Witty American poet and short-story writer Dorothy Parker began as an editorial assistant at "Vogue" and eventually became the book reviewer known as the "Constant Reader" for "The New Yorker." Among her hundreds of works, Parker won the 1929 O. Henry Award for her short story "Big Blond...
Count Edward Bernard Raczyński (December 19, 1891 – July 30, 1993) was a Polish diplomat, writer, politician and President of Poland in exile (between 1979 and 1986). He was the longest living (101), and oldest serving Polish President (from the age of 88 to 95). ...
• Repton School Register : Supplement to 1933 Edition (1957) Repton, Derbyshire, England • Register of Rhodes Scholars 1903-1945 [University of Oxford] (1950) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England • The Rossall School Register 1881-1954 (1956) in between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire, England...
Clark had already established himself as an elegant, accomplished writer and lecturer on a range of artistic and cultural subjects when he wrote and narrated a series, Civilisation, for BBC television in 1969. This series, a sweeping panorama of European art from the Dark Ages to the 20th cent...
and theSherlock Holmes Society of London, founded in 1951 and open to anyone. The latter, which publishesThe Sherlock Holmes Journal, traces its origins to the Sherlock Holmes Society that was formed in London in 1934 and counted among its members the scholar and writerDorothy L. Sayers; it ...
[s] her reality”, as art writer Christina Burrus emphasises by quoting the artist’s own words in the subtitle of her biography of Kahlo: images inspired by bodily and emotional torture share the canvas with symbols of the natural world and the manufactured world. InBroken WingsFrida’s ...
FOLLOW-UP ARTICLE TO post by John_de_Nugent in: Apocalypse of the Psychopaths [note: Martin Kerr is a lifelong activist, a father, and a writer and editor on National Socialist themes. He wrote this standard refutation, which has well stood the test of time, in 1982.] ...
British writer John Bunyan was born at Elstow, Bedfordshire, England, in November, 1628. His father was a maker and mender of pots and kettles, and the son followed the same trade. Though he is usually called a tinker, Bunyan had a settled home and place of business. He had little sch...