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Gladys Taber

Gladys Bagg Taber(18991980), author of 59 books, including the Stillmeadow books, and columnistfor Ladies' Home JournalandFamily Circle, was born in Colorado Sringson !ril 1", 1899,#1$and sent mostof her earl% %ears mo&ing because of her father's work as a mining engineer She li&ed in ew *e+ico,California, llinois and -isconsin, and sent time on her grandfather's farm in *assachusetts .ater, sherecei&ed a bachelor's degree from -ellesle%in 19"0, and an *! from.awrence Collegein 19"1 Shemarried /rank aber, and the% had a daughter, Constance, which interruted her academic career then formore than "0 %ears, she li&ed in Stillmeadow, her &intage 1290 Southbur%, Connecticut, farmhouse, ha&ing

commuted to ew 3ork art of the time to teachcreati&e writingatColumbia 4ni&ersit%from 19"1 to 19"2 hehouse was ointl% owned b% the abers and their friends 6leanor and *a+ *a%er She died on *arch 11, 1980#1$7er column iar% of omesticit% began in the Ladies' Home Journalin o&ember 19:; erem% Swam ?oad in Southbur%, starting in 19::(summers onl%) and 19:5 (full@time)
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-Americanessayist,scholar, statistician, and risk analyst,whose work focuses on

problems ofrandomness,probability, and uncertainty. His 200 bookThe Black Swanwas described in a re!iew by

the Sunday Timesas one of the twel!e most influential books since "orld "ar ##.

Taleb is a bestsellin$ author,%&'%('%)'has been a professor at se!eral uni!ersities, ser!in$ as *istin$uished +rofessor of isk

n$ineerin$ at theNew ork /ni!ersity +olytechnic chool of n$ineerin$since eptember 2001, and as co-ditor in

hief of the academic 3ournal,Risk and Decision Analysissince eptember 204(. He has also been a practitioner

of mathematical finance,ahed$e fundmana$er, a deri!ati!estrader, and is currently a scientific ad!iser at/ni!ersa

#n!estments.

He critici5ed the risk mana$ement methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subse6uently

profitin$ from thelate-2000s financial crisis.%7'%'He ad!ocates what he calls a 8black swan robust8 society, meanin$ a

society that can withstand difficult-to-predict e!ents.%1'He proposes antifra$ilityin systems, that is, an ability to benefit

and $row from a certain class of random e!ents, errors, and !olatility %9'%40'as well as 8con!e: tinkerin$8 as a method of

scientific disco!ery, by which he means that decentrali5ed e:perimentation outperforms directed research.
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Amy Tan

Amy Tan(born /ebruar% 19, 195") is an !merican writer whose works e+lore mother@daughter relationshis andtheChinese@!mericane+erience 7er best@known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translatedinto :5 languages n 199:, the book was adated into a commerciall% successful film

an has written se&eral other bestselling no&els, including The Kitchen God's Wife, TheHundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's au!hter , Sa"in! Fish from

ro#nin!and The $alley of %ma&ementShe also wrote a collection of non@fictionessa%s entitled The ((osite of Fate) % Book of *usin!s+n addition to these, an haswritten two children's booksA The *oon Lady (199") and Sa!#a, the ChineseSiamese Cat(199B), which was turned into an animated series which aired on ones,eborah 6llis,

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translated into se&eral languagesA =erman, anish, Sanish, /rench, >aanese, ortuguese and hai #8$!dditionall%,

she has translated man%children's icture booksand no&els from =erman and /rench into 6nglish#"$#8$

anaka teaches in the */! in -riting for Children and 3oung !dults rogram atFermont College of /ine !rts#:$

James Grover Thurber(ecember 8, 189B o&ember ", 1921) was an

!mericancartoonist, author,ournalist,la%wright, and celebrated wit

hurber was best known for his cartoonsandshort stories, ublished

mainl% inThe .e# /orkermagaGine and collected in his numerous books

Ene of the most oular humoristsof his time, hurber celebrated the

comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinar% eole n collaboration

with his college friend,6lliott ugent, he wrote the


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ul% 1", "010 in -innieg, Canada#"$

