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Kojo Avlesi
Kojo may refer to: * ''King Kojo'', a novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson * KOJO (company), Australian entertainment company which supported the Adelaide Film Festival#Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative * KOJO (FM), a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States * Kojo (Iraq), Yazidi village near Sinjar in northern Iraq * Kojo (programming language) * Kojo, North Korea, location of a List of highway airstrips in North Korea, highway airstrip in North Korea * Kojo, the main village of Koijärvi, Finland People * Kojo (maroon) (c. 1680–1744), a Jamaican maroon also known as Cudjoe * Kojo (singer) (born 1953), singer who entered for Finland in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest * Kojo Annan (born 1973), the son of ex-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan * Kojo Laing (1946–2017), Ghanaian novelist and poet * Kojo Mensah (born 1985), Ghanaian basketball player * Kojo Nnamdi (born 1945), American radio show host * Edward Kojo Duncan-Williams (born 1910), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 – 6 April 1976) was an American writer of children's stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz, the fictional land of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its sequels. Life and work An avid reader of Baum's books and a lifelong children's writer, Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While in high school she sold her first fairy tale to ''St. Nicholas Magazine'' to which she continued contributing, along with '' The Smart Set''. In 1914 she took a job with the Philadelphia ''Public Ledger'', writing a weekly children's column for the newspaper. She had already published her first children's book, ''The Perhappsy Chaps'', and her second, ''The Princess of Cozytown'', was pending publication when William Lee, vice president of Baum's publisher Reilly & Lee, solicited Thompson to continue the Oz series. (Rumors among fans that Thompson was Baum's niece were untrue.) Betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |