Author Marc Scott Zicree, who spent years researching for his book, The Twilight Zone Companion, noted: " Sometimes the situations were clichéd, the characters two-dimensional, but always there was at least some search for an emotional truth, some attempt to make a statement on the human condition.

* Perrier, Florent, ed., Palmier, Jean-Michel ( Author ), Marc Jimenez ( Preface ).

* Marc Summers, TV Host, TV Producer, Author, Dare, Food Network, graduated 1973

Marc Ostrofsky (' 79 ) is a New York Times Bestselling Author of " Get Rich Click!

* Marc Garlasco Author of a book on Third Reich militaria.

Author David Morrell had his fictional character " Eliot " recruit two brothers from an orphanage in Johnstown to train as assassins in Brotherhood of the Rose.

**( 1878 ), Philosophical Discussions: With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Holt and Company, New York.

Rufus Griswold wrote a biographical article of Poe called " Memoir of the Author ", which he included in an 1850 volume of the collected works.

Author Matteo Bandello wrote that she was " supreme among women ", and the diplomat Niccolò da Correggio entitled her " The First Lady of the world ".

Author Jim Bishop wrote that Booth " developed into an outrageous scene stealer, but he played his parts with such heightened enthusiasm that the audiences idolized him.

Author Gene Smith wrote that Booth's acting may not have been as precise as his brother Edwin's, but his strikingly handsome appearance enthralled women.

After reading from Purchas's book, " The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he had the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two or three hundred lines ... On Awaking he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved.

Author Tracy Barrett wrote a novel titled Dark of the Moon, published in 2011, which is a re-write of the Theseus Myth.

Author Jack Higgins wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who had accompanied her on the mission in the Limousin, wrote the introduction.

Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.

Author Christopher Hitchens wrote in 12 August 2007 edition of The New York Times that, in the final book, Voldemort " becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain.

* Author Neil Gaiman wrote a short story called " One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock '" about a troubled boy who loves the stories about Elric, and finds escape from the everyday world in them.

* Deaghlan Fionn ( Author, Political activist ) wrote theological books, holds a Doctor of Divinity degree and was ordained in 2006 born 1965 Marian Park Drogheda as Gabriel Declan Finn.

Author John Steinbeck later wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men, about such people.

Author Susan Kandel wrote her debut mystery novel I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason ( 2005 ) about a woman, Cece Caruso, who is writing a biography of Erle Stanley Gardner.

Author Walter Neumark wrote Operating Procedures for Ascending Parachutes, and he and a group of enthusiasts with a passion for tow-launching ‘ PCs ’ and ram-air parachutes eventually broke away from the British Parachute Association to form the British Association of Parascending Clubs ( BAPC ) in 1973.

Author Stuart N. Lake wrote the first biography of Earp, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal published in 1931.

The French Author Honore D ' Urfe wrote a very popular serial novel called L ' Astree ( Astraea ), the first and second parts being published in 1607 and 1610 and each installment very much anticipated by the aristocratic public at the time.

Author Roger Morris, a former colleague of Haig's on the National Security Council early in Nixon's first term, wrote that when Ford pardoned Nixon, he in effect pardoned Haig as well.

Author Philip Wylie wrote a series of short stories, Crunch and Des, beginning in the 1940s, which featured a similarly named Captain Crunch Adams.

* In 2009, British Author Adrian Mitchell wrote a collection entitled " Shapeshifters: Tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses ", intended for Young Adult readers.

Author Naomi Klein wrote in her book The Shock Doctrine about a recurrent metaphor of shock, and claimed in an interview that the Bush administration has continued to exploit a " window of opportunity that opens up in a state of shock ", followed by a comforting rationale for the public, as a form of social control.

* Author DBC Pierre wrote his first novel while living in Balham

Author Jack London wrote Call of the Wild while living on Blair Avenue in a house that is still there today, but as this predated the incorporation, technically he was never a citizen of Piedmont, and John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara grew up in Piedmont, where his family lived on Annerley Road.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire.

Yet from the still surviving recollections in his mind, the Author has frequently purposed to finish for himself what had been originally, as it were, given to him.

Author Peter Lehman would later observe that his absence was a part of the mystery of his persona: " Since it was never clear where he had come from, no one seemed to pay much mind to where he had gone ; he was just gone.

Author Peter Lehman suggests that had he died in the 1970s when his career was in the doldrums, it might have earned a minor mention in the obituary section of the newspaper.

Mindful of his reputation as a poet, Scott maintained the anonymity he had begun with Waverley, publishing the novels under the name " Author of Waverley " or as " Tales of ..." with no author.

Author Edmund White, who had been passing by, recalled, " Everyone's restless, angry, and high-spirited.

Author Judith Levine has argued that there might be a natural tendency of abstinence educators to escalate their messages: " Like advertising, which must continually jack up its seduction just to stay visible as other advertising proliferates, abstinence education had to make sex scarier and scarier and, at the same time, chastity sweeter.

Author Douglas Rathgeb describes the difficulties Kazan had in turning Dean into a new star, noting how Dean was a controversial figure at Warner Bros. from the time he arrived.

Author and big game hunter Kenneth Anderson had first-hand experience with many man-eating leopards, and described them as far more threatening than tigers:

The more common attempts to bracket out Foucault's writings on Iran as " miscalculations ," reminds some authors of what Foucault himself had criticized in his well known 1969 essay, " What is an Author?

Author Christopher Finch reported that Stone, who had worked with Henson previously, felt that if they could not bring him on board, they should " make do without puppets ".

Author David Mitchell described himself as being " magnetised " by the book from its start when he read it as an undergraduate, but on rereading it, felt it had aged and that he didn't find it " breathtakingly inventive " as he had the first time, yet does stress that " however breathtakingly inventive a book is, it is only breathtakingly inventive once "-with once being better than never.

It was blasphemous, he argued, to suppose that the Author of nature would break through a reign of law He had Himself established.

Author Douglas Adams, while travelling with British comedy producer John Lloyd, suggested they play a game he had learned at school in which players were challenged to make up plausible word definitions for place names taken from road maps.

* Author Simon Carmiggelt had a home in De Steeg

Author James Patterson had his fictional serial kidnapper, Gary Soneji, from Along Came A Spider stopping at a convenience store on his way through Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

* Author Lucy Maud Montgomery, touches upon how pyjamas were viewed by the Canadian provincial culture in her 1931 novel, A Tangled Web: " The night before, as he was sitting on his bed, studying if there were any way to wheedle the secret out of Dandy Dark, he had absently put both feet into one pyjama leg.

Author David Bennett observes that Montgomery had almost certainly been fed grossly misinformed information that supported his own prejudices.