"Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls is a 2008 direct-to-DVD adventure film created by American studio The Asylum. The film follows the adventures of explorer Allan Quatermain, and was filmed entirely on location in South Africa. The film is a mockbuster of ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"", and while the film contains some elements similar to ""Crystal Skull"" (Quatermain himself resembles Indiana Jones on the DVD cover), the film itself is a loose adaptation of the novel ""King Solomon's Mines"" by H. Rider Haggard. The story follows the"
"thrilled by the birth of his son he wrote a book about it called ""The Book of Simon"". He died in 1971 in Uckfield, Sussex, England. A. S. M. Hutchinson Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (2 June 1879 – 14 March 1971), commonly known by his initials A. S. M. Hutchinson, was a British novelist. Hutchinson was born on 2 June 1879 in India. His father was a distinguished soldier and his mother was a member of the Stuart Menteths, a noble Scottish family. His sister, Vere Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, was also a novelist. A. S. M Hutchinson was editor of the London"
"Alan Lloyd Alan Richard Lloyd (22 February 1927 – 12 April 2018) was an English writer. He is most famous for his Kine Saga fantasy books for teenagers. He also wrote adult fiction and non-fiction, most notably on the history of the British monarchy. His adult work is published under the name ""Alan Lloyd"" whilst children's work is published under ""A.R. Lloyd"" Lloyd was born in London, and studied drawing and painting at the Kingston School of Art before being called up to the army in 1945. He started his writing career at the ""Jersey Evening Post"" and worked as"
"the first of his Kine Saga novels was published in 1982. Lloyd was married with one son. He is currently published by HarperCollins. He died on 12 April 2018 at the age of 91. Alan Lloyd Alan Richard Lloyd (22 February 1927 – 12 April 2018) was an English writer. He is most famous for his Kine Saga fantasy books for teenagers. He also wrote adult fiction and non-fiction, most notably on the history of the British monarchy. His adult work is published under the name ""Alan Lloyd"" whilst children's work is published under ""A.R. Lloyd"" Lloyd was born in"
"Acharya Chatursen Shastri Acharya Chatursen Shastri () (26 August 1891 – 2 February 1960) was an eminent writer of Hindi, and he wrote many historical fictions, including ""Vaishali ki Nagarvadhu"" adapted into a feature film (1948), ""Vayam Rakshamah"" (1951), ""Somnath"" (1954) and ""Dharamputra"", which was adapted into (feature film| Dharmputra) (1961). Acharya Chatursen Shastri was born in a small village Aurangabad Chandok (near Anupshahr) in the Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh state in India on 26 August 1891. His father was Punditt Kewal Ram Thakur and mother was Nanhee Devi. His birth name was Chaturbhuj. Chaturbhuj finished his primary education"
"Ann C. Crispin Ann Carol Crispin (April 5, 1950 – September 6, 2013) was an American science fiction writer, the author of twenty-three published novels. She wrote several ""Star Trek"" and ""Star Wars"" novelizations and created an original science fiction series called ""Starbridge"". Crispin's writing career began in 1983. As a writer of ""tie-in"" novels she was known for developing the backgrounds and emotional lives of on-screen characters. Two of her ""Star Trek"" novels — ""Yesterday's Son"" and ""Time for Yesterday"" — were direct sequels to the third-season episode """", and detail Spock and Zarabeth's son. ""Yesterday's Son"" was the"
"works include: Acharya Chatursen Shastri Acharya Chatursen Shastri () (26 August 1891 – 2 February 1960) was an eminent writer of Hindi, and he wrote many historical fictions, including ""Vaishali ki Nagarvadhu"" adapted into a feature film (1948), ""Vayam Rakshamah"" (1951), ""Somnath"" (1954) and ""Dharamputra"", which was adapted into (feature film| Dharmputra) (1961). Acharya Chatursen Shastri was born in a small village Aurangabad Chandok (near Anupshahr) in the Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh state in India on 26 August 1891. His father was Punditt Kewal Ram Thakur and mother was Nanhee Devi. His birth name was Chaturbhuj. Chaturbhuj finished his"
"Ayn Rand Ayn Rand (; born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, ""The Fountainhead"" and ""Atlas Shrugged"", and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, ""The Fountainhead"". In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel ""Atlas Shrugged"". Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy,"
"1934. Alice Perrin by Melissa Edmundson Alice Perrin Alice Perrin or Alice Robinson (15 July, 1867 – 13 February, 1934) was a British novelist who wrote about the British in colonial India. She became successful after the publication of her short ghost story collection ""East of Suez"". Perrin was born in the hill station of Mussoorie in Anglo-India in 1867. Her parents were Bertha and her second husband John Innes Robinson. Her father would become a Major General in the Bengal Cavalry. and her great grandfather, Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet had been a director of the East India Company."
