the end of the year, but this one-volume biography is a worthy if straightforward introductory encapsulation...recent crop of presidential contenders. Jocelyn ...
Sam Cooke: New Biography Uncovers The Soul-Stirring Tale Of Music
Newspaper article from: Sacramento Observer; 4/12/1995; ; 648 words ; ...1995 Sam Cooke: New Biography Uncovers The Soul-Stirring...Soul music." Now in a stunning biography by music journalist...system in the South. The book ends with disturbing...to popular music. The book also delves into the...entertainers," the book reads, "but Sam was...
Unfinished Symphony; A stunning best seller about WWII--by a writer who didn't survive it.("Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 7/3/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...grainy and bleak. That makes the stunning novel "Suite Francaise...the more remarkable. As the book opens and the Nazis approach...only deepens the impact of her book. Born to a wealthy Russian...in Toulouse, she opened the book. Not only was she surprised...
The best children's books of the year
Newspaper article from: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.; 1/2/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...the one that has book titles on it. Figuring out which books were our favorites...were fact-based biographies. For those lucky...Herald's Best Kids Books of the Year.Nonfiction...beloved picture books reveals the source...This visually stunning biography explores the ...
Funny, teasing, epic, mov ving, spellbindingly sad; Our reviewers pick their favourites from a fine year for new books.(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 11/28/2005; 700+ words ; ...ponce is writing his biography and it's "bollocks...funniest and most moving book I've read this...World War. This stunning biography reveals...claims for their books. Their stories are...think about. This book does not fit into...short time in the book world. The ...
THEY MUST BE KIDDING; HENRY SUTTON fails to find any revelations in the first biography of Hollywood siren Nicole Kidman NICOLE KIDMAN: THE BIOGRAPHY By Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred Headline pounds 17.99.(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 7/13/2002; 700+ words ; ...is the first "full" biography of the stunning Aussie actress and former...why - certainly this book doesn't even hint at...though not in this book), go-kart racer...again, not in the book - that she's not quite...
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Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 4/7/2001; ; 662 words ; ...Elizabeth Cook's slim but stunning 'biography' fillets out the story...but the rest of the book is wonderful. Perdido...The Weakest Link Quiz Book (Penguin, #5.99...general knowledge. The book comes with instructions...
Father superior.(book)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...than Joseph J. Ellis in this new book. Ellis, whose Founding Brothers...wrote American Sphinx (1997), a stunning biography of Jefferson, and Passionate Sage...material for every chapter of Ellis' book. More intimately than ever we see...