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.

* Searching for the Perfect Beat: Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene ( Watson-Guptill, 2000 ), by The Earth Program ( Author ), Neil Strauss ( Introduction ), ISBN 0-8230-4751-2, ISBN 978-0-8230-4751-2

* Searching for the Perfect Beat: Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene ( Watson-Guptill Pubns, US, 2000 ), by Joel T. Jordan ( Author ), Summer Forest Hoeckel ( Author ), Jason A. Forest Jordan ( Author ) & Neil Strauss ( Intro ), ISBN 0-8230-4751-2

Author Neil Gaiman and several Sandman series artists and others involved in the series ' publication participated in the convention, with profits benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

by Thomas Neil Knowles ( Author )

Author of the book Fix the Pumps, historical look at soda fountains, Darcy S. O ' Neil claims that the " New York Egg Cream " is a variation of the original milkshake served at soda fountains throughout America in the late 19th century.

Author Ron Haydock states that an early draft of Neil Simon's script featured Holmes and Watson actually solving the mystery, but their roles were reduced to a cameo appearance and finally deleted as the lead actors felt they were being " upstaged ".

Author of the Harry Potter books, J. K. Rowling resides in The White House with her husband Neil Murray.

Author Neil Gaiman has sometimes consulted Rachel Pollack on the tarot for his stories.

Author of " Walking the Watershed " and A Bit of Grit on Haystacks, Hewitt has dabbled in journalism-most notably as editor of The Scotsmans outdoor pages until a revamp by Andrew Neil.

Rufus Griswold wrote a biographical article of Poe called " Memoir of the Author ", which he included in an 1850 volume of the collected works.

Author Matteo Bandello wrote that she was " supreme among women ", and the diplomat Niccolò da Correggio entitled her " The First Lady of the world ".

Author Jim Bishop wrote that Booth " developed into an outrageous scene stealer, but he played his parts with such heightened enthusiasm that the audiences idolized him.

Author Gene Smith wrote that Booth's acting may not have been as precise as his brother Edwin's, but his strikingly handsome appearance enthralled women.

After reading from Purchas's book, " The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he had the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two or three hundred lines ... On Awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved.

Author Tracy Barrett wrote a novel titled Dark of the Moon, published in 2011, which is a re-write of the Theseus Myth.

Author Jack Higgins wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who had accompanied her on the mission in the Limousin, wrote the introduction.

Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.

Author Christopher Hitchens wrote in 12 August 2007 edition of The New York Times that, in the final book, Voldemort " becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain.

* Deaghlan Fionn ( Author, Political activist ) wrote theological books, holds a Doctor of Divinity degree and was ordained in 2006 born 1965 Marian Park Drogheda as Gabriel Declan Finn.

Author John Steinbeck later wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men, about such people.

Author Susan Kandel wrote her debut mystery novel I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason ( 2005 ) about a woman, Cece Caruso, who is writing a biography of Erle Stanley Gardner.

Author Walter Neumark wrote Operating Procedures for Ascending Parachutes, and he and a group of enthusiasts with a passion for tow-launching ‘ PCs ’ and ram-air parachutes eventually broke away from the British Parachute Association to form the British Association of Parascending Clubs ( BAPC ) in 1973.

Author Stuart N. Lake wrote the first biography of Earp, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal published in 1931.

The French Author Honore D ' Urfe wrote a very popular serial novel called L ' Astree ( Astraea ), the first and second parts being published in 1607 and 1610 and each installment very much anticipated by the aristocratic public at the time.

Author Roger Morris, a former colleague of Haig's on the National Security Council early in Nixon's first term, wrote that when Ford pardoned Nixon, he in effect pardoned Haig as well.

Author Philip Wylie wrote a series of short stories, Crunch and Des, beginning in the 1940s, which featured a similarly named Captain Crunch Adams.

* In 2009, British Author Adrian Mitchell wrote a collection entitled " Shapeshifters: Tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses ", intended for Young Adult readers.

