William G. Sebold ( 10 March 1899-February 1970, Walnut Creek, California ), born Wilhelm Georg Debrowski in Mülheim, Germany, was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.

Upon his arrival in Hamburg, Germany, he was approached by a Gestapo agent who said that Sebold would be contacted in the near future.

Sebold was instructed by the Abwehr to contact Fritz Joubert Duquesne, code-named DUNN, a German spy in New York.

At their first meeting, Duquesne, who was extremely worried about bugs and microphones in Sebold's office, gave Sebold a note suggesting that they should talk elsewhere.

Sebold, who was raised Episcopalian, intended the heaven to be simplistic in design: " To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys — but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Sebold was finishing her freshman year at Syracuse University when she was raped while walking home through a park off campus.

Sebold has stated that her reason for writing the book was to bring more awareness to rape.

William Sebold, a German-born American, was threatened by the Nazis with revelations that he lied in order to immigrate.

Kostova was billed as the next literary phenomenon, the next Alice Sebold or Susanna Clarke.

William G. Sebold, a double agent for the United States, was a major factor in the FBI's successful resolution of this case.

For nearly two years, Sebold ran a radio station in New York for the ring, giving the FBI valuable information on what Germany was sending to its spies in the United States while also controlling the information that was being transmitted to Germany.

Furthermore, Sebold has stated that the book is not intended to be religious, " but if people want to take things and interpret them, then I can't do anything about that.

William Sebold ( posing as Harry Sawyer ) with Fritz Duquesne.

" This is a high-wire act for a first novelist, and Alice Sebold maintains almost perfect balance ", wrote Katherine Bouton in The New York Times Book Review.

After additional visits by Dr. Gassner and a " Dr. Renken " ( later identified as Major Nickolaus Ritter of the Abwehr ), Sebold agreed to spy for Germany, being blackmailed with information that he had omitted spending some time in a German jail when applying for American citizenship.

* William G. Sebold, German agent working for the FBI

Alice Sebold, a noted novelist known for Lucky and The Lovely Bones, and Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress ( a popular, open-source blogging platform ), also attended the university.

Two notable examples are The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, where the narrator is Death, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, where a young girl, having been killed, observes, from some after-life vantage point, her family struggling to cope with her disappearance.

A native of Los Angeles, Bender is a close friend of fellow UCI alumna Alice Sebold.

* Sebold, Kimberly and Leach, Sara Amy.

Noted authors who have been associated with the conference over the years include Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Dean Young, Selden Edwards, Evie Shockley, Cornelius Eady, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kevin Young, Li-Young Lee, Michael Chabon, Richard Ford, Amy Tan, Robert Stone, Alice Sebold, Janet Fitch, Kris Saknussemm, Ayelet Waldman, Louis B. Jones, Jay Gummerman, Jamie Ford, and Meg Waite Clayton.

Sebold served in the German army during World War I.

Sebold proceeded to Mülheim where he obtained employment.

In September 1939, a Dr. Gassner visited Sebold in Mülheim and interrogated him regarding military planes and equipment in the United States.

He also asked Sebold to return to the United States as an espionage agent for Germany.

Sebold received final instructions from Ritter, including the use of codes and microphotographs.

Before leaving Germany, Sebold went to the U. S. Consulate in Cologne, Germany.

It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.