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James Kakalios

James Kakalios is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. Known within the scientific community for his work with amorphous semiconductors, granular materials, and 1/f noise, he is known to the general public as the author of the book The Physics of Superheroes, which considers comic book superheroes from the standpoint of fundamental physics.
Kakalios, who earned PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985, began his comic book collection as a graduate student as a way to relieve stress. At Minnesota, he taught a freshman seminar that focused on the physics of superheroes as a way to motivate students to think about physics. This course gained great popularity as an enticing alternative to the typical inclined planes and pulleys

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes

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Christian Jacq

Also writes under the names Célestin Valois, J.B. Livingstone, and Christopher Carter.

Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book suite about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.

Jacq's interest in Egyptology began when he was thirteen, and read History of Ancient Egyptian Civilization by Jacques Pirenne. This inspired him to write his first novel. He first visited Egypt when he was seventeen, went on to study Egyptology and archaeology at the Sorbonne, and is now one of the world's leading Egyptologists.

By the time he was eighteen, he had written eight books. His first commercially successful book was Champollion the Egyptian, published in 19

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Pilar Sánchez Vicente

Pilar Sánchez Vicente es documentalista y escritora. Licenciada en Geografía e Historia, trabaja como jefa del Servicio de Publicaciones, Archivos Administrativos y Documentación del Gobierno del Principado de Asturias. Es presidenta de la Asociación Profesional de Especialistas en Información (APEI). Fue guionista y presentadora de varios programas en TVE-Asturias y el canal Internacional de TVE. Entre sus obras destacan: Breve Historia de Asturias (Ayalga, 1986; VTP 2006), Comadres (KRK, 2001) y Gontrodo la hija de la luna (KRK, 2005).

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Mary Mapes Dodge

Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in New York City. She acquired a good education under private tutors. In 1851 she married the lawyer William Dodge. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in 1858. A month after his disappearance his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow.
In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodg

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Javier Negrete

Licenciado en Filología Clásica, Negrete ha sido profesor de griego (desde 1991, y actualmente en 2016, da clases en el Instituto de Educación Secundaria Gabriel y Galán de Plasencia) y sus novelas son principalmente del género de fantasía y ciencia ficción, aunque también ha incursionado exitosamente en la novela erótica.

Su andadura literaria comenzó con la publicación de la novela corta La luna quieta, que apareció en la primera antología del premio UPC de ciencia ficción en 1991, del que fue finalista. Al mismo certamen, Negrete presentó también el relato En el vientre de la ballena.

En 1992 sale el Estado crepuscular, que ganó el Ignotus 1994 y el premio de la editorial Gigamesh el mismo año.

Lux Aeterna mereció una mención especial en la

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Katie Hickman

Katie Hickman was born into a diplomatic family in 1960 and has spent more than twenty-five years living abroad in Europe, the Far East and Latin America. She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, Wayward Women.

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Santiago Posteguillo

Santiago Posteguillo is senior lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. He is also president of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, and a member of the Editorial Board of the international journals English for Specific Purposes and Written Communication. His latest publications include Netlinguistics: Language, Discourse and Ideology in Internet (2003) and the recent Spanish Computing Dictionary: English-Spanish, Spanish-English (2004).

Santiago Posteguillo, filólogo, lingüista, doctor europeo por la Universidad de Valencia, es en la actualidad profesor titular en la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón y director de la sede en dicha universidad del Instituto Interunivers

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Le Fernández

Soy Le Fernández, una tica con pasión por contar historias desde que tengo memoria.

Amo leer aventura, fantasía y romance, muchas veces al escribir combino estos tres para crear algo especial.

Dirijo un Club de Lectura donde compartimos textos míos y de otros colegas, manejo un Instagram literario donde creo contenido para promover la lectura.

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Luis Zueco

Luis Manuel Zueco Jiménez (Borja, Zaragoza, 2 de julio de 1979) es un novelista, historiador, investigador y fotógrafo español. Además, es vicepresidente de la Asociación de Amigos de los Castillos de Aragón) y Director del hotel con encanto Castillo de Grisel y copartícipe de la restauración del Castillo-Palacio de Bulbuente

