- John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) British philosopher, political economist and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an advocate of utilitarianism, the ethical theory that was systemized by his godfather, Jeremy Bentham, but adapted to German romanticism. It is usually suggested that Mill is an advocate of negative liberty. However, this has been contested by many academics, notably Dr. - Anthony Kennedy
Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) has been an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1988. Appointed by conservative President Ronald Reagan, he acts as the Court's swing vote in many cases, and as a result has held special prominence in many politically charged 5-4 decisions. - Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode (born Mark Fairey on 2 July 1963) is an English film critic who regularly writes for "Sight and Sound" magazine and "The Observer" newspaper. He is most famous for reviewing films on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio Five Live show on Friday afternoons, and is also the resident movie critic for "The Culture Show". He is also a critic on other branches of the arts for the BBC2 programme "Newsnight Review", … - Jason Priestley
Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is an actor and director. He is best known for his role as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210". On July 6, 2007, Priestley fathered a daughter Ava with his wife, Naomi. He became a U.S. citizen in 2007. - Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne (January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a USA composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. He has also been a reviewer for the All Music Guide (AMG), and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll. Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the form's conventions. He started studying other genres, including blues, country, bluegrass, free jazz, … - Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author, historian and film director from Tasmania, Australia. He was president of the Tasmania University Union and a Rhodes Scholar. - Paul Kearney
Paul Kearney is a fantasy author. He was born in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1967 and studied Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and Old Norse at Oxford University before spending several years in both the USA and Denmark before returning to Northern Ireland. He currently lives and writes in County Down. Kearney made his name with the stand-alone novels "The Way to Babylon" (1992), … - Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra is an emerging Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. He is married to writer Melanie Abrams and the couple both teach creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Chandra currently divides his time between Mumbai and Oakland, California. - Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He studied writing at City College of New York and practiced various professions before taking up writing full time. His first novel, "Our House in the Last World", was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, … - Kirsty Wark
Two children. Co-owner of Wark Clements production company with her husband A Guinness drinker. Holds a degree in Scottish Studies from Edinburgh University. - Midge Decter
Midge Decter (b. July 25, 1927 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American neoconservative journalist and author of various books, including: *"Losing the First Battle, Winning the War" *"The liberated woman and other Americans" *"Liberal Parents, … - Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel "White Oleander", which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon. Janet Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, … - Murat Kurnaz
Murat Kurnaz (born March 19, 1982 in Bremen, Germany) was held in extrajudicial detention and claims to have been tortured in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba for four years. Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, was in the process of becoming a German citizen when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001. His detainee ID number is 61. After being imprisoned for five years he was released and arrived in Germany August 24 2006. - Charles Brockden Brown
Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 - February 22, 1810), an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. Although Brown was by no means the first American novelist, … - Rosie Boycott
Rosel Marie Boycott (born 13 May 1951), better known as Rosie Boycott, is a British journalist and feminist. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and read mathematics at the University of Kent. After working briefly for the radical magazine "Friends" in 1971, Boycott was responsible, with Marsha Rowe, for founding the feminist magazine "Spare Rib" in 1971. In 1973 she co-founded Virago Press, with Carmen Callil and Marsha Rowe, … - James Hynes
James Hynes (born 1955) is an American novelist. He was born in Okemos, Michigan, and currently lives in Austin, Texas, where he has taught creative writing at the University of Texas. He has also taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Michigan, Miami University, and Grinnell College. Hynes received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. - Timothy Richard
