- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, … - Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." - Jim Lee
Jim Lee (born august 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, creator and publisher. After graduating from Yale, he decided to give comic book drawing a shot and was met with succes. Jim Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration, and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the latter 20th and early 21st century. - Nick Denton
Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters". - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She is the author of more than 50 works of fiction, an indefatigable reviewer, a creator of essays, plays, diaries and, under two pseudonyms, psychological thrillers. - Scott Adams
Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers. Born in Miami, Florida, Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers, in 1978 (on a 16KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in the BASIC programming language). These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN. - John Carter
John Carter was an English author and Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society. His 1934 exposé, "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets", co-written with author Graham Pollard, exposed the antique book forgery scheme of Harry Forman, the distinguished executive editor of Keats and Shelley publishers, and Thomas J. Wise, one of the world's most prominent book collectors. - Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell (born August 10 1955) is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of "From Hell" (written by Alan Moore), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical "Alec" stories, and "Bacchus" (aka "Deadface"), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day. His graphic novel "The Fate of the Artist", … - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - David Graham
David Graham is the pen name of Robert Hale, a British publisher who in the 1970s wrote his most famous piece of work, "Down to a Sunless Sea". - Jim Shooter
Jim Shooter (born September 27, 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books. - Wally Wood
Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and "Mad". Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. - Stuart Rothenberg
Stuart Rothenberg is the editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, a Washington-based, biweekly, non-partisan newsletter that reports on and analyzes the United States Presidential, House, Senatorial, and Gubernatorial elections and current political developments. Rothenberg holds a B.A. from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He has taught political science at Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, … - Frank Harris
Frank Harris (February 14, 1856 - August 27, 1931) was an Irish-American author, editor, journalist and publisher who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir "My Life and Loves", … - John Battelle
John Battelle , 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net . - Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 - October 9, 1987) was an American editor, playwright, social activist, politician, journalist, and diplomat. Witty, perceptive, and determined, she was also a prominent figure in New York society circles. - 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. - Peter Norton
Peter Norton (born November 14 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist. - Bennett Cerf
Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show "What's My Line?" - Byron Preiss
Byron Preiss (born 1953, Brooklyn, New York City; died July 9, 2005, East Hampton, New York) was an American writer, editor and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of iBooks. - Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers (10 July 1802 - 17 March 1871), Scottish author and publisher. - Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761) was a major 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: "Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded" (1740), "Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady" (1748) and "Sir Charles Grandison" (1753). Richardson had been an established printer and publisher for most of his life when, at the age of 51, … - Jim Steranko
James Steranko (born 5 November, 1938, Reading, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, publisher, and film production illustrator. His most famous comic-book work was with the 1960s superspy feature "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." in Marvel Comics' "Strange Tales" and in the subsequent eponymous series. - Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback, born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contribution to the genre as publisher was so significant, that along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction". - Al Goldstein
Alvin "Al" Goldstein (b. January 10 1936, New York City) is an American publisher and pornographer. Goldstein founded the tabloid "Screw" magazine. He was also the host and producer (with radio personality Alex Bennett) of "Midnight Blue", a New York leased-public access cable television series. His company, Milky Way Productions, home of "Screw" and his long-running cable show, "Midnight Blue", went into bankruptcy in 2004. - Tim Lucas
Tim Lucas is a film critic, novelist, blogger, and publisher/editor of the video review magazine "Video Watchdog". Born May 30, 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lucas began writing professionally at the age of 15, when his first reviews were accepted by the influential fantasy film review "Cinefantastique". He served as one of the magazine's midwestern bureaus for the next ten years. - Kaja Foglio
Kaja Foglio is a Seattle-based writer, artist and publisher. Foglio founded Studio Foglio, LLC in 1995 as a venue for her Magic: The Gathering art prints, but quickly expanded into publishing. She co-writes the comic book "Girl Genius" with her husband Phil, and is the chief graphic designer and Web-mistress for Studio Foglio and Airship Entertainment. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, … - Bill Jelen
Bill Jelen (born February 17, 1965 in Salem, Ohio) is a technology author, book publisher, webmaster, television personality, and a Microsoft Excel MVP. He majored in Business at University of Notre Dame. He currently resides outside of Akron, Ohio with his wife and two sons. Jelen is the author of "Guerilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel", "The Spreadsheet at 25 - The Evolution of the Invention That Changed the World", "Learn Excel from MrExcel". - Vera Nazarian
Vera Nazarian (born May 25,1966 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian-born American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books. She is an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the author of two novels, "Dreams of the Compass Rose", … - Terence Blacker
Terence Blacker , the versatile and high profile author of both children and adult fiction, was born 5th February 1948, near Hadleigh, Suffolk. Terence started off working in horse-racing and as an amateur jockey before moving into the world of books by working as a bookseller for Parks and then working for a publisher. In 1983 Terence became a full time professional writer. His first adult novel, FIXX, won critical acclaim and was described by the Guardian as a 'tour de force'. - Jason Epstein
Jason L. Epstein (born August 25, 1928) is an American editor and publisher. A 1949 graduate of Columbia College, Epstein was hired by Bennett Cerf at Random House, where he was the editorial director for forty years. He was responsible for the Vintage paperbacks, which published such authors as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, E. L. Doctorow, Gore Vidal, and Philip Roth. In 1952, while an editor at Doubleday, he created the Anchor Books imprint. - Gary Reed
Gary Reed is an American comic book writer who was also the publisher of Caliber Comics, an independent comic book company that released 1,300 titles in the 1990s and gave a chance to many of today’s top comic talents into the business such as Brian Michael Bendis, David W. Mack, Vince Locke, Guy Davis, Michael Lark, Patrick Zircher, Jim Calafiore, Ed Brubaker, Mike Gaydos, James O'Barr, Mike Carey and others. - Debbie Stoller
Debbie Stoller is an author, publisher and textile artist whose work includes knitting and crochet. She is the author of the Stitch 'N Bitch series of books. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Shadow. Stoller is the creator, owner, and Editor-in-Chief of "Bust" magazine, which offers a modern, youth-oriented, feminist take on popular culture. - Michael Eardley
.. Old enough to know better, married for a long time, two kids, one dog, one cat. Would be writer (one published novel), music is my main sanity device in the confusion caused by all the above. Live gigs are best, I'd rather watch two old geezers bang spoons together in a grotty pub than watch two seconds of big bruvva. Innit? - Bill Potts
Author, Bushopedia: A Comprehensive Alphabetical Guide to George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Other Aspects of the Far Right, and Related Topics. - Robert Boyett
If you want to know more about me or what I like, keep in touch with me by visiting the First Monkey on the MooN Forums at the following link:. - Anthony Sebelin
Just a very short essay about me ... Well, I am VERY shy at first; but can become THE MOST creative and fun person to be around when I am comfortable with someone. I do NOT need crutches to lean on, or to give me courage, like drugs, any form of alcohol, or tobacco. - Dawa Dada
peace. loves blk folk. art. round things and vibrant colors. hip hop. loves nappy hair. blk men. -rashid. dunks. chucks. crocheting. hot chocolate w/ soy milk. laughter. heat. loves the summer. Detroit summers. artist folk. emcee's. squares. afro-nerds. bookworms. coffeeshophoppers. hightop rockers. homegrrl's w/ fades. chunky afro's. freedom fighting. her'story. writing. cryptic language. loves love. babies. - Trent
My name is Trent Brandon.
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