What was the author of Blow-Up and Other Stories known as the founder of?
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Blow-up and Other Stories Blow-Up and Other Stories is a collection of short stories, selected from the short fiction of the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar. It was originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories. The title story of the paperback collection served as inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Blowup".
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Julio Cortázar Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar (] ; August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984), was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.
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Scott Adams Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.
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Arthur Robert Harding Arthur Robert Harding (July 1871 – 1930), better known as A. R. Harding, was an American outdoorsman and founder of "Hunter-Trader-Trapper" and "Fur-Fish-Game" Magazine, and publisher, editor and author of many popular outdoor how-to books of the early 1900s. His company was known as the A. R. Harding Publishing Company of Columbus, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri.
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Aesop Aesop ( ; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος , "Aisōpos "; c. 620 – 564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as "Aesop's Fables". Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.
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Andrew X. Pham Andrew X. Pham is an author, and also the founder of Spoonwiz.
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Paul Dayton Bailey Paul Dayton Bailey (July 12, 1906 – October 26, 1987) was the owner/publisher of Westernlore Press and a writer of many books himself that focused on the Western American experience and, in particular, Latter-day Saint history.
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Jim Comstock James Franklin Comstock (25 February 1911, Richwood, West Virginia - 22 May 1996, Huntington, West Virginia) — known as Jim Comstock — was a West Virginia writer, newspaper publisher and humorist. He founded the weekly "West Virginia Hillbilly" (1957-1980) and compiled a definitive 51-volume encyclopedia of West Virginia history and culture.
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Adam Willis Wagnalls Adam Willis Wagnalls (September 24, 1843 – September 3, 1924) was an American publisher. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of the Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1877.
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Organizational founder An organizational founder is a person who has undertaken some or all of the work needed to create a new organization, whether this is a business, a charitable organization, a governing body, a school, a group of entertainers, or some other kind of organization. If there are multiple founders, each can be referred to as a co-founder. If the organization is a business, the founder is usually an entrepreneur. If an organization is created to carry out charitable work, the founder is generally considered a philanthropist, while organizations developed around the pursuit of the personal interests of their members may be founded by mere hobbyists.
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Jane Cunningham Croly Jane Cunningham Croly (December 19, 1829 – December 23, 1901) was an American author and journalist, better known by her pseudonym, Jennie June. She was a pioneer author and editor of women's columns in leading newspapers and magazines in New York. She founded the Sorosis club for women in New York in 1868 and in 1889 expanded it nationwide to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She also founded the Woman's Press Club of New York City.
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William Pène du Bois William Sherman "Billy" Pène du Bois (May 9, 1916 – February 5, 1993) was an American writer and illustrator of books for young readers. He is best known for "The Twenty-One Balloons", published in April 1947 by Viking Press, for which he won the 1948 Newbery Medal. As illustrator he was twice a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal.
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StoryQuarterly StoryQuarterly is an American literary journal based at Rutgers University–Camden in Camden, New Jersey. It was founded in 1975 by Tom Bracken, F.R. Katz, Pamela Painter and Thalia Selz. Works originally published in "StoryQuarterly" have been subsequently selected for inclusion in The "Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards", "The Pushcart Prize: The Best of the Small Presses", and "The Best American Non-Required Reading", "New Stories from the South", "Best American Mysteries", and "Best American Essays".
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William Hazlett Upson William Hazlett Upson (September 6, 1891–February 5, 1975) was an American author, best remembered for a series of stories featuring Alexander Botts, a salesman for the Earthworm Tractor Company.
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Jimmy Kinnon James Patrick Kinnon (5 April 1911 - 9 July 1985), commonly known as Jimmy Kinnon or "Jimmy K.", was the primary founder of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), a worldwide fellowship of recovering addicts. During his lifetime, he was usually referred to as "Jimmy K." due to NA's principle of personal anonymity on the public level. He never referred to himself as the founder of NA, although the record clearly shows that he played a founding role.
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William Heinemann William Henry Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 October 1920) was the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London.
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Talbot Baines Reed Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 – 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is "The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's". He was a regular and prolific contributor to "The Boy's Own Paper" ("B.O.P."), in which most of his fiction first appeared. Through his family's business, Reed became a prominent typefounder, and wrote a standard work on the subject: "History of the Old English Letter Foundries".
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Martha Foley Martha Foley (1897–1977) cofounded "Story" magazine in 1931 with her husband Whit Burnett. She achieved some celebrity by introducing notable authors through the magazine such as J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright. In 1941 she became the series editor for The Best American Short Stories series.
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David A. Carter David A. Carter (born March 4, 1957) is an American author and illustrator. He is best known for his pop-up books for both children and adults. His "Bugs" series has sold over 6 million copies.
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P. T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American politician, showman, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me", and his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers". Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute".
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Geoffrey Kleinman Geoffrey Kleinman (born November 21, 1970 in Moraga, California) is an American writer. He is the founder of Kleinman.com as well as a Co-founder of eBay, the company which started and ultimately sold DVD Talk and which runs DrinkSpirits.com.
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Russell Baker Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "Growing Up" (1982). He was a columnist for "The New York Times" from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show "Masterpiece Theatre" from 1992 to 2004. The ""Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994" states: