THE ELECTRONIC WRITE STUFF
· Writing News for the
Sunshine State & the Solar System
· www.northfloridawriters.org
* March 2011
· Editor: Howard Denson
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In This Issue:
NFW to Critique in March
Jax’s Beat poet Alan Justiss Dies at 67
Winston Groom named 2011 Harper Lee Award recipient
The Wrong Stuff
An Advice Column from “Dear Agony Uncle”
Stuff from Hither and Yon
Quote from a Writer's Quill – Ring Lardner
Meetings of NFW and Other Groups; Useful Links
The Write Staff
Membership Form
Writers Born This Month
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NFW TO CRITIQUE
AT MAR. 12 MEETING
AT WILLOWBRANCH
The North Florida Writers will critique manuscripts at the Saturday,
Mar. 12, meeting at Willowbranch library. President Stewart Neal said
the meeting will start at 2 p.m.
The critique process has people other than the author of respective
works read aloud the submissions (up to 10 double-spaced pages of
prose, and reasonable amounts of poetry or lyrics). Authors may not
defend their work, but they should listen to the words and rhythms of
their creations.
This will be the group’s third meeting at Willowbranch. Long-time
residents have probably driven past this library at 2875 Park St., Jax
32205, but, if you are unfamiliar with the Riverside part of town, you
may wish to go to http://jpl.coj.net/lib/branches/wbb.html and use
MapQuest to find the easiest route there. The WB phone is 904.381.8490.
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JAX’S BEAT POET
ALAN JUSTISS
DIES AT 67
A familiar sight at open mike readings, Alan Justiss, has died. He
presented a persona similar to that of Charles Bukowski’s and counseled
many aspiring poets in Jacksonville. He was 67 years old.
Shelton Hull wrote this profile of Justiss: http://sheltonhull.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/money-jungle-alan-justiss-1943-2011/
Justiss described his life as it interacted with Bukowski in http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/bukowski_and_me/Story?oid=192775
Not only do two videos on You Tube show Justiss reading poetry
(“Angel’s Blue Hair” and “For Only You Will Be”), they also have him
describing his writing process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoDpu0bf5UY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sh-aS0aCtA&feature=related
His friends often refer to him as “the poet laureate of Jacksonville.”
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WINSTON GROOM NAMED
2011 HARPER LEE
AWARD RECIPIENT
Winston Groom of Point Clear, Ala., has been named the 2011 recipient
of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year.
Groom will receive the award at the Alabama Writers Symposium in
Monroeville on May 6 at the annual luncheon. The conference will meet
May 5-7.
The Alabama Writers' Forum, a partnership program of the Alabama State
Council on the Arts, coordinates the process to select the Harper Lee
Award recipient annually from nominations from the field. The honor,
made possible through a generous grant from George F. Landegger, is
presented annually by Alabama Southern Community College at the
Symposium.
"One of the first books my twin sons fell in love with was Winston
Groom's Only," said Sue Brannan Walker, Alabama Writers' Forum board
president and Poet Laureate of Alabama. "From his fabulous Forrest Gump
book and film to my personal favorites, A Storm in Flanders and
Patriotic Fire, Winston has impressed with his humor, his depth, his
versatility, and his range of subject matter."
The author of 14 books, Groom gained literary fame when his novel
Forrest Gump climbed to the top of The New York Times bestseller list
and stayed there for twenty-one weeks. It has sold over 2.5 million
copies in the United States alone and millions more worldwide on the
heels of its blockbuster movie adaptation starring Tom Hanks. The book
has also been reprinted in at least 13 countries.
The Harper Lee Award is made to a living, nationally recognized Alabama
writer who has made a significant, lifelong contribution to Alabama
letters. It includes a cash prize and a bronze sculpture by Frank
Fleming of the Monroe County Courthouse clock tower. The courthouse is
a setting for Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. – “The Alabama
Writers’ Forum Literary News”
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THE
WRONG
STUFF
H. Thomas Hayden, “Egyptian military is the wild card in democracy movement” (op-ed column in “Florida Times-Union”):
Unfortunately, as soon as the North Vietnamese took over the South,
they quickly moved aside the National Liberation Front and not one of
its members were part of the new communist government.
W.S. SAYS: Almost half a century ago, this editor had a high-stakes bet
with “Birmingham News” copy desk slot-man Fred Adams that “none” always
requires a singular verb. Fred won a dime when he flipped through the
“Merriam-Webster English Dictionary” and cited their discussion. Okay,
so it can be plural at times, depending on the sense. However, in the
op-ed sentence above, the wording says “not one,” and that means “one”
(or zero with the “not”), so the verb would have to be singular: “not
one was part.”
