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Helen Harris (author)
Helen Harris may refer to: * Helen Hodge Harris, American aviator * Helen Webb Harris, American golf club founder * Helen Petousis-Harris Helen Aspasia Petousis-Harris is a New Zealand vaccinologist and associate professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland. She has been involved in research related to vaccination in New Z ..., New Zealand vaccinologist * Helen Harris, a character in the novel ''Ready Player One'' and its film adaptation {{hndis, Harris, Helen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Hodge Harris
Helen Hodge Harris (1892-1967) was among the first women to earn a pilot's license. She was therefore one of the few women among the Early Birds of Aviation. In addition she became a proponent of flight safety. She later became supervisor of a machine shop. Early life and first marriage Hodge was born in Omaha, Nebraska on August 2, 1892. She was educated at the Brownell-Talbot School (then Brownell Hall) before moving to Oakland, California with her family. They appear to have settled in Oakland by roughly 1909, when she married Ralph Newbre. In June 1916, Hodge filed for divorce, claiming Newbre had been unfaithful. A July article mentions her living with her father, and she seems to have reclaimed her maiden name. However, it appears that they may have reconciled: a 1919 article refers to the Newbres as husband and wife, and the book ''Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation'' seems to imply that they stayed together until Ralph Newbre's death in the 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Webb Harris
Helen Webb Harris founded the Wake-Robin Golf Club in 1937. It is the United States' oldest registered African-American women's golf club. Career Harris was an educator in the Washington, DC school system. Wake-Robin Golf Club The first meeting of the club was held at her house with thirteen women attending. The club was named after the Wake-Robin wildflower. Harris was the club's first president, and under her leadership the club joined the United Golf Association and the Eastern Golf Association. In 1938 the club drafted and sent a petition to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes seeking to desegregate the public courses of the District of Columbia. In response Ickes approved the construction of a nine-hole golf course on the site of an abandoned trash dump, called Langston Golf Course, which opened in 1939. The Wake-Robin Golf Club and the Royal Golf Club continued to pressure Secretary Ickes, and he issued an order in 1941 opening public courses to all. In 1947 H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Petousis-Harris
Helen Aspasia Petousis-Harris is a New Zealand vaccinologist and associate professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland. She has been involved in research related to vaccination in New Zealand since 1998, with her main areas of focus being vaccine safety and effectiveness. Petousis-Harris has had a variety of lead roles in New Zealand and international organisations that focus on vaccination and is a regular media spokesperson in this field, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Career From 1999 to 2002 Petousis-Harris was a researcher at the University of Auckland, working with the Immunisation Advisory Centre, a New Zealand-wide organisation based at the University. She continued in various roles at the centre, including Honorary Assistant Research Fellow and Director of Research from 1998. Between 2008 and 2011, she worked on her doctorate and wrote a thesis titled ''Factors associated with vaccine reactogenicity i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ready Player One
''Ready Player One'' is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. A film adaptation, screenwritten by Cline and Zak Penn and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released on March 29, 2018. A sequel novel, '' Ready Player Two'', was released on November 24, 2020, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