"on 8th August 2018.[9] Aisha Chaudhary Aisha Chaudhary (27 March 1996 – 24 January 2015) was a motivational speaker from Delhi, India. She is also the author of ""My Little Epiphanies"". She was well known and appreciated for her positive attitude towards life and learning. Aisha was the daughter of Niren Chaudhary, a president with South Asia operations of YUM brand and Aditi, a mental healthcare worker. She had an elder brother Ishan Chaudhary. She was born with an immune deficiency disorder when she was 6 months , When she had to undergo a bone marrow transplant.As the side effect"
"unconventionality"". Alethea Lewis Alethea Lewis (born 19 December 1749, buried 12 November 1827) was an English novelist, born at Acton, near Nantwich, Cheshire. She also used the pseudonym Eugenia de Acton. Her subject-matter centred on her profound Christianity and the rewards of virtue. Alethea's father was the Anglican cleric Reverend James Brereton. She was two years old when her mother died and her father sent her away to live with her maternal grandfather, who was a linen draper in Framlingham, Suffolk. Her father later remarried and had more daughters. She was engaged to William Springal Levett, the son of an"
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with ""Anne of Green Gables"". The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the"
"almost 900 US and Canadian libraries. Robert Quackenbush Robert Mead Quackenbush (born July 23, 1929) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. As of 1999, he had authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more. He has written about many historical figures, such as ""Quick, Anne, Give Me a Catchy Line"", a children's book about the life and works of Samuel F. B. Morse (inventor of the telegraph), and ""Mark Twain? What Kind of Name Is That? : a story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"", published in 1984. His most widely known book, ""Henry's Awful Mistake"", published by Parents Magazine"
"A. B. Guthrie Jr. Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. His novel ""The Way West"" won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for ""Shane"" (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award. Guthrie was born in 1901 in Bedford, Indiana. When he was six months old he relocated with his parents to Montana, where his father became the first principal of the Teton County Free High School in Choteau. His father was a graduate of Indiana University, his mother"
"A. S. M. Hutchinson Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (2 June 1879 – 14 March 1971), commonly known by his initials A. S. M. Hutchinson, was a British novelist. Hutchinson was born on 2 June 1879 in India. His father was a distinguished soldier and his mother was a member of the Stuart Menteths, a noble Scottish family. His sister, Vere Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, was also a novelist. A. S. M Hutchinson was editor of the London illustrated newspaper, ""The Daily Graphic"". He wrote romance and family novels as well as short stories for publications such ""The Sphere Magazine"". His best-selling novel, ""If"
"George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ""Man and Superman"" (1902), ""Pygmalion"" (1912)"" and Saint Joan"" (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw"
"in a long time."" ""New York Times"" reviewer, Michiko Kakutani, found fault with her editing on ""Edith Sitwell: Fire of the Mind"". Allanah Harper Allanah Harper (6 November 1904 – 3 November 1992) was an English author. She is best known for founding the journal ""Echanges"" (), and for her 1948 autobiography. Harper came from a privileged family, and traveled extensively owing to her father's career as an engineering contractor. She moved to France as a young adult, founding the journal ""Echanges"" that attempted to give British and French writers an audience for each other. She introduced writers such as"
"Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas (French for 'father'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including ""The Count of Monte Cristo"", ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and """". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, ""The Knight of Sainte-Hermine,"""
"Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin, who was able to provide his daughter"
"Edward Whittemore Edward Payson Whittemore (May 26, 1933 – August 3, 1995) was an American novelist, the author of five novels written between 1974 and 1987, including the highly praised series ""Jerusalem Quartet."" He had started his career as a case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations (Asia, Middle East and Europe) between 1958 and 1967. The youngest of five children, Whittemore was born on May 26, 1933 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA to John Cambridge Whittemore (1889-1958), a commercial district manager for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and his wife Elizabeth Payson Whittemore (""née"""
"Alan J. Porter Alan J. Porter (born in Sale, Greater Manchester, England in October 1959, now resident in central Texas) is a writer of high adventure fiction, pop culture reference books, and comics. His high adventure short stories and novellas feature classic characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Allan Quatermain, as well as his own new-pulp characters Lotus Ronin, and The Raven. His pop-culture non-fiction work has featured properties such as Batman, Star Trek, The Beatles, and James Bond. He has also written comics for Tokyopop, BOOM Studios, Marvel, Disney, and Kid Domino as well as several custom corporate and"
