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Richardson was first married to Elizabeth Hall; they had two daughters. [1]He married Annie Dillard in 1988, after she wrote him a fan letter about Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.
Robert D. Cocke (born 1950) is an American painter based in Arizona, known for enigmatic invented landscapes and still lifes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He emerged in the 1980s, producing expressionistic figurative paintings with a socio-critical dimension that drew on Chicago Imagism , Funk art and surrealism .
Robert D. San Souci was born in San Francisco and raised nearby in Berkeley. [6] In elementary school, San Souci wrote for the school newspaper; in high school, he worked on the school yearbook and had an essay printed in a book titled T.V. as Art. As a student at St. Mary's College, he took a variety of classes in creative writing, English and ...
Robert Durene Jacobs Jr. (died October 28, 1998) was an American academic who specialised in the literature of the Southern United States. Originally from Mississippi, Jacobs served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II , before returning to the United States and becoming a university lecturer.
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
A Dictionary of Similes is a dictionary of similes written by the American writer and newspaperman Frank J. Wilstach. In 1916, Little, Brown and Company in Boston published Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes, a compilation he had been working on for more than 20 years. It included more than 15,000 examples from more than 800 authors, indexing ...
Robert d'Harcourt (23 November 1881 – 18 June 1965) was a French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist. Early years [ edit ]
Robert Roberts. Robert Roberts (April 8, 1839 – September 23, 1898) is the man generally considered to have continued the work of organising and establishing the Christadelphian movement founded by Dr. John Thomas. He was a prolific author and the editor of The Christadelphian magazine from 1864 to 1898.