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William Patrick (author)
William Patrick (born 20th century) is an American editor, book doctor, ghostwriter, and writer. He is the co-author of ''Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection''. He has also written two suspense novels. Career Patrick began his career at Little, Brown and Company, then moved to Harvard University Press, where he acquired and edited works by writers including Edward O. Wilson and Jane Goodall. While working at Harvard, he wrote ''Spirals'' ( Houghton), a novel set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the early days of cloning and recombinant DNA research. His next work of fiction was ''Blood Winter'' (Viking Press), a thriller about germ warfare; ''The Wall Street Journal'' described it as "A dazzling achievement, both gripping and moving, lurid and achingly sad….as authoritative as the fresh early best of Greene and le Carre".Donald Lyons, Donald (August 14, 1990). "The Thrill’s Still There". ''The Wall Street Journal''. Returning to commer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Patrick
William Patrick may refer to: * William Patrick (author), American author * William Patrick (minister) (1791–1872), minister of the Church of Scotland * William Patrick Sr. (1845–1936), Australian politician * William Patrick Jr. (1880–1968), Australian politician * William C. Patrick III (1926–2010), American biologist * William Penn Patrick (1930–1973), American entrepreneur and businessman * William S. Patrick (19th century), American politician, mayor of Flint, Michigan * William Patrick (diver) (1931–2016), Canadian diver * William Patrick (Canadian politician) (1810–1883), clergyman, merchant and political figure in Canada West See also * Patrick (surname) The surname Patrick has distinct Irish, Scottish, and English origins. In many cases it derives from the Anglo-Norman French, Middle English, and Older Scots personal name Patrick or as an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac Phádraig, "son of Patri ... * Bill Patrick (other) * Patrick William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Borysenko
Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters ** Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), patron saint of France *Joan (surname) Art and media *Joan (Alexander McQueen collection), ''Joan'' (Alexander McQueen collection), a fashion collection by Alexander McQueen *Joan (play), ''Joan'' (play), a 2015 one-woman play *Joan (rock opera), ''Joan'' (rock opera), a 1975 rock opera *Joan (TV series), ''Joan'' (TV series), a 2024 British crime drama Music *Joan (album), ''Joan'' (album), a 1967 album by Joan Baez *Joan (band), Joan (band), an American duo formed in 2017 *"Joan", a song by The Art Bears from their 1978 album ''Hopes and Fears (Art Bears album), Hopes and Fears'' *"Joan", a song by Lene Lovich from her 1980 album ''Flex (album), Flex'' *"Joan", a song by Erasure from their 1991 album ''Chorus (Erasure album), Chorus'' *"Joan", a song by The Innocence Mission from their 1991 album ''Umbrella (The Innoce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Novelists
This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each. This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, ''novel'' is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.) Novelists on this list have achieved a notability that exceeds merely having been published. The writers on the current list fall into one or more of the following categories: # All American novelists who have articles in Wikipedia should be on this list, and even if they do not clearly meet any other criteria they should not be removed until the article itself is removed. # Winner of a major literary prize, even if the winning work was a story collection rather than a novel: The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize, The PEN America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Harris (journalist)
Daniel B. Harris (born July 26, 1971) is a retired American journalist for ABC News. He was an anchor for ''Nightline'' and co-anchor of the weekend edition of ''Good Morning America''. Early life and education Harris is the son of Nancy Lee Harris and Jay R. Harris. His father is in the chair of the radiation oncology residency program at Harvard University and his mother is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an expert on lymphomas. His younger brother, Matthew Carmichael Harris, is a venture capitalist. Harris graduated in 1993 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Career Journalism Harris began his career as an anchor for WLBZ in Bangor, Maine. He then worked for two years at WCSH in Portland, Maine, as an anchor and political reporter. From 1997 to 2000 he was an anchor at New England Cable News. He joined ABC News in 2000. He anchored '' World News Sunday'' from 2006 to 2011 and frequently anchored ''World News'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast '' ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include morning news-talk show '' Good Morning America'', ''Nightline'', '' 20/20'', and Sunday morning political affairs program '' This Week with George Stephanopoulos''. The network also includes daytime talk shows '' The View'', '' Live with Kelly and Mark'', and '' Tamron Hall''. In addition to the division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live, plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities. History 20th-century origins ABC began in 1943 as the NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radio broadcasting in the United States, specifically news and political broadcasting, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Mellon
