- Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1921) is an American writer, editor, was the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist. Though no longer officially connected to the company, save for the title of "Chairman Emeritus", Stan Lee remains a visible face in the industry. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he introduced complex, … - Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Stern hosts "The Howard Stern Show" four days a week (Monday-Thursday) on Howard 100, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" (a humorous reference to Michael Jackson's appellation "The King of Pop") has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological, sexual and racial humor. - Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. - Basil Blackwell
Sir Basil Blackwell was born Henry Blackwell in Oxford, England. He was the son of the founder of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, which went on to become the Blackwell's family publishing and bookshop empire, located on Broad Street in central Oxford. In 1921, he founded his own publishing group, the Shakesphere Head Press, with Bernard Newdigate as typographer. This he integrated into the family book business when he became chairman in 1924. - Victor Gollancz
Sir Victor Gollancz (April 9 1893-February 8 1967) was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian. Born in London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz; after taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher. Gollancz served in the British Army in World War I. In 1917 he became involved in the Reconstruction Committee, … - Adam C. Engst
Brief Bio Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and most-respected Internet-based newsletters, distributed weekly to tens of thousands of readers. He has written numerous technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles - thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. - William Heinemann
William Heinemann was the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London. He was born in 1863, in Surbiton, Surrey and died in London in 1920. He founded his publishing house in Covent Garden in 1890. The company introduced many translations of the classics in to Great Britain. He bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, the W. H. Heinemann Award, given from 1945 to 2003. - L. E. Modesitt Jr.
L. E. (Leland Exton) Modesitt, Jr. (b. 1943 in Denver, Colorado) is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series "The Saga of Recluce". He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C. for 20 years, then moved to New Hampshire in 1989 where he met his wife. They relocated to Cedar City, Utah in 1993. He has worked as a Navy pilot, lifeguard, delivery boy, unpaid radio disc jockey, … - Jon Udell
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and groupware evangelist. He has been an independent consultant, was BYTE Magazine's editor-at-large, executive editor, and Web maven, and once upon a time was a developer at Lotus. In June 2002 he joined InfoWorld as lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. He also writes a monthly column for the O'Reilly Network. - Alexandra Sokoloff
Alexandra Sokoloff is an American novelist and screenwriter. Her first novel, "The Harrowing", was published by St. Martin's Press in 2006. Her second novel, "The Price," will be published by St. Martin's in 2007. She also co-wrote the screenplay for the psychological thriller "Cold Kisses" - Jp Rangaswami
JP Rangaswami (born 12 November 1957 in Calcutta, India) lived in Calcutta for half his life before emigrating to the United Kingdom. He studied Economics and Statistics at St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, specializing in developmental economics. Originally an economist and financial journalist, he has worked with technology in finance since 1980 with a number of large multinationals. He was named CIO of the Year by Waters Magazine in 2003, … - Judaica Press
Judaica Press is an Orthodox Jewish publishing house founded in New York City in 1963 by S. Goldman, and then taken over by his son Jack Goldman in response to the growing demand for books of scholarship in the English-speaking Jewish world. In addition to undertaking the now ubiquitous Judaica Press "Mikraoth Gedoloth Nach" (Prophets and Writings of the Tanakh-Hebrew Bible) series, … - Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth is a business journalist and writer, resident in London. He is currently Blogging Editor for Reed Business Information, leading a major push by the businesss-to-business publisher into blogs. Previously, he was Features Editor of Estates Gazette, a weekly business magazine for the UK commercial real estate industry. He began his journalistic career by working on student magazines at Imperial College, London and Queen Mary, … - Robert Hoffman