Author Naomi Klein wrote in her book The Shock Doctrine about a recurrent metaphor of shock, and claimed in an interview that the Bush administration has continued to exploit a " window of opportunity that opens up in a state of shock ", followed by a comforting rationale for the public, as a form of social control.

* Author DBC Pierre wrote his first novel while living in Balham

Author Jack London wrote Call of the Wild while living on Blair Avenue in a house that is still there today, but as this predated the incorporation, technically he was never a citizen of Piedmont, and John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara grew up in Piedmont, where his family lived on Annerley Road.

Jorge Luis Borges's ( 1939 ) short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, is often considered as predicting postmodernism and conceiving the ideal of the ultimate parody.

* Author Tad Williams features the character in " Go Ask Elric ," a short story published in his collection Rite.

Author Bruce Sterling has described his recurring character Leggy Starlitz, star of a series of short stories and the novel Zeitgeist, as " a nonlinear descendant of Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius.

* Author Charles W. Chesnutt makes significant use of Hoodoo in his 1899 short story collection The Conjure Woman ( stories ).

Author Tim O ' Brien popularized knowledge of the location with his bestselling novel In the Lake of the Woods, set in the Angle, and to a lesser extent, his short story " On the Rainy River ".

* Author Robert Bloch wrote a science fiction short story entitled " I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell.

" Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote " ( original Spanish title: " Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote ") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

In his foreword to P. G. Wodehouse's Sunset at Blandings, Douglas Adams recommended the story: " You should read Jorge Luis Borges ’ s short story ‘ Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ’.

* The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, with a short life of the Author by Hendrik Willem van Loon of Rotterdam who also illustrated the Book, 1942

* " Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ", short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges

Scholar Bradford A. Booth suggested in 1938 that Clairmont, driven by a need for money, might have been the true author of most of " The Pole ," an 1830 short story that appeared in the magazine The Court Assembly and Belle Assemblée as by " The Author of Frankenstein " Unlike Mary Shelley, Clairmont was familiar with the Polish used in the story.

Author Steven Millhauser wrote a short story called Cat ' n ' Mouse which pits the duo against one another as antagonist and protagonist in literary form.

Author Harold Bloom comments on the variety of explanations ; " Young Goodman Brown has been presented as an allegorical revelation of human depravity, as a symbolic study of sexual initiation, as an inquiry into generational conflict, as a demonstration of Puritan hypocrisy, as evidence of Hawthorn's sympathy towards Puritan society, and even just as an artfully designed short story making no essential reference beyond itself ".

* Author: Cristian Tudor Popescu ( for his short stories )

* Author: Vitali Babenko ( for his short stories )

* Kjell Magne Solbakken Author, mainly famous for his postmodern stream of consciousness-style short stories

Author and surgeon Dr. Richard Selzer included his short story ' Poe's Light-house ', inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's ' The Light-House ', in ' The Doctor Stories ', published by Picador.

Author of A short State of our Condition, with Relation to the present Parliament ( 1693 ).

Author of a number of published short stories, he is also co-author ( with Jane Yolen ) of the Rock ' n Roll Fairy Tale series beginning with Pay the Piper ( Tor ).

Author Gary Lachman claims that Kenneth Anger's short Invocation of My Demon Brother ( 1969 ), a mélange of occult symbology intercut with and superimposed on images from a Rolling Stones concert, " inaugurat the midnight movie cult at the Elgin Theatre.

Author Rebecca Wells alternates between setting her short stories in the 1960s, when Siddalee Walker, daughter of Vivi, is growing up, and the early 1990s, when Sidda is grown and dealing with the consequences of her turbulent childhood.

* Hans Herbjørnsrud ( 1938 -), Author of short stories.

Scott Jarret ’ s letter was recorded by professional actors and made into the short film, " A Colleague ’ s Tribute to Southern Author James Street .” Included, is a gallery of 32 private family photographs.