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AN ADVICE
COLUMN FROM
“DEAR AGONY UNCLE”
DEAR AGONY UNCLE: I’m working on a chapter with third-person
omniscience. I go into the perspective of my heroine, but, before I
finish that, my Significant Other Being storms into the room ranting
that I’m neglecting him. The paragraph goes about a page, and then I’m
in the mind of the heroine’s niece for another page when there’s
another interruption from the SOB about how selfish I am. I’m then
perhaps working on a first-person, authorial insertion when, you got
it, still another interruption occurs. What should I do? – Need Info Re
POV and SOB PDQ
DEAR NEED INFO: This really won’t do. You are hopping all over the
place on your points of view. Sort out your narrative and locate the
POV that best serves all elements of your tale. Oh, find a quiet spot
for writing, perhaps in another state.
**
DEAR AGONY UNCLE: Our local paper doesn’t carry comics that have
narratives, so I’ve been going online to follow Judge Parker, Apt. 3-G,
Mary Worth, and others. During a two-week vacation with his wife,
retired Judge Parker wrote his second novel and is on a visit to NYC to
publicize his first novel. Jackie Thornton, who had a reputation for
breaking up the marriages of her authors at the publishing house, was
killed in an accident, and her young assistant seems to have her eye on
the Judge or Sam Driver, or maybe just focusing on her career. Is this
going to end well? – Worried to Death
DEAR WORRIED: Two weeks for a novice to complete a second (or third)
novel? When Mickey Spillane needed money, he would check into a novel
with his typewriter and a bottle of whiskey and emerge three days later
with a Mike Hammer novel. Erle Stanley Gardner would go to a cabin with
a Dictaphone or tape recorder and dictate a Perry Mason novel for his
secretary to type up. John Creasy wrote 600 or so novels. It CAN be
done. These techniques can produce fast-paced formulaic tales, not
something that will match, say, Grisham, Clancy, or King. It’s unlikely
to end well.
If “Dear Abby,” “Dear Annie,” or some other agony aunt has failed to
address your writing problems, send them to
hd3nson@hotmail.com<mailto:hd3nson@hotmail.com>.
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STUFF
FROM HITHER
AND YON
Why
and
How
To Write
This is the first of a four-part series that appeared in This
Recording. Some others in the series were Joyce Carol Oates, Gene
Wolfe, Philip Levine, Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Don
DeLillo, Anton Chekhov, Mavis Gallant, Stanley Elkin. Check it out at
http://thisrecording.com/today/2010/10/5/in-which-we-get-you-writing-something-dark-and-very-disturbe.html.
100 greatest
writers
of all time
This Recording’s editors Will Hubbard and Alex Carnevale will make you
nod and shake your head as they argue that their list includes the most
outstanding authors from the 21st Century back to the Ancient World.
http://thisrecording.com/today/2009/8/3/in-which-these-are-the-100-greatest-writers-of-all-time.html.
5 of the Best Free
Writing Software and Tools
for Aspiring Novelists
Peter Miller writes: “Whether you’re the next Jack Karouac or the next
NaNoWriMo dropout, any novelist who takes the craft seriously is going
to need the right tools to write.” Microsoft Office may not help with
creative work, but Word’s spellchecker would tell him that he erred in
the spelling of the “On the Road” writer. Miller discusses these tools:
Notational Velocity with Simplenote Synch, Pomodairo (time management),
Skim (note taking), LeechBlock (anti-distractions), and Scrivener’s
Gold (organizing manuscripts). Go to
http://www.friedbeef.com/5-of-the-best-free-writing-software-and-tools-for-aspiring-novelists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Friedbeef+%28FriedBeef%27s+Tech%29&utm_content=Google+Reader.
How to: Publish
Your Book on
The Kindle
An article by A. Jurek in Blogcritics.org will help new authors have a
leg up in getting their manuscripts published. Jurek takes you through
the process step by step. He could emphasize this point: Make sure your
manuscript sparkles and is free of errors in grammar, spelling, and
content.
http://blogcritics.org/books/article/how-to-publish-your-book-on/
Grief,
Unedited and
Joyce Carol Oates
“A Widow’s Story” by Joyce Carol Oates has forked lightning because the
writer re-married so soon after the death of her husband. The critics
may be off base when they say she was cold-hearted or too objective,
according to Ruth Davis Konigsberg, the author of “The Truth About
Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss.” Go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15Konigsberg.html?_r=1&ref=opinion.
Prescriptive
vs. Descriptive
Grammarians
Barton Swain reviews the late R. W. Burchfield’s third edition of “The
New Fowler’s Modern English Usage.” English grammarians are divided
into two camps: the prescriptive language experts (who apply rules) and
the descriptive experts. Follow your favorite Fowlers at
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Use-value-6943.