Robert K. Hoffman (died August 19, 2006) was an American businessperson and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the influential humor magazine "National Lampoon", later the cornerstone of a film and publishing franchise. Born in Dallas, Texas, Hoffman graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas in 1965. - Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell (September 27, 1920 - March 29, 2006) was an American novelist, short story and screenwriter. He is probably best-known as the author of the Hollywood horror novel "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" He was born Charles Farrell Myers in California, and grew up in Coalinga. Later taking the pseudonym Henry Farrell, his first novel was "The Hostage", which was published in 1959. - Thomas Thomson
Thomas Thomson was a Scottish chemist. Born Crieff, Perthshire, he was educated at the University of St. Andrews in classics, mathematics and natural philosophy. He went on to graduate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1799. However, he was inspired by Joseph Black to take up chemistry. In 1796, he succeeded his brother James as assistant editor of the "Supplement to the Third Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica", … - Edward Rutherfurd
Edward Rutherfurd, suggested pseudonym for "Francis Edward Wintle" (born 1948), is the author of a series of novels chronicling the history of settlements through their development up to modern day, mixing fictional characters and families with real people and events - a kind of historical fiction pioneered by James Michener. He was born in Salisbury, England, educated at the universities of Cambridge and Stanford, and previously worked in publishing. - John Steel
John Steel (born 4 February 1941, in Gateshead, England) was the original drummer of the band, The Animals. Steel went to the Grammar School for Boys, Gateshead. He met the future lead singer of The Animals, Eric Burdon, while they were studying together at the Newcastle College of Art and Industrial Design. Originally a trumpeter, he and Burdon formed a jazz group in 1957 called The Pagan Jazzmen. They soon switched instruments and embraced the new rock 'n' roll explosion, … - Bernarr MacFadden
Bernarr Macfadden (16 August 1868, Mill Spring, Missouri - 12 October 1955) was an influential exponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He additionally founded the long-running magazine publishing company Macfadden Publications. - Amanda Ross
Amanda Ross was recently rated as the most influential person in British publishing. As the creator of the Richard and Judy Book Club, Ross is charged with choosing ten books each year for discussion. Joint managing director of Cactus Television (the company that makes Richard & Judy), Ross was the brains behind the idea for the book club. She noted "if a book was on the show, it would always go straight into the charts". - Large Professor
William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1972 in Flushing, Queens, New York), best known as Large Professor, also as Large Pro and the Extra P, is a New York based hip hop record producer and MC. He is best known as a member of the influential underground hip hop group Main Source, and for discovering popular rapper Nas. - Mike Curtis
Mike Curtis is the owner and co-founder of the comic book publishing company Shanda Fantasy Arts and creator of popular Furry comic "Shanda the Panda". Curis has been a theatre manager, a reporter, and a writer, using all these life experiences in his work. His work is known for being anthropomorphic, and is meant to be very realistic. He doesn't shy away from controversial real-life issues such as racism, homosexuality and divorce. - Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. - Henry Hardy
Henry Hardy is a British author and editor. He studied philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Wolfson College, Oxford, where he met Wolfson's then President, Isaiah Berlin. Hardy's first major publication was a collection of writings by Arnold Mallinson, an eccentric Oxford clergyman with whom he lodged for a time; he published this work under his own imprint (Robert Dugdale). He also, while still a student, composed a number of musical pieces, … - James Greenwood
James Greenwood (b 1832 - d 1929) was a British social explorer, journalist and writer. The "Daily Telegraph" on July 6, 1874, published an article written by James Greenwood, in which he reported on June 24, 1874 to have witnessed a human-baiting. In 1876, Greenwood republished the article in his book "Low-Life Deeps" in the chapter called In the Potteries. - Jeff Peters
Jeff Peters is a consultant, author and speaker whose work is widely known in the Fusebox community. He has written several books, both for New Riders and Proton Arts, and articles for magazines including "ColdFusion Developers Journal" and "Pocket PC Magazine". Mr. Peters' GrokFusebox website is a collection of resources for Fusebox developers. He is also co-host of the Helms and Peters Out Loud podcast. - Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey née Benjamin was a science fiction editor. Born with dwarfism, she was a fan and regular attendee at science fiction conventions and worked her way up the publishing ladder, starting with work at the SF magazine "Galaxy". Judy-Lynn was friends with Lester del Rey and after the death of his third wife married him. After moving to Ballantine Books, she revitalized the publisher's once-prominent science fiction line there, … - Lauren Christy
