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John Welwood
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John William Polidori
Dr. Polidori was Lord Byron's personal physician. Upon accompanying Byron on holiday to Switzerland, he participated in a "ghost story" writing exercise. His own story was met with scorn, but, inspired by the fragment that Byron wrote, Polidori used this base to write was would become the first modern vampire story in the English language. His character, Lord Ruthven, an aristocratic bloodsucker based on Byron, would be used in English, French and German novels, operas and plays until the character was eclipsed by Stoker's Count Dracula. Polidori became depressed and indebted due to gambling. His death at the age of 25 was officially classed as natural causes, but it was likely that Polidori committed suicide. There is strong evidence indicating poisoning with cyanide. Through his sister, Polidori was the uncle to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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John W. Kingdon
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Jomo Kenyatta
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Jonathan Aycliffe
Jonathan Aycliffe is a pseudonym of Denis McEoin. Denis M. MacEoin (born 26 January 1949, Belfast, Northern Ireland) since 2014 has published at the Gatestone Institute, of which he is a Senior Fellow, a number of essays on current events with a Middle Eastern focus. He was a "Senior Editor" from 2009–2010 at Middle East Quarterly, a publication of the American think tank Middle East Forum, where he is also a Fellow. A former lecturer in Islamic studies, he is also a novelist, writing under the pen names Daniel Easterman and Jonathan Aycliffe. Source: Denis M. MacEoin on Wikipedia
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Jonathan Dee
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Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Eig
Ken Burns calls Jonathan Eig a "master storyteller." Eig is the author of five books, three of them New York Times best sellers. He was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Eig is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he remains a contributing writer. Eig has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, among others. Prior to The Wall Street Journal, he worked as a feature writer for Chicago magazine and as a news reporter for The Dallas Morning News and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. Eig's books have been published in 13 languages. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, won the Casey Award for best baseball book of the year. Ali was named winner of PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting; best book of the year by Sports Illustrated; and one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year by The Wall Street Journal. Ali won best biography and best overall book in the British Sports Book Awards. It also won the award for best biography or memoir from the Society of Midland Authors. It was a finalist for Mark Lynton History Prize; the Plutarch Award; the William Hill Award; the James Tait Black Award for biography; an L.A. Times Book Award for biography; and an NAACP Image Award. Eig has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and in two Ken Burns documentaries: Prohibition and Jackie Robinson. He is currently working with Burns and Florentine Films on a Muhammad Ali documentary. His next book will be a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (source)
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Jonathan Hennessey
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Jonathan Kirsch
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Jonathan Littman
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Jonathan London
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Jonathan Miller
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Jonathan Strahan
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Jon Jefferson
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Jon Louis Bentley
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Jon Savage
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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian. He is widely known as host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on the Comedy Central television network.
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Jordan Mechner
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Jorge Enciso
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Jose Garibaldi
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Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos
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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, 9 de mayo de 1883-18 de octubre de 1955) fue un filósofo y ensayista español, exponente principal de la teoría del perspectivismo y de la razón vital e histórica, situado en el movimiento del novecentismo. Ejerció una gran influencia en la filosofía española y en la filosofía iberoamericana del siglo XX no solo por la temática de su obra filosófica, sino también por su estilo literario ágil, descrito por algunos como próximo al Quijote, que le permitió llegar fácilmente al público general. José Ortega y Gasset (9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James, and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism (prior to Martin Heidegger's) and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce." Source: José Ortega y Gasset on Wikipedia
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Joseph Addison
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Joseph Brodsky
Joseph (Iosif) Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
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Joseph E. LeDoux
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Josephina Niggli
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Joseph Joffo
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Joseph Kanon
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Joseph Machlis
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Joseph Marshall
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Joseph Mitchell
Joseph Quincy Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) was an American writer best known for his works of creative nonfiction he published in The New Yorker. His work primarily consists of character studies, where he used detailed portraits of people and events to highlight the commonplace of the world, especially in and around New York City. His book Up in the Old Hotel collects the best of his writing for The New Yorker. His last book was his empathetic account of the Greenwich Village street character and self-proclaimed historian Joe Gould, published as Joe Gould's Secret (1964).
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Joseph Nicolosi
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Joseph Slate
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Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Smith, Jr. (23 December 1805 – 27 June 1844) was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, a group of churches whose adherents regard him as a prophet. During the late 1820s he became the leader of a small group of followers who believed that an angel had given him a book of golden plates containing a religious history of ancient American peoples. Smith said he had translated the writing on the plates from an unknown language into English; and in 1830, he published the translation as the Book of Mormon and organized what he said was a restoration of the early Christian church 1
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José Rizal
José Protasio Rizal-Mercado y Alonso-Realonda, más conocido como José Rizal (Calambá, 19 de junio de 1861 - Manila, 30 de diciembre de 1896), fue un médico (se hizo oftalmólogo en Madrid), escritor, pintor, lingüista y político filipino. Es considerado el héroe nacional de Filipinas y fue fundador en 1892 de la Liga Filipina. Source: José Rizal on Wikipedia.
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Josh Funk
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Josh Mensch
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Josiah Bancroft
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Joss Wood
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J. Oswald Sanders
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Joyce Egginton
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Joyce Hansen
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Joyce Harrington
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Joyce Lain Kennedy
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Joyce Oldham Appleby, PhD
Joyce Oldham Appleby was an American historian. She was a professor of history at UCLA, and president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997). Appleby was a specialist in historiography and the political thought of the early American Republic, with special interests in Republicanism, liberalism and the history of ideas about capitalism. She served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals and editorial projects, and received prominent national fellowships.
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J. P. Clark-Bekederemo
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J. P. Donleavy
An American-Irish novelist, playwright and essayist. He adapted four of his own works of fiction into plays: The Ginger Man, A Singular Man, The Saddest Summer of Samuel S, and The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B. He also once wrote a novel (A Fairy Tale of New York) that developed out of his own earlier play, Fairy Tales of New York. Four of the plays (Ginger Man, Fairy Tales of New York, Singular Man, Saddest Summer of Samuel S) were collected in "The Plays of J. P. Donleavy," but otherwise are less widely available than his fiction and nonfiction works.
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J. P. Holman
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J. R. Ackerley
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