Calvin Trillin
On
Memoirs
Interviewed by Sophie Roell, Calvin Trillin discusses five of his
favorite memoirs. These include “The Liar’s Club” by Mary Karr,
“Clinging to the Wreckage” by John Mortimer, “Growing Up” by Russell
Baker, “This Boy’s Life: A Memoir” by Tobias Wolff, and “Omaha Blues: A
Memory Loop” by Joseph Lelyveld.
http://thebrowser.com/interviews/calvin-trillin-on-memoirs
Where words
Come from
The basic building blocks of English are the Anglo-Saxon words, which
often combined with words from other languages (e.g., “will,”
Anglo-Saxon; and “testament,” Latin). Have fun keeping up with words
that have changed over time, just been made up, or were created in
error. Go to
http://www.krysstal.com/wordname.html.
Matthew Prichard
On his grandmum
Agatha Christie
Mathew Prichard’s selection of his late grandmother’s literature
reveals a master storyteller. His own family memories — and a
definitive biography — show Agatha Christie as kind, shrewd and
sensitive.
http://thebrowser.com/interviews/mathew-prichard-on-agatha-christie.
Self-Published Author
Amanda Hocking Makes
Millions from eBook Sales
Amanda Hocking was the typical frustrated. The Austin, Minn. resident
was living paycheck to paycheck and had been rejected by publishers all
over New York. She decided to go the ebook route and publish only that
way. Result? Sales of 100,000 in December. She has gone from unknown
writer to a millionaire scribe.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/01/self-published-author-amada-hocking_n_829906.html.
1,000 year old
'Irish Hamlet'
mystery: solved?
Joanne Rostron describes the quest of a University of Aberdeen academic
to trace Hamlet’s name back earlier than Saxo Grammaticus’ “History of
the Danes” (which called him “Amleth”). Dr. Lisa Collinson says his
name in Gaelic means “grinding.” For more, go to
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-thousand-year-irish-hamlet-mystery.html
William Faulkner
Recordings now
Online at NPR
When William Faulkner spent two years as writer-in-residence at the
University of Virginia, the readings, lectures, and Q&A sessions
were recorded on reel-to-reel tapes.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128513514
World Book Night:
A book so good
they want to give
it to you for free
This widespread, personalized championing of books couldn't come at a
better time, writes Gaby Wood in London’s “Daily Telegraph.” Expert
readers are rare because everyone wants to be a writer, yet some
predict that neither writer, agent, nor publisher will be able to make
a living at it in the future. Read more at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8360256/World-Book-Night-A-book-so-good-they-want-to-give-it-to-you-for-free.html.
James Hudnall
on
Writing
Graphic novelist James Hudnall has a book on writing coming out titled
“The Secrets of Writing.” The section on rules of writing gives sound
advice: e.g., avoid clichés, avoiding Political Correctness language,
etc. http://thehud.com/writing/rules-of-writing/
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QUOTE FROM
A WRITER'S QUILL
How can you write if you can’t cry?
– Ring Lardner
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MEETINGS OF NFW
AND OTHER GROUPS;
SOME USEFUL LINKS
BARD SOCIETY: Every Wednesday: 7 p.m.; Frank Green 234-8383; Email frankgrn@comcast.net<mailto:frankgrn@comcast.net>
FIRST COAST CHRISTIAN WRITERS GROUP: Every Thursday, 6:45 p.m. at
Charles Webb-Wesconett Library at the intersection of 103rd Street and
Harlow Boulevard. Email:
Dalyn_2@yahoo.com<mailto:Dalyn_2@yahoo.com> or
Tlsl72@yahoo.com<mailto:Tlsl72@yahoo.com>,
FIRST COAST ROMANCE WRITERS: Second Saturday of each month; start time
varies based on program; see website Chaffee Road Library; 1425 Chaffee
Road South, Jacksonville. Info:
President@firstcoastromancewriters.com<mailto:President@firstcoastromancewriters.com>
and
www.firstcoastromancewriters.com<http://www.firstcoastromancewriters.com/>
MANDARIN WRITERS WORKSHOP: Second and fourth Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at
S. Mandarin Library (corner of San Jose and Orange Picker Rd.). Larry
Barnes at
wordsandpics@bellsouth.net<mailto:wordsandpics@bellsouth.net>.
NORTH FLORIDA WRITERS: Second Saturday: 2 p.m. at Willowbranch Library;
2875 Park Street 32205;
www.northfloridawriters.org<https://owa.fccj.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://owa.fccj.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.northfloridawriters.org>
THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA CHAPTER OF FLORIDA WRITERS ASSN.: fourth Saturday
of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Ponte Vedra Library (between
Jacksonville and St. Augustine). Vic DiGenti, FWA regional director.
For more information, check
www.fwapontevedra.blogspot.com<http://www.fwapontevedra.blogspot.com/>
or www.windrusher.com<http://www.windrusher.com/>.