"Edward Hamilton Aitken Edward Hamilton Aitken (16 August 1851, Satara, India – 11 April 1909, Edinburgh) was a civil servant in India, better known for his humorist writings on natural history in India and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha. ""Eha"" was born at Satara in the Bombay Presidency on 16 August 1851. His father was the Rev. James Aitken, missionary of the Free Church of Scotland. His mother was a sister of the Rev. Daniel Edward, a missionary to the Jews at Breslau for"
"Robert Quackenbush Robert Mead Quackenbush (born July 23, 1929) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. As of 1999, he had authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more. He has written about many historical figures, such as ""Quick, Anne, Give Me a Catchy Line"", a children's book about the life and works of Samuel F. B. Morse (inventor of the telegraph), and ""Mark Twain? What Kind of Name Is That? : a story of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"", published in 1984. His most widely known book, ""Henry's Awful Mistake"", published by Parents Magazine Press in 1980, is present in"
"are marked with a ""(CC)"" and those from ""The Other Mary Shelley"" with an ""(OMS)"". Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter"
"system. Aishah Rahman Aishah Rahman, born Virginia Hughes was born November 4, 1936, in New York City, and died December 29, 2014, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Rahman was an African-American playwright, author, professor and essayist. She was known for her participation and contribution to the Black Arts Movement, as well as her plays documenting various aspects of black life. Rahman grew up as a foster child in Harlem. Church was a big part of her life, and she spent her free time as a child hopping between churches. She wrote her first play in sixth grade about germs"
"Akshay Kumar Datta Akshay Kumar Datta (also spelt Akshay Kumar Dutta) () (15 July 1820 – 18 May 1886) was a Bengali writer from the Indian subcontinent. He was born in Bagerhat, British India. Son of Pitamber Dutta, he was one of the initiators of the Bengal Renaissance. After studying in the Oriental Seminary under the special care of Hardman Jeffroy, he had to give up studies because of the death of his father and go job-seeking. However, that could not put an end to his yearning for learning. At the Sovabazar Rajbari library, he studied and mastered Calculus and"
"and epical stories. Arman Arian Arman Arian (born 1 September 1981) (Persian: آرمان آرین) is an Iranian author, novelist and researcher, best known for his first trilogy, ""Persians and I"" (Persian: پارسیان و من: کاخ اژدها). He is the youngest winner of the annual “The Book of The Year of Iran”. In addition to many national awards, he received the honorary diploma in the 31st IBBY World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark (2008) by the International Board on Books for Young People the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. Although Arian is known as a children and young adults"
"Aishah Rahman Aishah Rahman, born Virginia Hughes was born November 4, 1936, in New York City, and died December 29, 2014, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Rahman was an African-American playwright, author, professor and essayist. She was known for her participation and contribution to the Black Arts Movement, as well as her plays documenting various aspects of black life. Rahman grew up as a foster child in Harlem. Church was a big part of her life, and she spent her free time as a child hopping between churches. She wrote her first play in sixth grade about germs for"
"A. A. Thomson Arthur Alexander Thomson, (7 April 1894 at Harrogate, Yorkshire – 2 June 1968 near Lord's in London) was an English writer best known for his books on cricket, for which he used the byline ""AA Thomson"". He wrote nearly 60 books in all, including plays, novels, verse, humour and travel books. Before turning his hand to cricket writing, he was a drama critic and a columnist for the ""Radio Times"" and for a Sunday newspaper, while working also as a civil servant. As a cricket writer, he generally concentrated on bringing out the character of the players"
"Arman Arian Arman Arian (born 1 September 1981) (Persian: آرمان آرین) is an Iranian author, novelist and researcher, best known for his first trilogy, ""Persians and I"" (Persian: پارسیان و من: کاخ اژدها). He is the youngest winner of the annual “The Book of The Year of Iran”. In addition to many national awards, he received the honorary diploma in the 31st IBBY World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark (2008) by the International Board on Books for Young People the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. Although Arian is known as a children and young adults fantasy writer, he"
"Monte-Cristo, and to collect books, manuscripts, autographs and other materials on Dumas. Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas (French for 'father'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including ""The Count of Monte Cristo"", ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and """". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth"
"Alethea Lewis Alethea Lewis (born 19 December 1749, buried 12 November 1827) was an English novelist, born at Acton, near Nantwich, Cheshire. She also used the pseudonym Eugenia de Acton. Her subject-matter centred on her profound Christianity and the rewards of virtue. Alethea's father was the Anglican cleric Reverend James Brereton. She was two years old when her mother died and her father sent her away to live with her maternal grandfather, who was a linen draper in Framlingham, Suffolk. Her father later remarried and had more daughters. She was engaged to William Springal Levett, the son of an Aldeburgh"