James White (author) - James White (author) James White (April 7 1928 - August 23, 1999) was a prolific Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He is probably best-known as the author of the Hospital Station (more properly known as Sector General) series of novels. The first novels were assembled from strung-together short stories, but later Sector General adventures were full-length books. The first Sector General novel was published in 1962, and the last was published posthumously in 1999. His book "The Watch Below" is considered by many afficianados to be his finest work - a claustrophobic book describing the travails of parallel survivors of war (human) and accident (alien). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Sector General books: 2 Other: 3 Links: Sector General books: Hospital Station.
Vernor Vinge - is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is one of the earliest stories to present a.
Kaiji Kawaguchi - Kawaguchi Kaiji Kawaguchi is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Jipang, both of which have the power to absorb people. Generally, his story involves Japan and asks people what is the right thing to do in a extreme situations. Works The Silent Service Eagle Not yet finished Jipang Not yet finished.
Kalimantaan - Gideon Barr marries an Englishwoman to provide himself an "air of permanence" as Rajah and we see much of the later portion of the story through Amelia Barr's eyes. Gideon also maintains a Malayan mistress who provides a note of tragedy in the way her presence poisons Gideon and Amelia's relationship. On the other hand, the 30,000 pounds that Brooke/Barr inherited at his father's death which enabled him to acquire his schooner, the massacre of the sons of the Sultan of Brunei, the Chinese insurrection of 1857, and the commission of inquiry in Singapore all took place as described. The inquiry in Singapore was concerned with the battle of Labuan in which Brooke/Barr led British warships in a pre-emptive strike against a pirate fleet, breaking the power of the Bugis for.
Kate Douglas Wiggin - - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878. She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). Kate Wiggin died at Harrow, Middlesex, England..
Karl Wolfskehl - - June 30 , 1948) was a Jewish-German author who wrote poetry, prose and drama in German. He was active in the circle around Stefan George and emigrated to Switzerland (1933), then to Italy (1934) and ultimately to New Zealand (1938)..
Karoline Schelling - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling. She died at Maulbronn on the 7th of September 1809. Karoline Schelling played a considerable role in the intellectual movement of her time, and is especially remarkable for the assistance she afforded Schlegel in his translation of Shakespeare's works. She published nothing, however, in her own name. See G Waltz, Caroline: Briefe an ihre Geschwister, etc. (2 vols., 1871), and, by the same author, Caroline und ihre Freunde (1882); further, J. Janssen, Eine Kulturdame und ihre Freunde, Zeit und Lebensbilder (1885), and Mrs A Sidgwick, Caroline Schlegel and her Friends (London, 1899). This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Karl Rudolf Hagenbach - 1824 he became professor extraordinarius, and in 1829 professor ordinarius of theology. Apart from his academic labours in connexion with the history of dogma and of the church, he lived a life of great and varied usefulness as a theologian, a preacher and a citizen; and at his jubilee in 1873, not only the university and town of Basel but also the various churches of Switzerland united to do him honour. He died at Basel on the 7th of June 1874. Hagenbach was a voluminous author in many departments, but he is specially distinguished as a writer on church history. Though neither so learned and condensed as the contributions of Gieseler, nor so original and profound as those of Neander, his lectures are clear, attractive and free from narrow sectarian prejudice..
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn - received an appointment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which, with his labours on many state committees and his legal researches and writings, occupied him till his death at Cologne. Eichhorn was regarded as one of the principal authorities on German constitutional law. His chief work is Deutsche Staats und Rechtsgeschichte (Göttingen, 1808-1823, 5th ed. 1843-1844). In company with Savigny and JFL Göschen he founded the Zeitschrift für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft. He was the author of Einleitung in das deutsche Privatrecht mit Einschluss des Lehnrechts (Göttingen, 1823) and the Grundsätze des Kirchenrechts der Katholischen und der Evangelischen Religionspartei in Deutschland, 2 Bde. (ib., 1831-1833). This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Kajii Motojiro - is a Japanese author. See also: Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel - to Vienna from Frankfurt he edited Concordia (1820-1823), and began the issue of his Sämtliche Werke. He also delivered lectures, which were republished in his Philosophie des Lebens (1828) and in his Philosophie der Geschichte (1829). He died on the 11th of January 1829 at Dresden. A permanent place in the history of German literature belongs to Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm as the critical leaders of the Romantic school, which derived from them most of its governing ideas as to the characteristics of the middle ages, and as to the methods of literary expression. Of the two brothers, Friedrich was unquestionably the more original genius. He was the real founder of the Romantic school; to him more than to any other member of the school we owe the.
