Were Gerald Durrell and Ellen Glasgow both writers?
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Gerald Durrell Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter. He founded what are now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Durrell Wildlife Park on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote a number of books based on his life as an animal collector and enthusiast. He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell.
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Ellen Glasgow Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South.
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Douglas Botting Douglas Scott Botting (born 22 February 1934) is an English explorer, author, biographer and TV presenter and producer. He wrote biographies of naturalists Gavin Maxwell and Gerald Durrell (the former also being a personal friend). He was the inspiration behind and writer of the 1972 BBC comedy show "The Black Safari", a role-reversal comedy show with Africans touring England. He has also featured in numerous other BBC programming, including "Under London Expedition" exploring the London sewerage system, as part of the BBC2 nature series "The World About Us". He has written numerous World War II and early aviation books for Time Life Books. Botting took part in the first balloon flight over Africa, with Anthony Smith.
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John Dury John Dury (1596 in Edinburgh – 1680 in Kassel) was a Scottish Calvinist minister and a significant intellectual of the English Civil War period. He made efforts to re-unite the Calvinist and Lutheran wings of Protestantism, hoping to succeed when he moved to Kassel in 1661, but he did not accomplish this. He was a prolific preacher, pamphleteer and writer.
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Ann Dummett Ann, Lady Dummett (born Agnes Margaret Ann Chesney; 4 September 1930 – 7 February 2012) was an English activist, campaigner for racial justice and published author.
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Jacquie Durrell Jacqueline ("Jacquie") Sonia Durrell ("née" Wolfenden) (b. 1929, Manchester, United Kingdom) was the first wife of Gerald Durrell. She assisted him on several of his animal collecting expeditions, and with the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park) that he founded.
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Geraldine Harris Geraldine Harris (born 1951), aka Geraldine Harris Pinch, is an author (of both fiction and non-fiction) and Egyptologist. She is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
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Gerald Cross Gerald Cross (20 February 1912 – 26 February 1981) was an English actor. Among his credits are "Doctor Who", Francis Durbridge's "The World of Tim Frazer" and the "Miss Marple" films "Murder, She Said" (1961) and "Murder Ahoy!" (1964).
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The Stationary Ark (TV series) The Stationary Ark was a documentary television miniseries hosted by zoologist Gerald Durrell on location at his Jersey Zoological Park. It was based on his 1976 book of the same name. The series was produced by Canadian company Nielsen-Ferns and aired from September to December 1975 on CBC Television and TVOntario. "Ark on the Move", a follow-up TV series, was also hosted by Gerald Durrell.
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Sunset Song Sunset Song is a 1932 novel by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. It is the first part of a trilogy "A Scots Quair".
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Mary Durack Dame Mary Durack AC, DBE (20 February 1913 – 16 December 1994) was an Australian author and historian. She wrote "Kings in Grass Castles" and "Keep Him My Country".
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George Long Duyckinck George Long Duyckinck (October 17, 1828 – March 30, 1863) was a New York City writer.
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Colin Duriez Colin Duriez (born 19 July 1947) is a writer on fantasy and related matters.
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Gerald Duckworth Gerald de l'Etang Duckworth (1870 – 28 September 1937) was a British publisher.
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Ellen Clementine Howarth Ellen Clementine Howarth (born Ellen Clementine Doran in Cooperstown, New York, May 17, 1827, died Trenton, New Jersey, December 23, 1899), was an American poet.
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Yvonne (musical) Yvonne is a musical comedy first performed in 1926. It was written by Percy Greenbank, Jean Gilbert and Vernon Duke (at that time still using his birth name of Dukelsky).
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Agnes Mure Mackenzie Agnes Mure Mackenzie (9 April 1891 – 26 February 1955) was a Scottish historian and writer. Her middle name is frequently misspelled Muir.
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The Garden of the Gods The Garden of the Gods (American title: "Fauna and Family") (1978) by British author Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) is the third book in his autobiographical "Corfu trilogy." by naturalist and author, published in 1978, following "My Family and Other Animals" and "Birds, Beasts, and Relatives".
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Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie I Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie I (died 1644) was a Scottish judge and legal writer.
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Janet Paisley Janet Paisley (born 1948) is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright from Scotland writing in Scots and English. Her work has been translated into German, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Italian.
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Eleanor Clark Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
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Evelyn Everett-Green Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London – 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction.