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José Mauro de Vasconcelos

José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Faculty, José abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed] There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model.

José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.

José was part Indian and part Portuguese. He passed his childhood in Natal. When he was 9 years old, he learned to swim, and with

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David Crystal

David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, and he received his secondary schooling at St Mary's College. He read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language studies, did some research there at the Survey of English Usage under Randolph Quirk (1962-3), then joined academic life as a lecturer in linguistics, first at Bangor, then at Reading. He published the first of his 100 or so books in 1964, and became known chiefly for his research work in English language studies, in such fields as intonation and stylistics, and in the

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Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey is published in 114 countries and more than 47 languages, with more than 750,000 5* reviews with international sales passing 275 million copies.

He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).

Jeffrey has been married for 53 years to Dame Mary Archer DBE. They have two sons, William and James, three grandsons and two granddaughters, and divide their time between homes in London, Cambridge and Mallorca.

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Thu Giang Nguyễn Duy Cần

Nguyễn Duy Cần (1907-1998), hiệu Thu Giang, là một học giả, nhà văn, nhà biên khảo và trước tác kỳ cựu vào bậc nhất Việt Nam giữa thế kỷ 20.

Ông làm nghề viết sách, dạy học, lương y, nghiên cứu Đạo học, Kinh Dịch, với các biệt hiệu: Thu Giang, Hoàng Hạc, Bảo Quang Tử, Linh Chi… Ông sống cùng thời với các học giả và nhà văn như: Nguyễn Hiến Lê, Giản Chi, Hoàng Xuân Việt, Phạm Cao Tùng…

Ông nổi bật không chỉ về số lượng tác phẩm đồ sộ mà còn ở độ sâu học thuật và sức ảnh hưởng về mặt tư tưởng đến các tầng lớp thanh niên trí thức của ông.

Thân thế và cuộc đời

Ông sinh ngày 15 tháng 7 năm 1907 tại làng Điều Hoà, tổng Thuận Trị, quận Châu Thành, tỉnh Mỹ Tho (nay thuộc thành phố Mỹ Tho, tỉnh Tiền Giang).

Ông là con trai của ông Nguyễn Văn Tâm, một ngư

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Jessie Inchauspé

I’m a French biochemist, author, and product developer. My passion is turning cutting-edge science into easy tips to empower people to feel amazing.
I’m the founder of GlucoseGoddess and the author of Glucose Revolution, a #1 international bestseller translated into 40 languages.
You may have seen my work on Good Morning America, Vogue, and in lots of podcasts. You can find recent press here.

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Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker is a British scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the impact of sleep on human health and disease. Previously, he was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is an American activist, environmental attorney, and author. Kennedy serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999.

He is the third of eleven children of Senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy.
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Giulia Enders

Giulia Enders (born 1990) is a German physician and writer.

Enders is a two-time scholarship winner of the Wilhelm Undelse Heraeus Foundation and currently works on her doctorate of medicine at the Institute for Microbiology in Frankfurt.

In 2012 she won the first prize at the Science Slam in Freiburg, Berlin and Karlsruhe with her talk Darm mit Charme (Charming Bowels). This talk was also published on YouTube. Enders received the offer to write a book about this subject that has sat atop the German paperback charts shortly after the release in March 2014. The drawings for the book were made by her older sister, Jill Enders.

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Đoàn Giỏi

Đoàn Giỏi (1925-1989) sinh tại Tân Hiệp - Châu Thành tỉnh Tiền Giang. Ông xuất thân từ một gia đình địa chủ lớn, có hàng trăm mẫu ruộng màu mỡ ven sông Tiền. Nhà ông xưa toà ngang dãy dọc, nơi mà bây giờ trở thành trụ sở Ủy ban nhân dân huyện Châu Thành. Tất cả nhà và đất gia đình ông đã tự nguyện hiến cho kháng chiến ngay từ đầu. Sau ngày thống nhất đất nước, nhà văn Đoàn Giỏi ra vào Nam – Bắc như cánh chim trời. Ở Hà Nội thì ông ở trụ sở Hội Nhà văn, vào Mỹ Tho thì ở cơ quan Hội Văn Nghệ, còn ở Sài Gòn ông tá túc tại nhà một người bạn trên đường Võ Văn Tần. Cho đến khi qua đời ở tuổi 65 (1989), ông vẫn chưa có một mái nhà riêng. Đoàn Giỏi là con đẻ và là kết tinh của nền văn hoá phương Nam, ông đã hiến trọn của cải vật chất và tinh thần c

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Eowyn Ivey

Eowyn Ivey is the author of The Snow Child, To the Bright Edge of the World and Black Woods Blue Sky. She lives in Alaska with her family.

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Nguyễn Nhật Ánh

Nguyễn Nhật Ánh là tên và cũng là bút danh của một nhà văn Việt Nam chuyên viết cho tuổi mới lớn. Ông sinh ngày 7 tháng 5 năm 1955 tại huyện Thăng Bình, Quảng Nam.

Cuộc đời và sự nghiệp

Thuở nhỏ ông theo học tại các trường Tiểu La, Trần Cao Vân và Phan Chu Trinh. Từ 1973 Nguyễn Nhật Ánh chuyển vào sống tại Sài Gòn, theo học ngành sư phạm. Ông đã từng đi Thanh niên xung phong, dạy học, làm công tác Đoàn Thanh niên Cộng Sản Hồ Chí Minh. Từ 1986 đến nay ông là phóng viên nhật báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng, lần lượt viết về sân khấu, phụ trách mục tiểu phẩm, phụ trách trang thiếu nhi và hiện nay là bình luận viên thể thao trên báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Chủ nhật với bút danh Chu Đình Ngạn. Ngoài ra, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh còn có những bút danh khác như Anh Bồ Câu,

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James Nestor

James Nestor is a journalist who has written for Outside magazine, Men's Journal, Scientific American, Dwell, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others.

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ; Wade-Giles: Laosi; also Laozi, Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Lao Zi, Laocius, Lao Ce, and other variations) was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi). His association with the Tao Te Ching has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of the Taoist religion, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones". Laozi translated literally from Chinese means "old master" or "old one", and is generally considered honorific.

According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Hi

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Hector Malot

Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
He announced his retirement as an author of fiction in 1895, but in 1896 he returned with the novel L'amour Dominateur as well as the account of hi

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Dan Ariely

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Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Dan Ariely grew up in Israel after birth in New York. In his senior year of high school, Ariely was active in Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, an Israeli youth movement. While he was preparing a ktovet esh (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing third-degree burns to over 70 percent of his body.[

Ariely recovered and went on to graduate from Tel Aviv University and receiv

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Yukichi Fukuzawa

Fukuzawa Yukichi (福澤諭吉) was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and political theorist who founded Keio University. His ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji Era. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan.

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Tim Marshall

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Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years' experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis.

Originally from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less traveled. Not a media studies or journalism graduate, in fact not a graduate at all, after a wholly unsuccessful career as a painter and decorator he worked his way through newsroom nightshifts, and unpaid stints as a researcher and runner before eventually securing himself a foothold on the first rung of the broadcasting career ladder.

After three years as IRN's Paris corres

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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.

Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.

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Keigo Higashino

Associated Names:
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)

Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.

Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co.　(presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.

In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and pu

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Mike Marqusee

Mike Marqusee was an American-born writer, journalist and political activist who has lived in Britain since 1971. He was the author of numerous books including If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the Sixties, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket, a novel, Slow Turn, and a collection of poetry, Street Music. He was a regular correspondent for a range of publications including The Guardian, Red Pepper and The Hindu.

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