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5 unusual facts about The Writer


The Writer

The Writer's current editorial board consists of James Applewhite, Andre Becker, T. Alan Broughton, Eve Bunting, Mary Higgins Clark, Roy Peter Clark, Barnaby Conrad, Lewis Burke Frumkes, James Cross Giblin, Gail Godwin, Eileen Goudge, Rachel Hadas, Shelby Hearon, John Jakes, John Koethe, Lois Lowry, Peter Meinke, Robert B. Parker, Katherine Patterson, Elizabeth Peters, Arthur Plotnik, and William G. Tapply.

The Writer's Almanac

In 2005 the program was briefly cancelled by Kentucky public radio station WUKY due to concerns about purportedly indecent content in some of the poems read on the program.

The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers

The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers is a popular screenwriting textbook by writer Christopher Vogler, focusing on the theory that most stories can be boiled down to a series of narrative structures and character archetypes, described through mythological allegory.

The second was Bill Moyers' series of seminal interviews with Campbell, released in 1988 as the documentary (and companion book) The Power of Myth.

West Virginia Route 2

The poem was featured on the October 26, 2006 edition of The Writer's Almanac radio program.


Brad Schreiber

Christopher Vogler, author of the internationally renowned story structure book The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, asked Schreiber in 1999 to take on the position of Vice President of Storytech Literary Consulting.


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Ardeshir Zahedi

In the mid-1970s, Zahedi became known as a companion of the American movie star Elizabeth Taylor, with the two being dubbed "the hottest couple" in Washington D.C., according to the writer Barbara Howar.

Ariel Levy

At New York magazine, where Levy was a contributing editor for 12 years, she wrote about John Waters, Stanley Bosworth, Donatella Versace, the writer George W. S. Trow, the feminist Andrea Dworkin, and the artists Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow.

Automatism

Automatic writing, the process, or product, of writing material that does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer.

Betty Nansen

In 1896, she married the writer, journalist and director of Gyldendal, Peter Nansen (1861–1918).

Bodeguita del medio

It is a famous tourist destination because of the personalities which have patronized it: Salvador Allende, the poet Pablo Neruda, the writer Ernest Hemingway, the artist Josignacio and many others.

Bridget Cleary

The writer E. F. Benson took a considerable interest in the case, publishing a scholarly commentary on it, "The Recent 'Witch-Burning at Clonmel'", in the influential periodical The Nineteenth Century in June 1895, before the trial itself began.

C.E. Humphry

After the war, the couple remained in the city, where Helen Pearl Adam met the writer Jean Rhys, allowing her to live in the Adams' flat, editing Rhys’ first novel, Triple Sec, and introducing her to Ford Maddox Brown.

Christina Stead

Stead also became involved with the writer, broker and Marxist political economist William J. Blake (formerly Wilhelm Blech), with whom she travelled to Spain (leaving at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War) and to the USA.

Estrella del Valle

She was born in Córdoba, Veracruz, in 1971 and studied creative writing at the Writer's General Society of Mexico (Sociedad General de Escritores de México, SOGEM).

Étienne Martin

In 1942 he traveled to Oppède with Stahly et Zelman and then in 1943-1944 he went to Dieulefit, Drôme where he met the writer Henri-Pierre Roché.

Fabel

The play itself might be by Farquhar or Gerhart Hauptmann, Lenz or Molière, but ‘the writer’s words are only sacred insofar as they are true’.

Follett's Modern American Usage

As the quotations that follow show, Follett was generally compared favourably with Fowler, doing for Americans, as it were, what Fowler had done for the writer of British English.

Fred Fassert

Fred Fassert (born 1935) is most famously known as the writer of the popular song "Barbara Ann," which was originally written for the band that he was in at the time, The Regents.

