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that "...he is a terrifically good storyteller. He makes the reader see how events unfold and observe the personalities up close. He is widely read both on...

second Chinese Secretary of the British administration in Hong Kong. He wrote widely read books and served as interpreter for British diplomatic missions during...

critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect...

Ikhide Roland Ikheloa is a Nigerian writer and literary critic who has worked in the American civil service since 1984. He is widely read and known in Anglophone...

century. He was also very influential in the Spanish-speaking world. He is widely read through a series of accessible and occasionally polemical works: A...

This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New...

R.O.D: Read or Die (Japanese: リード・オア・ダイ, Hepburn: Rīdo Oa Dai) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hideyuki Kurata, published under Shueisha's...

Owen Read (14 November 1920 – 13 April 2006) was a British television producer, cinematographer and director. Read was born in Chalfont St Giles. He is widely...

most of the young men who join the Marines as he grew up on a military base in Japan and he was widely read and cultured, having been brought up reading...

his essays engaging with John Stuart Mills, Adam Smith and Malthus. He was widely read and a member of the Sunderland Literary and Philosophical Society...

year after Parker's death in 1967, Cooper published an incisive and widely read profile in Esquire magazine, titled, "Whatever You Think Dorothy Parker...

letter to George William Curtis, then editor of Harper's Weekly, the most widely read journal during the Civil War, which appeared in the January 1864 article...

its teachings he was widely read and his works abound with biblical quotations, especially from the New Testament. As subprior he was charged with instructing...

authors. During its golden age (1920s-1940s), Blake's adventures were widely read and translated into at least twenty different languages, including Swedish...

that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter...

(born December 24, 1950) is an American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the...

"Halloween's music is one of its strongest assets". Carpenter once stated in an interview, "I can play just about any keyboard, but I can't read or write a note...

at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the civil rights movement...

is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in July 1960 and became instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in...

Alfred Read (3 March 1909 – 9 September 1987) was a British radio comedian active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Originally a businessman, he has been...