'Steerpike', 'Doctor Alfred Prunesquallor' and 'Fuschia Groan' are characters created by which author?
"adaptations, including film, live theatre, radio performances, television serials, and an opera. Gormenghast (novel) Gormenghast is a fantasy novel by British writer Mervyn Peake, the second in his Gormenghast series. It is the story of Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Groan and Lord of Gormenghast Castle, from age 7 to 17. As the story opens, Titus dreads the pre-ordained life of ritual that stretches before him. To Titus, Master of Ritual Barquentine and his apprentice Steerpike are the embodiment of all he wants to rebel against. An important sub-plot involves Titus at school, where he encounters the professors, especially Bellgrove,"
"ferroviario<br> 1924 - Woronoff<br> Eduardo Scarpetta Eduardo Scarpetta (1853–1925) was an Italian actor and playwright from Naples, Italy. Although not from a theatrical family, he was on the stage by the age of four and is today best remembered as the creator of a character that became his stage alter-ego: Felice Sciosciammocca, a typical, good-natured Neapolitan. The name ""Sciosciammocca"" translates from Neapolitan as ""breath in mouth""—thus, with ""Felice"" (Happy) the name conveys something like wide-eyed and perhaps a bit scatter-brained. The character was a break with the traditional portrayal of the Neapolitan streetwise Everyman and, as an implied stereotype, invites"
"Luciano Vincenzoni Luciano Vincenzoni (; 7 March 1926 – 22 September 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, known as the ""script doctor"". He wrote for some 65 films between 1954 and 2000. Vincenzoni was born in Treviso, Veneto. He is probably best known in world cinema for his script writing of Sergio Leone's ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" in 1966, but he also wrote for a number of other Spaghetti Westerns. He was capable on the business side of film making and his strong relations with popular and important people in the"
"Whitfield Cook George Whitfield Cook III (April 9, 1909 – November 12, 2003) was an American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels, best known for his contributions to two Alfred Hitchcock films, ""Stage Fright"" and ""Strangers on a Train"". He also wrote scripts for several TV series, including ""Suspense"", ""Climax!"" and ""Playhouse 90"". George Whitfield Cook III was born on April 9, 1909 in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of engineer George W. Cook and his wife, the former Hortense Heyse. He began writing short stories as a child and later cited Walter de la Mare and"
"Druuna Druuna is an erotic science fiction and fantasy comic book character created by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri. Most of Druuna's adventures revolve around a post-apocalyptic future, and the plot is often a vehicle for varied scenes of hardcore pornography and softcore sexual imagery. Druuna is frequently depicted as sparsely clothed or nude, and Serpieri's high quality renditions of her are often reproduced as poster prints. Druuna starred in nine volumes of the ""Morbus Gravis"" (""Severe Disease"") series between 1985 and 2018. These stories were featured prominently in ""Métal hurlant"" and ""Heavy Metal"" magazines. Druuna has also been featured"
"His screenwriting credits also include: Luciano Vincenzoni Luciano Vincenzoni (; 7 March 1926 – 22 September 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, known as the ""script doctor"". He wrote for some 65 films between 1954 and 2000. Vincenzoni was born in Treviso, Veneto. He is probably best known in world cinema for his script writing of Sergio Leone's ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" in 1966, but he also wrote for a number of other Spaghetti Westerns. He was capable on the business side of film making and his strong relations with popular"
"Felice Arena Felice Arena is an Australian children's author and illustrator. He is best known for the bestselling and award-winning Specky Magee series, the action-packed bionic-hero series Andy Roid, Sporty Kids,the acclaimed WW2 middle-grade novel ""The Boy and the Spy"" and the rollicking historical adventure set in Paris ""Fearless Frederic"" Arena was born in Kyabram, Victoria and attended La Trobe University, in Bendigo, Victoria. He graduated as a primary (elementary) school teacher but decided to pursue writing. Arena is also an actor. He played the role of ""Marco Alessi"" in the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"" for a year. He also"
"Ferdinando Tacconi Fredinando Tacconi (December 27, 1922 – May 11, 2006) was an Italian comics artist. Tacconi was born in Milan. He earned a degree in Applied Arts from Castello Sforzesco. After collaborating as an illustrator to the magazines ""Grazia"" and ""Confidenze"", Tacconi entered the comics field after World War II, debuting with the comic series ""Sciuscià"" and later working on a number of comics in Italy, France, and the United Kingdom. His main works included ""Gli Aristocratici"", which he co-created with Alfredo Castelli, ""L'uomo del Deserto"", ""L'uomo di Rangoon"", ""Dylan Dog"" and ""Nick Raider"". He often worked for ""Il"
