Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

Arthur Ransome, celebrated author of the classic Swallows and Amazons series of books, titled the eleventh book of the series " The Picts and the Martyrs ".

For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.

The most characteristic Yankee food was pie ; Yankee author Harriet Beecher Stowe in her novel Oldtown Folks celebrated the social traditions surrounding the Yankee pie.

In a celebrated paper in modern times, the fantasy author and philologist J. R. R.

" from Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), substituting the name of the celebrated English author ( 1882 – 1941 ).

However, the celebrated American sword and sorcery author Fritz Leiber replied in the journal Ancalagon ( 6 April 1961 ) suggesting " sword-and-sorcery as a good popular catchphrase for the field ".

He celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters and as the earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences.

One prominent former King Citian was celebrated children's author Clyde Robert Bulla, who died in 2007 while living in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Berkhamsted School, a minor public school was founded in 1541 by Dean Incent and attended by the celebrated author Graham Greene, whose father was headmaster there.

Arguably the most celebrated and notorious environmentalist author of the twentieth century, Edward Abbey ( 1927 – 1989 ), was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Tanoma, and Home, Pennsylvania.

Upcoming visitors include U. S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, National Book Award Winner Tim O ' Brien, Pulitzer Prize Winner Robert Stone, and celebrated short-story author Mary Gaitskill.

Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), American author of the celebrated novel Winesburg, Ohio, is buried at Round Hill Cemetery in Marion.

Here appears what seems to be the absolutely earliest praise of Shakespeare in a piece entitled A Remembrance of some English Poets, in which the still unrecognized author of Venus and Adonis is celebrated by the side of Spenser, Daniel and Drayton.

The author of the poems celebrated him in his verse and educated him in the aristocratic values of the time, yet Cyrnus came to symbolize much about his imperfect world that the poet bitterly resented:

The author tells us that this Office took place at the tenth hour ( four o ' clock in the evening ); it is really the Office des lumières, i. e. of the lights ; it was celebrated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; all the lamps and torches of the church were lighted, making, as the author says, " an infinite light ".

The French author Montaigne ( 1533 – 1592 ) in one of the most celebrated of his essays (" On experience ") expressed the benefits of living with a clear conscience: " Our duty is to compose our character, not to compose books, to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

He also became a celebrated author and much-travelled lecturer in the mid-20th century, especially in the United States.

The book quickly became the first literary success by an American author in Europe and turned Crèvecœur into a celebrated figure.

Charles Henry Langston's grandson ( and Quarles ' descendant ), Langston Hughes, was a celebrated author and poet during the Harlem Renaissance.

Berenger starred in the mini-series version of Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes, as a celebrated author who realizes the warped painting he recently purchased is alive with illustrations of impending doom for him in " The Road Virus Heads North ".

He was celebrated in science fiction circles as the author who introduced aesthetics into a literature known for its scientific and technological complications.

Adapted from the celebrated novel of the same name, by the author of the Diary of a Physician, and arranged for the stage, by Richard Brinsley Peake

Marketing to both adult and juvenile audiences may have had an effect on its early reception ; the book was not as celebrated as Burnett's previous works during her lifetime.

Overall, there ’ s a sense of sheer " movieness " to The Hidden Fortress that places it plainly in the ranks of such grand adventure entertainments as Gunga Din, The Thief of Baghdad, and Fritz Lang's celebrated diptych The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Hindu Tomb.

: When I related my adventure to my Uncle, the Cardinal-Duke, He told me that He had no doubt of this singular Man ’ s being the celebrated Character known universally by the name of ‘ the wandering Jew .’ His not being permitted to pass more than fourteen days on the same spot, the burning Cross impressed upon his fore-head, the effect which it produced upon the Beholders, and many other circumstances give this supposition the colour of truth.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

It has been celebrated and popularised in operas, folk stories, novels and in more recent times, films, television, and video games.

Encouraging the unitary concept-that the later novels feature ' Harry Palmer ' - is the 1974 dust jacket to the Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich American edition of Spy Story, in which the cover blurb states, " He is back, after five long-years ' absence, the insubordinate, decent, bespectacled English spy who fought, fumbled, and survived his outrageous way through the best-selling Horse Under Water, Funeral in Berlin, and the rest of those marvellous, celebrated Len Deighton spy thrillers.

It was here that Tolstoy wrote his celebrated novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

The exploration, settlement, exploitation, and conflicts of the " American Old West " form a unique tapestry of events, which has been celebrated by Americans and foreigners alike — in art, music, dance, novels, magazines, short stories, poetry, theater, video games, movies, radio, television, song, and oral tradition — which continues in the modern era.

Héctor Germán Oesterheld ( born July 23, 1919 ; disappeared and presumed dead 1977 ), also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field.

He was educated to be a landscape painter, a training that influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptions of landscapes and seascapes in novels such as White Wings: A Yachting Romance ( 1880 ).

The novels of Albert Payson Terhune celebrated the temperament and companionship of collies and were very popular in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.

Nevertheless, with the novels of Unamuno, Azorín, Pío Baroja, and Valle Inclán, the theater of the latter, and the poetry of Antonio Machado and Unamuno, a definitive literary shift had taken place — a shift in both form and content — pointing towards the more celebrated experimental writings of Spain's vanguard writers of the 1920s.

She was the celebrated author of early 20th century bestsellers as It, Three Weeks, Beyond the Rocks, and other novels which were then considered quite racy.

Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by R. K. Narayan, a celebrated English language novelist from India.

He worked first as a commercial photographer with Tom Sharpe, who later wrote a series of celebrated comic novels, and then as a teacher of English and art at Cowan House in 1959-63, before becoming a crime reporter and photographer for the Natal Witness in his hometown of Pietermaritzburg.

When his novels became famous, there was a mysterious absence of authenticating photographs of him as a legionnaire or of the usual press-articles by old comrades wanting to cash in on their memories of a celebrated figure.

His novels of frontier life and the American revolution celebrated the history of South Carolina.

" Blood and soil " novels and theater celebrated the farmer's life and human fertility, often mystically linking them.