The author of "-And He Built a Crooker House-" is known by what nickname?
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&quot;—And He Built a Crooked House—&quot; <nowiki>'</nowiki>—And He Built a Crooked House—<nowiki>'</nowiki> is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein first published in "Astounding Science Fiction" in February 1941. It was reprinted in the anthology "Fantasia Mathematica" (Clifton Fadiman, ed.) in 1958 and in the Heinlein collection "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" in 1959. The story is about a mathematically inclined architect named Quintus Teal who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract. The title is paraphrased from the nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man".
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Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", his sometimes controversial works continue to have an influential effect on the genre, and on modern culture more generally.
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Tad Lincoln Thomas "Tad" Lincoln III (April 4, 1853 – July 15, 1871) was the fourth and youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. The nickname "Tad" was given to him by his father, who found him "as wiggly as a tadpole" when he was a baby. Lincoln was known to be impulsive and unrestrained, and he did not attend school during his father's lifetime. He had free run of the White House, and there are stories of him interrupting presidential meetings, collecting animals, and charging visitors to see his father. He died at the age of 18 on July 15, 1871, in Chicago.
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Julia Schayer Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer (January 7, 1842 - March 29, 1928) was an American writer, best known for her short stories published in the 1870s-1890s.
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Franklin Pierce Adams Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's "Information Please". A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1766), his pastoral poem "The Deserted Village" (1770), and his plays "The Good-Natur'd Man" (1768) and "She Stoops to Conquer" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes" (1765).
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William J. Carpenter William J. Carpenter (April 17, 1827 - February 21, 1921) was a legendary West Virginia outdoorsman. He was said to have had "no equal" in skills at hunting and fishing, and to be the best long rifle marksman in his community in his younger years—his skill in hitting difficult targets in squirrel hunting earned him the nickname "Squirrely Bill."
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Ernest Matthew Mickler Ernest Matthew Mickler (Pronounced MYkler) (August 23, 1940 – November 15, 1988) was the author of "White Trash Cooking", a cookbook with recipes from the American Southeast.
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William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as "ploomer") (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor.
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Lone Wolf (character) The Lone Wolf is the nickname of the fictional character Michael Lanyard, a jewel thief turned private detective in a series of novels written by Louis Joseph Vance (1879–1933). A large number of movies based on and inspired by the books have been made. The character also appeared briefly on radio and television.
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Don Lancaster Donald E. Lancaster is an American author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer.
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Chester K. Steele Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books.
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Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( ; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon"), Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man"), and the Continental Op ("Red Harvest" and "The Dain Curse").
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H. Maria George Colby H. Maria George Colby (née Hannah Maria George; October 1, 1844 - March 29, 1910) was an American author, fashion editor, and social leader from New Hampshire. Her articles appeared in various publications, including the "Housewife," the "Housekeeper, the "House-keeper's Weekly," the "Christian at Work," "Demorest's Monthly Magazine," "Arthur's Home Magazine," "Youth's Companion," the "Congregationalist," the Portland "Transcript," "Ladles' World," "Good Cheer," the Philadelphia "Press", the Chicago "Ledger," the "Golden Rule, "the "Household," "Good Housekeeping" and "St. Nicholas." She served as fashion editor of the "Household." Though she used various pen names, she was best known by her maiden name. H. Maria George.
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Richard Hull (author) Richard Henry Sampson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (16 October 1897 – 1973), known by the pseudonym Richard Hull, was a British writer who became successful as a crime novelist with his first book in 1934.
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Michael Kenyon Michael F. Kenyon (26 June 1931 – 29 May 2005) was a British author of crime novels. Author of more than 20 humorous mystery novels, he was one of the first in the field of spoof-espionage story telling, but perhaps better known for the Superintendent O'Malley, and latterly Inspector Henry Peckover series of books. Peckover was especially successful, fondly known as "The Bard Of The Yard". He was also a regular contributor to Gourmet Magazine, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
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Henry Francis Keenan Henry Francis Keenan (May 4, 1850(?) - March 7, 1928) was an American author, best known for his anonymously-published "The Money-Makers" (1885), a response to John Hay's "The Bread-Winners" (1883).
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J. Gordon Coogler J. Gordon Coogler (December 3, 1865 – September 9, 1901), or John Brown Gordon Coogler, was a self-taught American poet who achieved notoriety during his lifetime as a prolific producer of bad verse. Essayist H.L. Mencken is credited with assuring Coogler's lasting fame as a poetaster by mocking him as an example of the supposedly poor state of arts and letters in the American South. Other, more sympathetic readers have found some of Coogler's simple rhymes endearing.
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Selwyn Egerton Sangster Selwyn Egerton Sangster, known as Canuck, was a Canadian outdoorsman and writer. He lived 1883 to 1966. He was a member of the Canadian North West Mounted Police, and for years attached to the Canadian Indian Service. He founded a hunting and fishing outfitting organisation in the Height of Land region of North Canada.
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John Elwes (politician) John Elwes [né Meggot or Meggott] (a.k.a. "Elwes the Miser"), MP (7 April 1714 – 26 November 1789) was a Member of Parliament (MP) in Great Britain for Berkshire (1772–1784) and a noted eccentric and miser, suggested to be an inspiration for the character of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Dickens made reference to Elwes some years later in his last novel, "Our Mutual Friend". Elwes was also believed to inspire William Harrison Ainsworth to create the character of John Scarfe in his novel "The Miser's Daughter".
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Earl Shaffer Earl V. Shaffer (November 8, 1918 – May 5, 2002), was an American outdoorsman and author known from 1948 as The Crazy One (and eventually as The Original Crazy One) for attempting what became the first documented hiking trip in a single season over the entire length of the Appalachian Trail (AT). He also worked as a carpenter, a soldier specializing in radar and radio installation, and an antique dealer.
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William Dean Howells William Dean Howells ( ; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of "The Atlantic Monthly", as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novels "The Rise of Silas Lapham" and "A Traveler from Altruria".