SISTERS IN CRIME: First Saturday of each month: 10:30 a.m. at Southeast
Regional Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32256;
Sherry Czerniejewski, president Email
sherrycz@aol.com<mailto:sherrycz@aol.com>
TODAY IN LITERATURE: http://www.todayinliterature.com/
THE PHRASE FINDER: http://www.phrases.org.uk/
POETRY DAILY: http://poems.com/
THROW GRAMMAR FROM THE TRAIN: http://throwgrammarfromthetrain.blogspot.com/
100 EXTENSIVE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD THAT ANYONE CAN ACCESS: https://maryandmacdesign.wordpress.com/
QUOTE INVESTIGATOR: http://quoteinvestigator.com/
REPRESENTATIVE POETRY ONLINE: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/menupoet.cfm
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday
CLASSIC BOOKS FOR FREE DOWNLOADS: http://www.planetebook.com/
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THE
WRITE
STAFF
President: Stewart Neal (stewartneal@usa.net<mailto:stewartneal@usa.net>)
Vice President: Richard Levine (RichieL@clearwire.net<mailto:RichieL@clearwire.net>)
Secretary: Kathy Marsh (kathygmarsh@bellsouth.net<mailto:kathygmarsh@bellsouth.net>)
Treasurer: Howard Denson (hd3nson@hotmail.com<mailto:hd3nson@hotmail.com>)
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MEMBERSHIP
APPLICATION
FOR NORTH FLORIDA WRITERS
Membership is $15 for students, $25 for individuals, and $40 for a
family. (Make out checks to WRITERS.) Mail your check to WRITERS, c/o
Howard Denson, 1511 Pershing Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32205.
Name___________________________________________ _____________
St. address_________________________________ Apt. No. ____________
City ______________________________State _____ Zip ______________
E-mail address: __________________________________ _____________
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WRITERS
BORN
IN MARCH
1—Martial (40 A.D.), Po Tjiu-I (772), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Johann
B. Schup (Schuppius) (1610), Vittorio Bersezio (Carlo Nugelli) (1828),
Ion Creanga (1837), William Dean Howells (1837), Lytton Strachey
(1880), Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892), Moriz Seeler (1896), Yorgos Seferis
(1900), Pol le Roy (1905), David Niven (1910), Ralph Ellison (1914),
Robert Lowell (1917), Howard Nemerov (1920), Richard Wilbur (1921),
Kuczka Péter (1923), Camille E. Baly (1936), Jean-Edern Hallier (1936),
Michael J[oseph] Kurland (1938), Franz Hohler (1943), Steven Barnes
(1952);
2-- George Sandys (1578), Camille Desmoulins (1760), Evgeny
Baratynsky (1800), Janos Arany (1817), Multatuli (1820), Dr. Seuss
(Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904), Jan Fabricius (1909), Godfried (Jan
Arnold) Bomans (1913), David Goodis (1917), Orrin Keepnews (1923),
Philip K. Dick (1928), Tom Wolfe (1931), John Irving (1942), Peter
Straub (1943), Mark Evanier (1952), Morioka Hiroyuki (1962), Michael
Salinger (1962), Glenn Rubenstein (1976);
3--Edward Herbert (1583), Edmund Waller (1606), Thomas Otway (1652),
William Godwin (1756), Charles Sealsfield (1793), Vissarion Belinsky
(1811), Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli) (1820), Fred Burnaby (1842),
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier) (1868), Colonel Edward Thomas (1878),
Floris H. L. Prims (1882), Tore Ørjasæter (1886), Beatrice Wood (1893),
Juri Olescha (1899), Rabbe A. Enckell (1903), Artur Lundkvist (1906),
Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar (1906), Aar van de Werfhorst (Pieter G.
Jansen) (1907), Kenton Kilmer (1909), Roger Caillois (1913), Bert van
Aerschot (1917), James Merrill (1926), Don Gibson (1928), G. Pausewang
(1928), Hans Pieter Verhagen (1939), Owen Spencer-Thomas (1940), Roger
Swaybill (1943);
4-- Lauritz de Thurah (1706), Charles Dibdin (1765), Johann Wyss
(1782), Kristian Mandrup Elster (1841), Josip Jurcic (1844), Toru Dutt
(1856), Thomas Sturge Moore (1870), Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873),
Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), Bernhard Kellermann (1879), Channing Pollock
(1880), Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1881), Emilio Prados (1899),
Herbert Biberman (1900), Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (1901), George Gamow
