`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

In 1946, author Gavin Maxwell bought the island and established a factory to process shark oil from basking sharks.

* September 7 – Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author ( b. 1914 )

* Mast., in botanical naming, the standard author abbreviation for Maxwell T. Masters

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

* Sir John Clerk of Eldin ( 1728 – 1812 ) prolific artist, author of An Essay on Naval Tactics ; great-uncle of James Clerk Maxwell

The village is the birthplace of the American romance author Patricia Maxwell, also known as Jennifer Blake, who resides in Quitman in Jackson Parish.

* Maxwell Anderson-American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist

* Maxwell Anderson – Pulitzer Prize winning author who was born here.

* July 15-Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and author ( died 1969 )

* September 6 – Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and author

Examples include Michael Faraday, who, with James Clerk Maxwell, unified the electric and magnetic forces in what are now known as Maxwell's equations ; James Joule, who worked extensively in thermodynamics and is often credited with the discovery of the principle of conservation of energy ; Paul Dirac, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics ; naturalist Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species and discoverer of the principle of evolution by natural selection ; Harold Kroto, the discoverer of buckminsterfullerene ; William Thomson ( Baron Kelvin ) who drew important conclusions in the field of thermodynamics and invented the Kelvin scale of absolute zero ; botanist Robert Brown discovered the random movement of particles suspended in a fluid ( Brownian motion ); and the creator of Bell's Theorem, John Stewart Bell.

James Maxwell Anderson ( 15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959 ) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.

This incident is recounted at length in the 1973 novel Magnus by Orcadian author George Mackay Brown, and in the 1977 opera, The Martyrdom of St Magnus by Peter Maxwell Davies.

Alumni who have become notable through literature include the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Maxwell Anderson, Rhodes scholar and poet Thomas McGrath, essayist and journalist Chuck Klosterman, and novelist Jon Hassler.

* John Maxwell Hall, British colonial administrator, judge and author

Married Aymer Edward Maxwell and was the mother of author and naturalist Gavin Maxwell.

Only You Can Save Mankind ( 1992 ) is the first novel in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy of children's books and fifth young adult novel by Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld sequence of books.

Senior Allied officers who assisted the author included General Maxwell D. Taylor, Lieutenant General James M. Gavin, Lieutenant General Sir Frederick E. Morgan and General Sir Richard Nelson Gale.

The retreat of the author Gavin Maxwell ( known as Camusfeàrna in his books ) is about south west of Glenelg.

He also penned 10 Belmont Books mass-market paperbacks of The Shadow from 1964 to 1967 under the Shadow's author by-line Maxwell Grant.

American author Maxwell Geismar delivered a scathing review, “ Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, in 1896 was Sam Clemens ’ ( Twain ) worst book … It is difficult to find anything of interest in Joan of Arc – except its badness .”

McKenna has also been responsible for helping create and furnish the Gavin Maxwell museum on Eilean Bàn, the last island home of Maxwell, an author and naturalist, most famous for his book Ring of Bright Water, on which the film of the same name was based.

Moreover, when the discredited author David Irving lost his English libel case against Deborah Lipstadt, and her publisher, Penguin Books, and thus was publicly identified as a Holocaust denier, the trial judge, Justice Charles Gray, concluded that:

Influence is largely depicted by the author as immoral, as it eventually may turn people toward decisions that are not true to themselves, as best exemplified by Dorian Gray.

* John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber.

These included Justin Winsor, a historical scholar, Charles Eliot Norton, a Harvard professor, William H. Whitmore, author of Elements of Heraldry, John Denison Chaplin, Jr., an expert on engraving and associate editor of American Cyclopædia, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and even the botanist Asa Gray to help with the olive branch.

* Sloan Wilson, the author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, mentions " What to imperial Neronian Rome the author of the Satyricon once had been.

Sloan Wilson, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, retired and died in Colonial Beach.

She was author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray and an accomplished travel writer, artist and socialite of the period.

* J. Glenn Gray, philosopher, author and translator

Journalist and author Roger Rosenblatt, describing Gray, called him " Spalding the storyteller ... Spalding the mystical.

During an interview in 1997 with film author Edward Vilga, Gray was asked whether the movie industry was " confused " by his writings and roles and this was his answer:

The list includes Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman president of Harvard University ; Hanna Holborn Gray, the first woman president of a major research university ( University of Chicago ); modernist poets H. D., and Marianne Moore ; classics scholar Edith Hamilton ; social activist and feminist Grace Lee Boggs ; Nobel Peace Prize winner Emily Greene Balch ; geneticist Nettie Stevens ; artist Anne Truitt ; author Ellen Kushner ; federal judge Ilana Rovner ; economist Alice Rivlin ; personal finance reporter Jennifer Westhoven ; and movie actress Katharine Hepburn.

" Gray, writing to Horace Walpole ( August, 1757 ), said that the author " seemed to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which has been lost for these hundred years ," but Samuel Johnson held aloof from the general enthusiasm, and averred that there were not ten good lines in the whole play ( Boswell, Life, ed.

* Alasdair Gray, Scottish author

The university president, Morris, has credited the knowledge and principles of SCI with contributing to the success of its graduates and SCI degrees have been awarded to Morris, Doug Henning, Mike Tompkins, Benjamin Feldman the Finance Minister for Global Country of World Peace, best-selling author John Gray, and " Invincible Defense Technology " expert David R. Leffler.

But, according to Article 50. 1. 1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, this is insufficient to state Gray as the author.

Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining ( 1902 – 1999 ), was a professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was the crown prince.

* In the 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory author Robert Skimin depicts Mosby as the head of military intelligence after the Confederacy wins the Civil War.

* James H. Gray ( 1906 – 1998 ), Canadian journalist, historian and author

George Robert Gray FRS ( 8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872 ) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years.

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is a book written by American author, and relationship counselor, John Gray.

** ( or January 11 ) Spalding Gray, actor and author ( born 1942 )

He was also an early author for BattleTech, writing the saga of the Gray Death Legion.

* John Gray ( Canadian author ), biographer and former newspaper bureau chief author