- Ed Wood, Jr. Bibliography
- Larry Williams
Larry R. Williams is a stock and commodities trader and technical analyst. Larry Williams is a graduate of the University of Oregon, with BS in Journalism. In 1982, his book "How to Prosper in the Coming Good Years" was published. It forecast the largest bull market and surge of economic growth the United States has ever seen. The book was written at a time when the majority of pundits were calling for slowdown in economic growth and stock market, …
- Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland was a French writer. His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings." His mind sculpted by a passion for music and discursive admiration for exceptional men, …
- Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) is an English novelist and art historian born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London. <br /> Brookner's father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had emigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory. Maude changed the family's surname to Brookner due to anti-German sentiment in England.
- Henri-Jean Martin
Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France, and the history of libraries and printing. Born in Paris, Henri-Jean Martin's initial professional position was that of "conservateur" in the "réserve des imprimés" of the Bibliothèque nationale, a position he held from 1947 to 1958.
- Mercer Mayer
Mercer Mayer (born December 10, 1943 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American children's book writer and illustrator. He has published over 300 books using a wide range of illustrative styles (see his bibliography for a list). Mayer is probably best known for his "Little Critter" and "Little Monster" series of books. Mayer's father was in the United States Navy, so the family moved many times during his childhood.
- Alfred W. Pollard
Alfred William Pollard (1859 - March 8, 1944) was an English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakeaperean texts. Pollard was educated at King's College School in London and St. John's College at Oxford University. He joined the staff of the British Museum in 1883, as assistant in the Department of Printed Books; he was promoted to Assistant Keeper in 1909, and Keeper in 1919.
- Martin Waddell
Martin Waddell is a prolific, award winning children's author, born in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland in 1941, most famous for his engaging "Big Bear, Little Bear" Series. Notes Bibliography Waddell, M The Alan Review Writer to ReaderVol 26 No 3 Spring, 1999 External Links Author Profile Bibliography Interview
- Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776 - November 18, 1847), English bibliographer, born at Calcutta, was the son of Thomas Dibdin, the sailor brother of Charles Dibdin. His father and mother both died on the way home to England in 1780, and Thomas was brought up by a maternal uncle. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and studied for a time at Lincoln's Inn. After an unsuccessful attempt to obtain practice as a provincial counsel at Worcester, …
- John Russell Fearn
John Russell Fearn(1908-1960) One of the first British writers to appear in US pulp science fiction magazines. He was a prolific writer who wrote Westerns and Crime fiction as well as science fiction. His writing appeared under numerous pseudonyms. He wrote series like "Adam Quirke", "Clayton Drew", "Golden Amazon", and "Herbert". At times these drew on the pulp traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- Henry Herringman
Henry Herringman (1628 - 1704) was a prominent London bookseller and publisher in the second half of the seventeenth century. He is especially noted for his publications in English Renaissance drama and English Restoration drama; he was the first publisher of the works of John Dryden. He conducted his business under the sign of the blue anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange. Herringman had established himself as an independent bookseller and publisher by 1655.
- Alexander MacFarlane
Alexander Macfarlane was a Scottish-Canadian logician, physicist, and mathematician. He was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland. During his life, Macfarlane played a prominent role in research and education. He was, at various times in his life, physics professor at the University of Texas, professor of Advanced Electricity, and later of mathematical physics, at Lehigh University, …
- Humphrey Moseley
Humphrey Moseley (died 1661) was a prominent publisher and bookseller in mid-17th-century England. He was admitted as a "freeman" to the Stationers Company, the guild of London booksellers, in 1627; he was selected Warden of the Company in 1659. His shop was located "at the signe of the Prince's Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard" in London. One of the most productive publishers of his era, Moseley's imprint exists on 314 surviving books.
- Yuri Bregel
Yuri Bregel was born in the U.S.S.R., and studied in the Oriental Faculty of the University of St. Petersburg (then Leningrad State University). This was the same institution which produced the great Vasily Bartold, and Bregel proved a more than worthy successor to this tradition of rigorous scholarship in the Islamic History of Central Asia. In 1974 he defected to the United States, …
- Garrett P. Serviss
Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York, and majored in science at Cornell. He took a law degree at Columbia, but never worked as an attorney. Instead, in 1876 he joined the staff of the New York Sun newspaper, working as a journalist until 1892 under editor Charles Dana.
