* Lynn Sherr's 2001 book America the Beautiful discusses the origins of the song and the backgrounds of its authors in depth.

These days, many authors supplement their income from book sales with public speaking engagements, school visits, residencies, grants, and teaching positions.

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

The editors / authors of the Deuteronomistic history cite a number of sources, including ( for example ) a " Book of the Acts of Solomon " and, frequently, the " Annals of the Kings of Judah " and a separate book, " Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ".

However, the details of the story are at best uncertain ( see for discussion of the original Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen source and the changes in other versions ); some authors, such as Joseph Rotman in his book A first course in Abstract Algebra, question whether it ever happened.

Many of the views which directed Leadbeater's understanding of the chakras were influenced by previous theosophist authors, in particular Johann Georg Gichtel, a disciple of Jakob Böhme, and his book Theosophia Practica ( 1696 ), in which Gitchtel directly refers to inner force centers, a concept reminiscent of the chakras.

It was later published in a report in 1993 and as a book by the same authors in 1995.

The CMM was published as a book in 1995 by its primary authors, Mark C. Paulk, Charles V. Weber, Bill Curtis, and Mary Beth Chrissis.

The authors provide no qualifications, although they are described in Hubbard's book Science of Survival ( where some results of the same study were reprinted ) as psychotherapists.

* Bayesian Data Analysis-Data used in the book are provided on-line by Andrew Gelman, one of the book's authors.

The Diatessaron is thought to have been available to Muhammad, and may have led to his faulty conclusion in the Qur ' an that the Christian Gospel is one text or one book alone, without reference to the canonical authors or New Testament corpus ; he calls this supposed text the Injil.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

That Ezekiel endeavors, differently than others of the Bible's authors who describe mystic visions, to report about as many details of the design of what he has perceived as possible nourishes doubts that his account can usefully be interpreted merely on a mystical basis and strengthens tendencies to explain certain passages of the book as descriptions of sightings of a spacecraft.

Blas Infante, in his book Orígenes de lo flamenco y secreto del cante jondo, suggested that the word may derive from Andalusian Arabic fellah mengu, " Escapee Peasant ", referring to the formerly Muslim Andalusians ( Moriscos ), who stayed in Spain and, according to certain modern authors, are supposed to have mixed with the Romani newcomers.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

The authors of the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt accuse climate change " skeptics " of trying to sow seeds of doubt in public opinion in order to halt any meaningful social or political progress to reduce the impact of human carbon emissions.

The book awards the fictional " Golden Turkey Awards " to films judged by the authors as poor in quality, and to directors and actors judged to have created a chronically inept body of work.

In the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time the authors invited readers to write in nominating their favorite " worst films ".

One of the films nominated in the book was in fact an invention of the authors, and readers were challenged to figure out which film was actually fake.

The giveaway was that the same dog was in the photo of the authors at the front of the book.

That book again features the same dog pictured with the authors.

His writing, particularly the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, has influenced fiction authors worldwide, and Lovecraftian elements can be found in novels, films, movies, music, video games, comic books ( e. g. the use of Arkham Insane Asylum in The Batman comic book series ), and even cartoons.

Pursuant to the settlement, the painting was returned to the Shefner Family in resolution of litigation commenced against the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow, the authors of the Soutine Catalogue Raisonnée.

Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, written over twenty years previously and depicting the harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities of earlier times that he had experienced while staying at Aston Hall, attracted Dickens, and the two authors shared the belief that the staging of a nostalgic English Christmas might restore a social harmony and well-being lost in the modern world.

A more recent account, by Sally Jenkins ( of the Washington Post ) and John Stauffer ( chair of the Program in the History of the American Civilization and professor of English and of African and African American studies at Harvard University ), which developed from a screenplay, draws on what they claim to be more extensive research to emphasize the extent to which, in the view of those authors, Knight ended Confederate control of Jones County during the war, and the extent of Knight's Unionist and anti-racist sympathies, both during the war and during Reconstruction.

* Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — journalists for The Washington Post on the Watergate scandal ; authors of All the President's Men, non-fiction account of the scandal.

Although Williamson's label of the Washington Consensus draws attention to the role of the Washington-based agencies in promoting the above agenda, a number of authors have stressed that Latin American policy-makers arrived at their own packages of policy reforms primarily based on their own analysis of their countries ' situations.

Thus, according to Joseph Stanislaw and Daniel Yergin, authors of The Commanding Heights, the policy prescriptions described in the Washington Consensus were " developed in Latin America, by Latin Americans, in response to what was happening both within and outside the region.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Keane said that he was flattered and believed that such parody "... is a compliment to the popularity of the feature ..." The official Family Circus website contains a sampling of syndicated comic strips from other authors which parody his characters.

The theory has since been attacked by various authors and journalists, including Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, who initially believed the story.

* Various authors: Barbara Rose, Gerald Nordland, Walter Hopps, Hardy S. George ; Breaking the Mold, Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961 – 1968, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City Museum of Art 2007, ISBN 0-911919-05-8

George Putnam published the books of many classic American authors including his close friend Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Type material from American authors including William Healey Dall, Henry Augustus Pilsbry and Paul Bartsch, is mainly to be found in the Smithsonian Institution ( Washington DC ), American Museum of Natural History ( New York ) and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

* Legget, Robert F., editor, 1982, Geology under cities: Geological Society of America ; Reviews in Engineering Geology, volume V, 131 pages ; contains nine articles by separate authors for these cities: Washington, DC ; Boston ; Chicago ; Edmonton ; Kansas City ; New Orleans ; New York City ; Toronto ; and Twin Cities, Minnesota.

* Various authors: Barbara Rose, Gerald Nordland, Walter Hopps, Hardy S. George ; Breaking the Mold, Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961 – 1968, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City Museum of Art 2007, ISBN 0-911919-05-8

The origins and purpose of this die remain unknown, though the authors of a 1978 book on the Great Seal speculated it was a gift to Washington and possibly an early version ( or forerunner ) of a presidential seal.

Mencken was inspired by " the argot of the colored waiters " in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore.

Now known as the " Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection ", it contains works dating from 1821 by such authors as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, and Alexander Crummell.

* Washington Post Express interview with the authors of " The Wrong Stuff " about Cunningham and Washington's culture of corruption

Felix Octavius Carr Darley ( June 23, 1822 – March 27, 1888 ) often credited as F. O. C. Darley, was an American painter in watercolor and illustrator, known for his illustrations in works by well-known 19th century authors, including: James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Maples Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, George Lippard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Donald Grant Mitchell, Clement Clarke Moore, Frances Parkman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Parker Willis.

The authors of the book Homer Simpson Goes to Washington, Joseph Foy and Stanley Schultz, wrote that in the episode, " the tension of trying to demonstrate a family's achievement of the American Dream is satirically and expertly played out by Marge Simpson ".

To protect foreign literature in the United States, British authors would have an American citizen serve as a collaborator in the publishing process, and then have the book registered in Washington, D. C. under the collaborator ’ s name.

When the International Copyright Act of 1891 was finally passed, foreign authors had to have their works in Washington, D. C. “ on or before the day of publication in this or any foreign country .” This too would create a problem, but by the early 1900s British authors were granted American Copyright since it was published abroad thirty days from its deposit in Washington, D. C.

In another milieu Caldecott followed The Harz Mountains with illustrations for two books by Washington Irving, three for Juliana Ewing, another of Henry Blackburn's, one for Captain Frederick Marryat and for other authors.