"Archimede Fusillo Archimede Fusillo (born 1962) is an Australian author of books for children and young adults. His Italian background has inspired many of his novels and short stories, starting with Memories of Sunday Cricket in the Street and Talking to the Moon. Fusillo has written three novels, ""Sparring with Shadows"" (1997)-this first novel being nominated for the Italy in the World awards in 2000-and ""The Dons"" (2002) and ""Bruises"" (2004) published by Penguin Books Australia. He writes for the Aussie Bites children's series and his book was Uncorked. He is a regular contributor to the ethnic magazine ""Italy Down"
"for the Eastern Regional Libraries National Storywriting Competition. Archimede Fusillo Archimede Fusillo (born 1962) is an Australian author of books for children and young adults. His Italian background has inspired many of his novels and short stories, starting with Memories of Sunday Cricket in the Street and Talking to the Moon. Fusillo has written three novels, ""Sparring with Shadows"" (1997)-this first novel being nominated for the Italy in the World awards in 2000-and ""The Dons"" (2002) and ""Bruises"" (2004) published by Penguin Books Australia. He writes for the Aussie Bites children's series and his book was Uncorked. He is a"
"Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua (27 June 19349 September 2013) was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, ""The Dust on the Grass"" (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the ""Journal of Parma"", began to publish his stories in the early 1950s. ""Friendship Lost"", his first book of poems, was published in 1961. ""Caliph"", published in 1964, was his break-through novel. The protagonist, Irene Corsini, imbued with his own sweet and energetic temperament, is one of the strongest female characters in"
"George Froeschel Georg ""George"" Froeschel (March 9, 1891 – November 22, 1979) was an Austrian screenwriter best known for ""Mrs. Miniver"", ""Quentin Durward"", and ""The Story of Three Loves"", while working for MGM in the 1940s and 1950s. Before working in film he was a lawyer and journalist. Georg Froeschel was born in 1891, the son of a Jewish banker in Vienna. He wrote his first novel during his time at grammar school, ""Ein Protest"" (""A Protest""). After his postgraduate studies he was Doctor of Laws. In World War I he wrote reports for the k.u.k. army. Following he wrote"
"Allan Prior Allan Prior (13 January 1922, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, – 1 June 2006) was an English television scriptwriter and novelist, who wrote over 300 television episodes from the 1950s onwards. He was founder-writer of influential police drama ""Z-Cars"" with Troy Kennedy Martin and wrote five of the first ten episodes and a total of 136 episodes for ""Z-Cars"" and spin-off series ""Softly, Softly"". He also wrote several episodes of the 1970s science-fiction series ""Blake's 7"". He wrote more than thirty original plays for television, from episodes of ""Armchair Theatre"" to later works including ""The Charmer"" (1987) and ""A"
"died in Rome on 25 May 2018, at the age of 87. Sergio Graziani Sergio Graziani (November 10, 1930 – May 25, 2018) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Graziani attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts, and began his career on stage in the late 1950s, working as well as a voice actor: he dubbed Donald Sutherland and Peter O'Toole in most of their performances. In 1999 he gave his voice to Professor Farnsworth from ""Futurama"" for the first five seasons of the show, until he was replaced by Mino Caprio in the second run of"
"in 2008. Euphemia Chalmers Gray, initially known by the pet name of ""Phemy"", later as ""Effie,"" was born on 7 May 1828 to Sophia Margaret Gray and George Gray in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. She had a sister named Sophy Gray. Gray's family knew Ruskin's father, and they encouraged a match between Ruskin and Gray. Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel ""The King of the Golden River"" for her in 1841, when she was twelve years old. After their marriage in 1848, they travelled to Venice, where Ruskin was researching his book ""The Stones of Venice"". In England they lived in Bowerswell,"
"honor has established in Garessio. Eugenio Colmo Eugenio Colmo, known by the pseudonym Golia (1885–1967) was an Italian cartoonist, caricaturist and watercolor painter. Giovanni was born in Turin to a father who worked for the railroad offices. He was the younger brother of the painter Giovanni Colmo. Eugenio lived for many years in Garessio. At elementary school he befriended the poet Guido Gozzano and Tancredi Vigliardi Paravia. He enrolled to study law, but abandoned his studies to become an artist, beginning his career by writing for satirical journals ""Due di picche"" and ""'Torino ride"" published in Turin, and the journal"
"Sciuscià (comics) Sciuscià is an Italian comic book series created by publisher and writer Tristano Torelli in tandem with illustrator Ferdinando Tacconi and also later developed by Gianna Arguissola and Renzo Barbieri as writers and Franco Paludetti and Gianluigi Coppola as artists. It originally run from 1949 until 1956. The comics were inspired by the Vittorio De Sica's neorealist drama film ""Shoeshine"", and the series itself has been described as a ""neorealist comic"". Set in Italy between the end of World War II and contemporary days, each issue was a self-contained episode and recounted the adventures of the young shoeshine"
"was built as a humorous family saga based on the typical characters of an aggressive wife and a henpecked husband. Pedrito el Drito Pedrito el Drito is the title character of an Italian comic series created by Antonio Terenghi. One of the most enduring characters in the history of Italian comics, Pedrito el Drito was created by Terenghi in 1952, making his first appearances as a naive cowboy in the appendix to comic books ""Forza John!"" and ""Rocky Rider"". Promoted sheriff, in 1953 his stories started being regularly published on the comic magazines ""Il Monello"" and ""Intrepido"". In the 1990s"
"Alfred Shaughnessy Alfred James Shaughnessy (19 May 1916 – 2 November 2005), sometimes known as ""Freddy Shaughnessy"", was an English scriptwriter and producer best known for being the script editor of ""Upstairs, Downstairs"". Alfred Shaughnessy was born in London, his father, the Hon Alfred Shaughnessy, having died while serving with the Canadian army two months before. His grandfather Thomas Shaughnessy was an American-born Canadian railway administrator, who was created Baron Shaughnessy in 1916, and his mother was a second cousin of James K. Polk, the 11th US President. He spent his early years living in Tennessee, and in 1920 his"
"John Fusco John Fusco is an American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator born in Prospect, Connecticut. His screenplays include ""Crossroads"", ""Young Guns"", ""Young Guns II"", ""Thunderheart"", ""Hidalgo"", """" and the upcoming Kevin Costner film ""The Highwaymen"". He is also the creator of the Netflix series ""Marco Polo"". Fusco is also a blues musician and a prose fiction author. John Fusco was raised in the small town of Prospect, Connecticut, leaving home and high school early to travel the American south as a blues musician and blue collar laborer. He later attended and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the"
"a series of novels. Pulp writer Robert E. Howard created stories about Steve Harrison, an occult detective, in the ""Strange Detective Stories"" magazine. Margery Lawrence created the character Miles Pennoyer in her occult detective stories collected in ""Number Seven, Queer Street"". Modern writers who have used the occult detective theme as a basis for supernatural adventures include Peter Saxon (The Guardians series), John Burke (Dr Alex Caspian), Frank Lauria (Dr Owen Orient), Lin Carter (Anton Zarnak), and Joseph Payne Brennan (Lucius Leffing). The occult detective theme has also been used with series characters devised by such contemporary writers as Douglas"
"Eduardo Scarpetta Eduardo Scarpetta (1853–1925) was an Italian actor and playwright from Naples, Italy. Although not from a theatrical family, he was on the stage by the age of four and is today best remembered as the creator of a character that became his stage alter-ego: Felice Sciosciammocca, a typical, good-natured Neapolitan. The name ""Sciosciammocca"" translates from Neapolitan as ""breath in mouth""—thus, with ""Felice"" (Happy) the name conveys something like wide-eyed and perhaps a bit scatter-brained. The character was a break with the traditional portrayal of the Neapolitan streetwise Everyman and, as an implied stereotype, invites comparison to the well-known,"
"Pedrito el Drito Pedrito el Drito is the title character of an Italian comic series created by Antonio Terenghi. One of the most enduring characters in the history of Italian comics, Pedrito el Drito was created by Terenghi in 1952, making his first appearances as a naive cowboy in the appendix to comic books ""Forza John!"" and ""Rocky Rider"". Promoted sheriff, in 1953 his stories started being regularly published on the comic magazines ""Il Monello"" and ""Intrepido"". In the 1990s the comic series was published in ""Corriere dei Piccoli"" and ""Lupo Alberto"". In spite of its western setting, the series"
"George Arthur Bloom George Arthur Bloom (born 1945) is an American born Canadian screenwriter and producer known for his work on Nelvana television titles such as ""The Magic School Bus"" and ""Cyberchase"". He also wrote the pilots for ""The Transformers"" and ""My Little Pony"", as well as a number of installments of the ""My Little Pony"" series such as ""My Little Pony 'n Friends"" and ""My Little Pony Tales"". In 1980, he was a scriptwriter for Disney's ""The Last Flight of Noah's Ark"" and has written several scripts, produced and story edited for various television shows and films for children"