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Luigi Malerba

Co-founder of the Gruppo 63. Luigi Malerba (born Luigi Bonardi; November 11, 1927 – May 8, 2008) was an Italian author who wrote short stories (often written with Tonino Guerra), historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism. Umberto Eco said that Malerba was defined post-modern, but that's not all true, because he is maliciously ironic, unpredictable, and ambiguous. He was one of the most important exponents of the Italian literary moviment called Neoavanguardia, along with Balestrini, Sanguineti, and Manganelli.
He was the first writer to win the Prix Médicis étranger in 1970. He also won the Brancati Prize in 1979, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1989 (with Stefano Jacomuzzi and Raff

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Santiago Posteguillo

Santiago Posteguillo is senior lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. He is also president of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, and a member of the Editorial Board of the international journals English for Specific Purposes and Written Communication. His latest publications include Netlinguistics: Language, Discourse and Ideology in Internet (2003) and the recent Spanish Computing Dictionary: English-Spanish, Spanish-English (2004).

Santiago Posteguillo, filólogo, lingüista, doctor europeo por la Universidad de Valencia, es en la actualidad profesor titular en la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón y director de la sede en dicha universidad del Instituto Interunivers

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Giorgio Bassani

Giorgio Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico L. Ariosto in Ferrara. Music had been his first great passion and he considered a career as a pianist; however literature soon became the focus of his artistic interests.
In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the “free intellectual” was the Liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were

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Javier Negrete

Licenciado en Filología Clásica, Negrete ha sido profesor de griego (desde 1991, y actualmente en 2016, da clases en el Instituto de Educación Secundaria Gabriel y Galán de Plasencia) y sus novelas son principalmente del género de fantasía y ciencia ficción, aunque también ha incursionado exitosamente en la novela erótica.

Su andadura literaria comenzó con la publicación de la novela corta La luna quieta, que apareció en la primera antología del premio UPC de ciencia ficción en 1991, del que fue finalista. Al mismo certamen, Negrete presentó también el relato En el vientre de la ballena.

En 1992 sale el Estado crepuscular, que ganó el Ignotus 1994 y el premio de la editorial Gigamesh el mismo año.

Lux Aeterna mereció una mención especial en la

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of just about all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.

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Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.

He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.

Baricco hosted the book program "Pickwick" for Rai Tre, which, according to Claudio Paglieri, "invited Italians to rediscover the pleasure of reading." In 1994, he founded a school of "writing techniques" in Turin called Holden (as a tribute to Salinger), which, under his direction, has been a resounding success. Si

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Marco Travaglio

Nasce il 13 ottobre 1964 a Torino, dove tuttora vive. Dopo la maturità classica, ha conseguito la laurea in Storia Contemporanea presso la facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Torino. E’ giornalista professionista dal 1992.

Ha iniziato la sua carriera di giornalista al settimanale torinese Il Nostro Tempo. Ha lavorato a Il Giornale diretto da Indro Montanelli dal 1987 al 1994, quando è passato alla Voce, diretta sempre da Montanelli. Nel 1995, alla chiusura della Voce, ha collaborato come free-lance con diversi quotidiani e settimanali, fra i quali Il Giorno, L’Indipendente, Cuore, Il Messaggero, Il Borghese, Sette-Corriere della Sera; nonché con Il Fatto di Enzo Biagi su Rai1.

Nel 1998 è stato assunto a La Repubblica, dove tutt

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Andrea Marcolongo

Andrea Marcolongo, nata nel 1987 e laureata in Lettere classiche presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano, è una scrittrice italiana attualmente tradotta in 27 Paesi. Autrice de La lingua geniale. 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Laterza, 2016) e de La misura eroica (Mondadori, 2018), scrive per TuttoLibri de «La Stampa». Traduttrice dal greco, visiting professor presso l'Universidad de Los Andes di Bogotá e l'UNAM di Città del Messico e presidente 2019 del Festival de l'histoire di Blois, è stata finalista in Francia al Prix des Lecteurs. Ora vive a Parigi.

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Vicky Alvear Shecter

Vicky Alvear Shecter wishes she had a time machine to go back to the glory days of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Until she can find one, she writes about the famous and fabulous lives of the ancients and their gods instead. She is also a docent at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Antiquities at Emory University.

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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. Born in Wimbledon, he received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G.H. Johnstone, a boy of fourteen ("Dick" in Goodbye to All That) When challenged by the headmaster he defended himself by citing Plato, Greek poets, Michelangelo & Shakespeare, "who had felt as I did".

At the outbreak of WWI, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet

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Alberto Angela

Alberto Angela is an Italian paleontologist, writer and journalist. Angela is currently a famous scientific popularizer in Italy.

