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Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, romanized: Aleksándr Ivánovich Gértsen; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist ...
Noted for listing a variety of international works, 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up features stories originally written in a multitude of languages, which includes Japanese, Slovak, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Russian and Dutch. [3]
Mary Shelley (1797–1851): English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818). [ 62 ] Edward Snowden (born 1983): American computer specialist, privacy activist and former CIA employee and NSA contractor; disclosed classified details of several top ...
This is a select bibliography of post-World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Russia and its empire from 1613 until 1917.
From 1917 to 2022, this prize was known as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was awarded to a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir [2] by an American author or co-authors, published during the preceding calendar year. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven ...
Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology, Harvard University; John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy, University of St Andrews and Stanton Lecturer in Divinity, Cambridge University; Hilary Rose, sociologist and Visiting Professor of Social Policy, Bradford University
January 21 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (born 1812) February 25 – Henrik Hertz, Danish poet (born 1797) April 16 – Rallou Karatza, Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (born 1799) April 24 – Louisa Stuart Costello, Irish writer on history and travel (born 1799) June 9 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (born 1812 ...
Charles W. Dryden: A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman: 1997 James V. Hartinger: From One Stripe to Four Stars: 1997 Frank E. Petersen: Into the Tiger's Jaw: America's First Black Marine Aviator: 1998 Paul Tibbets: Return of The Enola Gay: 1998 Jeffrey Quill: Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story: 1998 Michael J. Novosel: Dustoff: The Memoir of an ...