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Cecelia
Cecelia is a variation of the given name Cecilia. People with the name include: * Cecelia Adkins (1923–2007, African-American publisher * Cecelia Ager (1902–1981), American film critic and reporter * Cecelia Ahern (born 1981) is an Irish novelist * Cecelia Akagu (fl. 2010s–2020s), Nigerian Army brigadier general *Cecelia Antoinette (1949–2020), American actress, comedian, and writer * Cecelia Ayanori Bukari-Yakubu (fl. 1960s), Ghanaian politician * Cecelia Svinth Carpenter (1924–2010), first historian to write in detail about the Nisqually people * Cecelia Condit (born 1947), American video artist * Cecelia Cortes (born 1989), American professional squash player * Cecelia Felgueras (born 1962), Argentine politician * Cecelia Frey (born 1936), Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer * Cecelia Lee Fung-Sing (born 1933), Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong * Cecelia Goetz (1917–2004), American lawyer and bankruptcy judge * Cecelia González (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist, known for her works like '' PS, I Love You''; '' Where Rainbows End''; and '' If You Could See Me Now''. Born in Dublin, Ahern is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as major motion films. The short story collection '' Roar'' has been adapted as a series for AppleTV+. She and her books have won numerous awards, including the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction for ''The Year I Met You''. She has published several novels and contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies. Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy '' Samantha Who?'' starring Christina Applegate. Life Ahern is the daughter of former Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, Bertie Ahern and Miriam Ahern. Her older sister, Georgina Ahern, is married to Nicky Byrne of Irish pop group Westlife. In 2000, Ahern was part of the Irish pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1879 – February 23, 1966) sometimes written as Cecilia Cabaniss Saunders, was an African-American civil rights leader, and executive director of the Harlem, New York YWCA. She is best known for working against racial discrimination in wartime employment during World War II, for broader work training and opportunities for African-American women, and against police violence in Harlem. Early life and education Cecelia Hayne Holloway was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1879 (though some sources give 1883, she was listed in the 1880 census as an infant), daughter of James Harrison Holloway, a harness maker and school principal, and his wife Harriet Huger Holloway. She attended Avery Normal Institute, then Fisk University as an undergraduate, graduating in 1903, and pursued some graduate studies at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Condit
Cecelia Condit (born 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence. Condit has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Mary L. Nohl Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Council and National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces and is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. In 2008, Condit had her first solo show exhibition at the CUE Art Foundation in New York. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art of Templ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Antoinette
Cecelia Antoinette Bruton (November 24, 1949 – May 28, 2020), known professionally as Cecelia Antoinette or CeCe Antoinette, was an American actress, comedian, and writer. Early life Cecelia Antoinette Bruton was born a twin in Dallas, in 1949, the daughter of Cicero Hamilton Bruton Sr. and Naomi Hartman Bruton. Her mother was an actress, and her father worked for the railroad. She was educated in Hamilton Park schools, graduating from high school in 1968. She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Oklahoma. She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Career Bruton began acting in Dallas and took acting classes in New York City. She appeared on Broadway in ''Mule Bone'', and in touring or regional companies of '' The Wake of Jeremy Foster'', ''The Member of the Wedding'', '' The Ride Down Mt. Morgan'', ''St. Lucy's Eyes,'' and '' Bronzeville''. On television, she had small roles in ''Law & Order'': ''Special Victims Unit'', '' Scrubs, Weeds, The Marvelous Mrs. Mais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Holland
Cecelia Holland (born December 31, 1943) is an American historical fiction novelist. Early life and education Holland was born December 31, 1943, in Henderson, Nevada. She grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey, where she started writing at age 12, recording the stories she made up for her own entertainment. From the beginning, she focused on history because "being twelve, I had precious few stories of my own. History seemed to me then, as it still does, an endless fund of material." Holland attended Pennsylvania State University for a year, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 from Connecticut College, where she took a course in creative writing and was encouraged by poet William Meredith and short story writer David Jackson. Jackson took a novel Holland wrote for his seminar to an editor at Atheneum, and her first novel, ''The Firedrake'', was published in 1966.Howard, Patricia J. "Irony of Fate In Cecelia Holland's "Two Ravens": Echoes of "Beowulf" and Icelandic Saga. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Watson
Cecelia Watson is an American author, and a historian and philosopher of science. Career Watson attended St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), earning a B.A. in Liberal Arts. She then did graduate work at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston. She earned an M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science. From 2011 to 2013, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and a scientific advisor to Haus der Kulturen der Welt, working on a joint project on the Anthropocene hypothesis. She then was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellowship, which she undertook at Yale University from 2013 to 2015 with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in the Humanities. She is currently Scholar in Residence at Bard College, with no departmental affiliation listed. She has stated that she considers her academic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Tichi