(1904), Meindert DeJong (1906), Boris N. Poveloi (Kampov) (1908), Taos
Amrouche (1913), Giorgio Bassani (1906), Patrick Moore (1923), Alan
Sillitoe (1928), Wally Bruner (1931), Dieter Meier (1945), David
Franzoni (1947), Lindy Chamberlain (1948), James Ellroy (1948), Ofelia
Medina (1950), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951), Mark Chorvinsky (1954),
Jim Dwyer (1957), Andrew Collins (1965), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Dav
Pilkey (1966), Andrew Osmond (1967), Max Vergara Poeti (1983);
5-- Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky (1703), Jacob Wallenberg (1746),
Wilhelm von Giesebrecht (1814), onstance Fenimore Woolson (1840),
Isabella Gregory(1852), Frank Norris (1870), Arthur van Schendel
(1874), Friedrich Schnack (1888), Fritz Usinger(1895), Julian Przybos
(1901), Irving Fiske(1908), Joseph Tomelty (1911), Charles Fuller
(1939), Michael D(iamond) Resnick (1942), Roy Gutman (1944), Mark
Handley(1956), David Fury (1959), Yuri Lowenthal (1971), and Nelly
Arcan (1973);
6-- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475), Jean Luis Vives
(1492), Luigi Alamanni (1495), Jan Zoet (1615), Cyrano de Bergerac
(1619), Francis Atterbury (1663), John Alberti (1698), Giovanni Meli
(1740), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), George du Maurier (1834),
Johan Bojer (1872), Ring Lardner (1885), Hugh Williams (1904), Will
Eisner (1917), Roger Price, (1920), Gabriel García Márques (1928), Teru
Miyamoto (1947), Jan Kjærstad (1953);
7-- Guillaume du Vair (1556), Jean Lebeuf (1687), Ewald Christian von
Kleist (1715), Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Frantisek L Celakovsky
(1799), Franz Grave von Pocci (1807), Judocus Smits (1813), Olegario
Victor Andrade (1841), William Rockhill Nelson (1841), Luther Burbank
(1849), Matilde Serao (Tuffolina) (1856), Paul Ernst (1866), Vera
Fjodorova Panova (1905), Mircea Eliade (1907), Greta Schoon (1909), Leo
Malet (1909), Mochtar Lubis (1919), Kobo Abe (1924), Jean-Paul Desbiens
(1927), Georges Perec (1936), Harald Gerlach (1940), Paul Preuss
(1942), Jorgen Theobaldy (1944), Stanley Schmidt (1944), Robert Harris
(1957), Bret Easton Ellis (1964);
8-- Ede Szigligeti (1814), João de Deus (1830), Kenneth Grahame (1859),
M. Lichnowsky (1879), Stuart Chase (1888), Gene Fowler (1890), Eric
Linklater (1899), (Elmer Keith 1899), R. W. Schnell (1916), A. Marja
(ATE Mooy) (1917), H. Kipphardt (1922), Sembene Ousmane (1923), Victor
"Toby" Neuberg (1924), John McPhee (1931), Neil Postman (1931), Richard
Farina (1937), George William Reed (1939), Jim Bouton (1939);
9-- Friederike C. Neuber (1697), Honore Mirabeau (1749), William
Cobbett (1763), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Umberto Saba (1883), David
Garnett (1892), Joseph Weinheber (1892), Vita Sackville-West (1892),
Frank Arnau (1894), Peter C. Quennell (1905), Rex Warner (1905),
Ed(uard) Hoornik (1910), Ger(ar)da Brautigam (1913), Frank Morrison
“Mickey” Spillane (1918), Marie Cardinal (1929), Heere Heeresma (1932),
Michael Kinsley (1951), Keven Wade (1954), Shashi Tharoor (1956), Jack
Kenny (1958), and Michael Patrick MacDonald (1966);
10-- Constantine Huygens Jr. (1628), Lorenzo da Ponte (1749), Georg F.
Creuzer (1771), Friedrich von Schlegel (1772), Joseph Freiherr von
Eichendorff (1788), Samuel Ferguson (1810), Ina Donna Coolbrith (1842),
Henry Watson Fowler (1858), Pim (Willem J.H.) Mulier (1865), Jakob
Wassermann (1873), David M. Chumaceiro (1877), Karel van de Woestijne
(1878), Nancy Cunard (1896), Heywood Hale Broun (1918), Boris Vian
(1920), Manolis Anagnostakis (1925), Georges Dor (1931), Alfredo
Zitarrosa (1936), David Rabe (1940), Laurie Langenbach (1947), Juliusz
Machulski (1955), Anne MacKenzie (1960), and Felice Arena (1968);
11-- Torquato Tasso (1544), Hendrik L. Spieghel (1549), Isaac Elsevier
(1596), Jan F. Willems (1793), Antonio C.G. Crespo (1846), Wobbe de
Vries (1863), Jan Lemaire (1884), Josef Martin Bauer (1902), Dorothy
Schiff (1903), Ronald Syme (1903), Maurits Wertheim (1904), Fitzroy
Maclean (1911), Robert Clifford Latham (1912), Karl Krolow (1915), Ezra
Jack Keats (1916), D.J. Enright (1920), F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr.
