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Norman Lewis (born December 30, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York – died September 8, 2006, in Whittier, California) was an author, grammarian, lexicographer, and etymologist.. Lewis was a leading authority on English-language skills, whose best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary published by Pocket Books in 1971 promised to teach readers "how to make words your slaves" in fifteen ...
John Frederick Norman Lewis (28 June 1908 – 22 July 2003) was a British writer. While he is best known for his travel writing, he also wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography. While he is best known for his travel writing, he also wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography.
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.
Norman Lewis (fencer) (1915–2006), American Olympic fencer; Norman Lewis (footballer) (1908–1972), English footballer; Norman Lewis (boxer) (1923–1981), Welsh boxer on the list of Welsh boxing champions; Norman Lewis (tennis) British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s; Norman Lewis del Alcázar, member of the Peruvian Congress 2011-2016
In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been
The first book written by an Indian in English was The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a travel narrative by Sake Dean Mahomed, published in England in 1794. IEL, in its early stages had influence from The Western novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian.
Norman Herbert Zide (May 30, 1928 – February 21, 2023) was an American linguist and specialist in the Munda languages. [1] He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago . He taught Hindi and Urdu at the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilization at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Chicago for four decades ...
Early development of modern Hindi theatre can be traced to the work of Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885), a theatre actor, director, manager, and playwright based in Varanasi (Banaras), who is also the father of modern Hindi literature as in his short life of 35 years, he edited two magazines, Kavi vachan Sudha and Harishchandra chandrika, wrote numerous volumes of verse in Braj bhasa ...