What is the nationality of the author of Hero and Leander?
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Hero and Leander (poem) Hero and Leander is a poem by Christopher Marlowe that retells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. After Marlowe's untimely death it was completed by George Chapman. The minor poet Henry Petowe published an alternative completion to the poem. The poem was first published posthumously, five years after Marlowe's demise.
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Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists.
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Jon Guenther Jon Guenther is an American software engineer and the author of nearly forty novels in a variety of genres and under multiple pseudonyms. In addition to books under his own name, he has written many novels in "The Executioner" series created by Don Pendleton about the fictional character Mack Bolan. He is also creator of the Christian Pulp brand and genre.
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Julia Darling Julia Rose Darling (21 August 1956 – 13 April 2005) was an award-winning English novelist, poet and dramatist.
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James Lowder James Daniel Lowder (born January 2, 1963 in Quincy, Massachusetts) is an American author and editor, working frequently within the fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror genres, and on critical works exploring popular culture.
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Julia Wild Julie Vince (pen name, Julia Wild) is a British writer from Royton, England. An author of six romance novels from 1997 to 2002, she was honored in 2003 with the Love Story of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novel, "Illusion ".
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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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Christopher Andersen Christopher Peter Andersen (born May 26, 1949) is an American journalist and the author of 34 books, including many bestsellers.
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Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: , ] ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Bacchus and Ariadne (poem) Bacchus and Ariadne is a poem by Leigh Hunt written and published in 1819. The result of three years of work, the poem tells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, two lovers, and the story of their forlorn fate. Hunt began working on the poem during the summer of 1816, arousing the interest of the publisher John Taylor, and despite repeated delays to allow Hunt to deal with other commitments the poem was finished and published in a collection 1819. Hunt later claimed in a poem about "Bacchus and Ariadne" that he was seeking to humanise myths and make them more understandable to the common people. The collection was well received by contemporary critics and poets, including Thomas Carlyle, while more modern writers such as Edmund Blunden have criticised the flow of its narrative.
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Colin Thubron Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.
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Guy Walters Guy Edward Barham Walters (born 8 August 1971) is an English author, historian and journalist. He is known for his writing about the Second World War.
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Jessica Steele Jessica Steele (born 9 May 1933) is a popular British author of over 85 romance novels. Her novels have been published by Mills & Boon since 1979.
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Scott Oden Scott Oden (born June 24, 1967) is an American writer best known for his historical novels set in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. His work imitates the styles and themes of the 1930s pulps, most notably the historical fiction and fantasy of Texan author Robert E. Howard.
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Karen Harper Karen Harper (born April 6, 1945) is an historical fiction and contemporary fiction author. She is a "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestselling author .
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich is a 1973 young adult novel by Alice Childress.
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Desmond Barry Desmond Barry (born 1954) is a Welsh author.
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Rian Malan Rian Malan (born 1954, in Johannesburg) is a South African author, journalist, documentarist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. He first rose to prominence as the author of the memoir "My Traitor's Heart", which, like the bulk of his work, deals with South African society in a historical and contemporary perspective and focuses on racial relations. As a journalist, he has written for major newspapers in South Africa, Great Britain and the USA.
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Perry Moore William Perry Moore IV (November 4, 1971 – February 17, 2011), widely known as Perry Moore, was an American author, screenwriter, and film director. He was an executive producer of "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series and the author of "Hero", an award-winning novel about a homosexual teenage superhero.
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John A. Scott John Alan Scott (who has published under the names John A. Scott and John Scott) (born 23 April 1948) is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic.
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Cherith Baldry Cherith Baldry (born 21 January 1947) is a British writer of children's fiction and fantasy fiction. Beside publication under her own name she is the author of some works published under each of the house pseudonyms Adam Blade, Jenny Dale, Jack Dillon, and Erin Hunter.
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Dark Hero Dark Hero is a 1946 thriller by Peter Cheyney featuring a Chicago gangster involved in the gang wars of the 1930s, who during the Second World War finds himself in Nazi-occupied Norway and becomes a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance - by applying essentially the same skills which had made him a successful and feared gangster.