Author Dan Simmons has paid homage to Westlake and his Parker character with three hard-boiled action novels featuring the character of Joe Kurtz, a past and current private investigator who spent time in Attica prison.

Author Alexandre Dumas, père possessed one-fourth black Haitian descent, and Empress Josephine Napoleon who was born and raised in the French West Indies from a plantation estate family.

* October 23 – Meghan McCain, Author and Daughter of Senator John McCain

* One on One with Juliane Bitek, Author, Poet and Daughter of the Legendary Okot p ' BiteK

Author of Time and Eternity ( 1991 ) and over fifty papers in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the history of medieval philosophy.

Author and critic Richard Schickel of Time magazine called Trading Places " one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times ".

* David Aikman, Author and former senior correspondent for Time Magazine

Author A. C. Crispin wrote two novel sequels to this episode, titled Yesterday's Son (# 11 ), and Time for Yesterday (# 39 ) ( Simon & Schuster ).

* Jules Verne: An Author Before His Time?

* Shvetashvatara — Author of earliest textual exposition of a systematic philosophy of Shaivism.

* 1991 — Ben J. Wattenberg ( Author / Columnist / Commentator )

* 1989 — Robert N. Bellah ( Professor / Sociologist / Author )

* 1988 — Ben Bova ( Author / Editor / Lecturer )

Author and professor Mona Lisa Saloy posits a different theory, stating in African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana that " The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves — generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience — were grouped in lots of a ' cheap dozen ' for sale to slave owners.

* Author Stephen L. Nelson — Author " Quicken for Dummies " and 150 other books in the series, over 5 million copies sold worldwide.

* Laurell K. Hamilton — Author of the " Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter " series and " Meredith Gentry " series

* Lee Smith — Author

* Ruth White — Author.

Author Bob Beale has recorded that the tallest trees in the Black Spur Range now measure about but — due to major bushfires in the 1920s and 30s — are less than 80 years old and have been growing consistently at the rate of about one metre a year.

* Terry Brooks 1969 ( law ) — Author of fantasy fiction ; 12 million copies in print

* Mark Richard 1986 — Author and Winner of the PEN / Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award *

* Tom Robbins — Author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ( did not graduate, but attended for two years before moving to New York to become a poet ).

Author Neil Gaiman, whose work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure, says that he started The Hero with a Thousand Faces but refused to finish it: " I think I got about half way through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true — I don ’ t want to know.

Author Ed Park jokingly aped Wright's style (" Lipogram aficionados — folks who lash words and ( alas!

Author Edward Abbey, a frequent visitor, described the Canyonlands as " the most weird, wonderful, magical place on earth — there is nothing else like it anywhere.

Author John Sterling — like Tennyson a member of the Cambridge Apostles — wrote in the Quarterly Review in 1842, " How superior is ' Ulysses '!

* Author Revives Gay Greek Myths — Article and author interview by Andrew Belonsky on Queerties website

Author of Zamenhof: Creator of Esperanto — a biography of L. L. Zamenhof published in 1960 by Routledge & Kegan Paul of London — she also wrote a widely used series of introductory texts on literary studies: The Anatomy of Poetry ( 1953 ), The Anatomy of Prose ( 1954 ), The Anatomy of Drama ( 1960 ), The Anatomy of Language ( 1968 ), The Anatomy of the Novel ( 1975 ) and The Anatomy of Literary Studies ( 1980 ).

Author McCloud has written two follow-up books in the same format: Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form ( 2000 ), in which he suggested ways for the medium to change and grow, and Making Comics ( 2006 ), a study of the elemental methods of constructing comics.

* Author of " How the García Girls Lost Their Accents " Julia Alvarez

1970 Author, Legal Aspects of Charitable Trusts and Foundations: A Guide for Philanthropoids, The Intelligent Women's Guide to Future Security, also published as How to Be a Wise Widow

1974 Author, Due Process of Rebellion, How to Be a Wise Widow, and The Trialle of William Shakespeare ( three-act play )

* " The Debt Threat: How Debt is Destroying the Developing World " – Author Noreena Hertz talks to Democracy Now!

Author Jeff Rovin in the book How to Win at Game Boy Games noted the gameplay as " novel " if repetitive after the second stage of the game, adding that regardless the game was entertaining for all ages, and " a worthy addition to the Game Boy library ", grading the game B.

* Dale Carnegie – Author of How to Win Friends and Influence People

: Why and How He Wrote ' Six Characters in Search of an Author '", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1925.

Hoda is the Author of her New York Times Bestselling Book Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee which was released in hardcover in October 2010.

Author Jeff Rovin in the book How to Win at Game Boy Games described the title as " one of the oldest kinds of Nintendo games ", comparing it to SNK's Alpha Mission but added there were too few instances of innovation or surprises, and the powerups were " unsatisfying ".

* How the Author Was Sold in Newark

* " Literature and Salvation in Elizabeth Costello, or How to Refuse to Be an Author in Eight or Nine Lessons "; in English in Africa 34, 1 ( 2007 ), 79-95.

Author of poetry volumes ( Improvisations and Not Only Those ), ( Let's Get Acquainted ), ( The She-collector ), ( Enamel ), ( How Do Little Girls Die?