Donald James was the author of the bestselling novels Vadim, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and The Fall of the Russian Empire as well as non-fiction books such as...
Peter Stone was a writer for theater, television and movies. He was born in Los Angeles. His father John Stone was the writer and producer of...
Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. How the term MD is applied varies between countries - it is a first professional...
Peter Hillsman Taylor was an American short-story writer and novelist. Born to a wealthy Nashville family in Trenton, Tennessee, Taylor spent his early childhood between...
Michael Stewart was an American playwright and librettist. Born Michael Rubin in Manhattan, New York Stewart attended Queens College, and is a graduate of Yale School...
Dave Thomas is a computer programmer and author/editor. He has written about Ruby. Dave and partner Andy Hunt wrote the The Pragmatic Programmer and run The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing...
Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a British poet, novelist, theologian, and literary critic. Williams was born in London in 1886, the only son of Richard and Mary...
Charles Williams was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His...
Jane Self is author of the book 60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard. Self was a journalist for The Macon Telegraph and is currently features editor with The Tuscaloosa News...
John Frederick Lange, Jr. , better known under his pen name John Norman, is a professor of philosophy and an author. He is best known as the author of the book series Chronicles of Gor....
Bruce Lee was an American-born martial artist, philosopher, instructor,...
Robert Lull Forward, commonly known as Robert L. Forward, was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His fiction is noted for its scientific credibility,...
Mark Harris was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator. Harris was best known for a quartet of novels about baseball players:...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is...
Robert Dennis Harris is a best-selling English novelist. He is a former BBC TV reporter and journalist. He specialises in historical thrillers noted for their literary...
Frank Miller is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories. Miller spent his childhood in Montpelier, Vermont. Setting...
John "Jack" Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook...
Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 . Her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: sometimes a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror...
James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one...
Elizabeth Hand is an American writer. Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand...
David Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written four novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The latest, Black Swan Green, was longlisted for the 2006...
Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women...
Neil Percival Young OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and film director. Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar...
James Robert "Jim" Davis , is an American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield. Other comics that he has worked on include Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, U.S. Acres a.k.a....
Tony Martin is a comedian and writer from Te Kuiti, New Zealand who has had a successful TV, radio, stand-up and film career in Australia. In the 1980s, Martin was a writer and performer...