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Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale
Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale 1788-1879, American author, editor, and feminist, b. near Newport, N.H. In 1828 she became editor of the Ladies' Magazine, Boston, and in 1837 of Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, where she remained over 40 years. The illustrated Lady's Book strongly influenced... Read more |
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John G Neihardt
Neihardt, John G(neisenau) (1881-1973) Eminent American poet and author who also founded an organization for parapsychological research known as SORRAT (the Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis). Neihardt was born on January 8, 1881, near Sharpsburg, Illinois, the son of a farmer. He... Read more |
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Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Miller Stewart 1803–1879 Public speaker, author, teacher At a Glance… Wrote Abolitionist Essays Delivered Public Lectures Was Silenced by Critics Became a Teacher and Matron Sources Maria W. Miller Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to... Read more |
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Donatus
Donatus (Aelius Donatus) , fl. 353, Roman grammarian; teacher of St. Jerome. His only well-known work, the Ars grammatica [elements of grammar], was throughout the Middle Ages the standard elementary Latin grammar.... Read more |
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Carl Deuker
Deuker, Carl 1950-PersonalBorn August 26, 1950, in San Francisco, CA; son of John and Marie Deuker; married Anne Mitchell (a teacher), 1978; children: Marian. Education: University of California at Berkeley, B.A., 1972; University of Washington, M.A., 1974; University of California at Los Angeles,... Read more |
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Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) helped to shape the American publishing business into what it is today. A writer and television personality, Cerf was also an active editor and enthusiastic promoter of the writers published by his company, Random House. In the 1930s he led a successful... Read more |
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch , 1893-1970, American author, editor, and teacher, b. Knoxville, Tenn., grad. Univ. of Tennessee, 1915, Ph.D. Columbia, 1923. He was on the editorial staff of the Nation (1924-52), and held a professorship at Columbia (1937-53). Highly regarded as a social and literary critic,... Read more |
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Eric Rohmer
ROHMER, Eric Nationality:French. Born:Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in Nancy, France, 4 April 1920. Career:Taught literature teacher at lycée, Nancy, 1942–50; was a film critic, from 1948; founder, with Godard and Rivette, of La Gazette du Cinéma, Paris,... Read more |
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Gary Paulsen
Paulsen, Gary 1939-PersonalBorn May 17, 1939, in Minneapolis, MN; son of Oscar (an army officer) and Eunice Paulsen; married third wife, Ruth Ellen Wright (an artist), May 5, 1971; children: (first marriage) two; (third marriage) James Wright. Education: Attended Bemidji College, 1957-58, and... Read more |
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