- Billy Ray
William (Billy) Ray began writing television and movies since 1994 with "Color of Night" and is currently promoting the movie "Breach". He has written numerous hit movies including "Hart's War" (2002) and "Volcano". He was one of the creators and writers of the scifi show "Earth 2". Starting in 2003 he has began to direct as well as write; his first film was "Shattered Glass". - Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist and screenwriter. - Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed "Nightmare on Elm Street" series featuring the redoubtable Freddy Krueger character. - Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders (born September 6, 1963 in Venlo) is a Dutch right-wing politician who is best known for his views favoring the restriction of immigration, particularly from non-western countries, his criticism of and opposition to Islam. He is the leader of the Party for Freedom, a party he founded after he left the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). - Ethan Canin
Ethan Andrew Canin (born July 19, 1960 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American author. The title story of his collection of short stories "The Palace Thief" was made into a movie called "The Emperor's Club". In addition to his writing, Canin is also a physician and a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. - Gautama Buddha
Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: a majority of 20th century historians date his lifetime from "circa" 563 BCE to 483 BCE, while some more recent scholars have suggested dates around 410 or 400 BCE for his death. - Fred Turner
C.F (Fred) Turner (born Charles Frederick Turner, 16 October 1943 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) was a member of the 1970s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive. C. F. (Fred) Turner played in a number of bands during his early adult years, and was asked by Randy Bachman to join his band, Brave Belt, in 1972. Brave Belt was a country / rock band, but Turner's influence started making itself felt. His contributions on bass, Randy Bachman's guitar and writing talents, … - David Wain
David Wain (born August 1, 1969 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American writer, director, actor and comedian. He is best known for the feature film "Wet Hot American Summer", the 90s sketch comedy series "The State", and the Comedy Central show "Stella". Wain was a founding member of Stella, along with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black. - Frank Cottrell Boyce
Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, best known for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. Prior to his writing career, Boyce wrote criticism for the magazine "Living Marxism". As a result there was supposedly always a copy of the magazine on sale in the newsagent set of long-running British soap "Coronation Street", while Cottrell Boyce was on the writing staff of that programme. - Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Moore Hamilton (October 21, 1904 - February 1 1977) was a popular author of science fiction stories and novels throughout the mid-twentieth century. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. Something of a child prodigy, he graduated high school and started college (Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania) at the age of 14--but washed out at 17. - Orpheus
Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunced in English as // ("ohr'-fee-uhs") is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the father of songs". His name does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, but he was known by the time of Ibycus (c.530 BC). Orpheus was believed to be one of the chief poets and musicians of antiquity, and the inventor or perfector of the lyre. With his music and singing, he could charm wild beasts, … - Lajos Egri
Lajos Egri (1888-1967) was born in Eger, then Austria-Hungary, now Hungary. He is the author of "The Art of Dramatic Writing", highly regarded as one of the best works on the subject of playwriting, though its teachings have since been adapted for the writing of short stories, novels, and screenplays. Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1942 as "How to Write a Play", it was revised and published as "The Art of Dramatic Writing" in 1946. - Larry Cox
Larry Cox Drummer & Author As A Drummer:<br /> Larry is a professional drummer, and currently plays for the heavy metal rock band Deaf Symphony™. He is also the co-founder/producer of the band. He has performed and recorded with numerous bands over the years, and has had the opportunity to work with several world-famous artists (see supporting documentation below). Larry is the creator, and producer, of "Do-It-Yourself Drums"®. - Sheila Murphy
Sheila E. Murphy is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978. Sheila Murphy’s early training was in flute performance. She earned the B.A. degree (music/English) from Nazareth College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; the M.A. degree (English Language and Literature) from The University of Michigan, and the Ph. D. degree (Educational Administration and Supervision, Emphasizing Community Education) from Arizona State University. - Robert W. Smith
