and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.

It was, of course, in this drawing of the balance sheet of judgment that he most clearly displayed his desire to do full justice to an author.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

Ritter died in 1810 and Oersted not only lived to see the event occur but was the author of it.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

The medieval was the most important to Chambers because he sought to place Thomas More, the author of Utopia, in some intelligible relation with St. Thomas More, the martyr.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

In all of this extensive and expensive effort, the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author.

The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.

The Latin author Apuleius was born in Madaurus ( Mdaourouch ), in what later became Algeria.

The name Asia Minor was given by the Latin author Orosios in the 4th century AD.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

An early and articulate critic was the noted author Damon Knight.

On the other hand, when science fiction author Philip K. Dick was asked which science fiction writers had influenced his work the most, he replied:

Charles Dickens was a prominent English author of the 19th century.

Leo Tolstoy was a prominent Russian author of the 19th century.

James Joyce was a prominent Irish author of the 20th century.

`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

* 1978 – Kendra Todd, American real estate agent and author

* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, director, and author

* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1929 – Ira Levin, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1957 – Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author

* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

* 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author

* 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author

* 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American author

* 1947 – Lawrence Wright, American author

* 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio host and author