Lauren Christy is a singer and songwriter born in London, England. She studied at the Bush Davies Ballet School from age 11 to 17, before she decided to become a musical artist. She was a member of several bands. Her first band, Pink Ash, consisted of six male members and herself. She called herself "Susie Reptile". After frantically writing and looking for inspiration from her keyboards, … - Miep Gies
Unfortunately, one day Miep received a letter from the Nazis asking her to report to the German Consulate. Word had traveled to the Nazis that she had refused to join a Nazi Girls' Club. They invalidated her passport and told her that she must return to Vienna within 3 months. In order to avoid going back to Vienna she would have to marry a Dutchman. However, she could not do this without her birth certificate, which was located in Vienna. - Harry McCracken
Named Editor in Chief of PC World in March 2004, Harry McCracken oversees all editorial and design for PC World, PCWorld.com, and the PC World Test Center. His areas of expertise include the Internet, PC service and support, digital imaging, and other aspects of technology; his "Up Front" column opens each issue of the magazine. McCracken also authors PC World's Techlog, a Web log with news, opinions, and links on PCWorld.com. - Kaci Brown
Kaci Deanne Brown (born July 7, 1988) is an American pop/R&B singer. Brown was born in Sulphur Springs, Texas to James Michael Brown, Jr. and Annette Marie Thomas. Before attaining a record contract, at the age of 13, Brown signed her first publishing contract with Still Working Music, the company owned and run by Roy Orbison's widow, Barbara. Brown performed every weekend at venues across the state, honing her skills, … - Matthew Fitt
Matthew Fitt is a Lowland Scots poet and novelist. He was born in 1968 in Dundee, Scotland. Previously writer-in-residence at Greater Pollok in Glasgow, he is currently National Scots Language Development Officer. In 2002 he and James Robertson founded 'Itchy Coo', a publishing imprint and educational project to reintroduce schoolchildren to the Scots tongue. His best known work is "But'n'Ben A-Go-Go", a cyberpunk novel in Lowland Scots. - Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-) - 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. - Michael Hollett
Michael Hollett is co-founder and co-owner of Toronto's longest-running free alternative newsweekly, "Now Magazine" and Now Communications Inc. He was also that magazine's first music editor. Hollett was born in Oakville, Ontario to journalist parents. While at York University studying English, Hollett became editor of the university newspaper, "Excalibur" during the late 1970s. - Jock Carroll
Jock Carroll, born in Toronto, (March 5, 1919 - August 5, 1995), worked as a writer, journalist and photographer for the Canadian media, including the Toronto Telegram. A former war correspondent and RCAF pilot, Carroll had also published six books, some about the magazine and publishing business. In 1952, Carroll was given an assignment to profile Marilyn Monroe on the set of the film "Niagara." The feature appeared in the Canadian "Weekend Magazine" that year, … - Herb Wharton
Herb Wharton (born 1936) is an Indigenous Australian former stockman and now internationally recognised poet and novelist. A Murri man, his maternal grandmother was Kooma, and both grandfathers Irish. He was born in Yumba, an Aboriginal camp in the south-western Queensland town of Cunnamulla. He has worked as a stockman, a drover and a labourer, but did not begin his writing career until he was around 50, in the 1980s, when he sat down under a tree and began to write. - Thomas Hailes Lacy
Thomas Hailes Lacy (1809 - August 1, 1873) was a British actor, playwright, theatrical manager, bookseller, and theatrical publisher. Lacy made his West End stage debut in 1828 but soon turned manager, a position he held from 1841 at "The Theatre", Sheffield (destroyed by fire in 1935). The following year, Lacy married actress Frances Dalton Cooper (1819 - 1872) in that city; the couple also toured England together. - Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay was born on 7 September, 1934 in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. Sunil got his Master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta in 1954. He has been associated with the Ananda Bazar group, a major publishing house in Kolkata, for many years, and is currently the Vice President of the Sahitya Akademi. Author of well over 200 books, Sunil is a prolific writer who has excelled in different genres but declares poetry to be his "first love". - William Targ
William Targ (1907-1999) was a successful book editor, well respected in the field of commercial publishing. He is perhaps best known for publishing Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather while editor in chief of G. P. Putnam's Sons. Targ was born in Chicago to Russian immigrants. His name was originally William Torgownik. A high-school dropout with a passion for books and letterpress printing, Targ took a job as an office boy at Macmillan Publishers when he was 18.
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