Timothy Richard was a Baptist missionary to China who influenced the rise of the Chinese Republic. Richard was born on October 10, 1845, into a devout Baptist farming family in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Inspired by the Second Evangelical Awakening to become a missionary, Richard left teaching to enter Haverfordwest Theological College in 1865. There he dedicated himself to China. He applied to the newly-formed China Inland Mission, … - Mark Ovenden
Mark Ovenden (born 20 June 1963, London, UK) is an author who specialises in the subject of graphic design, cartography and architecture in public transport, with an emphasis on the underground railway. "See also Mark Ovenden (sportscaster)". His first book Metro Maps of the World is a comprehensive guide to the diagrams, plans and maps of every Subway, U-bahn, Underground and Metro system. - Robert B. Silvers
Robert B. Silvers (b. December 31 1929 in Mineola, New York) is editor of "The New York Review of Books", the leading liberal journal in the United States. He was co-editor with Barbara Epstein until her death in June 2006. He also serves on the editorial committee of "La Rivista dei Libri", the Italian language edition of the "Review". Silvers has edited anthologies of articles from the "Review", … - Meredith Sue Willis
Meredith Sue Willis (born 1946 in Clarksburg, West Virginia), is a writer and teacher probably best known as a member of the literary renaissance in Appalachia during the second half of the 20th century. She is also one of the seminal group of artists and writers who went into the public schools beginning in the late 1960's who have had an effect on the teaching of creative writing and the other arts. A well-known speaker and writer about the teaching of writing, … - Claudia Cassidy
Claudia Cassidy, born in Shawneetown, Illinois, was a music, dance, and drama critic. She was so well-known for giving caustic reviews to what she considered bad performances that she earned the nickname "Acidy Cassidy." Her judgment, however, which was regarded as extremely controversial even in her heyday, has been seriously doubted by more recent critics. She was unfailingly critical of the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelík, … - Anna Blundy
Anna Blundy, is a British author and journalist, educated at City of London School for Girls and Westminster School. "Every Time We Say Goodbye", her memoir of her father, the foreign correspondent David Blundy (March 21, 1945 – November 11, 1989), was published in 1998. Her series of novels about her female war correspondent heroine, Faith Zanetti, started with "The Bad News Bible" in 2004. The second in a series, "Faith Without Doubt", … - Smith Ely Jelliffe
Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866-1945). American neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst who lived and practiced in New York City nearly his entire life. Originally trained in botany and pharmacy, Jelliffe switched first to neurology in the mid-1890s then to psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and ultimately to psychoanalysis. One of the earliest Freudian adherents in the United States, Jelliffe (with the aid of his rarely attributed first wife, Helena Leeming Jelliffe, … - George Winterton
Professor George Winterton LL.B. (First Class Hons), LL.M. (WA); JSD (Columbia); Barrister (NSW), Barrister and Solicitor (Vic and WA) is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. Prior to his appointment to Sydney University in 2004, he taught for over 28 years at the University of New South Wales. He served as a member of the Executive Government Advisory Committee of the Constitutional Commission (1985-87). - Alvin M. Weinberg
Alvin Martin Weinberg (April 20, 1915 - October 18, 2006) was a nuclear physicist and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. - William Auld
William Auld (6 November, 1924 - 11 September, 2006) was a Scottish author and the deputy director of a grammar school. He began to study Esperanto in 1937, but only became active in the propagation of the language in 1947, and from then on wrote many works in Esperanto. Auld edited various magazines and reviews, including "Esperanto en Skotlando" (1949-1955), "Esperanto" (1955-1958, 1961-1962), of "Monda Kulturo" (1962-1963), … - Jennifer Diane Reitz
Jennifer Diane Reitz (born 1959 in Baker, Oregon) is an American writer, webcomic author, and computer programmer, known for creating webcomics such as "Unicorn Jelly", "Pastel Defender Heliotrope" and "To Save Her", and computer games such as "Boppin'". Reitz has created computer games and anime-style comics since 1981. Additionally, she writes game reviews and she co-founded a family company called Accursed Toys. - A. J. M. Smith
Arthur James Marshall Smith was a Canadian poet. Born in Montreal, he became a student at McGill University. While a student there in 1925 he founded the "McGill Fortnightly Review" alongside F.R. Scott. The "Review" was one of the first Canadian periodicals to publish modern poetry. Smith received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1931. In 1936 he became a professor at Michigan State University and taught there until his retirement in 1972. - Harold Luntz