- Louis Filler
Louis Filler (May 2, 1911 - December 22, 1998), a Philadelphia-reared, Columbia-trained writer on muckraking and abolitionism from 1939 to 1998, taught American civilization at Antioch College from 1946 to 1976. His anthologies and essays on Americans who influence public perception and values, as journalists, essayists, writers of fiction, editors, public speakers, poets, and politicians, …
- John Malcolm Brinnin
John Malcolm Brinnin (September 13, 1916- June 25, 1999) was an American poet and literary critic. Brinnin was born in Halifax Nova Scotia to two United States citizens. When still a boy, Brinnin's parents moved to Detroit, Michigan. Brinnin went to the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies where he won three Hopwood Awards in 1938, 1939 and 1940. He worked his way through school in an Ann Arbor book store.
- Tucker Max
Tucker Max is an American fratire writer known for chronicling his sexual and drunken exploits on his website, Tuckermax.com. The site includes a message board and reportedly clocks 1 million-1.5 million unique visitors each month. While he had previously published two modestly selling books (See bibliography), his latest effort, "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" made the Paperback Nonfiction "also-selling" section of the New York Times Best Seller list in both, …
- Digby Fairweather
Digby Fairweather (b. Rochford, Essex, UK, April 25 1946) is a British jazz trumpeter and cornettist. Fairweather has been a professional jazz musician since January 1, 1977, but worked for seven years before this date with several local jazz bands in the Essex area and recorded his first album in 1975. When turning professional, Fairweather helped found the Keith Nichols Midnite Follies Orchestra, started recording solo albums, …
- Narcissus Luttrell
Narcissus Luttrell was an English historian, diarist, and bibliographer, and briefly Member of Parliament for two different Cornish towns (Rayment). He wrote a chronicle of Parliament from 1678 to 1714, distilled from his diary. Though Luttrell was for almost all this period a private citizen and relied primarily on secondary sources for the workings of Parliament, he is often the best source available for legal and political matters of the time.
- Jacques Charles Brunet
Jacques Charles Brunet (1780-1867), French bibliographer, was born in Paris 2nd November 1780. He was the son of a bookseller, and in 1802 he printed a supplement to the "Dictionnaire bibliographique de livres rares" (1790) of Duclos and Cailleau. In 1810 there appeared the first edition of his "Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur des livres" (3 vols.). Brunet published successive editions of his great bibliographical dictionary, …
- Cyrus Ghani
Cyrus Ghani is a lawyer and scholar specializing in Iranian studies. He is the author of Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah and Iran and the West: A Critical Bibliography. He was born in Iran and has lived in Tehran, Los Angeles, London, and New York City, where he now resides. Mage has published his books Iran and the West, Man of Many Worlds: The Diaries and Memoirs of Dr. Ghasem Ghani, and My Favorite Films. He also edited the thirteen-volume Memoirs.
- Cub Koda
Michael "Cub" Koda was a rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler. Koda is perhaps best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys' Room," which reached #3 in the Billboard charts in 1974 when performed by Koda's group Brownsville Station, and was later covered by Mötley Crüe.
- George Dalgarno
George Dalgarno was a Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems. Originally from Aberdeen, he later worked in Oxford in collaboration with John Wilkins, although the two parted company intellectually in 1659. Dalgarno is the author of "Didascalocophus or the Deaf and Dumb man’s tutor" (1680), which proposed a totally new linguistic system for use by deaf mutes. The system is still used in the United States.
- Johann Samuel Ersch
Johann Samuel Ersch was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography. He was born at Großglogau (now Głogów), in Silesia. In 1785 he entered the University of Halle with the view of studying theology; but soon became more interested in history, bibliography and geography. At Halle he made the acquaintance of Johann-Ernst Fabri, professor of geography; and when Fabri was made professor of history and statistics at Jena, …
- Christine Wallace
Christine Wallace (born 1960) is an Australian political journalist and biographer. During the 1990s Wallace's articles in the "The Australian Financial Review" were very critical of Dr John Hewson, then leader of the opposition Liberal Party and whose radical right-wing programme, "Fightback", anticipated the political agenda of the Howard Government. Her biography of Hewson and her influence contributed to his political demise.
- Yuan Cai
Yuan Cai was a Song dynasty scholar and official, best known for penning the "Yuan shi shi fan", a manual of advice addressed to family heads on the subject of how to handle their responsibilities. Yuan was born in Xin'an, the capital of Quzhou prefecture, to an established gentry family. In the 1150s he was a student at the National University (大学) at the Southern Song capital of Hangzhou.
