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* John Gordon, adolescent fiction writer and author of The Giant Under The Snow, has drawn inspiration for many of his supernatural fantasies from the Fens.

Louis Golding ( November 19, 1895 – August 9, 1958 ) was a British writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected ; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books and poetry.

* 1888 – T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier ( d. 1935 )

Canadian-born science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt reimagined Robert Graves ' Claudius story in his two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn.

The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

* 1867 – E. F. Benson, English writer ( d. 1940 )

* 1890 – E. E. Smith, American writer ( d. 1965 )

In Secret Avengers # 6-10, writer Ed Brubaker officially sidestepped the entire issue via a storyline where a rogue group of S. H. I. E. L. D agents resurrect a zombified version of Fu Manchu only to discover that " Fu Manch " was only an alias ; that Shang-Chi's father was really an ancient Chinese sorcerer who discovered the secret to immortality.

* 1938 – Diana E. H. Russell, South African feminist writer and activist

The first reference to card games in world history dates from the 9th century, when the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang, written by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the " leaf game " in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the princess ' husband.

However, according to writer Fred Durso, Jr., of E Magazine, " after years of asking ranchers this question, we have found not one example.

In 1967 Benaud married Daphne Surfleet, who had worked for the English cricket writer E. W.

The group included the musician, poet, and artist E. L. T. Mesens, painter and writer René Magritte, Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte, and André Souris.

The idea for the police-box disguise came from BBC staff writer Anthony Coburn, who rewrote the program's first episode from a draft by C. E. Webber.

Science fiction writer Jack Jardine ( writing as Larry Maddock ) originally came up with an idea for a " Man From U. N. C. L. E.

** George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer

* April 26 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer ( d. 2000 )

** David E. Kelley, American writer and television producer

** T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic ( d. 1935 )

* June 14 – E. L. Grant Watson, writer, anthropologist, and biologist ( d. 1970 )

* January 1 – E. M. Forster, English writer ( d. 1970 )

Many well-known people since their deaths have been discovered to enjoy spankings for erotic purposes or emotional gratification including renowned British Army officer T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), influential English theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, TV broadcaster Frank Bough, and English writer John Mortimer.

With writer A. E. Hotchner, Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products, in 1982.

* Henry Thornton ( 1760 – 1815 ), economist, banker, philanthropist, MP for Southwark, great-grandfather of writer E. M. Forster

L. Ron Hubbard is widely believed to have used the theory in his creation of Dianetics and later to have incorporated it into Scientology, and acknowledges this in several texts ; the first of these two movements in turn introduced general semantics to a wider audience in the early 1950s, including popular science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt, personal growth theorist Harvey Jackins and his movement Re-evaluation Counseling and movements like Gestalt therapy.

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.

As a writer on the theater, I have paid close attention to the plays.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

The writer took a class of college students to the state hospital for the mentally ill in St. Joseph, Missouri.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

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.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

Entrance into such stellar song writing company encouraged the burgeoning song writer to take a wife, Elizabeth Meehan, a dancer in the Gaieties.

he often uses very odd rhythms, which makes it difficult, and challenging, for the lyric writer ''.

It so happened that sports writer Arthur Robinson got out of the hospital that morning after promising his doctor that he be back in an hour or two to continue his convalescence.

He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

We therefore leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied reputation which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him to from the low and vulgar herd to which he belongs ''.

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

Near Southampton, in a considerable establishment, lived Homer Vachell, a well-known pulp writer, and his brother, Horace -- both friends of Lewis's.

like Malraux he was also serving in the tank corps before being captured, and we learn as well that in civilian life he had been a writer.

the combination of the Jewish intellectual tradition and the sensibility needed to be a writer created in my circle the most potent and incredible intellectual-literary ambition I have ever seen or could ever have imagined.

An out-of-town writer came up to Paul Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball club would be improved this year.

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

I disagree with the writer who says funeral services should be government-controlled.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Duclos understood what was bothering Rousseau: that the writer of the Prosopopoeia of Fabricius should now become known as the writer of an amusing little operetta.