When was the author after which Thiele Highway was named born?
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Thiele Highway The Thiele Highway is a road in South Australia connecting the outskirts of Adelaide to the North west bend of the Murray River at Morgan, South Australia. It is named after author Colin Thiele who lived most of his life in towns along the route, and set some of his stories in the area.
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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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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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Heinrich Clauren Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun (20 March 1771 – 2 August 1854), better known by his pen name Heinrich Clauren, was a German author.
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William Hobart Royce William Hobart Royce ( ; 20 March 1878 – 28 January 1963) was an American writer and bookseller who was an expert on Honoré de Balzac. Royce published poetry under his own name and under his pen name Willie Penmore.
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Mathilda Malling Ingrid Mathilda Kruse Malling (Jan 20, 1864 – Mar 21, 1942), known as Mathilda Malling, and even better known by her early "nom de plume", Stella Kleve, was a Swedish novelist born January 20, 1864, on her family's farm, in North Mellby Parish, Kristianstad County, Sweden and died in København, Esajas sn, Sjælland, Copenhagen in 1942. Daughter of Danish estate owner, Frans Oskar Kruse, and Anna Maria Mathilda Borgström, she graduated from Lyceum for Girls in Stockholm, then studied at Lund University, in Switzerland, in 1884, and in Copenhagen, 1885-1886. In 1883 and was married in 1890 to merchant Peter Malling in Copenhagen.
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Johannes V. Jensen Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (commonly known as Johannes V. Jensen; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist.
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Richard Stilgoe Sir Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 28 March 1943) is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician, best known for his humorous songs and frequent television appearances. His output includes collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Peter Skellern.
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David Von Drehle David James Von Drehle (born February 6, 1961) is an American author and journalist.
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George Shepard Chappell George Shepard Chappell, AIA (January 2, 1877 – November 25, 1946) was an American architect, parodist, journalist (with the magazine "Vanity Fair") and author. He is known as the author of numerous books, including a travel series parody published under the pseudonym Walter E. Traprock.
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Margaret Fane Margaret Fane (born Beatrice Florence Osborn, January 10, 1887 – 1962) was an Australian novelist and poet. Her short stories were published in the "Sydney Mail" and the "Sydney Morning Herald," and she co-wrote "The Happy Vagabond" with Hilary Lofting (1928).
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Merrill Markoe Merrill Markoe (born August 13, 1948) is an American author, television writer, and sometime standup comedian.
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Dennis Overbye Dennis Overbye (born June 2, 1944 in Seattle, Washington) is a science writer specializing in physics and cosmology.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline (] ) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (] ; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. His most famous work is the 1932 novel, "Journey to the End of the Night".
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Hereward Thimbleby Price Hereward Thimbleby Price (1880–1964) was an English author and Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
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Charles Erskine Scott Wood Charles Erskine Scott Wood or C.E.S. Wood (February 20, 1852January 22, 1944) was an American author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, attorney, and Georgist. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, "Heavenly Discourse".
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Václav Tille Václav Tille (16 February 1867 in Tábor – 26 June 1937 in Prague) was a Czech writer. He also used the pseudonym Václav Říha.
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Paul Heyse Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the "Tunnel über der Spree" in Berlin and "Die Krokodile" in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas. The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories." Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that "Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe." Heyse is the fifth oldest laureate in literature, after Doris Lessing, Theodor Mommsen, Alice Munro and Jaroslav Seifert.
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Carlton Dawe William Carlton Lanyon Dawe, generally known as Carlton Dawe (30 July 1865 – 30 May 1935), was a prolific Australian author of over seventy-seven books including romance, mystery and crime.
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Charles Clegg Charles Myron Clegg, Jr. (June 29, 1916 – August 25, 1979) was an American author, photographer, and railroad historian. Clegg is primarily remembered as the lifelong companion of famed railroad author Lucius Beebe, and was a co-author of many of Beebe's best-known books.
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Eleanore Barté Eleanore Amelie Barté (June 11, 1893 – November 15, 1946) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. She was born in Milwaukee to Frank Barte, a machinist born in Wisconsin to German immigrants, and Anna H. Stakl or Steckl, born in Germany.
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A. L. Rowse Alfred Leslie Rowse (4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997), known publicly as A. L. Rowse but to friends and family as "Leslie", was a British author and historian from Cornwall, England, UK.