* 1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer

* November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist

* Arundhati Roy ( born 1961 ), writer

While the United Kingdom abolished sedition laws in 2010, sedition became a big issue in India the same year as noted writer Arundhati Roy, amongst others, were sought to be charged with sedition for advocating independence for the disputed Kashmir region.

* Arundhati Roy – Recurring guest ; Indian writer, anti-war activist, and leading figure in the alter-globalization movement

" Indian leftist writer Arundhati Roy, writing on September 29, strongly condemned both the attackers who had " blown a hole in the world as we knew it " and Bush for reacting by going to war against Afghanistan: " President Bush's ultimatum to the people of the world-' If you're not with us, you're against us ' - is a piece of presumptuous arrogance.

The film also starred the noted writer and social activist, Arundhati Roy.

Previous interview guests include Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, Mexico ’ s former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda, former Ugandan government minister Betty Oyella Bigombe, Nobel Prize Laureates Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, Women for Women International CEO Zainab Salbi, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, writer Arundhati Roy and former U. S. Secretaries of State George Mitchell and James A. Baker III.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

* 1912 – Roy Fuller, English writer ( d. 1991 )

* 1940 – Roy Thomas, American comic book writer

* 1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American writer

In 1969, writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Neal Adams rejuvenated the comic book and gave regular roles to two recently introduced characters: Havok / Alex Summers ( who had been introduced by Roy Thomas before Adams began work on the comic ) and Lorna Dane, later called Polaris ( created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko ).

** Roy Blount, Jr., American writer and comedian

* June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer ( b. 1600 )

" Roy Oliver Disney had misgivings about the project, doubting that it was " big enough in caliber and natural draft " to warrant a budget over $ 1 million and more than twenty-five minutes of animation, but in June 1944, Walt hired Southern-born writer Dalton Reymond to write the screenplay, and he met frequently with King Vidor, whom he was trying to interest in directing the live-action sequences.

Impressed by writer Roy Clarke's ability to inject comedy into the drama, Wood offered Clarke the opportunity to write a sitcom.

The film received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Original Screenplay ( Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah ) and Best Original Music Score ( Jerry Fielding ) At the 42nd Academy Awards ceremony, both awards went to crew members of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( screen writer William Goldman and composer Burt Bacharach ).

Famous early residents include: Joshua H. Bean, brother of Judge Roy Bean and the first mayor of San Diego, CA ; Orlando C. Phelps, one of the few surviving members of the Mier Expedition ; Edwin Rainwater, hero of the Texas Revolution ; Edward R. Hord, an influential early South Texas statesman ; and John L. Haynes, a native Virginian politician and writer who was an outspoken anti-secessionist and strong proponent of Mexican-American rights.

He later went on to create the hit series New Tricks, with writer Roy Mitchell.

The explanation given for this by writer Roy Thomas in All-Star Squadron Annual # 3 was that the team ( and several friends ) had absorbed energy from the magical villain Ian Karkull during an adventure in the 1940s that stunted their aging process.

He teamed with writer Roy Thomas on X-Men, then on the verge of cancellation, starting with issue # 56 ( May 1969 ).

By the time the society was uncovered, the American writer James Le Roy estimated the strength of the Katipunan at 100, 000 to 400, 000 members.

Stars Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson, Judy Cornwell, and David Griffin, along with writer Roy Clarke and producer / director Harold Snoad, all discussed the series.

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

Artie decides to become a writer, his stories revolving around his deductive reasoning technique, and asks Roy if he can use the " Sherlock Holmes " name.

For writer Stephen Prothero, many perennialist thinkers ( including Armstrong, Huston Smith and Joseph Campbell ) are influenced by Hindu reformer Ram Mohan Roy and Hindu mystics Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.

The character of Roy Mallard was based on an exaggeration of the writer John Morton himself.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.

`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

There is a bitter satire for a future writer in that ''.

Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.

What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.

The point is that in a system such as Fromm's which recognizes unconscious motivations, and which rests on certain ethical absolutes, empirical data can be used to support whatever proposition the writer is urging at the moment.

This is just being a normal writer.

) Mrs. Henry Labouisse, wife of the new director of the foreign aid program, is the writer and lecturer Eve Curie.

Liston is Bill Liston, baseball writer for the Boston Traveler, who quoted Jensen as saying:

For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called " A Clockwork Orange ," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript.