Who was born first, American novelist Tom Robbins or marine biologist Rachel Carson?
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Tom Robbins Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"), often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. His novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.
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Rachel Carson Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book "Silent Spring" and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
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Tom Fenchel Tom Michael Fenchel (born 19 March 1940 in Copenhagen) is a Danish marine ecologist and professor first at the University of Aarhus, later at the University of Copenhagen. He is a highly cited scientist and known for, among other things, Fenchel's Law.
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Alan Haig-Brown Alan Roderick Haig-Brown (born 1941) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He specializes in commercial marine and commercial fishing writing and photography.He is a regular contributor to a number of marine publications including Professional Mariner magazine where many of his articles are archived.
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Hampton L. Carson (biologist) Hampton Lawrence Carson (November 5, 1914 – December 19, 2004) was an eminent American biologist best known for his work on the chromosomes of new species of the fruit fly Drosophila and his contributions to our understanding of their evolution.
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Travis Nichols Travis Nichols is an American poet and novelist. He works for Greenpeace USA.
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Robert Nathan Robert Gruntal Nathan (January 2, 1894 – May 25, 1985) was an American novelist and poet.
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Diane Raptosh Diane Raptosh is an American poet of Sicilian/American descent who became the first poet laureate for Boise, Idaho, in 2013. Her book "American Amnesiac" was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award.
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Henry Morton Robinson Henry Morton Robinson (September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel "The Cardinal", which "Time" magazine reported was "The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction."
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Malcolm Brenner (writer) Malcolm J. Brenner (born 9 May 1951) is an American author, journalist, and zoophile. He is best known for his controversial novel "Wet Goddess" (2009), about a love affair between a college student and a bottlenose dolphin in the 1970s. As a journalist, he has covered local news in New Mexico and Florida since the early 1990s.
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Emily Cheney Neville Emily Cheney Neville (December 28, 1919 – December 14, 1997) was an American author. She was born in Manchester, Connecticut and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the "New York Daily News" and the "New York Daily Mirror" newspapers. She had five children with her husband, Glenn Neville, a newspaperman, and lived in New York City. Her first book, "It's Like This, Cat" (1963), won the Newbery Medal in 1964. Her other works include: "Berries Goodman" (1965); "The Seventeen-Street Gang" (1966); "Traveler From a Small Kingdom" (1968); and "Fogarty" (1969).
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Barbara Chase-Riboud Barbara Chase-Riboud (born June 26, 1939) is an American visual artist, bestselling novelist and award-winning poet.
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Roger Payne Roger Searle Payne (born January 29, 1935) is an American biologist and environmentalist famous for the 1967 discovery (with Scott McVay) of whale song among humpback whales. Payne later became an important figure in the worldwide campaign to end commercial whaling.
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Mark M. Green Mark Mordecai Green (born April 6, 1937) is an American chemist, writer and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He is best known for his extensive work on stereochemistry and also for his book "Organic Chemistry Principles in Context: A Story Telling Historical Approach", which he uses in teaching organic chemistry in an unprecedented way.
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Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist.
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M. I. McAllister Margaret I. McAllister is an English author of children's books, born in 1956. She grew up on the north-east coast of England. Her first book, "A Friend for Rachel" (now entitled "The Secret Mice") was published by the Oxford University Press in 1997. "Urchin of the Riding Stars", the first in The Mistmantle Chronicles, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2005.
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Tom Grimes Tom Grimes is an American novelist, playwright, and creative writing instructor. He currently teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos, and served as the program's director from 1996 to 2015.
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Dick Couch Dick Couch is an American author, professor, and former U.S. Navy SEAL.
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Thomas Williams (writer) Thomas Williams (November 15, 1926 – October 23, 1990) was an American novelist.
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Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse, would meet.
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Villa Incognito Villa Incognito is a novel by Tom Robbins published in 2003. The author opens the novel with the line, "It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute.", as the reader is introduced to a Japanese ancestor spirit, named Tanuki, that is similar in appearance to a badger.
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Claire Nicolas White Claire Nicolas White (born 1925) is an American poet, novelist and translator of Dutch literature. She is a niece of Aldous Huxley and the granddaughter-in-law of architect Stanford White.