The original name of the Topelius family was the Finnish name Toppila which had been Latinized to Toppelius by the author's grandfather's grandfather and later changed to Topelius.

David Lloyd George is the author's great grandfather.

Reports that his wife Maria Louisa dismissed it as porcheria tedesca, or " German swinishness ," do not pre-date 1871, in a collection of literary vignettes by Alfred Meissner about the history of Prague purportedly based on recollections of the author's grandfather, who was present for the coronation ceremonies.

It is based partly on biographical writings of the author's grandfather as well as her knowledge of and childhood experiences in India.

Information about Amos Tutuola, recounted in the book's introduction, states that his grandfather was an odafin, the spiritual leader of a clan, and Tutuola was the given name of the author's father ; Odafin literally means " the establisher of laws " or " lawmaker " in the Yoruba language of southwestern Nigeria.

by the author's son, Major Bronsart von Schellendorf, Berlin, 1904 ), a comprehensive treatise on the duties of the general staff.

Jordanus ' Mirabilia contains the earliest clear African identification of Prester John, and what is perhaps the first notice of the Black Sea under that name ; it refers to the author's residence in India Major and especially at Kollam, as well as to his travels in Armenia, north-west Persia, the Lake Van region, and Chaldaea ; and it supplies excellent descriptions of Parsee doctrines and burial customs, of Hindu ox-worship, idol-ritual, and suttee, and of Indian fruits, birds, animals and insects.

John's gospel is the only canonical one that gives Thomas the Apostle a dramatic role and spoken part, and Thomas is the only character therein described as having apistos ( unbelief ), despite the failings of virtually all the Johannine characters to live up to the author's standards of belief.

It was only when De Quincey, a chronic procrastinator, failed to answer repeated letters from James Thomas Fields that the American publisher proceeded independently, reprinting the author's works from their original magazine appearances.

The dedication provides a key to the author's intention: Thoaizas du Clevier ( or Clenier ) a son ami Pierre Tryocan was recognized by 19th century editors to be an anagram for Thomas l ' Incrédule a son ami Pierre Croyant.

* August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.

He played the Fat Bishop in Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess, and Plumporridge in the same author's Inner Temple Masque.

In 1867, Whittier asked James Thomas Fields to get him a ticket to a reading by Charles Dickens during the British author's visit to the United States.

When preparing a work for the press, an editor working along the principles outlined by Fredson Bowers and G. Thomas Tanselle will attempt to construct a text that is close to the author's final intentions.

Between 1681 and 1684 he issued ‘ The Remaining Medical Works of … Dr. Thomas Willis … Englished by S. P., Esq .’ There is a general dedication to Sir Theophilus Biddulph, signed by Pordage ; and verses ‘ On the author's Medico-philosophical Discourses ’ precede the first part.

The first indication of the author's identity appeared in Thomas Heywood's Apology for Actors ( 1612 ), where Heywood assigns the play to Kyd.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York, which had previously commissioned Thomas to write a volume for its " Americanization " series, refused to publish it by the author's own name.

Thus in 1921, Old World Traits Transplanted appeared by authors Robert E. Park and Herbert A. Miller, who had contributed only minor parts to the book, and it was not until 1951 that the book's authorship was re-credited to Thomas by a committee of the Social Science Research Council and reissued with its author's actual name.

Robert Ross, the protagonist, was inspired by T. E. Lawrence and the author's uncle, Thomas Irving Findley, to whom the novel is dedicated.

Halef is the exceedingly loyal ( though not too intelligent ) servant, companion and friend, in honored sidekick tradition, of the author's alter ego, German Adventurer Kara Ben Nemsi.

Includes an account of the author's days as a student activist and street fighter for the Japanese Communist Party, 1964 – 1969.

Rise and Fall is based upon captured Third Reich documents, the available diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, General Franz Halder, and of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, evidence and testimony from the Nuremberg trials, British Foreign Office reports, and the author's recollection of six years reporting on the Third Reich for newspapers, the United Press International ( UPI ), and CBS Radio — terminated by Nazi Party censorship in 1940.

It is a dictated, narrative autobiography recounting the author's youth, his years as an agitator and journalist, his experiences in World War I, the formation and revolutionary struggles of the Fascist Party, the March on Rome, and his early years in power.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

Traditional accounts of the author's life are found in many commentaries and include details such as these: He was born on Salamis Island around 484 BC, the son of Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens.

In those Berne Convention countries who have implemented only the minimum copyright period, copyright expires 50 years after the author's death.

More recently she has been the focus in Malinche's Conquest by Ana Lanyon, a non-fiction account of the author's research into the historical and mythic woman who was Malinche.

Scholarly peer review ( also known as refereeing ) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, before a paper describing this work is published in a journal.

In 1976 ( three years after the author's death ) United Artists sold the rights to Saul Zaentz Company, who trade as Tolkien Enterprises.

With " innumerable voices intruding on the original author's ," Booth says, those who interpret American Beauty " have forgotten to probe for the elusive center ".

This did not please his publisher, who demanded and got a rewrite over the author's bitter objections.

Jean Paulhan, who was the author's lover and the person to whom she wrote Story of O in the form of love letters, wrote the preface, " Happiness in Slavery ".

Binoche has said her inspirations for the role were her friend and coach Vernice Klier who suffered a similar tragedy, and the book The Black Veil by Anny Duperey which deals with the author's grief at losing her parents at a young age.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, published in 2000, is a memoir of the prolific author's experiences as a writer, and also serves as a guide book for those who choose to enter the craft.

The Political Animal: An Anatomy ( 2003 ), again based on extensive interviews, examines the motivations and methods of those who constitute the author's professional prey: Westminster politicians.

As an example, the author surrogate may be the one who delivers political diatribe, expressing the author's beliefs at an appropriate time, or expound on the strengths and weakness of other characters, thereby communicating directly the author's opinion on the characters in question.

The work, showing the author's interest in the theories of Sigmund Freud, is written in the form of the memoirs of one Zeno Cosini, who writes them at the insistence of his psychoanalyst.

A biography of the author's father who was a member of the Danish resistance during the Second World War.

In 2007, after Frame's death, The New Zealand Medical Journal published an article by a medical specialist who proposed that Frame may have registered on what is referred to as the autistic spectrum, a suggestion that was disputed by the author's literary executor.

This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities.

He discusses the methods of acquiring knowledge, concluding that practical knowledge, though teachable, cannot be truly mastered without experience ; that only informational knowledge can be gained by one whose understanding equals the author's ; that comprehension ( insight ) is best learned from who first achieved said understanding — an " original communication ".

* Evelyn Waugh: Scoop ( 1938 ) ( about a thinly disguised British Newspaper, The Daily Beast, and one of its contributors who is sent to an African country at war called Ishmaelia, based upon the author's experiences in Abyssinia )

During the author's last years, his Moscow apartment became the center of several literary circles who extolled similar views and most outspokenly mourned his death.

The author's views are not made explicit, but the characters who choose to remain in the changed nation are treated more sympathetically than those who leave.