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Klaus Modick
Klaus Modick (born 3 May 1951) is a German author and literary translator. Education and early career Klaus Modick was born in Oldenburg and completed his secondary education at the Altes Gymnasium there in 1971. He then attended Hamburg University, where he read German, History and Educational Theory, completing his teaching qualification in 1977. Modick then took a doctorate in 1980, with a thesis on the German-Jewish novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger. Modick spent five years as an advertising copywriter and worked as a part-time lecturer in German literature in the higher education sector before becoming a freelance writer and translator in 1984. In 1984 he married an American citizen he met during one of his frequent visits to Crete and they have two daughters. Modick has said that he feels a special affinity with Crete and its people and in 2003 he published the novel ''Der kretische Gast,'' set in 1943 during the German occupation of Crete''.'' Established wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Goldman
William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. He won Academy Awards for his screenplays ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969) and ''All the President's Men'' (1976). His other well-known works include his thriller novel '' Marathon Man'' (1974) and his cult classic comedy/fantasy novel ''The Princess Bride'' (1973), both of which he also adapted for film versions. Early life Goldman was born into a Jewish family in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, the second son of Marion (née Weil) and Maurice Clarence Goldman. Goldman's father initially was a successful businessman, working in Chicago and in a partnership, but he suffered from alcoholism, which cost him his business. He "came home to live and he was in his pajamas for the last five years of his life," according to Goldman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Vogeler
Heinrich Vogeler (December 12, 1872 – June 14, 1942) was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Early life He was born in Bremen, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1890–95. His artistic studies during this period included visits to Belgium and Italy. Vogeler was a central member of the original artist colony in Worpswede, which he joined in 1894. In 1895 Vogeler bought a cottage there and planted many birch trees around it, which gave the house its new name: Barkenhoff (Low German for Birkenhof, or "birch tree cottage"). In 1901, he married Martha Schröder. He made book illustrations in an art nouveau style, and executed decorative paintings for the town hall of Bremen shortly before traveling to Ceylon in 1906. During a trip to Łódź, he studied Maxim Gorky's works, which resulted in the development of a deep sympathy for the working class. This feeling reached further heights when he saw life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hornworts. Mosses typically form dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple leaves that are generally only one cell thick, attached to a stem that may be branched or unbranched and has only a limited role in conducting water and nutrients. Although some species have conducting tissues, these are generally poorly developed and structurally different from similar tissue found in vascular plants. Mosses do not have seeds and after fertilisation develop sporophytes with unbranched stalks topped with single capsules containing spores. They are typically tall, though some species are much larger. ''Dawsonia'', the tallest moss in the world, can grow to in height. There are a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moos
Moos may refer to: People Surname * Alexandre Moos (born 1972), Swiss mountain biker * Bill Moos, American athletic director * Carl Moos (1878–1959), Swiss artist * Carolyn Moos (born 1978), American basketball player * David Moos (born 1965), Canadian-born art curator * Dietmar Moos, West German slalom canoeist * Gerald Moos, West German slalom canoeist * Gustave Moos (1905–1948), Swiss Olympic cyclist * Heinrich Moos (1895–1976), German Olympic fencer * Jeanne Moos, American journalist * Julie Moos (born 1966), Canadian photographer and art writer * Ludwig von Moos (1910–1990), Swiss politician * Lotte Moos (1909–2008) German-born poet and playwright * Malcolm Moos (1916–1982), American political scientist * Nanabhoy Ardeshir Framji Moos, 19th-century of Colaba Observatory in Mumbai, India * Peder Moos (1906–1991), Danish furniture designer * Salomon Moos (1831–1895), German otologist First name * Moos Linneman (born 1931), Dutch Olympic boxer * Moos (singe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathanael West
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: ''Miss Lonelyhearts'' (1933) and '' The Day of the Locust'' (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries. Early life Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City, the first child of Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Anuta (Anna, née Wallenstein, 1878–1935) and Max (Morduch) Weinstein (1878–1932), from Kovno, Russia (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), who maintained an upper middle class household in a Jewish neighborhood on the Upper West Side. West displayed little ambition in academics, dropping out of high school and only gaining admission into Tufts College by forging his high school transcript. After being expelled from Tufts, West got into Brown University by appropriating the transcript of a fellow Tufts student, his cousin, Nathan Weinstein. Although West d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'', '' Kidnapped'' and ''A Child's Garden of Verses''. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in ''Treasure Island''. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned away from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism. He died of a stroke in his island home in 1894 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simmons (author)
