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Gander (surname)
Gander is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Forrest Gander Forrest Gander (born 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for ''Be With' ... (born 1956), American poet, author, critic and translator * Joe Gander (1888-1954), Australian politician * L Marsland Gander (1902-1986), British journalist, war correspondent and radio and television correspondent * Philippa Gander, New Zealand academic and sleep researcher {{surname, Gander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander (born 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for ''Be With'' and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Early life Born in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia, where he and his two sisters were raised by their single mother, an elementary school teacher. The four shared a two-room apartment in Annandale. Gander's estranged father ran The Mod Scene, a bar on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. With his mother and sisters, Gander began to travel extensively on summer road trips around the United States. The traveling, which never stopped, came to inform his interest in landscapes, languages, and cultures. Forrest and his two sisters were adopted by Walter J. Gander soon after Walter Gander's marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Gander
Joseph Herbert Gander (1888 – 22 November 1954) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1931 to 1940, representing the Sydney-based seat of Reid for the first Lang Labor (1931–1936), the Australian Labor Party (1936–1940) and the second Lang Labor (1940). Gander was born in the regional town of Dubbo and educated at Wellington Public School. Prior to entering politics, he was a billiard marker in a saloon and was a Municipality of Newtown councillor for Camden Ward from 1929 until 1931, when both Gander and fellow Jack Lang supporter Lilian Fowler lost Labor preselection to recontest their seats in the early stages of the 1931 Labor split. He was also the president of the Pony Owners' and Trainers' Association and a successful grade cricketer. In 1931, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the member for Reid for the splinter Lang Labor party, defeating incumbent Labor MP Percy Coleman Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L Marsland Gander
Leonard Marsland Gander (1902-1986), who wrote as L Marsland Gander) was a journalist, war correspondent, and radio and television correspondent, chiefly for ''The Daily Telegraph''. In 1935 he was appointed as the first ever television critic by the ''Daily Telegraph'', having already worked on the paper as their radio correspondent.Dennis Griffiths ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, pp.258-59 During World War II he served as a war correspondent, and was at the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944, and the Liberation of Amsterdam in 1945. In 1946 Gander returned to his earlier post at ''The Daily Telegraph'' as the radio and television correspondent and critic, remaining on the paper's staff until his retirement in 1970. His autobiography ''After These Many Quests'' was published in 1950. Gander was a castaway on an edition of the BBC Radio programme '' Desert Island Discs'' broadcast on 17 March 1969. His private p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |