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Michael Shermer
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Michelle Rowen
Canadian writer
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow, a highly focused mental state. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology. Csikszentmihalyi once said: "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." (Wikipedia)
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Miranda Jarrett
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Mira Stables
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Mircea Eliade
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Molière
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) was born in Paris on January 15, 1622. His father was one of eight valets de chambre tapissiers who tended the king's furniture and upholstery, so the young Poquelin received every advantage a boy could wish for. He was educated at the finest schools (the College de Clermont in Paris.) He had access to the king's court. But even as a child, Molière found it infinitely more pleasant to poke fun at the aristocracy than to associate with them. As a young boy, he learned that he could cause quite a stir by mimicking his mother's priest. His mother, a deeply religious woman, might have broken the young satirist of this habit had she not died before he was yet twelve-years-old. His father soon remarried, but in less than three years, this wife also passed away. At the age of fifteen, Jean-Baptiste was left alone with his father and was most likely apprenticed to his trade. The boy never showed much of an interest for the business of upholstering. Fortunately, his father's shop was located near two important theatrical sites: the Pont-Neuf and the Hôtel de Bourgogne. At the Pont-Neuf, comedians performed plays and farces in the street in order to sell patent medicines to the crowds. Although not traditional theatre in the strictest sense, the antics of these comic medicine-men brought a smile to Jean-Baptiste's face on many an afternoon. At the Hôtel de Bourgogne--which the boy attended with his grandfather--the King's Players performed more traditional romantic tragedies and broad farces. Apparently, these two theatrical venues had quite an impact on the young Poquelin, for in 1643, at the age of twenty-one, he decided to dedicate his life to the theatre. Jean-Baptiste had fallen in love with a beautiful red-headed actress named Madeleine Béjart. Along with Madeleine, her brother Joseph and sister Genevieve, and about a dozen other young well-to-do hopefuls, Jean-Baptiste founded a dramatic troupe called The Illustrious Theater. It was about this time that he changed his name to Molière, probably to spare his father the embarrassment of having an actor in the family. Molière and his companions made their dramatic debut in a converted tennis court. Although the company was brimming with enthusiasm, none of them had much experience and when they began to charge admission, the results proved disastrous. Over the course of the next two years, the little company appeared in three different theatres in various parts of Paris, and each time, they failed miserably. Several of the original members dropped out of the company during this period. Finally, the seven remaining actors decided to forget Paris and go on a tour of the provinces. For the next twelve years, they would travel from town to town, performing and honing their craft. It was during this period that Molière began to write plays for the company. His first important piece, L'Étourdi or The Blunderer, followed the escapades of Mascarille, a shrewd servant who sets about furthering his master's love affair with a young woman only to have his plans thwarted when the blundering lover inadvertantly interferes. The five-act piece proved quite successful, and a number of other works followed. By the spring of 1658, Molière and his much-improved company decided to try their luck once more in Paris. When they learned that the King's brother, the Duke of Anjou, was said to be interested in supporting a dramatic company which would bear his name, they immediately set about gaining an introduction to the Court. On the evening of October 24, 1658, Molière and his troupe performed for the first time before Louis XIV and his courtiers in the Guard Room of the old Louvre Palace. They made a crucial mistake, however, by performing a tragedy (Cornielle's second-rate Nicoméde) instead of one of their popular farces. The Court was not impressed. Fortunately Molière, realizing their blunder, approached the King at the conclusion of the tragedy and asked permission to perform one of his own plays, The Love-Sick Doctor. The King granted his request, and the play was such a success that the little company--which would thereafter be known as the Troupe de Monsieur--was granted use of the Hôtel du Petit Bourbon, one of the three most important theaters in Paris. The first of Molière's plays to be presented at the Petit Bourbon was Les Précieuses Ridicules or The Pretentious Ladies which satirized Madame de Rambouillet, a member of the King's court who had set herself up as the final judge of taste and culture in Paris. The play proved so successful that Molière doubled the price of admission and was invited to give a special performance for the King. The King was delighted and rewarded the playwright with a large gift of cash, but Molière had made powerful enemies of some of the King's followers. Madame de Rambouillet and her coterie managed to have performances of the play suspended for fourteen days and, in an attempt to drive Moliè
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Murphy, Jim
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M. V. Carey
Full name Mary Virginia Carey. Born in New Brighton, Cheshire, England, UK, on 19 May 1925; brought to the United States in 1925, naturalized citizen in 1955; daughter of John Cornelius (an engineer) and Mary Alice (Hughes) Carey. Education: College of Mount St. Vincent, B.S., 1946. Religion: Roman Catholic Career: Coronet, New York City, editorial associate, 1948 - 55; Walt Disney Productions, Burbank, CA, assistant editor of publications, 1955 - 69; free-lance writer 1969 - 1994. Member: PEN; Mystery Writers of America; Society of Children's Book Writers; Women in Communications. Awards, Honors: Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People Award, 1986, for "A Place for Allie". Writings: Novelizations of Walt Disney Motion Pictures: (With George Sherman) WD's "Babes in Toyland" Golden Press, 1961. WD's "The Sword in the Stone" Whitman, 1963. The Story of Walt Disney's Motion Picture "Mary Poppins" Whitman, 1964. WD's "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" Whitman, 1964. WD's "Donald Duck and the Lost Mesa Ranch" Whitman, 1966. The Story of WD's Motion Picture "Jungle Book" Whitman, 1967. The Story of WD's Motion Picture "Blackbeard's Ghost" Whitman, 1968. "Mrs. Brisby's Important Package" (adapted from film "The Secret of NIMH), Golden Press, 1982. Juveniles: "Raggedy Ann and the Glad and Sad Day", Golden Press, 1972. "Little Lulu and the Birthday Surprise, Whitman, 1973. "The Tawny, Scrawny Lio and the Clever Monkey" Golden Press, 1974. "Alonzo Purr, the Seagoing Cat", Western Pub., 1974. "The Owl Who Loved Sunshine", Golden Press, 1977. "The Gremlin's Storybook", Golden Press, 1984. The Three Investigators Mystery Series (Random House): "The Mystery of the... 15 Flaming Footprints, 1971. 17 Singing Serpent, 1972. 20 Monster Mountain, 1973. 21 The Secret of the Haunted Mirror, 1974. 23 Invisible Dog, 1975. 24 Death Trap Mine, 1976. 27 Magic Circle, 1978. 29 Sinister Scarecrow, 1979. 31 Scar-Faced Beggar, 1981. 32 Blazing Cliffs, 1981. 34 Wandering Cave Man, 1982. 36 Missing Mermaid, 1984. 39 Trail of Terror, 1984. 41 Creep-Show Crooks, 1985. 43 Cranky Collector, 1987 FYF#8 The Case of the Savage Statue, 1987. Other: (Editor) Jane Black, "The Indispensables", Hewitt House, 1971. "Step-by-step Candlemaking", Golden Press, 1972. "Step-by-step Winemaking", Golden Press, 1973. "Love Is Forever" (collection of prose and poetry), C.R. Gibson, 1975. (With George Sherman) "A Compendium of Bunk", C.C. Thomas, 1976. (Editor) "Grandmothers Are Very Special People", C.R. Gibson, 1977. "A Place for Allie" (young adult novel), Dodd, 1985. Sidelights: Carey told Contemporary Authors: "I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written." Died in California, USA, on 27 May 1994.
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation. She received the Booker Prize for The Conservationist (1974), and the Central News Agency Literary Award for The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter (1979) and July's People (1981). Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organisation was banned, and gave Nelson Mandela advice on his famous 1964 defence speech at the trial which led to his conviction for life. She later became active in HIV/AIDS causes. Source: Wikipedia
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Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican-born Canadian writer
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Nancy Mitford
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Neil Postman
<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman>Neil Postman</a> was a popular American humanist who was well known for his comments on the social effects of technology, in particular of television.
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Neville Goddard
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Nicholas Pine
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born March 20, 1955 in San Gabriel, California) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer. Source: Nina Kiriki Hoffman on Wikipedia.
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Og Mandino
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Osamu Tezuka
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Patricia Gaffney
Patricia Gaffney was born on December 27 in Tampa, Florida, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at Royal Holloway College of the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After college, Gaffney taught 12th grade English for a year before becoming a freelance court reporter, a job shepursued in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., for the next fifteen years. Her first book, a historical romance, was published by Dorchester in 1989. Between then and 1997, she wrote 11 more romance novels (Dorchester; PenguinUSA), for which she was nominated for or won many awards. In 1999, she went in a new direction with her hardcover fiction debut, The Saving Graces (HarperCollins). A contemporary story about four women friends, the novel explored issues of love, friendship, trust, and commitment among women. The Saving Graces enjoyed bestseller status on theNew York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and other lists. Circle of Three (2000), Flight Lessons (2002), and The Goodbye Summer (2004) followed,all national bestsellers. Patricia Gaffney lives in southern Pennsylvania with her husband.