Cecelia Tichi (born April 10, 1942) is an American academic and author of mystery novels. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is a former president of the American Studies Association, and the winner of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literature. Tichi has published twelve books that span American popular culture and social history, from television to country music to the gear-and-girder technology that transformed the environment nationwide in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tichi was the Editor of Special Issue of ''South Atlantic Quarterly'' in 1995. Education Tichi studied English Literature and received her bachelor's degree in 1964 from Pennsylvania State University and her master's degree in 1965 from Johns Hopkins University. In 1968, she completed her Doctoral studies in English-American Literature from University of California, Davis The University of Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Goetz
Cecelia Helen Goetz (September 30, 1917January 26, 2004) was an American lawyer and bankruptcy judge who served as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Early life Goetz graduated from Textile High School in Chelsea, where she was editor-in-chief of the school paper. Goetz earned her law degree from New York University School of Law where she served as editor-in-chief of the '' New York University Law Review''—the first woman named editor-in-chief of a major American law journal—and graduated as salutatorian in 1940. While in law school, she studied abroad at the Sorbonne. As of her graduation in 1940, she lived at 2015 Avenue I in Brooklyn. Nuremberg After initially being rebuffed, Goetz took a job at the Department of Justice in the equivalent of today's Civil Division. She applied to serve as a Nuremberg prosecutor, was rebuffed again at the instance of the Department of War, but was eventually given a "waiver of disability" by Telford Taylor so she could serve. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Frey
Cecelia Frey (born 1936) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer. Her works have appeared in literary magazines and in numerous anthologies, and broadcast on CBC Radio as well as produced by the Women's Television Network. She was the 2018 recipient of the Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award. Biography Cecelia Frey was born in 1936 on a homestead near Padstow south of Mayorthorpe, Alberta, and moved to Edmonton where she worked as a social worker and librarian. In 1970, she launched her writing career by attending the University of Calgary where she took a writing course with W.O. Mitchell. She has since worked as a freelance writer, editor and teacher. An organizer and producer of the Calgary Creative Reading Series, she served as fiction editor of Dandelion Magazine from 1983-1988. Frey lives in Calgary, Alberta. Bibliography Fiction * Lovers Fall Back To Earth ( Inanna Publications, 2018) * Moments of Joy (Inanna Publications, 2015) * The Long White Sic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Ager
Cecelia Ager ( Rubinstein; January 23, 1902 – April 3, 1981) was an American film critic and star reporter for ''Variety'' and the ''New York Times Magazine''. Life and career Ager was born Cecelia Rubenstein in Grass Valley, California, a mining town, the daughter of Fannie (Meyer) and Zalkin H. Rubenstein. Her parents were Polish Jewish immigrants. She married Milton Ager four months after meeting him; Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York, also a songwriter, presided at the wedding in his office. Ager was the first female reporter for ''Variety'', and was known as one of the best dressed women in America. Ager was the movie critic for the New York newspaper '' PM'' and a contributor to ''The New York Times'' and several national magazines. Her sense of style became an asset to advance her work as a writer. It has been said that "she used fashion as her entry into examining the constricting roles women were asked to play, in real life and onscreen.” Her astute and often witti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Svinth Carpenter
Hope Cecelia Svinth Carpenter (1924–2010) was the first historian to write in detail about the Nisqually people.Lynda V. Mapes, ''Seattle Times'' staff reporter: "Obituary: Hope Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, 85, tribal elder, historian", ''The Seattle Times'', http://seattletimes.com/html/obituaries/2012239309_carpenter30m.html, originally published Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 10:02 PM.Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Maria Victoria Pascualy, and Trisha Hunter: ''Nisqually Indian Tribe'', Images of America Series, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, S.C., 2008; , . As a Tacoma, Washington schoolteacher and enrolled member of the Nisqually tribe, when Carpenter discovered that her students' history books provided an inaccurate relation of the history of native people, she began researching and writing the tribe's history to set the record straight. Relying upon only primary sources and original documents, which took her to distant archival repositories such as the U.S. National Archives in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Kenyon
Cecelia M. Kenyon (1923 – January 1990) was an American political scientist. She was a professor at Smith College from 1948 until 1984, where from 1969 onwards she was the Charles N. Clark Professor of Government. Her theses on the American Revolution and the early American federalists emphasized the role of ideology in the creation of the American state and influenced historiography on the early United States. Life and career Kenyon was born in 1923 in Gainesville, Georgia. She attended Oberlin College. She then studied at Radcliffe College, where she obtained a master's and a PhD. In 1948 Kenyon became a professor of government at Smith College. In 1969, she was named the Charles N. Clark Professor of Government. Kenyon was a scholar of the American Revolution and the roles of conservatism, radicalism, and federalism in early American history. In her 1955 essay "Men of little faith: the Anti-Federalists on the nature of representative government" in ''The William and Mary Qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
