Authors
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Jana Hensel
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Jana Marcus
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Janan Cain
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Jan Andersen
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Jan Andrews
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Jan Andrews
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Janann V. Jenner
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Jana Oliver
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Jan A. Pechenik
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Jana Riley
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Jan Assmann
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Jana U. Ehrhardt
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Jan Baan
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Jan Baetens
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Jan Berenstain
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Jan Berry
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Jan Black
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Jan Bondeson
Jan Bondeson is a Swedish-British rheumatologist, scientist and author, working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine. Outside of his career in medicine, he has written several nonfiction books on a variety of topics, such as medical anomalies and unsolved murder mysteries. In a 2003 interview, Bondeson told Publishers Weekly, "I've always had a profound interest in history, especially the history of medicine, and a bit of a fancy for the macabre and odd." Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed fifty women in the buttocks, of Edward 'the Boy' Jones, who stalked Queen Victoria and stole her underwear, and Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish terrier who supposedly spent 14 years guarding his master's grave. - Wikipedia
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Jan Brett
With over forty one million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real." As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting." Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books." -- from janbrett.com
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Jan Bruckner
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Jan Bryant Bartell
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Jan Burchett
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Jan Burke
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Jan Burns
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Jan Carlzon
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Jancee Dunn
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Janci Patterson
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Jan Colley
Jan Colley lives in the South Island of New Zealand with her real-life hero, firefighter Les, and two lovely cats. After years traveling the globe and Jan's eight-year stint as a customs officer, the pair set up a backpacker hostel called Vagabond. Running her own business, she discovered the meaning of the word "busy" and began reading romance to relax. In 2002, they sold the hostel and Jan decided to take two months and write a book. Two months turned into a year. She did a Kara writing course with Daphne Clair and Robyn Donald, and finaled in the Clendon Award, garnering the Readers Choice. That book, Vagabond Eyes, was ultimately rejected. Two completed manuscripts later, she heard the words she had heard in her head a hundred times: "Jan? It's Melissa Jeglinski here. We'd like to buy your book." Trophy Wives was released in December 2005 under the Silhouette Desire imprint. Jan now works part-time and dedicates the rest to writing and neglecting her family and friends, although she does find time to watch rugby whenever there is a game on, be it her team of champs, Canterbury, or the All Blacks.
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Jan Constant
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Jancovici Jean-Marc
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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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Jan Cremer
Jan Cremer (20 april 1940) is een Nederlands schrijver en beeldend kunstenaar. Jan Cremer werd geboren in Enschede. Hij is vooral bekend van de roman Ik, Jan Cremer uit 1964 en Ik Jan Cremer, tweede boek uit 1966. Zijn eerste boek is te vergelijken met On the Road van Jack Kerouac. Cremer heeft een scherp oor voor vulgair, humoristisch taalgebruik en oog voor de absurde kant van de Amerikaanse glamourwereld, wat hem verwant maakt aan respectievelijk Louis-Ferdinand Céline en Nathanael West, vooral in Ik, Jan Cremer 3 en Made in U.S.A.. Hij heeft onderwijs genoten aan de kunstacademies van Arnhem en Den Haag, alwaar hij gewoond heeft in de Annastraat. Cremers literatuur en beeldende kunst vertonen opvallende overeenkomsten. Beide richten zich op het zich losmaken van traditionele esthetiek en eeuwenoude culturele bagage, zoals de volgende citaten illustreren: * "Ik lees niet, ik word gelezen." * "Rembrandt? Wie is dat? Ik heb geen verstand van sport." Beide citaten onthullen zijn vermogen tot choqueren of op zijn minst aandacht trekken en zichzelf verkopen als een lefgozer met bewijsbaar talent (vgl. James Dean): cultuur als een last ervaren past in dit plaatje. Met name "Ik Jan Cremer - deel I", maar ook zijn 'peinture barbarisme', vergelijkbaar met die van Karel Appel, hebben een grote schok door de maatschappij doen gaan. Acties als het hangen van een kaartje van fl 1.000.000,- aan een schilderij (hij was toen slechts 18 jaar) en het luid toeterend langs het boekenbal crossen hebben hem tot enfant terrible van de Nederlandse beeldende kunst en literatuur gemaakt. De literaire relevantie van Cremers werk is vooral belichaamd in "Ik Jan Cremer - deel I". Centraal daarbij is de bevrijding van de idealen van de jaren '50. Het is een voorbode van de vrije seks en wilde jaren '60. Dit verklaart waarom Cremer ook buiten Nederland veel gelezen werd. Ook dit leverde kritiek op. Over het boek werden Kamervragen gesteld, het werd fascistisch genoemd en voetbalvandalen werden beschuldigd van "Jan Cremerisme". Cremer zelf werkte hier flink aan mee, omdat hij er de commerciële mogelijkheden van zag. Toen een ijverige politieman in Hengelo begin 1964 exemplaren van "Ik Jan Cremer" in beslag nam, verschenen in enkele dagbladen steunbetuigingen van bezorgde ouders. Ze bleken alle te zijn geschreven door Jan Cremer. Vanaf 1970 weet Cremer zijn werk te combineren met zijn reis- en zwerflust. Zes maanden per jaar reist hij, de andere maanden verdeelt hij zijn tijd tussen schrijven en schilderen. Vele van zijn reizen zijn een reconstructie van de trektocht van de Hunnen onder Attila en de Mongolen onder Djenghis Khan. Met deze volkeren voelt Cremer zich sterk verwant, ook voordat een genealoog ontdekt dat hij langs moederskant zelf uit Mongolië stamt. Na 1970 heeft hij zich vooral toegelegd op het lithograferen, wat onder meer resulteert in een aantal tulpen ‘Hollandse landschappen’. ‘Hij vertelt over Holland zoals alleen een emigrant dat zou kunnen doen, pratend over een wijd land met prachtige kleuren, een leeggewaaide blauwe lucht, een groene wei, plastieken van gele korenschoven op een afgemaaid land (...). Ga je zoiets benoemen dan passen dergelijke voorstellingen onder de noemer pop. (...) Maar pop betekent bij hem niet alleen populair maar ook werkelijk volks,’ schreef W.A.L. Beeren, directeur van het museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Zijn beeldend werk wordt voortdurend in grote eenmanstentoonstellingen in binnen- en buitenland geëxposeerd.
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Jan C. Still
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Jan de Bruyn
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Jan De Hartog
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J. Anderson Black
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J. Anderson Thomson
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J. Andrew Petersen
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Jan Dul
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Jan Duursema
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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 Addams
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Jane Aiken Hodge
Jane Aiken Hodge was an American-born British writer. Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children’s writer, was born. Their parents’ marriage was dissolved in 1929. From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother’s alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time Magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947. Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject. For many years a believer in the right of people to end their own lives, Hodge chose to end her own life by means of an overdose in June 2009.
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Jane Alford
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Janeane Jordan
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Jane Ann McLachlan
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Jane Arbor
Eileen Norah Owbridge was born on 8 September 1903, she lived in Preston, Sussex, England, and passed away on 4 February 1994. Under the pseudonym Jane Arbor she wrote over 55 romance novel for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985. She started writing doctor-nurse romances, and many have been reedited with diferent titles, that included the words "nurse", "doctor" or "surgeon". Later, she focused her writing in foreign settings like the continental Europe, the Caribbean, Morocco...
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Jane Arbor
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Jane Archer
Nina Romberg Andersson, as Jane Archer is the bestselling author of over twenty books. Tender Torment , her first novel published in 1978, sold half a million copies, received a live-action television commercial, hit national bestseller lists, and was later reissued along with sequels, Wild Wind! and Silken Spurs. She is a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award finalist, her novels are popular in many foreign countries, and Out of the West has been optioned for a television movie. Texas Indian Myths and Legends , a nonfiction, continues to receive wide acclaim. As Nina Romberg, she writes vampire and dark suspense novels. She frequently lectures to promote reading and writing, and, her articles have appeared in Fiction Writer, The Literary Times, Romantic Times, Romance Writers Report and Novelists Ink. She has a degree in graphic design and is the former Creative Director for Book Publishers of Texas. Contact her at: JaneArcher@integritytech.com
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Jane Asher
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