- John Berlyne
John Berlyne is a British actor and science fiction reviewer. He is the UK reviews editor for webzine "SFRevu.com". He also maintains the extensive Tim Powers web site, "The Works of Tim Powers". His exhaustive bibliography of Tim Powers - in effect a book-length study of Powers' work - has been expected for some time. It is published by PS Publishing.
- Rea Wilmshurst
Rea Wilmshurst (1941-March 22, 1996) graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in English in 1970. She went on to edit 8 volumes of Lucy Maud Montgomery's previously unknown short stories and publish them through McClelland & Stewart. In 1985, she published a bibliography of Montgomery's short stories, poems, and articles.
- Simon Levack
Simon Levack (b.1965) is a British author of historical mystery novels. To date he has published three books: "Demon of the Air", "Shadow of the Lords" and "City of Spies". All are set in Precolumbian Mexico on the eve of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and feature as the protagonist a fictitious slave to Tlilpotonqui, the "Cihuacóatl" or chief minister in the Aztec state of Tenochtitlan under Hueyi Tlatoani, or Emperor, Moctezuma II.
- Donald Moffitt
Donald Moffitt is a science fiction author who has written "The Genesis Quest" and "Second Genesis". Bibliography "(incomplete)" *"The Genesis Quest" (1986) *"Second Genesis" (1986) *"The Jupiter Theft" (1977) *Crescent in the Sky (1990) *A Gathering of Stars (1990) *Jovian (2003)
- Andrew R. Heinze
Andrew R. Heinze (born January 21, 1955) is a scholar of American history. Currently residing in New York City, he was on the faculty of the University of San Francisco from 1993 until 2006, where he was Professor of U. S. History and Director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program. He received his B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College (1977) and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. (1987) in American History from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Ben Jonson Folios
The folio collections of Ben Jonson's works published in the seventeenth century were crucial developments in the publication of English literature and English Renaissance drama. The first folio collection, issued in 1616, treated stage plays as serious works of literature instead of popular ephemera-at the time, a controversial position. The 1616 folio stood as a precedent for other play collections that followed-most notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, …
- Conrad Hilberry
Conrad Hilberry (born 1928, Ferndale, Michigan) is an American poet. Hilberry went to Oberlin College for his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts, and continued his studies with a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a professor of English at Kalamazoo College from 1962-1998. Hilberry is the author of nine books of poetry. Hilberry is also the author of "Luke Karamazov" (1987), a nonfiction first person narrative of two sociopaths.
- B.S. Kesavan
Padma Shri B.S. Kesavan is the first National Librarian of independent India. He is also known as "Father of Indian National Bibliography" as it was first brought out in its leadership on August 151958. Later, he became the first Director of the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC) at New Delhi. In recognition of his great service to the nation, the Government of India honoured him with Padma Shri. He died on February 162000, at the age of 91.
- Yosef Goldman
Yosef Goldman, a scholar of American Jewish history, is the author of the two-volume reference work, "Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography" (2006). This work is usually cited by auctioneers and rare-book dealers. His collection of early American Judaica and Hebraica is purported to be one of the most comprehensive in the world. Goldman was born in 1942 in Neupest (now Újpest), a suburb of Budapest, Hungary, …
- Andrei Bogdanov
Andrei Ivanovich Bogdanov (1692 - September 11 1766) was one of the first Russian bibliographers and ethnographers. Andrei Bogdanov had studied at Academician gimnasium (a gimnasium of Russian Academy of Sciences). His father was a gunpowder-maker and Andrei had assisted him in his work. In 1727 according to Peter the Great's edict Bogdanov began work at the field of typographical art.
- Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski
Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski was a Croatian historian, politician and writer. Most famous for the first speech delivered in Croatian before the Parliament, this patriot and cultural figure did some pioneering work in Croatian historiography and bibliography. He was an avid collector of valuable historical documents.
- Louisa Leaman
Louisa Leaman (born 24 June 1976) is a writer and behaviour expert based in London UK. In 2004 she won a writing competition in the "Times Educational Supplement". This led to a publishing deal with Continuum International Publishing. She has since had four books published. The latest, "The Dictionary of Disruption", was published in May 2007. They are all on the subject of behaviour management in education.
- Johann Ritter von Oppolzer
Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (August 4, 1808 -- April 16, 1871was an Austrian physician and father of astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer (1841–1886). He was a university professor at Prague, Leipzig and Vienna where he was appointed Rector in 1861. Oppolzer was an advocate of holistic diagnostics and therapy in his approach to medicine. He was also a major influence in the career of renowned otologist Adam Politzer.