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Patricia Pellicane
Patricia Pellicane lives on Long Island in New York with her husband and family. She enjoys reading, travelling in her motor home and especially enjoys her grandchildren. "Too bad we can't have grandchildren first. They're a kick." Most of all she loves to write.“Life’s tough we all need a bit of fantasy now and then. For myself, I love a happy ending.” Resplendence Publishing is releasing my 43rd book in July. Excellent cover this time. My editor said I hit the jackpot. I think she's right. So you might think 43 books, she's got to be rich. My relatives think it, my kids think it, even I think it. The only problem is, we're all thinking wrong. Somehow the money-fairy totally missed my house. Fact is someone made a mistake because the money-fairy thinks she's a tooth-fairy and leaves me only a dollar here and there. Come on, will ya? I'm going to be very upset if I grow rich and become a house-hold name after I'm dead.
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Patricia Potter
Patricia Potter is a bestselling and award winning author. She has more than two million books in print. Prior to writing fiction, she was a reporter with the Atlanta Journal, an editor with a suburban Atlanta newspaper and president of an Atlanta public relations firm. Pat lives in Memphis, Tennessee, with two insecure Shelties and a know-it-all toy poodle.
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Paula Fox
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Paul Goble
Paul Goble (27 September 1933 – 5 January 2017) was a British-American writer and illustrator of children's books, especially Native American stories. His book The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses won a Caldecott Medal in 1979.
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Paul J. Deitel
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Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings AM (born 30 April 1943), is an English-born Australian writer for children, young adults and adults.[1] He is best known for his short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events and end with a twist. Many of his stories were adapted for the cult classic children's television series Round the Twist. Jennings collaborated with Morris Gleitzman on the book series Wicked!, which was adapted into an animated TV series in 2000, and Deadly!.
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Penthouse International
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Per Wahlöö
Swedish writer. Together with his wife Maj Sjöwall, author of crime novels about detective Martin Beck, using the signature Sjöwall/Wahlöö.
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Peter Carey
Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang. He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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Peter V. Brett
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Rachel Cohn
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Rachel Hawthorne
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Rachel Reid
Rachel Reid is the New York Times Bestselling author of the Game Changers hockey romance series, as well as the standalone hockey romance novels Time to Shine and The Shots You Take. She lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids. Rachel Reid is the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. (<a href="https://www.rachelreidwrites.com/" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Raven Grimassi
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form." Source: Wikipedia
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Raymond M. Smullyan
Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career was stage magic. He earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied with Alonzo Church. Source: Ramon Smullyan on Wikipedia.
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Raymond Murphy
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" house/car, ephemeralization, synergetic, and "tensegrity". He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. Fuller was the second World President of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.
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Renée Ahdieh
Renée Ahdieh is an American-Korean author, best known for her New York Times best-selling series The Wrath & the Dawn. Her books have been translated into many languages.
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Reverend W. Awdry
English clergyman famous for having created the Railway Series books, which gave the world the Island of Sodor, home of Thomas the Tank Engine and his many friends.
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Richard Bandler
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Richard Osman
English television director and producer
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Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett has studied social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 2006 Sennett was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart, and in 2008 was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize, worth 100,000 Euros, by the Gerda Henkel Foundation of Düsseldorf, Germany. Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sennett">Wikpedia</a>
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Rick Geary
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Rick Remender
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Robert Cormier
Robert Edmund Cormier was an American writer and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels, many of which were written for young adults. Recurring themes include abuse, mental illness, violence, revenge, betrayal, and conspiracy. In most of his novels, the protagonists do not win. Cormier's more popular works include I Am the Cheese, After the First Death, We All Fall Down, and The Chocolate War, all of which have won awards. The Chocolate War has been challenged in multiple libraries.
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Robert Jackson Bennett
Robert Jackson Bennett (born 1984) is an American writer of speculative fiction
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Robin Lee Hatcher
Best-selling novelist Robin Lee Hatcher, author of over 85 books, is known for her heartwarming and emotionally charged stories of faith, courage, and love. Robin is an eleven-time finalist and two-time winner of the prestigious RITA® Award. In addition to the RITA and many other awards, she is the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from both Romance Writers of America® and American Christian Fiction Writers, When not writing, she enjoys being with her family, spending time in the beautiful Idaho outdoors, Bible art journaling, reading books that make her cry, watching romantic movies, and decorative planning. A mother and grandmother, Robin makes her home on the outskirts of Boise, sharing it with a demanding Papillon and a persnickety tuxedo cat.
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Rogers, Carl R.
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Roger Scruton
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Roland Smith
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