(1921), A.X. Gwerder (1923), Ad(rianus C.) de Besten (1923), Adrienne
Keith Cohen (1926), Rupert Murdoch (1931), Sam Donaldson (1934),
Douglas Adams (1952), D.J. MacHale (1956), Flemming Rose (1958), Delia
Gallagher (1970), and Christopher Rice (1978);
12--Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620), John Aubrey (1626), Richard
Steele (1672), George Berkeley (1685), Louis-Prosper Gachard (1800),
Adolf A. Wolfschoon (1863), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Philip Guedalla
(1889), Þórbergur Þórðarson (1889), A. Evert Taube (1890), Kylie
Tennant (1912), Irving Layton (1912), Jack Kerouac (1922), Harry
(Maxwell) Harrison (1925), John Clellon Holmes (1926), Edward Albee
(1928), U Win Tin (1929), John Gross (1935), M.A. Numminen (1940),
Peter Whalley (1946), Mary Alice Williams (1949), Eliézer Niyitegeka
(1952), Naomi Shihab Nye (1952), Carl Hiaasen (1953), Randall Kenan
(1963), Steve Levy (1965), Jake Tapper (1969), Dave Eggers (1970), and
Simon Young (1976);
13 -- John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683), Charles Bonnet (1720), Karl
F. Schinkel (1781), Oswald Garrison Villard (1872), Balthazar H.
Verhagen (1881), Emanuel Stickelberger (1884), Hugh S. Walpole (1884),
Oskar Loerke (1884), Janet Flanner (1892), Dorothy Aldis (1896), Marcel
Thiry (1897), Jan Lechon (1899), Albert Hughes Williams (1907),
L(aFayette] Ron Hubbard (1911), Sergey Mikhalkov (1913), W.O. Mitchell
(1914), Maria Vlamynck (1917), Jim Rodger (1922), Charles Sickman
Corsen (1927), J. D. Slater (1929), Marc Dessauvage (1931), Barry
Hughart (1934), Michael Walzer (1935), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), Andre
Techine (1943), Charles Krauthammer (1950), Yuri Andrukhovych (1960),
Robert Lanham (1971);
14-- F.G. Klopstock (1803), Théodore de Banville (1823), Alexandru
Macedonski (1854), Algernon Blackwood (1869), Isadore Gilbert Mudge
(1875), Carel T. Scharten (1878), Albert Einstein (1879), John P.
Strijbos (1891), Arnold Chikobava (1898), Maurice (Jean Jacques)
Merleau-Ponty (1908), Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), Horton Foote
(1916), Macha Louis Rosenthal (1917), Max Shulman (1919), Colin
Fletcher (1922), John Barrington Wain (1925), Joop F. Wolff (1927),
Michael Caine (Maurice J. Micklewhite) (1933), Bertrand Blier (1939),
Peter Paul Zahl (1944), Herman(us J.) van Veen (1945), Pam Ayres
(1947), Michael Stedman (1949), Andrew Robinson (1957), Tad Williams
(1957), Kevin Williamson (1965);
15— Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701), Branko Radicevic (1824), Paul von
Heyse (1830), Augusta Gregory (1852), Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867),
Gilberto Freye (1900), An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau (1910), Louis
Paul Boon (1912), Richard Ellmann (1918), Lawrence Sanders (1920),
Madelyn Pugh (1921), Louis Boon (1922), Juij Bondarew (1924), Robert
Nye (1939), Jack Whyte (1939), Margo Coleman (1940), Jacques Doillon
(1944), Mark J. Green (1945), Kate Bornstein (1948), Jennifer 8. Lee
(1976), Jose Sanchez Zolliker (1976), F.V.A. Morriello (1985);
16--Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), Gerbrant A. Bredero (1585), René
Le Bossu (1631), Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette (1634), Bengt
Lidner (1757), Peter Ernst von Lasaulx (1805), Ernest Feydeau (1821),
Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), Maxim Gorki (1868), F. A. Forbes (1869),
Ethel Anderson (1883), Francisco Ayala (1906), Samael Aun Weor (1927),
Sid Fleischman (1920), Geoffrey Freeman Allen (1922), Harding Lemay
(1922), Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch) (1926), Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(1927), Don Richard Carpenter (1931), Margaret (Edith) Weis (1948),
Alice Hoffman (1952), Kate Worley (1958);
17-- Daniel van Papenbroeck (1628), Alexander Knox (1757), Ebenezer
Elliott (1781), Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (1811), Jean Ingelow (1820),
Oskar Peschel (1826), Kristian Elster (1881), Urmuz (Demetru Dem.
Demetrescu-Buzau) (1883), Paul Green (1894), Boris N. Poveloi (Kampov)
(1908), Bayard Rustin (1910), Arthur Basil Cotle (1917), Siegfried Lenz
(1926), Kenneth S. Goldstein (1927), Nancy Sheehan (1927), James Morrow
(1947), William (Ford) Gibson (1948), Marc Gunn (1972;
18--Cornelis Ketel (1548), Manuel de Faria e Sousa (1590), Matthew
Decker (1679), Friedrich Hebbel (1813), William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840),
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Michael G. de Boer (1867), Bernard Cronin
(1884), Marianne (Goudeket-)Philips (1886), Robert P. Tristram Coffin
(1892), Wilfred Owen (1893), Srecko Kosovel (1904), William Hutchinson
Murray (1913), Richard Thomas Condon (1915), Bob Broeg (1918), Egon
Bahr (1922), George Plimpton (1927), Christa Wolf (1929), John Updike
(1932), Hans Peter Bleuel (1936), Wolfgang Bauer (1941), Joy Fielding
(1945), Patrick Barlow (1947), Richard Kretchmer (1950), Luc Besson
(1959), and Max Barry (1973);
19—Benedetto Varchi (1503), Tobias Smollett (1721), Zacharias H.
