with an introduction and notes by Natasha Randall ; foreword by Neil Labute.

* Neil Labute

* Neil Gaiman wrote a story personifying the month in his collection Fragile Things entitled October in the Chair.

Another early article source ( May 15, 1985 ) is a column by Neil Morgan, a San Diego Evening Tribune writer who wrote: " Forrest Shumway, chairman of The Signal Cos., doesn't make predictions.

* Author Neil Gaiman wrote a short story called " One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock '" about a troubled boy who loves the stories about Elric, and finds escape from the everyday world in them.

* The guitarist and composer Neil Young wrote a song about the palace on the album Long May You Run.

He also wrote a non-Sandman miniseries, My Faith in Frankie ( 2004 ), the comicbook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ( 2005-6 ) and the OGN God Save the Queen ( 2007 ).

" Summer wrote " The Queen Is Back " and " Mr. Music " with J. R. Rotem and Evan Bogart, the son of Casablanca Records founder, Neil Bogart.

He is also the father of the singer and songwriter Neil Hannon, lead member of The Divine Comedy, who wrote the theme music for the situation comedy Father Ted.

Tom Morello, the band's guitarist, wrote on August 5, 1999 in Neil Strauss's Times column:

Neil Young wrote the song " A Man Needs a Maid " inspired by Snodgress in Diary of a Mad Housewife: " I was watching a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / she was playing a part I could understand.

The mission's commander, astronaut Neil Armstrong, said, " A hundred years ago, Jules Verne wrote a book about a voyage to the Moon.

She wrote two of the tracks, with the remaining six being covers, including Neil Young's " Dreaming Man " and Hank Williams ' " Alone and Forsaken ".

Neil Jordan wrote and directed Ondine ( 2009 ), starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś

Neil Armstrong and Tom Hanks both wrote introductions to the book.

In 2009, Neil Mitchell wrote for The Age declaring Docklands as a planning " dud ".

" Danny Simon wrote a partial first draft of the play, but then handed over the idea to Neil.

That was the actual lyric Neil wrote, omitting " dawn " altogether.

Vatersay has sheltered anchorages and was only 300 metres ( 330 yd ) from Barra ( until the construction of a causeway in 1990 ) and Neil MacPhee wrote " it is better a thousand times to die here than to go through the same hardships which were our lot " on Mingulay.

Vocalist and bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson were working on songs that could fit the lyrics drummer Neil Peart wrote at a small desk there, with Peart at the same time trying to write lyrics adaptable to Lee and Lifeson's music.

Neil McElroy changed marketing forever when he wrote the classic McElroy memo at P & G, which lead to the creation of the discipline of brand management.

By 1987, when the author died, " It was apparent that the 1980s genre < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > owed an enormous debt to Bester – and to this book in particular ," Neil Gaiman wrote in the introduction to a 1999 edition of the book.

Coco also achieved success with Neil Simon, who wrote The Last of the Red Hot Lovers ( 1969 ) specifically for him.

In 2009, the author Geoffrey Neil wrote a novel, Dire Means, whose underlying premise was about the homeless situation in Santa Monica, California.

As part of a Wednesday Comics, Neil Gaiman wrote a twelve-page Metamorpho story that Mike Allred illustrated.

Neil Sheehan wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam history and biography of Vann, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, in which Sheehan examines Vann's alleged career-stunting incident involving a morals charge during his service in West Germany and how this possibly affected Vann's future actions and resulting career path in Vietnam.

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

Several liberals, including Adam Smith and Richard Cobden, argued that the free exchange of goods between nations could lead to world peace, a view recognised by such modern American political scientists as Dahl, Doyle, Russet, and O ' Neil.

Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

* Neil Shister, " Queen for a Day ... a skeptical look at the modern wedding ritual " from Boston Review, October / November 1998

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Reynolds became interested in politics at the time of the Arms Crisis in 1970, a hugely controversial episode in modern Irish history which saw two Cabinet ministers, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey, sacked from the government over an alleged attempt to import arms to Northern Ireland.

Gurdjieff is said to have had a strong influence on many modern mystics, artists, writers, and thinkers, including Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), Frank Lloyd Wright, Keith Jarrett, George Russell ( composer ), Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Fripp, Jacob Needleman, John Shirley, Carlos Castaneda, Dennis Lewis, Peter Brook, Kate Bush, P. L. Travers, Robert S de Ropp, Walter Inglis Anderson, Jean Toomer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Louis Pauwels, James Moore and Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan.

In the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman an Ifrit poses as a New York taxi driver in modern day New York, and has a homosexual encounter with a character named Salim.

Some authors, such as Neil Postman in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, believe that the attention span of humans is decreasing as modern technology, especially television, increases.

The reduction in throttle response, however, has never been shown to have impeded ability to pass ; the criticism was shot down in the first " modern " plate race, the 1988 Daytona 500, as the lead changed 25 times officially and saw several bursts where the lead changed several times a lap and also several bursts of sustained side-by-side racing, notably in the final 50 laps between Bobby Allison, Darrell Waltrip, Neil Bonnett, and Buddy Baker.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and a very popular representative of modern cosmology and astrophysics in the media, was instrumental in this recommendation ( personal communication to Dr. Victor S. Alpher, July 26, 2007 ).

The modern Silver City was re-imagined for Neil Gaiman's Season of Mists storyline in The Sandman, when the angels Duma and Remiel are dispatched to the Dreaming to observe the events there following Lucifer's abdication of the throne of Hell.

Among the modern exponents of social science fiction in the Campbellian / Heinlein tradition is L. Neil Smith who wrote both The Probability Broach ( 1981 ) and Pallas, which dealt with alternative " sideways in time " futures and what a libertarian society would look like.

Neil Smith remains the only GM in the modern era to win a Stanley Cup with the Rangers.

The shopkeeper complains about the political faults of the modern world, but Neil ignores him and fills out his postcards.