"for the Gearys. Wanting to make Rachel immortal, Galilee brings her to L'Enfant where and they see Cesaria, who forgives Galilee. Maddox meanwhile, having finished his book leaves L'Enfant to see the world. Galilee (novel) Galilee is a novel by British writer Clive Barker, published in 1998. It chronicles the rise and fall of two very different, but equally powerful dynasties. The first dynasty, the Gearys, are a glamorous and rich family, similar to the Kennedys, who have been a power in America since the Reconstruction. The Barbarossas are a family of godlike beings. The two parents, Cesaria and Nicodemus,"
"Alighieri, who wrote the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), in which there are described the nine circles of Hell, the seven terraces of Purgatory and the nine spheres of Paradise. In April 1926, some businessmen of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, informed of the touristic attractiveness of Death Valley, were trying to pick the best view of Death Valley. They had nearly chosen Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains when the Deputy Sheriff of Greenwater, Charlie Brown, carried them from this peak a little distance to the Black Mountains. The group was immediately persuaded and promptly called this point Dante's View."
"Los Angeles, California. William Jacobs (producer) William Jacobs was an American writer and producer. He was active as a writer from 1929 to 1950. During those years he wrote 20 plays and stories, most notably, Song of the Saddle. Jacobs started to produce in 1940 as the associate producer of Ladies Must Live. He was active as a producer until 1953. During those years, he produced 61 movies. He is known for Calamity Jane, Over the Goal, Christmas in Connecticut, and Tea for Two. Jacobs was born on 31 October 1887 in Chicago, Illinois and died on 30 September 1953"
"Gail Collins Pappalardi Gail Delta Collins Pappalardi (February 2, 1941 – December 6, 2013) was an American songwriter and artist. Pappalardi was the wife of Felix Pappalardi. She contributed lyrics to many Mountain songs and co-wrote Cream's ""World of Pain"" with Pappalardi and ""Strange Brew"" with Pappalardi and Eric Clapton. Both songs are included on the album ""Disraeli Gears"". As Gail Collins, her artwork appears on the album covers, ""Climbing!"", ""Nantucket Sleighride"", ""Flowers of Evil"", """", ""Twin Peaks"" and ""Avalanche"". On April 17, 1983, Felix Pappalardi was shot once in the neck in their fifth-floor East Side Manhattan apartment. He"
"Odyssey The Odyssey (; ""Odýsseia"", in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the ""Iliad"", the other work ascribed to Homer. The ""Odyssey"" is fundamental to the modern Western canon; it is the second-oldest extant work of Western literature, while the ""Iliad"" is the oldest. Scholars believe the ""Odyssey"" was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths), king of Ithaca,"
"William Jacobs (producer) William Jacobs was an American writer and producer. He was active as a writer from 1929 to 1950. During those years he wrote 20 plays and stories, most notably, Song of the Saddle. Jacobs started to produce in 1940 as the associate producer of Ladies Must Live. He was active as a producer until 1953. During those years, he produced 61 movies. He is known for Calamity Jane, Over the Goal, Christmas in Connecticut, and Tea for Two. Jacobs was born on 31 October 1887 in Chicago, Illinois and died on 30 September 1953 in Beverly Hills,"
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include ""Paul Revere's Ride"", ""The Song of Hiawatha"", and ""Evangeline"". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"" and was one of the five Fireside Poets from New England. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then still part of Massachusetts. He studied at Bowdoin College and, after spending time in Europe, he became a professor at Bowdoin and later at Harvard College. His first major poetry collections were ""Voices of the Night"" (1839)"
"Randall Wallace Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film ""Braveheart"" (1995). His work on the film earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category. He has since directed films such as ""The Man in the Iron Mask"" (1998), ""We Were Soldiers"" (2002), ""Secretariat"" (2010) and ""Heaven Is for Real"" (2014). Born in Jackson, Tennessee, he lived in Memphis and Henderson County, Tennessee before moving to Virginia. Wallace began writing"
