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James P. Blaylock
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James Putnam
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James Randi
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James R. Hansen
James R. Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama. His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988. For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005.
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James Risen
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James R. Lewis
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James R. White
James R. White is the author of several acclaimed books, including The God Who Justifies and The Forgotten Trinity. The director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization, he is an accomplished and respected debater and an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church. James also blogs at the Alpha and Omega Ministries site www.aomin.org. He and his family live in Phoenix, Arizona.-Amazon
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James Solheim
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James S. Romm
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James T. Farrell
An American novelist, most famous for the Studs Lonigan trilogy.
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James Vance Marshall
English author. James Vance Marshall was the pseudonym of Donald Gordon Payne
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James V. Hart
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James V. McConnell
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James W. Loewen
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Jame Trefil
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Jamie Carie
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Jamie Chang
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Jamie Rix
Jamie Rix is an English children's author, as well as a comedy writer, and a television and radio producer. He studied Drama and English at the University of Kent while he worked as an assistant stage manager at the Royal Court Theatre. He was hired by the BBC to write and produce comedies for television and radio, and helped create Radio Active, The Wow Show, The History of Rock, Alas Smith and Jones, etc. He published his first children's book Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids in May 1990, which led to three sequels, a cartoon adaptation for ITV and several other children's books with their own series, such as the Alistair Fury series and the Johnny Casanova books. The Grizzly Tales franchise has received many awards and nominations for several branches: the book that started it all won a Nestle Smarties Book Prize, and both cartoon adaptations have been nominated for BAFTA awards, whereas the Alistair Fury live-action adaptation won a BAFTA in 2008.
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Jan Cox Speas
Jan Cox Speas was born November 5, 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina. She attended the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina (women could not go to UNC-Chapel Hill until junior year) from1942-46, where she studied creative writing under Hiram Hayden. UNC had a special association with Jan's family: her mother, Francis Howard Cox, who had studied as a high schooler at home in tiny Richlands, NC, was the first in the family to come to the college, taking the train in 1914 to Greensboro to study to be a teacher, and years later Jan’s daughter, Cindy, attended UNC-Chapel Hill in the first year freshmen women were allowed to enroll. Near the end of the war Jan met and married John Speas on his return from the European theater. Their first child, Cindy, was born in 1948, right after John graduated from Colorado State University. After several years of traveling, the Speas family settled back in Greensboro in 1954 to be near Jan’s mother, who suffered from chronic ill health. During that time Jan wrote multiple short stories for the widely read “slick” magazine market, including The Post, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s, Cosmopolitan, and others. Cindy Speas recalls, “Mom learned to write from reading--and that's what we did as a family every night.” Jan's favorite authors included Daphne DuMaurier, Mary Stewart, Nevil Shute, Elswyth Thane, Inglis Fletcher, Helen MacInnis, Elisabeth Ogilvie, Elizabeth Goudge, Dorothy Sayer and Josephine Tey. “But the most fun Mom and I had,” Cindy confesses, “was with Georgette Heyer's Regency romances--we collected all of the original hardbacks.” Jan's own first novel, Bride of the McHugh, was published the same month her second child, Greg, was born, in 1954. The Indiana firm Bobbs-Merrill, where her UNC mentor Hiram Hayden was an editor, was the publisher. She published two more historical novels, My Lord Monleigh in 1956, and My Love, My Enemy in 1961, before going back to graduate school in 1962, where she received her Master of Fine Arts under southern poet Randall Jarrell at UNC-Greensboro, writing The Growing Season as her thesis. The Growing Season, published in 1963, was the first thesis accepted in non-standard thesis form for the university library, and is still on their shelves as the actual published book. (UNC-Greensboro also holds the original manuscript of Bride of the MacHugh) Jan went on to teach English and creative writing as well as American literature and poetry at Guilford College in Greensboro . Her favorite poets were T.S. Elliott and Robert Frost. Sadly, she died of a heart attack in late October 1971 while on the west coast visiting her brother who was dying from a brain tumor, a double tragedy for their mother. “None of us expected it,” says Cindy. “It was a huge personal loss, but also a loss to all her fans.” At the time of her death, Jan was working on a novel that remains unfinished.
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Jandy Nelson
Jandy Nelson (born 1965) is an American author of young adult fiction. Prior to her career as an author, Nelson worked for 13 years as a literary agent at Manus & Associates Literary Agency. She holds a BA from Cornell University as well as several MFAs. She has one in poetry from Brown University and another in children's writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Nelson lives in San Francisco, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandy_Nelson
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Jane Cabrera
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Jane Casey
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Jane Cowen-Fletcher
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Jane Dyer
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Jane Feather
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Jane Greenoff
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Jane Kidder
Note: Jane Kidder and Charla Chin write under the pseudonym of Charlotte Simms; they live in Arizona
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Jane Kurtz
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Jane Leslie Conly
American children's writer
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Jane Louise Curry
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Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988, with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, with Jill Abramson, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times’s Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington, D.C. (source)
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Jane P. Laudon
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Jane Roberts
American writer and poet
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Jane Simmons
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Janet Dean
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Janet E. Gardner
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Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame was a writer from New Zealand. Using her own life as inspiration, she wrote a lot about mental illness, and, well, madness. Uncomfortable, brilliant writing. She was born in Dunedin, raised in Oamaru and educated at Dunedin Teachers' Training College and Otago University. She is one of New Zealand's most acclaimed writers.
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Janet Lunn
Popular Canadian author of children's historical novels. She was chair of the Writer's Union of Canada.
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Janet Taylor Lisle
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Janette Sebring Lowrey
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Jane (Werner) Watson
Jane Werner Watson was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1936. In 1938 she became one of the first editors for the original Golden Books series published by Western Publishing in conjunction with Simon and Schuster. She wrote and edited several of the Golden Books herself, especially those based on Walt Disney films. She also wrote a series of picture books for children in India and a series titled "Living in Today's World" that introduced American children to cultures around the world. She retired from Western Publishing in 1958, the same year she was named Woman of the Year in Literature by the Los Angeles Times.
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Janice May Udry
Janice May Udry (born 1928) is an American author. She was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University in 1950. Her first book, A Tree is Nice, was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1957 for Marc Simont's illustrations. Her papers are held at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Jan Maxwell
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Jan Ormerod
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Jan Spiller
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Jan Swafford
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Jan Tempest
Irene Maude Mossop was born December 6, 1904 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK, she was the elder child of Maude Binford Eyre and Robert Mossop, a solicitor, later they had one son. She was educated privately, and - the early death of her father making it necessary to earn a living - turned to writing at a young age. She published girls' school stories, and other children's novels as Irene Mossop. In 1934, Irene married ex-RAF officer Charles John Swatridge (1896-1964), and moved with him to Middlecombe Farm, near Kingsbridge, Devon, in 1942. After her marriage, she started to wrote gothic and romance novels, first as Jan Tempest and later as Fay Chandos. In collaboration with her husband, she published as Theresa Charles, years later, her husband published some novels as Leslie Lance, and after his death she continued using the pseudonym. In 1950s, Irene had serious discussions with Alan Boon of Mills & Boon about her novel Without A Honeymoon when she introduced the idea of a illegitimate child, that he felt she would encounter difficulties with the Irish audience. She passed away on October 26, 1988.
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Jan Thomas
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Jared Hodges
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J. A. Rogers
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880, or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology, and anthropology. He challenged prevailing ideas about race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced African achievements.
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