Harold 'Harry' Luntz is an Australian law professor. He is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on torts law. He began publishing in academic journals in the early 1960s. Some of his appointments: * 1970 - Visiting Associate Professor at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. * 1971 - Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. * 1976 - Professor, University of Melbourne. * 1986-88, Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Melbourne. - Jorge Barbosa
Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa was a Cape Verdean poet and writer. He collaborated in various reviews and Portuguese and Cape Verdean journals. A publication of "Arquipélago" ("Archipelago") in 1935 marked the beginning of Capeverdean poetry, along with social and Political problems, it passed a constitution on large thematics of the writer. Jorge Barbosa was born on the 25 May, 1902 in the city of Praia, on the island of São Tiago and died in Cova da Piedade, … - Kenneth H. Wood
Kenneth H. Wood, Jr. (b. 1917) is a Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, editor, and administrator. Since 1980 he has has served as chairman of the Ellen G. White Estate board of trustees. By virtue of this position he also serves as an "ex officio" member of the General Conference Executive Committee. Wood graduated from Pacific Union College in 1938. In 1955 he became associate editor of the "Review and Herald" (now the "Adventist Review"). - Otto Hermann Kahn
Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21 1867 - March 29 1934) was an investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. - Alana Delong
Alana DeLong (b. Nelson, British Columbia) is a politician in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia and studied Computer Science at the University of Calgary. She has been president of Sterlingrock Systems Inc. and DeLong Beck Services Ltd. - Carl Rosman
Carl Rosman is an Australian clarinettist. Rosman studied with Phillip Miechel in Melbourne, then with Peter Jenkin at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has performed in many countries in Europe, Asia, Australasia and both North and South America as a soloist. He is known for his extreme virtuosity, and is closely associated with composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Richard Barrett, Chris Dench and Liza Lim, … - Thomas Roderick Dew
Thomas Roderick Dew was an American educator and writer; a son of Captain Thomas Dew and Lucy Gatewood Dew. His father was a Revolutionary War soldier and founder of Dewsville, a prosperous plantation near Newtown, King and Queen County, Virginia. He was born in King and Queen Co., Virginia, and graduated in 1820 at the College of William and Mary. - Victorino Matus
Victorino Matus is an assistant managing editor at The Weekly Standard . He has been with the magazine since 1996 and has written on a variety of subjects, including history, foreign policy, military affairs, and popular culture. His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard and in other publications, including Policy Review , National Review , the Wall Street Journal , and the Washington Post . - Rogelio de la Rosa
Rogelio de la Rosa was one of the most popular Filipino matinee idols of the 20th century. Elected to the Philippine Senate in 1957, he also was the first Filipino film actor who was able to parlay his fame into a substantial political career, paving the way for other then future Filipino entertainers-turned-politicians such as Congressman-then-Senator Eddie Ilarde, Senator Ramon Revilla Sr., Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr., Mayor-turned-Senator Jinggoy Estrada, … - Francis Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (October 23, 1773 - January 26, 1850) was a Scottish judge and literary critic. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of a clerk in the Court of Session. After attending high school for six years, he studied at the University of Glasgow from 1787 to May 1789, and at Queen's College, Oxford, from September 1791 to June 1792. He had begun the study of law at Edinburgh before going to Oxford, and returned to it afterwards. - Raffi Lavie
Raffi Lavie (Tel Aviv, 1937 - Tel Aviv, May 7 2007) was an Israeli artist, art educator and music and art critic. His work stands at the meeting-point of graffiti and abstract expressionism; it has been compared to that of Cy Twombly in the United States. He also reviewed of classical music albums for the Israeli weekly Ha'ir. He died of Pancreatic cancer at his home in Tel Aviv on May 7 2007. There was no funeral; his body was donated to the University of Tel Aviv. - Arthur Bingham Walkley
Arthur Bingham Walkley (1855-1926) was an English dramatic critic, born in Bristol, and educated at Balliol and Corpus Christi colleges, Oxford. He held important positions in the British postal service, but it was by his dramatic criticism that he became known over the English-speaking world to all interested in British dramatic and theatrical activities.
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