Pamela yndon Travers,

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igel ranter was born in =lasgowand educated at =eorge 7eriot's Schoolin

6dinburgh 7e trained as an accountant and worked in Scottish ational

nsurance Coman%, founded b% his uncle n 19::, he married *a% >ean

Cambell =rie&e and had two children, /rances *a% and hili 7e oined

the?o%al !rtiller%and ser&ed in6ast !ngliain theSecond -orld -ar

/rom childhood onwards, ranter took a great interest incastlesand their

associated histor% !s a result, in 19:5, at age "5, he ublished his first book, TheFortalices and 1arly *ansions of Southern Scotland 6ncouraged b% his wife, he

wrote his first no&el, -n ur %rms ur Fortune, which was reected b% the

ublishers 7owe&er,Tres(asssoon followed and was acceted b%he *ora%

ress 4nfortunatel%, the% went bankrut soon after its ublication in 19:;, and he

didn't recei&e an% a%ment E&er the ne+t few %ears, he wrote se&eral more no&els in

the same &einA light@hearted romantic ad&entures about imaginar% characters hese had &aried settings, from

modern@da% 6uroe tohistorical Scotland ranter also wrote se&eral westernsunder the seudon%m $ye

Tredgoldto ro&ide additional income for his famil%, and a doGen children's books @ad&enture stories aimed at 8

10@%ear olds-ar ser&ice did not sto ranter writing, and a number of no&els were ublished during the war %ears, some

insired b% his own e+eriences#1$


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he was born Ethel Mary Bur%ellin oncasterin 6ngland7er father died when she

was two, lea&ing her mother Sarah >ane ane married 7enr% urner, who was "0 %ears

older and had si+ children of his own Sarah >ane and 7enr% had a daughter,

?ose 7enr% urner died suddenl%, lea&ing Sarah >ane with nine children and

little income n 18;9 Sarah >ane mo&ed to !ustralia with 6thel, .illian, and

?ose within the ne+t two %ears she married Charles Coe and ga&e

birth to his son ?e+

6thel urner was educated ataddingtonublic School andS%dne% =irls

7igh School#1$Oshe was one of the school's original thirt%@se&en uils

n 1892 6thel married7erbert Curlewis, a law%er#B$!fter li&ing in

*osman, the% built their own house o&erlooking *iddle 7arbour he house,

!&enel, is where 6thel urner sent the rest of her %ears She sur&i&ed her

daughter>ean Curlewis, who died of tuberculosis, b% "8 %ears >ean was also a

writer of children's books, although not as oular as her

mother >ean's works include he Shi hat e&er Set Sail, rowning *aGe,and


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&van Sergeyevi'h Turgenev

(Jt r nLf, @ e n@J #1$?ussianA PQR T UVWXV VQYZ [\WXV TVQ !A # &an s r e & t t r en f$ o&ember 9 #ESEctober "8$ 1818 Setember :,

188:) was a?ussianno&elist, short stor%writer, and la%wright 7is firstmaor ublication, a short stor% collection entitled% S(ortsman'sSketches(185"), was a milestone of?ussian ?ealism,and his no&elFathersand Sons(182") is regarded as one of the maor works of 19th@centur%

fiction

Marie-Elena John>ohn was born and raised in!ntiguaand is a former de&eloment secialist of the!frican e&eloment

/oundation, the -orld Council of Churches]rogram to Combat ?acism, and =lobal ?ights(formerl% the

nternational 7uman ?ights .aw =rou), where she worked in suort of the ro@democrac% mo&ement

in igeriaand in theemocratic ?eublic of Congo#1$She is known eseciall% for her work in the4nited

ationsand at local and national le&els to raise awareness about the denial of inheritance rights to women #"$#:$
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*arie@6lena >ohn made histor% in 1982 as the first