"and blogger Karina Allrich . Steve Allrich Steve Allrich (born Chicago, Illinois) is an American screenwriter and painter. Screenwriter Steve Allrich is the author of ""The Canyon"" directed by Richard Harrah and starring Will Patton, Yvonne Strahovski and Eion Bailey, and ""Bad Karma"", starring Ray Liotta, slated for production May 2011. A plein aire painter as well as a screenwriter he authored the oil painting instruction book ""Oil Painting for the Serious Beginner"" (Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1996). Allrich is the father of electronic musician and composer Colin C. Allrich and screenwriter Alexander D. Allrich. He resides in Los Angeles,"
"Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for ""The Snow Goose"", his only real critical success, and for the novel ""The Poseidon Adventure"", primarily through the 1972 film adaptation. Gallico was born in New York City. His father was the Italian concert pianist, composer and music teacher Paolo Gallico (Trieste, May 13, 1868 – New York, July 6, 1950), and his mother, Hortense Erlich, came from Austria; they had emigrated to New"
"Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of ""You Go to My Head"", ""Honey"", ""By the Sycamore Tree"", ""That Lucky Old Sun"", ""Breezin' Along With The Breeze"", ""Right or Wrong,"" ""Beautiful Love"", ""Drifting and Dreaming"", and ""Louisiana Fairy Tale""(Fats Waller's recording of which was used as the first theme song in the PBS Production of ""This Old House""), each song in collaboration with other people such as Beasley Smith, Ervin R. Schmidt, Richard A. Whiting, Wayne King, and"
"development, even preparing a writer's guide in September, before leaving the show in October just before filming began. George Bellak George Bellak (April 9, 1919 – October 22, 2002) was an American television writer who was active from the 1950s to the 1980s. He wrote episodes for ""Justice"", (1954), ""Playhouse 90"" (1957-1959), ""The Asphalt Jungle"" (1961), ""N.Y.P.D."" (1967-1968), ""Cannon"" (1970-1975), and dozens of others. He was a winner of Writers Guild of America Award, and was nominated for an Emmy award for his teleplay ""Sadbird"" as part of the ""CBS Playhouse"" series. Bellak was recruited in August 1973 to work"
"most famous poems including ""Paul Revere's Ride"" and ""The Village Blacksmith"", as well as longer works such as ""Evangeline"", ""The Song of Hiawatha"", and ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"". He published 11 poetry collections, two novels, three epic poems, and several plays while living in this house, as well as a translation of Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"". He and his wife most often referred to it as ""Craigie House"" or ""Craigie Castle"". Longfellow oversaw the creation of a formal garden, and his wife oversaw decorating the interior. She purchased several items from Tiffany & Co. in New York, as well"
"Billy Goldenberg William Leon Goldenberg (born February 10, 1936, Brooklyn) is an American composer and songwriter, best-known for his work on television and film. Among his most noteworthy were his collaborations with Steven Spielberg on his telefilms (in particular, ""Night Gallery"" in 1969, and ""Duel"" in 1971) and his seven-episode contribution toward the ""NBC Mystery Movie"" detective series ""Columbo"". He composed the themes for several popular television programs, including ""Kojak"", ""Alias Smith and Jones"", ""Banacek"", ""Rhoda"" and ""Our House"". He composed the scores to countless films and TV movies including ""Fear No Evil"" (1969), ""Ritual of Evil"" (1970), ""The Grasshopper"""
"Leo Friedman Leo Friedman (July 16, 1869 - March 7, 1927) was an American composer of popular music. Friedman was born in Elgin, Illinois and died in Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for composing the sentimental waltz ""Let Me Call You Sweetheart"" with lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson in 1910. Another popular composition was ""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland."" He also wrote the music for the popular ragtime song ""Coon, Coon, Coon"" in 1900. Lyrics were added by Gene Jefferson in 1901. The song was claimed to be the most successful song of 1901. It was published and promoted"
"Jorge Aguirre (author) Jorge Aguirre is an American author and children's television show writer and producer. He is the writer of the graphic novel series ""The Chronicles of Claudette"" for Macmillan/First Second Books. The series includes ""Giants Beware"", ""Dragons Beware"", and the forthcoming ""Monsters Beware"". He is also the co-creator of Disney Junior's Goldie & Bear with Rick Gitelson. He has also written for ""Martha Speaks"", ""Dora The Explorer"", ""Dora and Friends"", ""Handy Manny"" and other shows. He was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio to Colombian parents. He currently lives on the East Coast. He has been reviewed by"