Alewijn (1742), Patricius Walker (William Allingham) (1824), Ulrika
"Minna" Cant-Johnstown (1844), Willem H. de Beaufort (1845), Josef
Albers (1888), L. O'Flaherty (1897), Irving Wallace (Wallechinsky)
(1916), Kjell Aukrust (1920), Philip Roth (1933), Renée Taylor (1933),
Borge Andersen (1934), Bigas Luna (1945), Jorma Taccone (1977);
20 -- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 BC), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770),
Karl August Nicander (1799), Thomas Cooper (1805), Ned Buntline (Edward
Zane Carroll Judson) (c1813), Carel Vosmaer (1826), Henrik Ibsen
(1828), Auguste Bender (1846), Louis Marie Émile Bertrand (1866), Obe
Postma (1868), Karin Michaelis (1872), Börries von Münchhausen (1874),
S V Vegesack (1888), athryn Forbes (1902), Donald Featherstone (1918),
Carl Reiner (1922), Ray Goulding (1922), Shaukat Siddiqui (1923), David
Malouf (1934), Elizabeth Gille (1937), Gerard Malanga (1943), Jay
Ingram (1945), John Eastburn Boswell (1947), Curt Smith (1951), Liana
Kanelli (1954), Spike Lee (1957), Touré (1971), Andrzej Pilipiuk (1974);
21 -- Jean Paul (1763), Geoffrey Dearmer (1893), Richard Leslie Hill
(1901), William Downie Forrest (1902), Phyllis McGinley (1905),
John Paxton (1911), Peter Bull (1912), Frank Hardy (1917),
Geoffrey Pinnington (1919), Peter Brook (1925), Madison Jones (1925),
Andre Delvaux (1926), Virginia Weidler (1926), Peter Hacks (1928),
Hubert Fichte (1935), Mark Waid (1962);
22 -- Antonio Francesco Grazzini (1503), Edward Moore (1712), Anton
Raphael Mengs (1728), Heinrich D Zschokke (1771), Theodor Birt (1852),
Arnold Sauwen (1857), Ellen Glasgow (1874), Giulia D De Albertis
(1896), Ellin MacKay Berlin (1902), Jochen Klepper (1903), Phyllis
McGinley (1905), Albrecht Goes (1908), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Jack
Popplewell (1909), Nicholas Monsarret (1910), Georgiy Zhzhonov (1915),
Stewart Stern (1922), Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov (1928), Igor Hajek
(1931), Leslie Thomas (1931), William Shatner (1931), Alan Bleasdale
(1936), Billy Collins (1941), Rudy/Rudolf (von Bittner) Rucker (1946),
Wolf Blitzer (1948);
23-- John Bartram (1699), Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper (1808), Aleksej F.
Pisemski (1821), Eduard Schlagintweit (1831), Alexandru D. Xenopol
(1847), Sir Thomas Chapais (1858), Roger Martin du Guard (1881),
Encarnacion Alzona (1895), Erich Fromm (1900), Francis Berry (1915), H.
