And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

* 1920 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer and journalist ( d. 1922 )

* Adrian Geiges, German writer and journalist

* Adrian Weale ( born 1964 ), English writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer

* 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist, and revolutionary ( d. 1896 )

* 1983 – Gianni Rodari, Italian writer and journalist ( b. 1920 )

* 1920 – Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and writer

* 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer ( b. 1916 )

* 1933 – Patricia Bosworth, American actress, journalist, and writer

The writer, journalist Richard Norton-Taylor, distilled four years of evidence into two hours of stage performance by Tricycle Theatre.

Parkinson and his wife divorced in 1952 and he married the writer and journalist Ann Fry ( 1921 – 1983 ), with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

However, his cover was not as a writer or journalist.

* Cyrus Townsend Brady, American journalist, historian and adventure writer

born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

* 1907 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer ( d. 1999 )

Canadian journalist and writer Frederick Arthur McKenzie wrote that in poorer areas, " there was a vast amount of sympathy with the rebels, particularly after the rebels were defeated.

* 1960 – Walter Yust, American journalist and writer ( b. 1894 )

* 1923 – Miljenko Smoje, Dalmatian writer and journalist ( d. 1995 )

* 1958 – Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist

* 1977 – Owen King, American writer and journalist

* 1920 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller ( d. 2006 )

Lionel Fanthorpe, British pastor, entertainer, journalist, writer and paranormal investigator

Midge Rosenthal Decter ( born July 25, 1927 ) is an American neoconservative journalist and author.

** Yusuf Akçura ( 1876 – 1935 ) a Tatar, journalist with a secular national ideology, who was against Ottomanism and supported separation in religion and social life.

He used his talents as a journalist and cartoonist to bring issues relevant to his political ideology before the public.

BBC journalist Jonathan Beale reports that since secularism is banned in Iran, it is an ideology that is mostly followed by political organizations among the Iranian diaspora or by many of the anti-sharia political parties in exile that are secular.

James Burnham, a journalist for the National Review, proffered a similar thesis that foresaw the advent of a state of technocrats, all capable of finding the best answers to political and social problems, making ideology extinct.

Such was his fanaticism to the Nazi ideology that he created an impression in American journalist William L. Shirer, writing in his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich that Ōshima " is more Nazi than the Nazis ".

* 1773 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman ( d. 1844 )

* 1849 – Jacob August Riis, American journalist ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer ( b. 1849 )

NYC Police Commissioner Roosevelt walks the beat with journalist Jacob Riis in 1894 – Illustration from Riis ' autobiography

In 1894, Roosevelt met Jacob Riis, the muckraking Evening Sun newspaper journalist who was opening the eyes of New York's rich to the terrible conditions of the city's millions of poor immigrants with such books as, How the Other Half Lives.

* Jacob Israël de Haan, Dutch Jewish journalist assassinated by the Haganah

Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914 ) was a Danish American social reformer, " muckraking " journalist and social documentary photographer.

" Winners of the John Hersey Prize include David M. Halbfinger ( Yale Class of 1990 ) and Motoko Rich ( Class of 1991 ), who both went on to reporting careers at The New York Times, and journalist Jacob Weisberg ( Class of 1985 ), current editor-in-chief of The Slate Group.

Muckraker journalist Jacob Riis wrote in How the Other Half Lives:

The elder, Jacob, is a journalist who writes for the New York Times and The Daily Beast.

* Alaric Jacob ( 1909 – 1995 ) – journalist, writer

They were introduced to the United States by Emily Bissell in 1907, after she had read about the 1904 Danish Christmas Seal in an article by Danish-born Jacob Riis, a muckraking journalist and photographer.

It was built by powerful New York planner and administrator Robert Moses, and was named after journalist, photographer and reformer Jacob Riis.

According to journalist Jacob Weisberg, George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush's son, first picked up the term " compassionate conservative " from Wead, in 1987.

* Jacob Landau, American journalist

With him on Mercury are: Helene deSilva, the attractive station commander with whom Jacob develops a relationship over the course of the book ; Fagin ; Pila Bubbacub, the library representative ; his assistant Culla ( a Pring ); Dr. Dwayne Kepler ( the head of the Sundiver expedition ); Dr. Mildred Martine ( a psychiatrist ); and the exuberant journalist Peter LaRoque.

On June 30, 1924, Tehomi allegedly shot and killed Jewish Dutch poet, novelist and diplomat Jacob Israel de Haan, who was living in Jerusalem as a journalist.

The political journalist Jacob Weisberg, formerly editor of Slate, was similarly offered membership in Skull and Bones by Senator John Kerry.

He recruited Jacob Gordin, already a well-respected novelist and intellectual, recently arrived in New York and eking out a living as a journalist at the Arbeiter Zeitung, precursor to The Forward.

Jacob Weisberg ( born 1964 ) is an American political journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company.

Jacob Israël de Haan ( December 31, 1881, Smilde, Drenthe – June 30, 1924 ) was a Dutch Jewish literary writer and journalist who was assassinated in Jerusalem by the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.

Jacob A. Riis-Documentary journalist / author, photographer and reformer was a Richmond Hill resident.

Harold Alaric Jacob ( 8 June 1909-26 January 1995 ) was an English writer and journalist.

Paul Hogarth described Alaric Jacob as the quintessential English journalist ; urbane, yet modest, with a bone-dry sense of humour and a razor intelligence.