Escritas - Authors List

Alfred Mercier

91

Charles Simic

54

Louis Ferdinand Celine

1894 - 1961

180

Alfred L. Kroeber

57

Alfred Korzybski

United States semanticist (born in Poland) (1879-1950)

207

Cory Doctorow

American science fiction writer

256

Sir William Draper

Sir William Draper (1721- Bath, January 8, 1787), was a British military officer who conquered Manila in 1762, but lost Minorca in 1782. He was involved in 1774 with a key meeting that agreed an early set of cricket rules including the leg before wicket rule

343

Alfred Kinsey

32

Alfred Jules Ayer

1910 - 1989

62

Charles Scribner Jr

56

Alfred Jarry

1873 - 1907

Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 - 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side

233

Louis de Saint-Just

99

Alfred Hitchcock

English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)

1,047

Corrine Dewlow

53

Alfred Gingold

Alfred Gingold is an American freelance writer and is the author of several humorous books

97

Sir William Bragg

Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE (2 July 1862 - 10 March 1942) was a British physicist and chemist who uniquely shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, in 1915

150

Charles Schwab

Charles Robert Schwab, Jr. (born July 29, 1937) is the founder and former CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation

191

Alfred Edward Perlman

Alfred Edward Perlman was born November 22, 1902, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is remembered as one of Trains magazine's ten most prominent railroad presidents of the Twentieth century.

56

Louis D. Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (13 November 1856 - 5 October 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon. In addition, he helped lead the American Zionist movement

867

Alfred E. Wiggam

217

Alfred E. Newman

Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed and named by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman

221

Corrie ten Boom

Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II and was imprisoned for it.

99

Sir William Arthur

38

Alfred du Masset

60