Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch is a bestselling writer, avid historian, and voracious reader. She can be reached via Facebook, Goodreads, Instagram, and on her website, www.ninasankovitch.com.
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
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Jon Meacham
Jon Ellis Meacham is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.
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Harlow Giles Unger
Harlow Giles Unger is an American author, historian, journalist, broadcaster, and educator known for his extensive work on American history and education. Educated at the Taft School, Yale College, and California State University, Unger began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune Overseas News Service in Paris. He later wrote for newspapers and magazines across Britain, Canada, and other countries, while also working in radio broadcasting and teaching English and journalism at New York-area colleges.
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Unger has written over twenty-seven books, including ten biographies of America's Founding Fathers and a notable biography of Henry Clay. His historical works include Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot, -
Edward J. Larson
Edward J. Larson is the author of many acclaimed works in American history, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the Scopes Trial, Summer for the Gods. He is University Professor of History and Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University, and lives with his family near Los Angeles.
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Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English Literature, he began a prolific career as a freelance journalist. Between 1973 and 1982, Chernow published over sixty articles in national publications, including numerous cover stories. In the mid-80s Chernow went to work at the Twentieth Century Fund, a prestigious New York think tank, where he served as director of financial policy studies and received what he described as “a crash course in economics and financial history.”
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Chernow’s journalistic talents combined with his experience studying financial policy culminated in the writing of his extraordinary first book, The House of Morgan: A -
Bryan Burrough
Bryan Burrough joined Vanity Fair in August 1992 and has been a special correspondent for the magazine since January 1995. He has reported on a wide range of topics, including the events that led to the war in Iraq, the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, and the Anthony Pellicano case. His profile subjects have included Sumner Redstone, Larry Ellison, Mike Ovitz, and Ivan Boesky.
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Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Burrough was an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. In 1990, with Journal colleague John Heylar, he co-authored Barbarians at the Gate (HarperCollins), which was No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 39 weeks. Burrough's other books include Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Ed -
Nader Ebrahimi
نادر ابراهیمی در ۱۴ فروردین سال ۱۳۱۵ در تهران به دنیا آمد. تحصیلات مقدماتی را در این شهر گذراند و پس از گرفتن دیپلم ادبی از دبیرستان دارالفنون، به دانشکدهٔ حقوق وارد شد. اما این دانشکده را پس از دو سال رها کرد و سپس در رشتهٔ زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، مدرک لیسانس دریافت کرد. او از ۱۳ سالگی به یک سازمان سیاسی پیوست که بارها دستگیری، بازجویی و زندان رفتن را در دوران پهلوی برایش درپی داشت. ارایهٔ فهرست کاملی از شغل‌های ابراهیمی، کار دشواری است. او خود در دو کتاب «ابن مشغله» و «ابوالمشاغل» ضمن شرح وقایع زندگی، به فعالیت‌های گوناگون خود نیز پرداخته‌است. از جمله شغل‌های او بوده‌است: کمک کارگری تعمیرگاه سیار در ترکمن صحرا، کارگری چاپخانه، حسابداری و تحویلداری بانک، صفحه بندی روزنامه و مجله و کارهای چاپ دیگر، میرزایی یک حجرهٔ فرش در بازار، مترجمی و ویر
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Annemarie Selinko
Annemarie Selinko (September 1, 1914 - July 28, 1986) was an Austrian novelist who wrote a number of best-selling books in German from the 1930s through the 1950s. Although she had been based in Germany, in 1939 at the start of World War II she took refuge in Denmark with her Danish husband, but then in 1943, they again became refugees, this time to Sweden.
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Many of her novels have been adapted into movies and all have been translated into numerous languages. Her last work Désirée (1951) was about Désirée Clary, one of Napoleon's lovers and, later, a queen of Sweden. It has been translated into 25 languages and in 1956 was turned into a movie with Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons. It is dedicated to her sister Liselotte, who was murdered by the -
Helene Hanff
Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916–April 9, 1997) was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is best known as the author of the book 84 Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a play, teleplay, and film of the same name.
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Her career, which saw her move from writing unproduced plays to helping create some of the earliest television dramas to becoming a kind of professional New Yorker, goes far beyond the charm of that one book. She called her 1961 memoir Underfoot in Show Business, and it chronicled the struggle of an ambitious young playwright to make it in the world of New York theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. She worked in publicists' offices and spent summers on the "straw hat" circuit along the East Coast of the Unite -
Jean Teulé
Jean Teulé est un romancier français, qui a également pratiqué la bande dessinée, le cinéma et la télévision.
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Auteur de bande dessinée dans un premier temps, il a débuté à la télévision dans L'assiette anglaise de Bernard Rapp ou Nulle part ailleurs sur Canal+.
Homme de télévision, scénariste, comédien, cinéaste, il est avant tout écrivain. Ayant abandonné toute autre activité, il se consacre désormais à l’écriture. Il a publié, aux Éditions Julliard, Rainbow pour Rimbaud (1991), L'Œil de Pâques (1992), Ballade pour un père oublié (1995), Darling (1998) et Bord cadre (1999), Longues Peines, Les Lois de la gravité, Ô Verlaine ! (2004), Je, François Villon (2006), Le Magasin des suicides (2007). Finalement, en 2008 "Le Montespan". Tous ses livr -
Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz (born in 1972) is an Australian novelist.
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Toltz graduated from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1994. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter.
A Fraction of the Whole, his first novel, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It is a comic novel which tells the history of a family of Australian outcasts. The narration of the novel alternates between Jasper Dean, a philosophical, idealistic boy, who grows up throughout the novel and his father, Martin Dean, a philosopher and shut-in described at the start of the novel as "the most h -
Zoya Pirzad
Zoya Pirzad is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. She is the author of the international bestseller Things We Left Unsaid, and her most recent collection of stories, The Bitter Taste of Persimmon, won the prize for Best Foreign Book of 2009 in France.
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زویا پیرزاد نویسنده و داستان نویس معاصر در سال ۱۳۳۱ در آبادان از مادری ارمنی تبار و پدری روس تبار به دنیا آمد. در همان جا به مدرسه رفت و در تهران ازدواج کرد و دو پسرش ساشا و شروین را به دنیا آورد -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Abbas Maroufi
Abbas Maroufi (عباس معروفی) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.
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Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the literary Gardun magazine from 1990 to 1995. His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled Into the Sun. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage. In his The Last Superior Generation, he touched on social themes. His last collection of short stories, The Scent of the Jasmine was published in the United States.
Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony.
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روزبه معین (Rouzbeh Moein)
Rouzbeh Moein is a writer, novelist, playwright and cartoonist from Iran.
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He began his career by writing drama and then turned to writing novels.
His first book is The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer which was published in May 2017
His first book launch sold out over 1100 copies, and at his second book launch he broke the record of the longest queue for such an event and his fans waited for more then 7 hours to buy a copy.
In the next twenty days, his first published book sold around 1000 copies per day.
He published one of his dramas in 2015 (When Rain Plays Piano).
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James M. Bradley
James M. Bradley is co-editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers, based at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He is an Adjunct Instructor in the public history program at State University of New York at Albany.
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روزبه معین (Rouzbeh Moein)
Rouzbeh Moein is a writer, novelist, playwright and cartoonist from Iran.
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He began his career by writing drama and then turned to writing novels.
His first book is The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer which was published in May 2017
His first book launch sold out over 1100 copies, and at his second book launch he broke the record of the longest queue for such an event and his fans waited for more then 7 hours to buy a copy.
In the next twenty days, his first published book sold around 1000 copies per day.
He published one of his dramas in 2015 (When Rain Plays Piano).
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Olivia de Havilland
Dame Olivia de Havilland, DBE received two Academy Awards (1946 and 1949), two Golden Globe Awards (1949 and 1986), and multiple other awards and nominations during her career in the dramatic arts. Her honors include a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960), she received the National Medal of Arts (2008, United States), she was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (2010, France), and was invested a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2017). Among her best known roles is that of Melanie Wilkes in ‘Gone With the Wind’ (1939).
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Leah Price
Leah Price is an American literary critic who specializes in the British novel and in the history of the book. She is Professor of English Literature at Harvard University, where at the age of 31 she became the first female assistant professor ever to be promoted to tenure.
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Edward J. Larson
Edward J. Larson is the author of many acclaimed works in American history, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the Scopes Trial, Summer for the Gods. He is University Professor of History and Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University, and lives with his family near Los Angeles.
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Jürgen Thorwald
Jürgen Thorwald was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II.
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Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne. He started his career in 1933 in Nazi Germany, writing for publications such as Die Braune Post ("The Brown Mail"), the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") and the NSDAP paper National-Zeitung. During the war he worked as a propaganda writer focusing on the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine and the general German war effort.
After the war, he used the pseudonym Jürgen Thorwald in order to be able to work under Allied occupation. In 1947, he legally adopted the new name.
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Pauline Maier
Dr. Pauline Maier was a historian of the American Revolution, though her work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War. She was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Maier achieved prominence over a fifty-year career of critically acclaimed scholarly histories and journal articles. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and taught undergraduates. She authored textbooks and online courses. Her popular career included series with PBS and the History Channel. She appeared on Charlie Rose, C-SPAN2's In Depth and wrote 20 years for The New York Times review pages. Maier was the 201 -
Phyllis Rose
Phyllis Rose is an American literary critic, essayist, biographer, and educator.
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Michel Peyramaure
Michel Peyramaure est un romancier français, souvent qualifiée d'écrivain de terroir ou d'écrivain régionaliste, auteur d'une centaine de romans, pour la plupart historique. Il est considéré pour beaucoup de personnes comme l'un des "plus grands romanciers historiques". Il a reçu en 1979 le Grand Prix de littérature de la Société des gens de lettres pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.
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Michel Peyramaure est né en 1922 à Brive-la-Gaillarde, en Corrèze. À sa sortie du collège, il travaille dans l'imprimerie de son père, où il compose ses premiers poèmes, puis devient journaliste à La Montagne, avant de se consacrer à l'écriture littéraire. En 1954, il publie son premier roman, Paradis entre quatre murs, aux éditions Robert Laffont. L'année