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Clark was born in London as William Ronald Clark, the only child of bank cashier, later manager, (William) Ernest Clark and Ethel Kate (née Underdown). He was educated King's College School, at Wimbledon in southwest London; he withdrew from school before the age of eighteen "in full rebellion against his parents" and cut off contact with them, taking a publishing job in central London.
A collection of poker stories. Author is believed to be another pseudonym of S. W. Erdnase. [6] The Autobiography of a Flea, erotic novel published in 1901. The Expert at the Card Table by S. W. Erdnase, a book on sleight-of-hand with cards for card advantage play and magic, self-published in 1902 in Chicago.
Renaissance humanist. Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536). Humanist, advocate of free will. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527). Political realism. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). Scientist, whose works affected Philosophy of Science. Sir Thomas More (1478–1535). Humanist, created term "utopia". Martin Luther (1483–1546). Major Western ...
A.C. Grayling: Prominent British philosopher, author of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible [39] David Gross: American particle physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom; one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist ...
Blackham was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, on 31 March 1903, to Harriet Mary (1872–1955) and Walter Roland Blackham (1875–1911).His siblings were the puppeteer Olive Dingle Blackham (1899–2002), Lorna Langstone Blackham (1900–1992), Sylvia Kerslake Blackham (1907–2000), and Joyce Maude Blackham (1909–1993).
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
The following is a list of Renaissance humanists, ... Italian poet, court historian, and author of military works; Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) (French)
No author is named; instead, facing the title page was an engraved portrait done by Samuel Hollyer, [58] but 500 lines into the body of the text he calls himself "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, disorderly, fleshly, and sensual, no sentimentalist, no stander above men or women or apart from them, no more modest than ...