Which writer was born earliest, Mary Doria Russell or W. E. B. Griffin?
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Mary Doria Russell Mary Doria Russell (born August 19, 1950) is an American novelist.
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W. E. B. Griffin William Edmund Butterworth III (born November 10, 1929), better known by his pen name W. E. B. Griffin, is a writer of military and detective fiction with 38 novels in six series published under that name. He has also published under 11 other pseudonyms and three versions of his real name (W. E. Butterworth, William E. Butterworth, and most recently William E. Butterworth III).
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Mary Bard Mary Bard Jensen (1904–1970) was a 20th-century American author best remembered today as the sister of Betty Macdonald ("Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle", "The Egg and I".)
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Mary E. Black Mary Ellouise Black (September 18, 1895 – February 11, 1988), an occupational therapist, teacher, master weaver and writer, created almost single-handedly a renaissance in crafts in Nova Scotia in the 1940s and 1950s. Her best-known book, ‘’The Key to Weaving’’, was published in 1945 and has since run to 3 editions and numerous printings. Its clarity is without parallel, and, more than half a century later, it remains a handweaver's prime source of information.
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Mary Allen Mary Allen (born 22 August 1951) is a British writer, broadcaster, arts administrator and management consultant best known for her controversial and turbulent period as Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House.
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Kenneth W. Griffin Kenneth W. "Ken" Griffin (December 28, 1909 – March 11, 1956), was an American organist.
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Mary Lyon (writer) Mary Lyon is an American columnist, political commentator and jewelry designer.
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Florence Bell Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell DBE JP (née Olliffe; 9 September 1851 - 16 May 1930) was a British writer and playwright.
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Elizabeth Watson Russell Lord Elizabeth Watson Russell Lord (28 April 1819 - 24 May 1908) was an American educator and philanthropist from the U.S. state of Ohio. She was a charter member of Deoon-ga-wa Chapter, Batavia, New York. For two years, she was superintendent of the state institution for the blind at Batavia. She received her master's degree from Oberlin College in 1901; and served there as Assistant Principal, Women's Department, 1884–94, as well as Assistant Dean, Women's Department, 1894-1900. She was the Chief Donor of the school's Lord Cottage.
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Lettie Cowman Lettie Burd Cowman (March 3, 1870 – April 17, 1960), also known as L.B. Cowman, was an American writer and author of the devotional books "Streams in the Desert" and "Springs in the Valley". Cowman published her books under the author name "Mrs. Charles E. Cowman." She was also one of the cofounders of The Oriental Missionary Society (later known as OMS International, and eventually One Mission Society).
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Russell J. Rickford Russell John Rickford (born c. 1975) is an American scholar and author. An associate professor in the History Department at Cornell University, he has written the only in-depth biography on Betty Shabazz. Rickford is an expert on the black radical tradition and on black liberal culture after World War II, and lectures on American social and political history, among other subjects.
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Mary Hadler Mary Hadler (February 28, 1902 – September 27, 1971), also known as Mary Margaret Hadler and Mary Gilbert, was an American songwriter best known for writing the popular songs "Chapel by the Sea" and "Shifting Whispering Sands", in collaboration with her husband, V. C. Gilbert. Both songs were written in the 1950s, the latter recorded and played around the world.
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Benjamin Russell (artist) Benjamin Russell (October 16, 1804 – March 3, 1885) was an American artist best known for his accurate watercolors of whaling ships working in New England. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to a wealthy family, Russell started drawing and painting in his late 30s, after a few years spent working as a cooper aboard a whaling ship.
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Mary Gladstone Mary Drew ("née" Gladstone; 23 November 1847–1 January 1927), was a political secretary, writer and hostess. She was the daughter of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling access to him.
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Mary Wood-Allen Mary Augusta Wood-Allen (October 19, 1841 – January 21, 1908) was a doctor, social reformer, lecturer, and writer of books on health and self-improvement for women and children. Through her lectures and writings she was a voice for the social purity movement.
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Mary Monroe Mary Monroe is a "New York Times" bestselling African-American fiction author. Her first novel, "The Upper Room", was published by St. Martin's Press in 1985. She is best known for her novel "God Don't Like Ugly" (originally published by Dafina Books in Fall 2000), and the series revolved around the characters first introduced in this book.
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Lady Agatha Russell Lady (Mary) Agatha Russell (1853–23 April 1933) was the daughter of the 1st Earl Russell and Frances, the Countess of Russell, and the aunt of Bertrand Russell. She was the co-editor of her mother's posthumously published memoirs, "Lady John Russell: A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence".
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Elizabeth, Lady William Russell Elizabeth Anne, Lady William Russell (1793–1874) was the wife of Lord George Russell and a notorious socialite.
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Effie Lee Newsome Effie Lee Newsome (1885–1979), born Mary Effie Lee in Philadelphia, was a Harlem Renaissance writer. She mostly wrote children's poems, and was the first famous African-American poet whose work was mostly in this area. She edited a column in "The Crisis" from 1925 until 1929, called "The Little Page", where she made drawings and wrote poetry for children and parables about being young and black in the 1920s. Newsome also illustrated for children's magazines and edited children's columns for "Opportunity".
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Russell Banks Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships".
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Mary Susanne Edgar Mary Susannah Edgar was a Canadian author born in Sundridge, Ontario on May 23, 1889. Her schooling took her from Sundridge to Barrie High School and Havergal College, Toronto. She is the author of several books, one-act plays and hymns, the most famous of them being "God Who Touchest Earth with Beauty", which has been translated into several languages and placed in hymnals around the world.
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Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall (1805–1878) was an abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights. In contrast to many other 19th-century women writers, throughout most of her adult life she earned her living as an author; at the same time she often donated her writing for causes she believed in, such as the abolition of slavery. She stands out in History of Rhode Island.