Who is the most original and the most versatile intellect that the Americas have so far produced? The answer "Charles S. Peirce" is uncontested, because any second would be so far behind as not to be worth nominating. [He was] mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, metrologist, spectroscopist, engineer, inventor; psychologist, philologist, lexicographer, historian of science, mathematical economist, lifelong student of medicine; book reviewer, dramatist, actor, ...

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. Résumé An American critic, satirical poet, and short-story writer, Dorothy Rothschild Parker, b. West End, N.J., Aug. 22, 1893, d. June 7, 1967, is remembered as much for her flashing verbal exchanges and malicious wit as for the disenchanted stories and sketches in which she re ...

Containing A Brief Sketch Of The Life Of Maria Louise Pool, By Dr. Amand M. Hale Published in 1899. Roweny in Boston - An excerpt from that novel "Tenting at Stony Beach" - The complete novel. It is always pleasant to dwell upon a literary career, unpretentious, not stimulated by greed, nor coddled by fulsome flatteries, - a career so simple, so sincere, so honest, so generous, as that of Maria Louise Pool. Her life began in the little Massachusetts town of Rockland, within ten m ...

Paul Quarrington The Basics Personal Paul Lewis Quarrington was born July 22, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the second son of Bruce Joseph (a psychologist and a pioneer programmer of computers) and Mary Ormiston (maiden name, Lewis - also a psychologist). Quarrington has two children Carson Lara, and Flannery. He lives in the city of Toronto, although he grew up during his teen years in the Toronto suburb of Don Mills. He attended the University of Toronto, from 1970 to 1972. ...

Raymond Queneau: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Aid En hommage à Claude Rameil Most recent update: 22 july 2005 Next expected update: early january 2006 NB: Be aware that all the Cyrillic characters and certain others are replaced by seemingly random characters in this download. I won't have the time to repair this fault before the next reboot. This bibliography has four principal sections: works by Queneau, works on Queneau (including brief summaries and eva ...

At 73, Grace Paley remains one of America's most revered short story writers. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1922, Paley established a reputation as a bard of Jewish New York with highly acclaimed collections like "The Little Disturbances of Man" (1959), "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" (1974), and "Later the Same Day" (1985). Her most recent work, "The Collected Stories," was published in 1994 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The following is an excerpt from a recent conversation bet ...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Sylvia Plath's life, and especially her death, have never been fully understood. An acclaimed poet and novelist, she is the golden girl who had everything--beauty and brains; a great and recognized talent; a family that included a daughter and a son. Yet on a third attempt, she committed suicide in 1963 at age 31. Her best known work is "The Bell Jar", a loosely autobiographical novel about the slow emotional collapse of a young woman working for a prestigious New York magazine on a summer internship.

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The L-Space Web Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett is a British author of humorous fantasy books, science fiction, and young adult books (which are none the less devoured by his adult fans). He is most famous for his Discworld series of books which currently contains 26 Novels (with more forthcoming), 4 Maps and a Companion (encyclopedia of the Discworld), not to mention quiz books, stage adaptations, audio-books, pottery figures and much much more... Terry has started his own websit ...