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Stackpole Books
Stackpole Books is a trade publishing company in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It was founded by E. J. Stackpole Jr. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1930 and was moved to its current headquarters in 1993. Stackpole publishes nonfiction books in the areas of crafts, outdoors, regional and travel, military history, and military reference. The current CEO is M. David Detweiler, and the Publisher and Editorial Director is Judith Schnell. History The publishing company that became Stackpole Books has its origins with the Harrisburg newspaper ''Evening Telegraph'', which was founded in the early 19th century. In 1901, controlling interest in the Telegraph Press was acquired by E. J. Stackpole Sr. The business was carried on by Stackpole's son, Edward James Stackpole Jr., a decorated general in World War I who received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts. In 1930, the National Service Publishing Company of Washington, D.C., which had been establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Stackpole Estate ( cy, Ystad Ystagbwll) is located between the villages of Stackpole ( cy, Ystagbwll) and Bosherston ( cy, Llanfihangel-clogwyn-gofan) in Pembrokeshire, Wales, within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. It is situated within the community of Stackpole and Castlemartin. Consisting of of farmland, lakes, woodland, beaches, and cliffs, the estate is always accessible to visitors. It is owned and maintained by the National Trust. History Stackpole Court, a mansion, was built just outside the village of Stackpole. During the English Civil War, the Lort family, who owned the estate from 1611 to 1698, took the side of the King, and the house was besieged by Parliamentarians, to whom they eventually surrendered. When Sir Gilbert Lort died in 1698 the estate passed to his sister Elizabeth who had married Sir Alexander Campbell, Thane of Cawdor, in 1689. She outlived her husband, and on her death in 1714 the estate passed to her son John Campbell. A ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford Angier
Bradford Angier (May 13, 1910 – March 3, 1997) was an American wilderness survivalist and proponent of back-to-earth living. He authored more than 35 books on how to survive in the wild and how to live minimalisticly off the land. In 1947 Angier and his new wife, Vena (Elvena, 1914–2011), were living in Boston, Massachusetts. They had long romanticized the life of Henry David Thoreau and decided to move to Hudson's Hope, a small town in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, to live off the land. Once there, they found an old prospector's cabin. With the few tools and how-to books they brought with them, they were able to repair the cabin. Bradford Angier then set about learning to hunt and gather wild food. He eventually started writing survival books. Vena Angier was artistic and hand-illustrated several of his books. The couple lived in Canada until the building of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam on the Peace River near their home forced them to move. They moved to Cambria, Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartzell Spence
John Hartzell Spence (February 15, 1908 – May 9, 2001) was an American writer and founding editor of ''Yank, the Army Weekly'', a weekly magazine published by the United States military during World War II. He is credited with coining the term "pinup". Born in Clarion, Iowa, he studied journalism at the University of Iowa graduating in 1930, and he then started working with the United Press until World War II when he became editor of Yank. After World War II, he retired to his farm "Gaston Hall" near Orange, Virginia. ''Happily Ever After'', his book about his farming adventures, was published in 1949. Also in 1949, he became one of the original stockholders in WJMA Radiin Orange, Virginia. He wrote the memoir ''One Foot in Heaven'', which was made into a 1941 film. He also wrote the sequel ''Get Thee Behind Me''. He also wrote ''Vain Shadow'' (1947), a romantic biography of the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana Francisco de Orellana Bejarano Pizarro y Torr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percival Wilde
Percival Wilde (New York City, March 1, 1887 – September 19, 1953) was an American author and playwright who wrote novels and numerous short stories and one-act plays. He also authored a textbook on the theater arts. Native to New York City, Wilde graduated from Columbia University in 1906, and worked for a time as a banker. He began writing plays in 1912, and joined The Lambs Club in 1947. Wilde's plays were especially popular in the Little Theatre Movement As the new medium of cinema was beginning to replace theater as a source of large-scale spectacle, the Little Theatre Movement developed in the United States around 1912. The Little Theatre Movement served to provide experimental centers for the dr .... List of works Novels *''The Devil's Booth'' (1930) * Mystery Week-End (1938) * Inquest (1938) * Design for Murder (1941) Collections of short stories * ''Rogues in Clover'' (1929) * ''P. Moran, Operative'' (1947) Plays * ''Dawn and One Act Plays Of Life Tod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him. Work Syndicated writing Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper '' South Bend Times'' in 1905. In 1907, he relocated to Chicago, where he got a job with the '' Inter-Ocean''. Within a year, he quit to work for the ''Chicago Examiner'', and then for the ''Tribune''. Two years later, Lardner was in St. Louis, writing the humorous baseball column ''Pullman Pastimes'' for Taylor Spink and the ''Sporting News''. Some of this work was the basis for his book ''You Know Me Al''. Within three months, he was an employee of the ''Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert George Dean
Robert George Dean (died 1989) was an American author of detective fiction. He also worked as a journalist, and as an ambulance driver during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing .... The last few books Dean wrote, under the pseudonym George Griswold, are spy novels that still have a certain fan following. A character known as Mr. Groode, a shadowy British spymaster, figures in all four novels, but his prominence in the plot varies widely from book to book. Works Tony Hunter series * ''Murder Makes a Merry Widow'' (1938) * ''A Murder of Convenience'' (1938) * ''Murder Through the Looking Glass'' (1940) * ''A Murder by Marriage'' (1940) * ''Murder in Mink'' (1941) * ''Layoff'' (1942) * ''On Ice'' (1942) * ''The Body Was Quite Cold'' (Dutton, 1951) * ''The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Price (cartoonist)