Robert W. Smith is an American composer, arranger, and teacher. He was born in the small town of Daleville, Alabama in 1958. He attended high school in Daleville, after which he left for Troy State University, where he played lead trumpet in the Sound of the South Marching Band. While at Troy, he studied composition with Dr. Paul Yoder. Upon his graduation from Troy State with a Bachelor of Music Education degree, Smith pursued his musical career in South Florida, … - Ben Adams
Ben Adams (born Benjamin Anthony Edward Stevens Adams, 22 November 1981, in Middlesex, UK) is a British pop singer and songwriter, and was a member of the British boyband, A1. He was raised single-handedly by his mum, Anita. He attended Bedales School which he left after his GCSEs at 16 to join Charterhouse School before which Westminster Under School, where he was head chorister of the school choir and of St. Margaret's Choir of Westminster Abbey, … - Sam Moskowitz
Sam Moskowitz (1920-1997) was an early fan and organizer of interest in science fiction and, later, a writer, critic, and historian of the field. As a child, Moskowitz greatly enjoyed reading science fiction pulp magazines. As a teenager, he organized science fiction clubs in the New York City area. While still in his teens, he became chairman of the first World Science Fiction Convention (or Worldcon) held in New York City in 1939. - Brad Roberts
Brad Roberts is the lead singer and guitarist for the Canadian folk-rock band Crash Test Dummies. His career began with Bachelor's degree with Honors from University of Winnipeg in 1986. Roberts began his musical career as a house band player for the Blue Note Cafe in Winnipeg under the moniker “Bad Brad Roberts and the St. James Rhythm Pigs". The band gradually evolved into The Crash Test Dummies. While studying at university and working as a bartender for The Spectrum, … - Chip Salzenberg
Chip Salzenberg is an American programmer mostly noted for his involvement in the Perl and Free Software communities. Salzenberg has been involved with Perl development for over 15 years, and with Free Software for more than 20 years. In 1996 and 1997, he was project manager for Perl 5.004, a Perl release widely praised for its high quality. Salzenberg went on to teach Perl and write professionally. He was one of the founding board members of the Open Source Initiative, … - Norman Fairclough
Norman Fairclough (1941 -) is emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis, a branch of sociolinguistics or discourse analysis that looks at the influence of power relations on the content and structure of writings. - Godfrey Higgins
Godfrey Higgins (January 30, 1772 in All Saints, Owston - August 9, 1833), was an archaeologist, Freemason and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, humanist, social reformer, and author of various now-esoteric and rare books. He was remembered by his parish as a "political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions". His father and son both shared the same name; neither achieved a similar degree of notability. - Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg (Utrecht, August 30, 1883 - Davos, March 7, 1931) was a Dutch artist, practicing in painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. - Sarah Pierce
Sarah Pierce was a teacher, educator and founder of one the earliest schools for girls in the United States, the Litchfield Female Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut. The school having been established in her house in 1792 with one student became known as the Litchfield Female Academy in 1827. The school for girls attracted more than 2,000 students from across the U.S. and Canada. - Michael Duggan
Michael Duggan began his career writing in 1981 for the TV show "Hill Street Blues" and then moved on to shows such as "St. Elsewhere" and "Law & Order". He began producing television shows in 1984 with "Miami Vice" and "Midnight Run". Duggan has executive produced the series "Earth 2" and part of the third season of "Millennium". - Caron Wheeler
Caron Wheeler (born 19 January 1963, in London) is an English R&B singer, who gained fame by writing and singing the lead vocals on the two biggest hits for Soul II Soul ("Keep on Movin'" and "Back to Life"). She also was a backing singer for Elvis Costello in 1983, and Howard Jones in 1985. - Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Denise Schmandt-Besserat Denise Schmandt-Besserat is Professor Emerita of Art and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her field is the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. She was trained at the École du Louvre, Paris, France. Schmandt-Besserat has worked on the origin of writing and counting. Her publications on these subjects include: <i>How Writing Came About</i>, University of Texas Press 1996; <i>Before Writing</i> (2 vols), … - Andy Dunlop
Andrew Dunlop (born 16 March 1972 in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK) is the lead guitarist of Scottish indie-rock band, Travis. Dunlop attended Lenzie Academy. The band Travis got their break with the album "The Man Who", named after a bestselling book. It got the international success, and became the biggest selling album in the UK in 1999. As well as being the guitarist, Dunlop has also tried writing songs. - Michael Lesy