"Four"". Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (born 1975) is a Nicaraguan playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series ""Glee"", ""Big Love"", ""Riverdale"" and ""Chilling Adventures of Sabrina"". He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was born in Washington, D.C., the son of a Nicaraguan diplomat. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, MD followed by Georgetown University where he studied playwriting under Donn B. Murphy. Later he received a Masters Degree in English literature from McGill University, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama"
"Ivan Caryll Félix Marie Henri Tilkin (12 May 1861 – 29 November 1921), better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language. He composed (or contributed to) some forty musical comedies and operettas. Caryll's career encompassed three eras of the musical theatre, and unlike some of his contemporaries, he adapted readily to each new development. After composing a few musical burlesques, his first great successes were made in light musical comedies, epitomised by the George Edwardes productions at London's Gaiety Theatre, such as ""The Shop Girl"", ""The"
"Gloria Vitanza Basile Gloria Vitanza Basile (1929-2004) was an American novelist and songwriter. She was born in Westfield, New York, in 1929 to Sicilian immigrant parents. She studied at San Jose University and the University of California - Los Angeles. Before she began her writing career, she owned and managed a women's clothing shop. She published 13 best-selling novels, mainly romantic thrillers and later science fiction. She also wrote a song, ""Ballad of One-Eyed Jacks,"" for a movie, ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961), starring Marlon Brando. Her best known novel is ""The Godson"" (1976), later renamed ""House of Lions"", about a Mafia"
"George Bellak George Bellak (April 9, 1919 – October 22, 2002) was an American television writer who was active from the 1950s to the 1980s. He wrote episodes for ""Justice"", (1954), ""Playhouse 90"" (1957-1959), ""The Asphalt Jungle"" (1961), ""N.Y.P.D."" (1967-1968), ""Cannon"" (1970-1975), and dozens of others. He was a winner of Writers Guild of America Award, and was nominated for an Emmy award for his teleplay ""Sadbird"" as part of the ""CBS Playhouse"" series. Bellak was recruited in August 1973 to work on the TV series """" (1975). He wrote the pilot episode """" and was story consultant during early"
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Kubla Khan"", as well as the major prose work ""Biographia Literaria"". His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He had a major"
"Bob Hilliard Bob Hilliard (born Hilliard Goldsmith; January 28, 1918 – February 1, 1971) was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs: ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"", ""Any Day Now"", ""Dear Hearts and Gentle People"", ""Our Day Will Come"", ""My Little Corner of the World"", ""Tower of Strength"" and ""Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat)"". After finishing high school, Hilliard began working as a lyricist in Tin Pan Alley. At the age of 28 he had his first success with ""The Coffee Song"". During his Broadway years, Hilliard wrote"
"John Gray (poet) Canon John Gray (2 March 1866 – 14 June 1934) was an English poet and Catholic priest whose works include ""Silverpoints"", ""The Long Road"" and ""Park: A Fantastic Story"". It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray despite evidence of the contrary. Born in the working-class district of Bethnal Green, London, he was the first of nine children. He left school at the age of 13 and began work as an apprentice metal-worker at the Royal Arsenal. He continued his education by attending a series of evening classes, studying"
"family. Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of ""You Go to My Head"", ""Honey"", ""By the Sycamore Tree"", ""That Lucky Old Sun"", ""Breezin' Along With The Breeze"", ""Right or Wrong,"" ""Beautiful Love"", ""Drifting and Dreaming"", and ""Louisiana Fairy Tale""(Fats Waller's recording of which was used as the first theme song in the PBS Production of ""This Old House""), each song in collaboration with other people such as Beasley Smith, Ervin R. Schmidt, Richard A. Whiting, Wayne King,"