Karl Lachmann - German grammar and the Middle High German poets. He devoted himself during the following seven years to an extraordinarily minute study of those subjects, and in 1824 obtained leave of absence in order that he might search the libraries of middle and south Germany for further materials. In 1825 Lachmann was nominated extraordinary professor of classical and German philology in the university of Berlin (ordinary professor 1827); and in 1830 he was admitted a member of the Academy of Sciences. The remainder of his laborious and fruitful life as an author and a teacher was uneventful. Lachmann, who was the translator of the first volume of PE Müller's Sagabibliothek des skandinavischen Altertums (1816), is a figure of considerable importance in the history of German philology (see Rudolf von Raumer, Geschichte der.
Kathryn Hulme - Kathryn Hulme (January 6, 1900 - 1981). Author of The Nun's Story (1956) the best selling novel later made into an award winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (1959) and The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure (Little, Brown & Co. Boston USA/Toronto CA, 1967) reprinted (Natural Bridge Editions: Lexington MA, 1997) (ISBN 1891218034) a description of her years as a student of G. I. Gurdjieff. External Link The Kathryn Hulme Papers at Yale University.
Karl Wilhelm Ramler - 1748, he was appointed professor of logic and literature at the cadet school. In 1786 he became associated with the author, Johann Jakob Engel, in the management of the royal theatre, of which, after resigning his professorship, he became (1790-96) sole director. He died at Berlin. This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Kathleen Winsor - 1919 - May 26, 2003) was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber. Winsor herself is quoted as saying, "I wrote only two sexy passages, and my publishers took both of them out. They put ellipses instead. In those days, you could solve everything with an ellipse." She was widely condemned for writing pornography, but the work made her famous, and she eventually sold it to be made into a motion picture. None of her work was nearly as successful, although she is also known for such works as Star Money, The Lovers, Calais, Robert and ARabella, Jacintha, and Wanderers Eastward, Wanderes West..
Karleen Bradford - Bradford Karleen Bradford is a Canadian children's author who lives just outside of Owen Sound, Ontario. Works: The Other Elizabeth - 1982 Wrong Again Robby - 1983 I Wish There Were Unicorns - 1983 The Stone in the Meadow - 1983 The Nine Days Queen - 1986 Windward Island - 1989 There Will be Wolves - 1992 Thirteenth Child - 1994 Animal Heroes - 1995 Write Now! - 1996 Shadows on a Sword - 1996 More Animal Heroes - 1996 Dragonfire - 1997 The Haunting at Cliff House - 1998 Lionheart's Scribe - 1999 Whisperings of Magic - 2001 With Nothing but Our Courage - 2002.
Yamamoto - of Japan Yamamoto Isoroku: naval commander Yamamoto Tsunetomo: the author of Hagakure Yamamoto Yuji: writer.
Katharine Kerr - in the fictional land of Deverry. Deverry Novels Daggerspell Darkspell (later reissued in an "author's definitive edition") The Bristling Wood (US title; issued in England as Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood) The Dragon Revenant (US title; issued in England as Dragonspell: The Southern Sea) A Time of Exile A Time of Omens Days of Blood and Fire (US title; issued in England as A Time of War) Days of Air and Darkness (US title; issued in England as A Time of Justice) The Black Raven The Red Wyvern The Fire Dragon Science Fiction Resurrection Freeze Frames Polar City Blues Polar City Nightmare (with Kate Daniel) Snare.
Kate Mosse - of the BBC4 literary chat show, Readers' and Writers' Roadshow and a well-known figure in the media. A novelist and non-fiction author, she was named European Woman of Achievement in 2000..
Kazoku - and the daimyo (or feudal lords) into a single aristocratic class in 1869. Ito Hirobumi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration and later the principal author of the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan, intended the kazoku to serve a political and social bulwark for the "restored" emperor and the Japanese imperial institution. In addition to the existing Japanese nobility, the Meiji leadership also awarded kazoku status to those regarded as having performed outstanding service to the country. In 1884, the government took the further step of dividing the kazoku into five ranks explicitly based on the British peerage: prince or duke (公爵 kōshaku) marquis (侯爵 kōshaku) count (伯爵 hakushaku) viscount (子爵 shishaku) baron (男爵 danshaku) As in British peerage, only the actual holder of a title and.