Michael Lesy is a writer and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include "Wisconsin Death Trip" (1973), "Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (1997) and (with Angelo Rizzuto) "Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto" (2005). - Christopher Klim
Christopher Klim (born September 8, 1962) is an American novelist and journalist, best known for the novels "Jesus Lives in Trenton" and "The Winners Circle". He spent his formative years as a space program physicist working on long-range satellites, but broke into the journalism scene after tracking a serial arsonist. His work has been compared to John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Carl Hiaasen to name a few. - Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright (born 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge, and objectivity. He is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews, and regular visiting professor at New York University (NYU). He has also taught at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Columbia University, … - Jeannette Armstrong
Jeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born in 1948 and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. Armstrong has lived on the Penticton Indian Reserve for most of her life and has raised her two children there as well (Beeler). Armstrong’s 1985 work "Slash" is considered the first novel by a Native woman in Canada (Voices and Lutz 13). - Alison MacLean
Alison Maclean is a film director of music videos, short films, commercials and feature films. Her works include the music video "Torn" (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998), the short film "Kitchen Sink" (1989) and the feature film "Jesus' Son" (1999) starring Billy Crudup. She is represented by Park Pictures in New York. - Shelley Hennig
Shelley Catherine Hennig (born January 2, 1987) was Miss Teen USA 2004, representing her home city of Destrehan and state of Louisiana. Although, she won her first title, Miss Louisiana Teen USA in Lafayette, Louisiana, in November 2003, Hennig had not previously competed in beauty pageants. She held the state title until she won the national Miss Teen USA title on August 6, 2004 in Palm Springs, California. - Tommy Scott
Tommy Scott (born Thomas Scott, 18 February 1968, in Liverpool, England) is musician who grew up in Liverpool, England, and is best known as the frontman and guitarist of the 1990s Britpop/alternative music group Space. He is also known for writing the majority of the band's songs, including the smash hit "Female of the Species", as well as his wicked sense of humour. Scott can also play bass guitar and keyboards. - Stanley Edgar Hyman
Stanley Edgar Hyman was a literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods: the distinct strategies critics use in approaching literary texts. Though most likely to be remembered today as the husband of writer Shirley Jackson, he was influential for the development of literary theory in the 1940s and '50s. Equally skeptical of every major critical methodology of his time, he worked out an early instance of a critical theory, … - Gerhard Lenski
Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski (born August 13, 1924) is an American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and ecological-evolutionary social theory (which is related to cultural evolution). He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. - Philip Horne
Philip Horne is a teacher and literary critic specializing in 19th century literature, particularly Henry James and Charles Dickens. Educated at Cambridge University, he is currently Professor of English at University College London. Horne has authored or edited a number of books by and about Henry James. In 1990 he published "Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition", … - Richard McNamara
Richard McNamara (born 23 October 1972) is the guitarist for the English band Embrace. He and his older brother, Danny, grew up in the village of Bailiff Bridge, near Bradford, in West Yorkshire. Danny is the band's singer. He and Danny were pupils at Hipperholme Grammar School in the village of Hipperholme, near Halifax. According to Danny, as a child he was nicknamed 'Firestarter' as he was fascinated with fire and was always playing with a box of matches. - Adriana de Barros
Adriana de Barros is a Portuguese and Canadian illustrator, web designer, and poet. Since 1999, de Barros has created innovating visual poems that combine various disciplines—writing, designing and drawing, sound editing, and filmmaking (through the use of new media, Flash software). Her visual poems have been screened in American festivals Flashbang! and Flashbang 4 (2001 and 2002), The.ME.Project. (2002; showcased in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, … - Sunthorn Phu
Sunthorn Phu is Thailand's best-known poet. His most popular single work is the 30,000-line epic "Phra Aphai Mani". His common name is from a part of his Royal given name Phra Sunthorn Vohara (พระสุนทรโวหาร), combined with his birth name, Phu.
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