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Charles Neider
2 books
Charles Newman Heckelmann
1 book
Charles Nicholl
1 book
Charles Nicholl
2 books
CHARLES NICHOLL
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Charles North
1 book
Charles O'Connor
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Charles O. Davidshofer
1 book
Charles Ogden
1 book
Charles O. Jones
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Charles Osborne
1 book
Charles Osborne
3 books
Charles Osborne
3 books
Charles Owens Wilson
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Charles Palliser
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Charles Panati
Charles Panati was born in Baltimore, MD, and raised in Atlantic City, NJ. His family had worked with the Miss America Pageant, and in his early twenties Panati worked as an escort for pageant contestants. In 1965 he received a B.S. in physics from Villanova University, and in 1966 he received a M.Sc. in Radiation Health Physics from Columbia University. After graduating, he worked in cancer research at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. In 1971 he became a science reporter for Newsweek Magazine. He became interested in parapsychology and his first book , Supersenses: Our Potential for Parasensory Experience (1974) was about extrasensory perception. He followed up with other fringe science books: The Geller Papers (1976), which was about the Israeli psychic Uri Geller; Death Encounters (1979), about the "white light" phenomenon reported by some people who have been resuscitated from the verge of death; and Breakthroughs: Advances in Science, Medicine and Technology (1980), about future developments in technology. He also wrote the psychological suspense novels Links (1978) and The Pleasuring of Rory Malone (1982). Following the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania happened, he co-wrote the book The Silent Intruder: Surviving the Radiation Age (1981) with his brother, Michael Hudson. He used his background in radiation health technology to examine the benefits and dangers of radiation, including nuclear radiation from power plant accidents. In the 1980s, he learned his father was adopted, and that his birth name was Charles Hudson. Although he legally changed his name to Charles Hudson, he continued to publish under the name Charles Panati. In 1984 he wrote The Browser’s Book of Beginnings about the origins of everyday objects, which was turned into a weekly TV show called The Start of Something Big. The success of the book and show led to a series of "origins" books, including Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (1987); Panati’s Parade of Fads, Follies and Manias: The Origins of Our Most Cherished Obsessions (1991); Sacred Origins of Profound Things: The Stories Behind the Rites and Rituals of the World’s Religions (1996); Sexy Origins of Intimate Things (1998); and Words To Live By: Origins of Common Wisdom Expressions (1999). He also wrote an "endings" book, Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody (1989).
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Charles Parlin Graves
1 book
Charles Paul Conn
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Charles Pépin
1 book
Charles Perrault
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Charles Perrault
The French author who laid the foundations for the fairy tale genre of literature. His collected "Contes des fées" (widely known as the Mother Goose stories) have been endlessly retold, most profitably by Disney. Every child knows "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast", "Sleeping Beauty", "Snow White", "Puss in Boots", "Tom Thumb", and "Red Riding Hood". Charles Perrault naquit a Paris le 12 janvier 1628, septieme enfant de Pierre Perrault, avocat au parlement de Paris. Apres d'excellentes etudes au college de Beauvais, rue Jean-De-Beauvais a Paris, il fut recu avocat en 1651. Il abandonna bientot apres le barreau et devint commis de son frere aine, Pierre, receveur general des finances de Paris. Les loisirs que lui laissait sa place lui permirent de se livrer a la poesie : diverses pieces de circonstances, a la verite assez mediocrement versifiees, commencerent a le faire connaitre des hommes de lettres et des artistes de son temps. En 1663, il entra au service de Colbert et devint rapidement son homme de confiance : nomme secretaire de la " petite academie " , qui sera plus tard l'academie des inscriptions et belles lettres, il prit ensuite une part active a l'administration des batiments du roi, avec le titre de "premier commis des batiments" . En 1671, il fut elu a l'academie francaise. La meme annee, il epousa une jeune fille de dix-neuf ans, Marie Guichon, qui lui donna quatre enfants et le laissa veuf en 1678.
8 books
Charles Perrow
American sociologist.
1 book
Charles Perry
1 book
Charles Petzold
3 books
Charles Petzold
1 book
Charles Phillips
1 book
Charles Platt
Charles Platt was born in London, England, and moved to New York City in 1970. In 1994 he co-founded a cryonics organization called CryoCare in 1994. He was a senior writer at Wired magazine for several years. He is the author of over 40 fiction and nonfiction books, including science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man and Protektor. His non-fiction works are on the subjects of computer technology and cryonics. In addition to writing, he is a journalist and a computer programmer. He was an editor at three different New York publishing houses, and he designed and edited the British magazine New Worlds.
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Charles Platt
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Charles P. McKeague
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Charles Poor Kindleberger
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Charles Portis
7 books
Charles Postell
Maverick investigative journalist Charles Postell became nationally infamous as a result of his decade-long visits to Georgia's Death Row, interviewing mass murderer Carl Junior Isaacs. Isaacs, along with three cohorts from his native Baltimore, slaughtered six members of a prominent farm clan in Donalsonville, Georgia on May 14, 1973.
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Charles P. Pfleeger
1 book
Charles P. Pfleeger
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Charles P. Pierce
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Charles P. Poole
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Charles Prepolec
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Charles Rappleye
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Charles Ray Willeford
Charles Willeford wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career. He was born as Charles Ray Willeford III on January 2, 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Willeford's parents both died of tuberculosis when he was a little boy and he subsequently lived either with his grandmother or at boarding schools. Charles became a hobo in his early teens. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at age sixteen and was stationed in the Philippines. Willeford served as a tank commander with the 10th Armored Division in Europe during World War II. He won several medals for his military service: the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and the Luxembourg Croix de Guerre. Charles retired from the army as a Master Sergeant. Willeford's first novel High Priest of California was published in 1953. He went on to win the Mark Twain Award. Willeford attended both Palm Beach Junior College and the University of Miami. He taught a course in humanities at the University of Miami and was an associate professor who taught classes in both philosophy and English at Miami Dade Junior College. Charles was married three times and was an associate editor for Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Willeford died of a heart attack at age 69 on March 27, 1988
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Charles R. Berger
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Charles R. Cooper
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Charles R. Cross
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Charles Reade
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Charles Reasoner
5 books
Charles R. Goeldner
2 books
Charles R. Greer
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Charles R. Horejsi
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Charles Richard Johnson
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1960s as a political cartoonist, at which time he was also involved in radical politics. In 1970, he published a collection of cartoons, and this led to a television series about cartooning on PBS.-GoodReads
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Charles Richard Webb
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Charles R. Krahmalkov
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