Authors

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Charles H. Roth

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Charles H. Turner

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Charles Hutchison Clark

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Charles I. Hubert

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Charles I. Jones

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Charles Ira Coombs

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Charles Jackson

Charles R. Jackson was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1903. He graduated from Newark High School in 1921. As a young man he worked as an editor for local newspapers and in various bookstores in New Jersey, Chicago and New York prior to falling ill with tuberculosis. Jackson spent the years 1927-1931 in sanatoriums and eventually recovered in Switzerland. His successful battle cost him a lung and served as a catalyst for his alcoholism. He returned to New York at the height of the Great Depression and his difficulty in finding work spurred on his binge drinking. His battle to stop drinking started in late 1936 and was largely won by 1938, the year in which he married. During this time he was a free-lance writer and wrote radio scripts. The 1944 publication of The Lost Weekend catapulted his career toward success. He moved briefly to Hollywood in the Summer of 1944 and shortly thereafter to New Hampshire with his growing family, including his two young girls. He lived on and off at his home in New Hampshire for ten years. At the height of his career, Charles R. Jackson lectured at various colleges. In the mid-1950s he begain struggling with finances and moved with his family to Connecticut. Jackson spoke about alcoholism to large groups, sharing his experience, strength and hope. He was the first speaker in Alcoholics Anonymous to openly address drug dependence (Barbiturates and Paraldehyde) as part of his story. After relapsing into alcoholism Jackson became estranged from his family and rented an apartment in New York City that was shared with his lover in 1965. Jackson suffered from Chronic Lung Disease and committed suicide via an overdose of sleeping pills in his room at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City on September 21, 1968. Whether he was gay or bisexual is unclear; Anthony Slide, a modern scholar, asserts "Charles R. Jackson [was] identified as bisexual late in life." (from wikipedia)

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Charles James Rolo

Charles James Rolo, born to British parents in Alexandria, Egypt, graduated from Oxford University with honors and earned a masters from Columbia University's School of Journalism. In 1940, he worked as a translator and writer at the Princeton Listening Center of the Institute of Advanced Studies. Fluent in French, Italian and German, he monitored short wave propaganda broadcasts during World War II, which provided the basis for his first book, Radio Goes to War, a study of short-wave radio propaganda. After working with the British Information Services, where he headed the section on U.S. press, he served as an aide to Sir Isaiah Berlin, Winston Churchill's wartime envoy to the White House. In 1944, he wrote Wingate's Raiders, recounting the story of Major-General Orde Wingate's forays behind Japanese lines in Burma. He joined the Atlantic Monthly in 1948 as literary editor and critic and remained until 1961, when he joined McDonnell & Co. as a securities analyst. Rolo later became vice president of Halle & Stieglitz, which merged with Thomson & McKinnon. Beginning in 1976, he was a senior editor of Money Magazine. While there, he was the principal writer of the magazine's investment column Money letter: Wall Street. His last book Gaining on the Market was published in 1982. During his career Rolo also edited four anthologies: The World of Aldous Huxley, The World of Evelyn Waugh, Psychiatry in American Life, and The Anatomy of Wall Street. Sources: UPI Archives and New York Times

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Charles J. Brooks

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Charles J. Chaput

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Charles Jencks

Charles Kime

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Charles King

American academic - professor of international affairs and government at Georgetown University

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Charles Kingsley

Church of England priest, novelist, professor, historian (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley>more</a>).

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Charles Kingsley, Jr.

Charles Kingsley, Jr., was Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received the S.B. and S.M. degrees. During his career, he spent time at General Electric, Boeing, and Dartmouth College. In addition to Electric Machinery, Professor Kingsley was co-author of the textbook Magnetic Circuits and Transformers. After his retirement, he continued to participate in research activities at M.I.T. He was an active member and Fellow of the IEEE, as well as its predecessor society, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Source: McGraw Hill

Charles K. Weichert

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Charles Lamb

English essayist of Welsh heritage.

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