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>offo was born in arisin the 18th arrondissement 7eleft school at 1B with a certificat d'Htudes (a formerschool lea&ing certificate, taken at the end of rimar%education) in his ocket and oined his brothers in thefamil%'s barber sho

>offo has also written the book%nna et sonorchestre(%nna and Her rchestra), which tells thestor% of >oseh's mother, from the time she is 11 %earsold to the time she meets >oseh >offo's father inaris

7is no&el Baby5foot, ublished in 19;;, follows onfrom 3n sac de billesand describes his life in arisfollowing -- and his disco&er% of !merican &alues

La $ieille dame de 6erba, ublished in 198B, waswritten after >offo met a woman called .iGa at as%nagogue in erba, an island off the coast ofunisia7e was amaGed to disco&er, after assuming she was abeggar and offering her mone%, that she knew thename of his mother and grandmother

Joan Johnston is a best@selling!merican author of o&er fort% contemorar%

and historicalromance no&els

>ohnston was the third of se&en children born to an !ir /orce sergeant

and his music@teacher wife She recei&ed a ackson&ille 4ni&ersit%in 19;0, then earning an*!in theatre

from the 4ni&ersit% of llinois, 4rbanain 19;1 She recei&ed a law

degree (with honors) at the 4ni&ersit% of e+as at !ustinin 1980 /orthe ne+t fi&e %ears, >ohnston worked as an attorne%, ser&ing with the

7unton ^ -illiams firm in ?ichmond, Firginia, and with SMuire,

Sanders, ^ emse% in *iami She has also worked as a newsaer

editor and drama critic in San !ntonio,e+as, and as a college

rofessor at Southwest e+as >unior College, ohnston is a member of the !uthors =uild, o&elists, nc, ?omance

-riters of !merica, and /lorida ?omance -riters She has two

children and one grandchild, and di&ides her time between two

homes, in Colorado and /lorida

Linda O. Johnstoninda )# Johnstonis an!mericanauthorof m%ster%and romanceno&els
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>ohnston]s first ublished fiction aeared in1llery 2ueen's *ystery

*a!a&ineand won the ?obert . /ish *emorial !ward for

ohnston is a racticingattorne%who slits her time between legal

work and writing fiction She was born inittsburgh,enns%l&aniaand graduated fromenns%l&ania State 4ni&ersit%in

19;0 with an undergraduate degree inournalismwith

an ad&ertisingemhasis ohnston has taught a course on romance writing at

the California State 4ni&ersit%, orthridgeCollege of 6+tended

.earning and has been chosen to teach at he .earning !nne+

in .os !ngeles, CaliforniaShe has soken on romance writing at&arious chaters and conferences of the ?omance -riters of

!merica, the ndeendent -riters of Southern California,

and the Surre% -riters] Conference She has additionall%

resented a &ariet% of rograms at librariesand

bookstores

>ohnston is a member of the .os !ngeles chaters of*%ster%

-riters of !mericaand Sisters in Crimeand is acti&el% in&ol&ed with ?omance -riters of !merica, articiating in

the .os !ngeles, Erange Count%, and Iiss of eath (romantic susense) chaters

>ohnston li&es near4ni&ersal Studiosin 7oll%wood, Californiaalong with her husband and two Ca&alier Iing

Charles Sanieldogs She has two adult sons

Catherine Jones (novelist)
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*atherine Jones, nHe a'e(born "5 Ectober 1952) is aones

Since "00;, she also signed under her maiden name Iate .ace

Ben

JonsonBen,amin Jonson(c 11 >une 15;" 2 !ugust

12:;) was an 6nglish la%wright, oet, actor, and

literar% critic of the se&enteenth centur%, whoseartistr% e+erted a lasting imact uon 6nglish

oetr% and stage comed% 7e oularised

thecomed% of humours 7e is best known for

thesatiricalla%s1"ery *an in His

Humour(1598),$ol(one, or The

Fo7e(1205), The %lchemist(1210),

andBartholome# Fayre) %

Comedy(121B), and for his l%ric oetr% he is

generall% regarded as the second most imortant

6nglish dramatist, after -illiam

Shakeseare, during the reign of >ames #1$

>onson was a classicall% educated, well@ read, and

cultured man of the 6nglish

?enaissancewith an aetite for contro&ers% (ersonal and olitical, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural

influence was of unaralleled breadth uon the la%wrights and the oets of the>acobean era(120:12"5) and of

theCaroline era(12"512B")#"$#:$
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James JoyeJames Augustine#1$Aloysius Joy'e(" /ebruar% 188" 1: >anuar% 19B1) was an rishno&elist

and oet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in themodernista&ant@gardeof

the earl% "0th centur%

>o%ce is best known for 3lysses(19""), a landmark work in

which the eisodes of 7omer's dysseyare aralleled in an arra%

of contrasting literar% st%les, erhas most rominent among

these the stream of consciousnesstechniMue he utiliGed

Ether well@ known works are the short@stor%

collection ubliner s(191B), and the no&els% 0ortrait of the %rtist as a /oun!

*an(1912) andFinne!ans Wake(19:9) 7is other writings include

three books of oetr%, a la%, occasional ournalism, and his ublished

letters

>o%ce was born in B1


15/17

James )liver -igney. Jr, (Ectober 1;, 19B8

Setember 12, "00;) better known under the en

name-obert Jordan,#1$was an!mericanauthor of eic

fantas% 7e is best known for The Wheel of Time, which

consists of 1B books and a reMuelno&el ?igne% also

wrote historical fictionunder hisseudon%m?eagan

E'eal, awesternas >ackson E'?eill%, and dance

criticismas Chang .ung 7e ghostwrotean internationa

thriller that is still belie&ed to ha&e been written b%

someone else#"$#:$#B$#5$#2$

>ordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina 7e

ser&ed two tours in Fietnam(from 1928 to 19;0) with

the4nited States !rm%as a helicoter gunner 7e was

awarded the istinguished /l%ing Crosswithoak leaf

cluster, the


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!enry James, E*(15 !ril 18B: "8

/ebruar% 1912) was an !merican writer who

sent most of his writing career in ames, Srand the brother of

hilosoher and s%chologist-illiam

>amesand diarist!lice >ames

7e is best known for a number of no&els

showing !mericans encountering 6uroe and

6uroeans 7is method of writing from a

character's oint of &iew allowed him to e+lore

issues related

to consciousnessand ercetion, and his st%le

in later works has been comared

to imressionist ainting 7is imaginati&e useof oint of &iew, interior

monologueandunreliable narratorsbrought a

new deth to narrati&efiction

>ames contributed significantl% toliterar%

criticism, articularl% in his insistence that

writers be allowed the greatest ossible

freedom in resenting their &iew of the world

>ames claimed that a te+t must first and

foremost be realistic and contain areresentation of life that is recognisable to its readers =ood no&els, to >ames, show life in action and are, most

imortantl%, interesting

n addition to his &oluminous works of fiction he ublished articles and books oftra&el,biograh%, autobiograh%,

andcriticism,and wrote la%s >ames alternated between !merica and 6uroe for the first twent% %ears of his life

e&entuall% he settled in 6ngland, becoming aames was

nominated for the obel riGe in .iteraturein 1911, 191", and 1912 #1$

Birbal Jha
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Birbal Jha(born "" Ectober 19;"), is

an ndianauthor and entrereneur n 199: he

founded ha is currentl% the editor

of Lin!ua Bulletin,#"$an 6nglish monthl% magaGine

ublished from elhi 7e has also written a la%

>ha was born on "" Ectober 19;" in the &illage ofSiaul in *adhubani, ndia, where he recei&ed his

basic education and schooling#:$7e went on to

attend atna 4ni&ersit%, where he recei&ed a double

masters and a h#B$

n 199: >ha established ha feels that thisimro&es their abilit% to find work #2$
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