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Richard Powers

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Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and his family later moved a few miles...

John Barnes

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John Barnes is a prolific American science fiction author, whose stories often explore questions of individual moral responsibility within a larger social context. Social criticism is...

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The...

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall is a programmer and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University...

Henry Miller

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Henry Valentine Miller , was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture...

Craig Thomas

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David Craig Owen Thomas is a Welsh author of thrillers, notably the "Mitchell Gant" series. He was educated at Cardiff High School and University College, Cardiff, obtaining his...

Steve Moore

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Steve Moore is a prolific British comics writer. He is credited with showing Alan Moore , then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts. Moore 's career...

Richard Adams

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Richard George Adams is an English novelist who is best known as the writer of three novels featuring animal characters, in particular Watership Down and to a lesser extent Shardik and...

Richard Cook

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Richard David Cook was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive. Sometimes credited as R. D. Cook, Cook was born in Kew, Surrey and...

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States , the principal author of the Declaration of Independence , and one of the most...

Richard Morgan

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Richard K. Morgan is a British science fiction author. Morgan studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation he started teaching English in order to travel the world...

Susan Hill

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Susan Hill is a British author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include the The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received...

William Kennedy

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William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American...

John Richardson

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John Richardson is a British art historian who lives in London, England. John Richardson is best known for his acclaimed biography of the artist Pablo Picasso, A Life of Picasso, of which...

Roy Thomas

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Roy Thomas is a comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing...

Tom Terry

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Tom Terry is an American author and broadcaster currently residing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Terry works as the managing director of Eagle TV, which became one of the most popular TV...

Mark Morris

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Mark Morris is an author most well known for his series of horror novels, although he has also written two novels based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He currently...

Kevin Joseph

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Kevin Joseph is a former pitcher who last played professional baseball in 2003. Joseph attended Rice University, which has had many alumni become Major...

Michael Palin

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Michael Edward Palin, CBE is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel...

Johnny Cash

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Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter. Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential...

Scott Adams

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Scott Raymond Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires and experimental philosophy books. Scott Adams was born...

Brian Moore

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Brian Moore was an Irish novelist. He was acclaimed for his descriptions of life in Northern Ireland in the post-war era, in particular...

Leslie What

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Leslie What is a writer of fantasy and literary fiction and nonfiction. She began publishing in 1992 with a story for Asimov's Science Fiction. In 1999 she won the Nebula Award...

Howard Fast

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Howard Melvin Fast was a Jewish American novelist and television writer, who wrote also under the pen names E. V. Cunningham...

David Leo

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David Leo is a writer in Singapore. Leo received a Publishers Prize for Ah … The Fragrance of Durians & Other Stories in 1993, a National Book Department Council Book Awards for works in...

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