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Nicola Gardini

Nicola Gardini è scrittore e pittore. Vive tra Oxford e Milano.
Scrive poesie, saggi, romanzi, memoir, articoli giornalistici, e traduce poesia dal latino e da alcune lingue moderne, soprattutto l’inglese. Dipinge prevalentemente a olio, su tela e su cartone.

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Robyn Young

Robyn Young is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the BRETHREN and INSURRECTION trilogies and the NEW WORLD RISING series. She also writes crime thrillers as Erin Young.

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Paola Mastrocola

Born in 1956, she works presently as high school teacher. She has won some of the most prestigious Italian literature prizes.

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Ben Waggoner

I've been studying Old Norse (close to modern Icelandic) in my copious spare time since about 2006. Now I translate, study, annotate, and periodically publish Old Norse sagas (longish prose narratives that come in a great many "genres"). Why? It's fun if you like that sort of thing, and someone has to do it. . . My focus has been on the fornaldarsögur or "sagas of olden time" -- legendary narratives set in Scandinavia, some of which transmit very old legendary material.

For the record, I am *not* the Ben Waggoner who's written books on video file compression. I'm sure he's a great guy, but he's not me.

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Laura Pepe

Laura Pepe insegna Diritto greco antico all'Università degli Studi di Milano.

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Gerald Green

Green attended Columbia College, where he edited the Jester, starred in several Varsity Shows, and was a member of the Philolexian Society. He graduated from the college in 1942 and, after serving in the US Army in Europe during the Second World War, where he was also the editor of the army's Stars and Stripes newspaper, he returned to New York to attend the Columbia Journalism School.

Green wrote many novels, the best known being The Last Angry Man, published in 1956. It was adapted into a movie by the same name which was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Muni) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White. His other novels include His Majesty O'Keefe (co-authored with Lawrence Klingman), adapted i

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Roberto Piumini

Roberto Piumini è nato a Edolo, in provincia di Brescia, il 14 marzo 1947.
Ha abitato a Edolo, Varese, Milano.
Nel 1970 si è laureato in Pedagogia all’Università Cattolica di Milano, con tesi su La persona del poeta in Emmanuel Mounier.
Ha frequentato la Scuola Superiore di Comunicazioni Sociali di Milano.
Dal 1967 al 1973 è stato insegnante di lettere in scuole medie e superiori della provincia di Varese.
Ha condotto numerosi corsi di dinamica espressiva, espressione corporea, scrittura poetica e teatrale.
È stato attore per tre anni con le compagnie Teatro Uomo di Milano e La Loggetta di Brescia.
Ha fatto esperienza per un anno come burattinaio.
Dal 1978 ha pubblicato moltissimi libri di fiabe, racconti corti e lunghi, romanzi, filastrocche,

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Maria Grazia Ciani

Maria Grazia Ciani è nata a Pola (Istria, ora Croazia), il 21 maggio 1940.
Ha lasciato l’Istria con l’esodo del 1945.
Ha studiato a Venezia e a Padova, dove si è laureata nel 1962 con Carlo Diano in letteratura greca.
Si è diplomata in pianoforte e composizione presso il Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello di Venezia.
Nel 1980 ha vinto la cattedra di prima fascia nel gruppo di letteratura greca, assumendo l’insegnamento di Lingua e civiltà greca e in seguito di Storia della tradizione classica presso l’Università di Padova.
Si è occupata soprattutto di epica e di tragedia, e ha studiato la sopravvivenza dei miti letterari e iconografici nelle letterature e nell’arte dell’Occidente.

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Luca Tarenzi

Laureato in Storia delle Religioni all’Università Cattolica di Milano, è stato giornalista e redattore. Attualmente collabora con varie case editrici come traduttore, editor e consulente: tra le sue traduzioni figurano opere di Douglas Preston e Lincoln Child per Rizzoli, e di Jonathan Stroud e Nahoko Uehashi per Salani.

Ha esordito come scrittore nel 2006 con il romanzo urban fantasy Pentar (Alacran) (ripubblicato nel 2008 con il titolo Pentar – Il Patto degli Dei).

Sempre nel 2006 ha dato alle stampe il saggio-biografia a tema spirituale La Sciamana del Deserto (Lindau – L’Età dell’Acquario), sulla vita di Doña Maria, un'italiana istruita nello sciamanesimo dagli Huicholes del Messico.

Nel 2008 ha pubblicato Il Libro dei Peccati (Alacran), r

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Valerio Massimo Manfredi

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