"of Dr. Crespi"", ""Bodyguard"", ""Powder-Smoke Range"", ""The Last Days of Pompeii"", ""Drake the Pirate"" and ""Moonlight on the Prairie"" under his own name. In 1935, Nanovic asked him to write ""Doc Savage"" novels under the house name of ""Kenneth Robeson"", alternating with originating author, Lester Dent. After producing nine Doc Savage novels, Donovan drew on his nautical background to create Captain John Fury for Street & Smith's ""The Skipper"" under the house name ""Wallace Brooker"", after which he also launched ""The Whisperer"", writing as ""Clifford Goodrich"". When those magazines folded in the aftermath of the Recession of 1937–38, Donovan continued"
"Joseph Stefano Joseph William Stefano (May 5, 1922 – August 25, 2006) was an American screenwriter, best known for adapting Robert Bloch's novel as the script for Alfred Hitchcock's film ""Psycho"", and for being the producer and co-writer of the original ""The Outer Limits"" TV series. Stefano was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a teenager, Stefano was so keen to become an actor that he dropped out of high school two weeks before graduation and traveled to New York City. In Manhattan he adopted the stage name Jerry Stevens. Stefano's initial career was as a composer of pop music in"
"Richard Tucholka Richard Tucholka (February 9, 1954 - April 27, 2017) was a writer, game designer and publisher, best known for his work in the creation of the role-playing games ""Fringeworthy"" & """". Tucholka was a pioneering role-playing game designer, comic book publisher, and had branched out as actor, book reviewer, staff writer for ""Stardate"" and ""Stardrive"" small press magazines, and a science fiction fan. He was an active and notable personality in Michigan science fiction conventions and gaming conventions since 1973 and was a member of the Robert Asprin-inspired Dorsai Irregulars, a worldwide volunteer-run convention support organization. He was"
"and sexual relationships between men and women. Frank Dalby Davison Frank Dalby Davison (23 June 1893 - 24 May 1970), also known as F.D. Davison and Freddie Davison, was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Whilst several of his works demonstrated his progressive political philosophy, he is best known as ""a writer of animal stories and a sensitive interpreter of Australian bush life in the tradition of Henry Lawson, Joseph Furphy and Vance Palmer."" His most popular works were two novels, ""Man-shy"" and ""Dusty"", and his short stories. Davison was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, and christened as Frederick Douglas"
"""L'Espresso"". Francesco Tullio Altan Francesco Tullio Altan (born 30 September 1942) is an Italian comics artist and satirist. He was born in Treviso, the son of Friulan anthropologist Carlo Tullio Altan. He studied at the University IUAV of Venice, but halted his studies to work for cinema and TV as a scenographer and writer. In 1970 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he created his first comics series for children, published in a local newspaper. In 1974 he began collaboration with Italian publishers. In 1974, for the comics magazine ""Linus"", he created Trino, an unprepared god who has to"
"Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of ""Psycho"", the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as ""Tales in a Jugular Vein"", ""Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of"" and ""Out of the Mouths of Graves"". Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was one of the"
"Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of ""Psycho"", the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as ""Tales in a Jugular Vein"", ""Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of"" and ""Out of the Mouths of Graves"". Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was one of the"
"Humphrey Cobb Humphrey Cobb (September 5, 1899 – April 25, 1944) was an Italian-born, American screenwriter and novelist. He is known for writing the novel ""Paths of Glory"" (1935), which was made into an acclaimed 1957 film ""Paths of Glory"" by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 film ""San Quentin"", starring Humphrey Bogart. Cobb was born in Siena, Italy. He served with the Canadian Army for three years during the First World War and fought in the Battle of Amiens. Stephen E. Tabachnick, in the Afterword to the U of Georgia Press' 1987 reprint of"
"Eugenio Colmo Eugenio Colmo, known by the pseudonym Golia (1885–1967) was an Italian cartoonist, caricaturist and watercolor painter. Giovanni was born in Turin to a father who worked for the railroad offices. He was the younger brother of the painter Giovanni Colmo. Eugenio lived for many years in Garessio. At elementary school he befriended the poet Guido Gozzano and Tancredi Vigliardi Paravia. He enrolled to study law, but abandoned his studies to become an artist, beginning his career by writing for satirical journals ""Due di picche"" and ""'Torino ride"" published in Turin, and the journal ""Ma chi è?"". Between 1904"