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Filkins (surname)
Filkins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Dexter Filkins (born 1961), American journalist *Grace Filkins (1865–1962), American stage actress *Les Filkins (born 1956), American baseball player *Perry Filkins (born 1998), American mixed martial artist *Peter Filkins, American poet and translator *Zach Filkins (born 1978), American musician and songwriter {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dexter Filkins
Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for ''The New York Times''. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of ''Times'' reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has been called "the premier combat journalist of his generation". He currently writes for ''The New Yorker.'' Background Filkins received a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 1983, and a Master of Philosophy in international relations from Oxford University (1984), where he was a student of St Antony's College. Career Before joining the ''Times'' in September 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau chief for the ''Los Angeles Times'' for three years. He reported from ''The New York Times'' Baghdad bureau in Iraq from 2003 to 2006. In 2006–2007, Filkins was at Harvard University on a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Filkins
Grace Filkins (June 3, 1865 – September 16, 1962) was an American stage actress. Early life Grace Sweetman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.George Lesoir"Grace Filkins"''The Theatre'' (October 5, 1889): 493. Her father was a rabbi."The Heroine of 'Shore Acres'" ''Munsey's Magazine'' (May 1896): 232. Career Filkins started performing in variety shows, and in the companies of Augustin Daly and Helena Modjeska. She had a long career on Broadway, appearing in shows from 1894 to 1931, including ''The Passing Show'' (1894), ''The Royal Box'' (1897-1898), ''The Brixton Burglary'' (1901), ''The Lady Across the Hall'' (1905), ''The School for Husbands'' (1905), ''The Daughters of Men'' ( ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Filkins
Leslie William Filkins, Jr. (born September 14, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former professional baseball outfielder who played professionally from 1975 to 1983. Filkins was drafted by the Detroit Tigers with the third pick of the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft. He played in Detroit's minor league system from 1975 until 1982. He made it as far as Triple A. He batted .255 in his 8 years in the minors, with 60 home runs and 328 runs batted in. In 1983, Filkins played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in the Central League The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consist .... External links Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Baseball-Reference 1956 births Living people American expatriate baseball players in Japan Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Hiroshima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Filkins
Perry Filkins (born April 3, 1988) is an American professional mixed martial artist who competed in Bellator MMA, Bellator's Middleweight (MMA), Middleweight division. Background Filkins is originally from Millington, Michigan and came from a dysfunctional home. His father was a truck driver, so as a result the young Filkins would often have to fend for himself from a young age. Athletic, Filkins played various sports at Millington High School, being the quarterback for the football team while also competing in wrestling. Filkins also enjoyed BMX and won a national title in the sport in 2007. After graduating, a former wrestling coach opened an MMA gym and invited Filkins to train. After only four months of training, Filkins made his debut in mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts career Early career Filkins compiled an amateur record of 5-1 before making his professional debut in 2010 and won via technical knockout, TKO. After another fight with the same result, Filkins was hande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins is an American poet and literary translator. Filkins graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts and from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His poetry collections include the forthcoming ''Water / Music,'' as well as ''The View We’re Granted'', co-winner of the 2013 Sheila Motton Best Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, and ''Augustine’s Vision'', winner of the 2009 New American Press Chapbook Award. His poems, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including ''The New Republic'', ''Partisan Review'', ''The New Criterion'', ''Poetry'', ''The Yale Review'', the ''New York Times Book Review'', and the ''Los Angeles Times''. He is a recipient of a 2005 Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, a 2015-2016 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a 2014 Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Austria. In 2012 he was writer-in-residence at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