"speaker at the Fellowship Foundation National Prayer Breakfast on 3 February 2011. Wallace also served as the commencement speaker at the Liberty University graduation ceremony on May 14, 2011. Randall Wallace Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film ""Braveheart"" (1995). His work on the film earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category. He has since directed films such as ""The Man in the Iron Mask"" (1998), ""We Were"
"Angelo Badalamenti Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably ""Blue Velvet"", the ""Twin Peaks"" saga (1990–1992, 2017), ""The Straight Story"" and ""Mulholland Drive"". Badalamenti received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his """"Twin Peaks"" Theme"", and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Awards and the Henry Mancini Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Badalamenti was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Italian-American family; his father, who was of Sicilian descent, was a"
"Grażyna (poem) Grażyna is an 1823 narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in the summer of 1822 during a year-long sabbatical in Vilnius, while away from his teaching duties in Kaunas. Probably his first notable work. The poem describes the exploits of a mythical Lithuanian chieftainess Grażyna () against the forces of the medieval Order of the Teutonic Knights. The woman character is believed to have been based on Mickiewicz's own sweetheart from Kaunas, Karolina Kowalska. The name was originally conceived by Mickiewicz himself, having used the root of the Lithuanian adjective ""graži"", meaning ""beautiful"". It was said by Polish"
"Charles Hamilton Aide Charles Hamilton Aide (sometimes written as Aidé or Aïdé; born in Paris, France, 1826 - died in London, England, 13 December 1906) was ""for many years a conspicuous figure in London literary society, a writer of novels, songs and dramas of considerable merit and popularity, and a skillful amateur artist"". In particular, Aide was ""known for such widely anthologized lyrics as 'Love, the Pilgrim', 'Lost and Found' and 'George Lee'"". His father, an Armenian merchant, was killed in a duel when Aide was four years old. He was thereafter raised in England by his mother, who was"
"Evangeline Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime and remains one of his most popular and enduring works. The poem had a powerful effect"
"Steve Allrich Steve Allrich (born Chicago, Illinois) is an American screenwriter and painter. Screenwriter Steve Allrich is the author of ""The Canyon"" directed by Richard Harrah and starring Will Patton, Yvonne Strahovski and Eion Bailey, and ""Bad Karma"", starring Ray Liotta, slated for production May 2011. A plein aire painter as well as a screenwriter he authored the oil painting instruction book ""Oil Painting for the Serious Beginner"" (Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1996). Allrich is the father of electronic musician and composer Colin C. Allrich and screenwriter Alexander D. Allrich. He resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, artist"
"Award, and World Fantasy Award. Dan Simmons Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. A typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is ""Song of Kali"" (1985), winner of the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Simmons received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970 and,"
"Arthenia J. Bates Millican Arthenia J. Bates Millican (June 1, 1920 – December 13, 2012) was an American poet, short-story writer, essayist, and educator whose published writings include the books ""Seeds Beneath the Snow"" (1969), ""The Deity Nodded"" (1973), and ""Such Things from the Valley"" (1977). She was born as Arthenia Jackson in Sumter, South Carolina, to Baptist minister Calvin S. Jackson and his second wife, Susan Emma David Jackson. Encouraged by her father to write, Arthenia published her first poem, ""Christmastide"", in ""The Sumter Daily Item"" when she was 16 years old, while she was attending Lincoln High School"
"Meghadūta Meghadūta ( literally Cloud Messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kālidāsa, considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets. A poem of 111 stanzas, it is one of Kālidāsa's most famous works. The work is divided into two parts, Purva-megha and Uttara-megha. It recounts how a yakṣa, a subject of King Kubera (the god of wealth), after being exiled for a year to Central India for neglecting his duties, convinces a passing cloud to take a message to his wife at Alaka on Mount Kailāsa in the Himālaya mountains. The accomplishes this by describing the many beautiful"