Tamara Mellon (; born 7 July 1967) is a British fashion entrepreneur who co-founded the luxury footwear brand Jimmy Choo. She founded her namesake luxury footwear brand, Tamara Mellon, with co-founder and CEO Jill Layfield and Tania Spinelli, chief data officer, in 2016. Early life Mellon was born Tamara Yeardye in London on 7 July 1967. The eldest of three siblings, she is a daughter of Tom Yeardye, a stunt double for Rock Hudson, and Ann (Davis) Yeardye, a former Chanel model. In 1976, the family relocated to Beverly Hills, California and lived in a home next door to Nancy Sinatra. She alternated summers between California and the UK. She studied at two independent girls' schools, Berkshire— Marist School and Heathfield St Mary's School before attending finishing school in Switzerland at the now-defunct Institut Alpin Videmanette. She acquired her current surname from her ex-husband, Matthew Mellon, an American businessman and member of the prominent Mellon family. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fashion House
Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction, and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by diverse cultures and different trends and has varied over time and place. "A fashion designer creates clothing, including dresses, suits, pants, and skirts, and accessories like shoes and handbags, for consumers. They can specialize in clothing, accessory, or jewelry design, or may work in more than one of these areas." Fashion designers Fashion designers work in a variety of ways when designing their pieces and accessories such as rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings and clothes. Due to the time required to put a garment out on the market, designers must anticipate changes to consumer desires. Fashion designers are responsible for creating looks for individual garments, involving shape, color, fabric, trimming, and more. Fashion designers attempt to design clothes that are functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Choo (fashion House)
Jimmy Choo is a British luxury fashion house specialising in shoes, handbags, accessories and fragrances. The company, J. Choo Limited, was founded in 1996 by Malaysian Chinese couture shoe designer Jimmy Choo and British ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' accessories editor Tamara Mellon. The brand claims to have been a favourite of Diana, Princess of Wales. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired in November 2017 by Michael Kors Holdings, now Capri Holdings. History Foundation (late eighties to 1996) The brand traces its roots to shoemaker Jimmy Choo who had set up his workshop in the late 1980s out of the converted Metropolitan Free Hospital in the East End of London. He was distributing his shoes at a stall of the local market. He was known by the editors of fashion industry magazines because he could recreate Manolo Blahnik, Manolo Blahnik's high-heeled shoes in different colours. Sandra Choi, Choo's wife's niece, joined him in 1989 and quickl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oprah Book Club
Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month.Bob Minzesheimer"How the 'Oprah Effect' changed publishing" ''USA Today'', May 23, 2011.Matthew Flamm"Publishers say farewell to Oprah Book Club boon" ''Crain's New York Business'', May 20, 2011. In total, the club recommended 70 books during its 15 years. Due to the book club's widespread popularity, many obscure titles have become very popular bestsellers, increasing sales in some cases by as many as several million copies. Al Greco, a Fordham University marketing professor, estimated the total sales of the 70 "Oprah editions" at over 55 million copies. The club has seen several literary controversies, such as Jonathan Franzen's public dissatisfaction with his novel, ''The Corrections'', having been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier ( ; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Among his other accolades are two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award and a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award, in addition to nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Tony Awards, Tony Award. In 1999, he was ranked among the "AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, American Film Institute's 100 Stars". Poitier was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Poitier's family lived in the Bahamas, then still a Crown colony, but he was born in Miami, Florida, while they were visiting, which granted him U.S. citizenship. He grew up in the Bahamas, but moved to Miami at age 15, and to New York City when he was 16. He joined the American Negro Theatre, gaining his breakthrough film role as a high school student in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Spiritual Autobiography
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Book Award
The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The National Book Awards were established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association,"Books and Authors", ''The New York Times'', 1936-04-12, page BR12."Lewis is Scornful of Radio Culture: Nothing Ever Will Replace the Old-Fashioned Book ...", ''The New York Times'', 1936-05-12, page 25. abandoned during World War II, and re-established by three book industry organizations in 1950. Non-U.S. authors and publishers were eligible for the pre-war awards. Since then they are presented to U.S. authors for books published in the United States roughly during the award year. The Nonprofit organization, nonprofit National Book Foundation was established in 1988 to administer and enhance the National Book Awards and "move beyond [them] into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