George Price (June 9, 1901 – January 12, 1995) was an American cartoonist who was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After doing advertising artwork in his youth, Price started doing cartoons for ''The New Yorker'' magazine in 1929. He continued contributing to the ''New Yorker'' well into his eighties, displaying a talent for both graphic innovation (many of his cartoons consisted of a single, unending line) and for a wit that somehow combined the small issues of domestic life with a topical sensibility. Born on June 9, 1901, in the Coytesville section of Fort Lee, New Jersey, Price lived in nearby Tenafly and died on January 12, 1995, at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.Collins, Glenn"George Price, 93, Cartoonist of Oddities, Dies" ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip MacDonald
Philip MacDonald (5 November 1900 – 10 December 1980) was a British-born writer of fiction and screenplays, best known for thrillers. Life and work MacDonald was born in London, the son of author Ronald MacDonald and actress Constance Robertson, and grandson of the fiction writer and Christian minister George MacDonald. During World War I he served with the British cavalry in Mesopotamia, later trained horses for the army, and was a show jumper. He also raised Great Danes. After marrying the writer F. Ruth Howard, he moved to Hollywood in 1931. He was one of the most popular mystery writers of the 1930s, and between 1931 and 1963 wrote many screenplays along with a few radio and television scripts. His detective novels, particularly those featuring his series detective Anthony Gethryn, are primarily "whodunits" with the occasional locked room mystery. His novel ''X v. Rex'' (1933), aka ''The Mystery of The Dead Police'', is an early example of what has become known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Wylie
Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971) was an American writer of works ranging from pulp science fiction, mysteries, social diatribes and satire to ecology and the threat of nuclear holocaust. Early life and career Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Wylie was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old. His family later moved to Montclair, New Jersey. Wylie attended Princeton University from 1920–1923. A writer of fiction and nonfiction, Wylie's output included hundreds of articles, novels, serials, short stories, syndicated newspaper columns, and works of social criticism. He also wrote screenplays while in Hollywood, was an editor for Farrar & Rinehart, served on the Dade County, Florida Defense Council, was a director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, and at one time was an adviser to the chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee for Atomic Energy, which led to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Daly
Elizabeth T. Daly (October 15, 1878 – September 2, 1967) was an American writer of mystery novels whose main character, Henry Gamadge, was a bookish author, bibliophile, and amateur detective. A writer of light verse and prose for ''Life'', '' Puck'', and ''Scribner's'' magazines in her earlier years, Daly published her first Gamadge novel, ''Unexpected Night'', at age 60. Between 1940 and 1951, she published 16 novels featuring Gamadge. Her career included two years as a reader at Bryn Mawr College, 1904–06. At other times, she tutored in French and English, and she was a producer of amateur theater. Personal life Born Elizabeth T. Daly in 1878 in New York City, she was the daughter of Joseph F. Daly, a New York Supreme Court justice, and Emma Barker Daly. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1901 and from Columbia University with an M.A. in 1902. Daly was an honorary member of the Mystery Writers of America. She died in Roslyn, New York, in 1967 at age 88. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roark Bradford
Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August 21, 1896, Lauderdale County, Tennessee — November 13, 1948, New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American short story writer and novelist. Life He attended University of California, Berkeley, and served as a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery during World War I. He married Lydia Sehorn, divorcing her in July 1933 after having only son Richard Bradford. He then married Mary Rose Sciarra Himler, also a writer, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He was night city editor for the New Orleans ''Times-Picayune''. Bradford continued to produce well-received work during the 1930s and early 1940s. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve Bureau of Aeronautics Training during World War II. In 1946, he accepted a position as visiting lecturer in the English department at Tulane University in New Orleans. On November 13, 1948, he died of amoebiasis, believed to have been contracted while he was stationed in French West Africa in 1943. His cremated remains were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun
''Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun'' is a collection of pseudo-African American folk tales written by white author Roark Bradford and published in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1928. It was compared to the tales about Uncle Remus and had moderate success, the '' Chicago Post'' called it "howlingly funny". Poet Sterling Brown criticized the way it depicted African Americans. The book was soon adapted to a play ''The Green Pastures'' by Marc Connelly which won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This was later made into the 1936 movie ''The Green Pastures''. Black actor Mantan Moreland adapted it for Caedmon Records Caedmon Audio and HarperCollins Audio are record label imprints of HarperCollins Publishers that specialize in audiobooks and other literary content. Formerly Caedmon Records, its marketing tag-line was Caedmon: a Third Dimension for the Printe ... based on material in the book. References {{Reflist 1928 books Books adapted into plays Fantasy antholo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
