Who is more well-known, B. Traven or Alan Sillitoe?
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B. Traven B. Traven (Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927), which was adapted for the Academy Award winning film of the same name in 1948.
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Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.
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Lomax the Songhunter Lomax the Songhunter is a 2004 documentary film about Alan Lomax, a man who, after World War II, was determined to record folk music from United States and all over the world before it was blown away by mass consumer culture. Son of John Lomax, the man who discovered Lead Belly (and bailed him out of prison) and introduced Woody Guthrie to the world, Alan shared his father's passion for music and was not intimidated by his massive accomplishments. The film, which finds Alan near death and barely able to make himself understood, traces Alan's journey across the globe, stopping to hear testimonials from many of the people or relatives of the people he recorded. It also contains interviews from Lomax's friends and colleagues, including Pete Seeger, who did some cataloging for Lomax.
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Alan Sykes Sir Alan John Sykes, 1st Baronet (11 April 1868 – 21 May 1950) was an English businessman in the bleaching industry and Conservative politician in Cheshire.
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Sidney Blatt Sidney J. Blatt (October 15, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 11, 2014, Hamden, Connecticut) was a professor emeritus of psychiatry and psychology at Yale University's Department of psychiatry. Blatt was a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, empirical researcher and personality theoretician, who made enormous contributions to the understanding of personality development and psychopathology. His wide-ranging areas of scholarship and expertise included clinical assessment, psychoanalysis, cognitive schemas, mental representation, psychopathology, depression, schizophrenia, and the therapeutic process, as well as the history of art. During a long and productive academic career, Blatt published 16 books and nearly 250 articles and developed several extensively used assessment procedures. Blatt died on May 11, 2014, in Hamden, Conn. He was 85.
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Colin Thiele Colin Milton Thiele AC ( ; 16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels "Storm Boy", "Blue Fin", the "Sun on the Stubble" series, and "February Dragon".
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Mark Alan Stamaty Mark Alan Stamaty is an American cartoonist and children's writer and illustrator. During the 1980s and 1990s, Stamaty's work appeared regularly in the "Village Voice". He is the creator of the long-running comic strip "Washingtoon", as well as the earlier comic strip "MacDoodle Street", and the online strip "Doodlennium" for "Slate" magazine He is also a spot illustrator for "Slate". He produced a monthly comic strip in the "New York Times Book Review" called "Boox" in 2001–2004 that made fun of publishing trends.
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Chris Sievey Christopher Mark Sievey (25 August 1955 – 21 June 2010) was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom from 1984 onwards.
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Alann Johnson Anthony "Alann" Johnson is an American politician from the state of Alabama. He is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
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Bridget Bate Tichenor Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate on November 22, 1917 – died on October 20, 1990), also known as Bridget Tichenor or B.B.T., was a Mexican surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism and a fashion editor. Born in Paris and of British descent, she later embraced Mexico as her home.
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Laurence Shames Laurence Shames is best known for his series of comic mysteries, all set in Key West, Florida. One of his most popular books, however, "Bad Twin", was written under the pseudonym Gary Troup, in a cross promotion between publisher Hyperion and ABC, the network which produced the TV series, "Lost". In "Lost", Troup was a fictional character who was presumed dead in the airline crash that was the basis for the TV series, and he left a manuscript behind, leading viewers of the series to buy the book to find clues to the mysteries of "Lost". Shames was the ghostwriter for the bestseller, "Boss of Bosses", and was the Ethics columnist for "Esquire".
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Alan Lomax Alan Lomax ( ; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.
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Charles Strouse Charles Strouse (born June 7, 1928) is an American composer and lyricist best known for writing the music to the musicals "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Annie", amongst others.
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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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Ismo Alanko Ismo Kullervo Alanko (] ) (born November 12, 1960) is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist.
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Bruce Tinsley Edward Bruce Tinsley IV (born 1958) is an American cartoonist best known for his conservative comic strip "Mallard Fillmore".
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Trønderen Trønderen (English: the person from Trøndelag ) is an islet in Brækmoholmane, part of Thousand Islands, an island group south of Edgeøya. The island is named after Trøndelag, Norway, the birthplace of Sivert Brækmo (1853–1930), a Norwegian sailor and fishermen who regularly visited Svalbard between 1876 and 1895.
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Sir Arthur Blakiston, 7th Baronet Sir Arthur Frederick Blakiston, 7th Baronet, MC (b West Derby 16 June 1892 – d Salisbury 31 January 1974) was a rugby union international wing who represented England twelve times between 1920 and 1925, and the British Lions in all four test matches during their 1924 tour of South Africa.
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Eje Thelin Eje Thelin (born Eilert Ove Thelin) (June 9, 1938 – May 18, 1990) was an innovative Swedish trombonist, widely admired among fellow trombonists for his facile technique and rhythmic intensity. He was, perhaps, the first jazz trombonist to translate that technique into the so-called "sheets of sound" style that characterized much of the music of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and, in general, Free Jazz of the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Theodore Swann Theodore Swann (d. February 5, 1955) was an American industrialist and early leader of the chemical industry. He was described by one historian as "a flamboyant Birmingham mogul and New South industrialist."
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Alan Clayson Alan Clayson (born 3 May 1951, Dover, Kent) is an English singer-songwriter, author and music journalist. He gained popularity in the late 1970s as leader of the band Clayson and the Argonauts. In addition to contributing to publications such as "Record Collector", "Mojo" and "Folk Roots", he subsequently established himself as a prolific writer of music biographies. Among his many books are "Backbeat", which details the Beatles' early career in Germany, "Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joker?", and biographies of Jacques Brel, the Yardbirds, Serge Gainsbourg and Edgard Varèse.
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Scottie McClue Scottie McClue is the on-air pseudonym of media consultant, actor, writer and broadcaster Colin Lamont, who