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George Long (4 November 1800 – 10 August 1879) was an English writer and classical scholar. [1] He is best known for his books Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1862) and Discourses of Epictetus (1877).
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is an international trade association of non-profit publishers [1] created in 1972. [2] It is the largest association of scholarly and professional publishers in the world, [ 1 ] with over 300 members in 30 countries.
The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries [1] and 20 million words, [2] first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Frank Longo is an American puzzle creator and author of more than 90 books, [1] which have sold more than 2 million copies. [2]Longo is known for creating unusual crosswords, such as one on a 50x50 grid, [3] [4] the Jumbo Puzzles compilation of 29x29 puzzles [5] and is the creator and author of The New York Times Spelling Bee anagram puzzle.
Kocharethi, Narayan's debut novel, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998. [4] Its English translation as Kocharethi: The Araya Woman by Catherine Thankamma was published by the Oxford University Press in 2011 and won the Economist-Crossword Book Award in the Indian language translation category for 2011.
When The Times began to lose circulation to The Daily Telegraph because the latter was running a daily crossword, Bell's father suggested him to the editor as the first "setter" even though he had never even solved one. Bell had just 10 days' notice before his first puzzle was published, in the weekly edition on 2 January 1930.
Volume 1 of Parker's two-volume biography, Herman Melville: A Biography, Vol. 1,1819-1851, Vol.2, 1851-1891, was one of two finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Both volumes in turn won the highest award from the Association of American Publishers, the first volume in the category of “Literature and Language” (1997) and the ...