C. Allen (1917), Wolfgang Altendorfer (1921), Barry Cryer (1936), Jim
Trelease (1941), Walter Rodney (1942), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Kim
Stanley Robinson (1952), Steven Saylor (1956), Oscar Michael Moore
(1960), Terry Sweeney (1960), Gary Whitehead (1965), Mitch Cullin
(1968);
24-- Arai Hakuseki (1657), Jose F. de Isla (Francisco de Salazar)
(1703), Joel Barlow (1754), Robert Hamerling (1830), John Wesley Powell
(1834), William Morris (1834), Honoré Beaugrand (1848), Silas Hocking
(1850), Olive Schreiner (1855), Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) (1874), Top
Naeff (Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff) (1878), John Knittel (1891),
Gianna Manzini (1896), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), Andre Christiaens
(1905), Pura Santillan-Castrence (1905), John Cameron Swayze (1906),
Janet Harmon Bragg (1907), Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya (1907), Donald
Hamilton (1916), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), Wilson Harris (1921),
Dario Fo (1926), Martin Walser (1927), Peter Bichsel (1935), David
Irving (1938), Ian Hamilton (1938), Pieter W. Coetzer (1947), Irina
Ratushinskaya (1954);
25-- Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher (1594), Louis Moréri
(1643), Paul de Rapin (1661), Paulin Paris (1800), Jose de
Espronceda y Delgado (1808), Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812), Gustaaf
D.F.L. Schamelhout (1869), Louis Dosfel (1881), Mary Gladys Webb
(1891), Veit Valentin (1885), Marten Baersma (M.H. Bottema) (1890),
Bella Spewack (1899), Jacques Audiberti (1899), Alan J. P. Taylor
(1905), Marthe Robert (1914), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Gloria
Steinem (1934), Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1942), Richard O'Brien
(1942), Elli Stai (1954), Thom Loverro (1954), Jim Uhls
(1957), Fred Goss (1961);
26 -- Conrad Gessner (1516), William Wollaston (1659), Nathaniel
Bowditch (1773), Louise Otto (1819), Eliza Laurillard (1830), Betsy
Perk (Christina E.) (1833), Edward Bellamy (1850), A(lfred) E(dward)
Housman (1859), Serafín Álvarez Quintero (1871), Robert Frost (1874),
Duncan Hines (1880), Jozef Arras (1890), James B. Connant (1899),
Joseph Campbell (1904), Viktor Emil Frankl (1905), Betty MacDonald
(Anne E. Campbell Bard) (1908), Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)
(1911), Sterling Hayden (Sterling Relyea Walter) (1916), Bob Elliott
(1923), Gregory Corso (1930), Leonard Nimoy (1931), Richard Dawkins
(1941), Erica Jong (Mann) (1942), Robert Woodward (1943), Patrick
Süskind (1949), Martin Short (1950), Chris Hansen (1959), Natsuhiko
Kyogoku (1963), Martin McDonagh (1970);
27-- Benjamin Neukirch (1665), Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1714),
Michael Bruce (1746), Alfred V Comte de Vigny (1797), A Glabbrenner
(1810), Frank Frost Abbott (1860), Patty Smith Hill (1868), Heinrich
Mann (1871), Marie Under (1883), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu (1889),
Thorne Smith (1892), Jacques (Izaak) den Haan (1908), Golo Mann (),
(Gottfried) (1909), Budd Schulberg (1914), Denton Welch (1915), Simon
van Collem (1919), Stefan Wul (1922), Louis Simpson (1923), Shusaku
Endo (1923), Anthony Lewis (1927), Bob den Uyl (1930), Abelardo
Castillo (1935), Michael York (1942), Michael Jackson, U.K. (1942),
Walt Mossberg (1947), Patrick McCabe (1955), Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans
(1960), Quentin Tarantino (1963), Pauley Perrette (1969);
28-- Arnold Houbraken (1660), William Byrd (1674), Andrew Kippis
(1725), Sophie Mereau (1770), Georg Heinrich Pertz (1795), Alexandre
Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (1810), Arsène Houssaye (1815), James
Darmesteter (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), Karel MJF Cruysberghs (1891),
Nelson Algren (1909),
Myfanwy Piper (1911), J. L. Austin (1911), A(rthur) Bertram Chandler
(1912), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Edward Anhalt (1914), Gerhart Fritsch
(1924), Amelia Rosselli (1930), Sven Oskar Lindqvist (1932), Mario
Vargas Llosa (1936), Russell Banks (1940), Iris Chang (1968), Lauren
Weisberger (1977);
29--Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553), John Lightfoot (1602), Alexander
Chalmers (1759), Constantine S. Aksakov (1817), Amelia Barr (1831,
Joseph Schmidlin (1876), Howard Lindsay (1889), Ivan Goll (1891), Cecil
Lewis (1898), Frans U. Kailas (1901), Marcel Aymé (1902), Yvonne
Waegemans (1909), R. S. Thomas (1913), Julia Montgomery Walsh (1923),
Sheila Kitzinger (1929), Jacques Brault (1933), Eric Idle (1943), John
Suchet (1944);
30--Maimonedes (1135), Jethro Tull (1674), John Hawkins (1719), Anna
Sewell (1820), John Fiske (Edmund Fisk Green) (1842), Paul M. Verlaine
(1844), Sean O'Casey (1880), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Jean Giono (1895),
Heinz Risse (1898), Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899), Countee Cullen
(1903), Andrew Rodger Waterson (1912), McGeorge Bundy (1913), Herbert
Asmodi (1923), Milton Acorn (1923), Tom Sharpe (1928), Ted Morgan
(1932), Gerrit Komrij (1944), Efstratios Grivas (1966);
31-- René Descartes (1596), Andrew Marvell (1621), Edward FitzGerald
(1809), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Andrew Lang (1844), Borisav "Bora"
Stankovic (1876), Ion Pillat (1891), Vardis A Fisher (1895), Robert
Brasillach (1909), Octavio Paz (1914), Marga (Sara Voeten-) Minco
(1920), Leo Buscaglia (1924), John Fowles (1926), John Jakes (1932),
Nichita Stanescu (1933), Judith Rossner (1935), Richard Chamberlain
(1935), Valerie Curtin (1945), David Eisenhower (1948).