Charles Paul Simmons (August 17, 1924 – June 1, 2017) was an American editor and novelist. His first novel, ''Powdered Eggs'' (1964), was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award (1965) for a notable first novel. Later works include ''Salt Water'' (1998), '' The Belles Lettres Papers'', and ''Wrinkles'' and co-author together with Alexander Coleman of ''All There is to Know: Readings From the Illustrious Eleventh Edition of the Britannica.'' He was formerly an editor of ''The New York Times Book Review''. Simmons graduated from Regis High School and then Columbia University in 1948. Selected works * Simmons, Charles (1973). ''Powdered Eggs''. Penguin Books. * Simmons, Charles (1975). ''Your Subconscious Power''. Wilshire Book Company. * Simmons, Charles (1978). ''Wrinkles''. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. * Simmons, Charles (1979). ''Rides.'' Ramsay. * Simmons, Charles (1987). ''The Belles Lettres Papers''. William Morrow. * Simmons, Charles (1988). ''An Old-fashio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Rees
Matthew Beynon Rees is a Welsh novelist and journalist. He is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef, a Palestinian sleuth, and of historical novels and thrillers. He is the winner of a Crime Writers Association Dagger for his crime fiction in the UK and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in the US. His latest novel is the international thriller ''China Strike'', the second in a series about an agent with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His first book was a work of nonfiction, ''Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East'' in 2004 ( Free Press), about Israeli and Palestinian societies. ''The New York Times'' called ''The Collaborator of Bethlehem'', the first of his Palestinian crime novels about Bethlehem sleuth Omar Yussef, "an astonishing first novel." Le Figaro'' called the book "a masterpiece." Rees's writing has been compared with the work of Graham Greene, John le Carré, Georges Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Olmstead
Robert Olmstead (born January 3, 1954) is an American novelist and educator. Early life and education Olmstead was born in 1954 in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. He grew up on a farm. After high school, he enrolled at Davidson College with a football scholarship, but left school after three semesters in which he compiled a poor academic record.David MarcRobert Olmstead ’77, G’83; Telling Stories ''Syracuse University Magazine'', Volume 25, Number 2, Summer 2008 He later attended Syracuse University, where he studied with Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff and received both bachelor's and master's degrees, in 1977 and 1983, respectively. Career He was the former Director of Creative Writing at Ohio Wesleyan University and now serves as an emeritus faculty member at the university. He has also served as the Senior Writer in Residence at Dickinson College and as the director of creative writing at Boise State University. Olmstead teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program in cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Hara
John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent ''The New Yorker'' magazine short story style.John O'Hara: Stories, Charles McGrath, ed., The Library of America, 2016. He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with ''Appointment in Samarra'' and ''BUtterfield 8''. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the under-appreciated and unjustly neglected major American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level. "O’Hara may not have been the best story writer of the twentieth century, but he is the most addictive," wrote Lorin Stein, editor-in-chief of the ''Paris Review'', in a 2013 appreciation of O'Hara's work. Stein added, "You can binge on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Moore
Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Moore was born in Montreal, and educated at the University of Toronto, BA, the Sorbonne and the University of Ottawa, MA. Novels Moore's first novel, ''Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain'' won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2000. Moore's second novel, ''The Memory Artists'', (published 2004 by Viking, 19 translations) won the Canadian Authors Association Prize for fiction in 2005. It follows Noel Burun, a psychology graduate student with synaesthesia and hypermnesia, as he sets out with three equally eccentric friends to find a wonder-drug cure for his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's. "Moore explores every facet of memory," according to Joanne Wilkinson in ''Booklist'', "as both a burden and a blessing--in this delightful and inspired story." In the ''New York Times Book Review'', Michael J. Agovino described ''The Memory Artists'' as "a ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