Genrikh Borovik

His educational program The Will of the 20th Century, in which the writer and journalist described his meetings with prominent people of the 20th century, such as Alexander Kerensky, Ernest Hemingway, Kim Philby, Konstantin Simonov, Graham Greene, Walter Cronkite, Mother Teresa and others, was highly praised by audiences and critics, and constantly enjoyed the highest rating among the programs on Culture.

Giorgio Scerbanenco

As well as in Milan, the writer lived for a long period in Lignano Sabbiadoro, a town on the Adriatic Sea in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Grete Gulbransson

She was a half-sister of the writer Norman Douglas and her maternal great-grandfather was General James Ochoncar Forbes (1765–1843), 17th Lord Forbes.

If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth

The title is taken from Psalm 137:5—"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem"—which consists of the writer lamenting over the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian army.

In Search for Khnum

The novel In Search for Khnum is, for the writer and Egyptologist Hussein Bassir, the first book with a Pharaonic setting among contemporary Egyptian literature in the style of ‘90s generation’.

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Jan Juta

Jan C. Juta (September 1, 1895-December 4, 1990) was a painter and muralist closely associated with the writer D. H. Lawrence.

Jim Herriot

Herriot is probably best-known today for giving his name to the writer James Herriot, a Yorkshire vet whose real name was Alf Wight.

Jo the Waiter

Like many Numan songs from this period, it evokes a Burroughsian world of addiction, homosexuality and failed relationships, predating the writer's fascination with science fiction that took hold on the next and last Tubeway Army album, Replicas (1979).

John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer, and was educated at Harrow School and the University of Dresden.

Joshua Pim

His first tennis triumph was in 1890, when he won both the English and Irish doubles championships alongside the Dubliner, Frank Stoker, a cousin of the writer Bram Stoker.

Journey Through a Small Planet

In "Journey Through a Small Planet" (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but worlds apart in culture and spirit.

Kaif Bhopali

He was a well-known poet in the Urdu mushaira circles, he is most known as the writer of songs like Chalo Dildar Chalo sung by Mohd. Rafi, in Kamal Amrohi's 1972 classic, Pakeezah.

Karatepe

According to a 2010 ZDF documentary featuring the writer and translator Raoul Schrott, the fortress and surrounding landscape at Karatepe significantly match Homer's descriptions of Troy in the Iliad.

Kids of the Majestic

Kids of the Majestic is a documentary by filmmaker Dylan Verrechia and Dr. Suhas Radhakrishna that follows a group of such orphans: Rafik, a smiling young drug addict; Mental Manja, nicknamed "mental" because he didn't speak until he was 10; Arun-Badur, the artist and the writer; Baba, who at 8 has travelled throughout India alone; and Joti, mother-to-be at 16, who was abused at 9.

Moldiver

The OVA was later followed by a Moldiver manga by Shinpei Itou (the writer of Hyper Doll), which ran in "Shōnen Captain".

Pedro Jorge Vera

He contributed to several newspapers and magazines of controversial character "La Calle", with the writer Alejandro Carrión, as well as "La Mañana".

Pete Dexter

He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which a mob of locals in the neighborhood of Schuylkill, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely.

Porter College

The provosts of the college have included the writer James B. Hall, the painter and psychologist Pavel Machotka, filmmaker Eli Hollander and composer David Cope.

Ralph Helfer

In 1981, he was the writer and producer of the adventure film Savage Harvest.

Robert Percy Smith

Smith was eldest son of Robert Smith, and brother of the writer and clergyman Sydney Smith.

Salome Ortega

In November 2008 Sial published Perdi las Estrellas which includes two short novels: "Memoria y Olvido" prefaced by the former rector of the Universidad Menendez Pelayo, a professor at the University of Granada and a lecturer and writer, Antonio Sanchez Trigueros, and "Esta Ausencia Tuya" prefaced by the writer Antonio Colinas.

Seacombe

Falkland Road in Seacombe, which runs from King Street to Liscard Road, is the birthplace of the writer, peace campaigner and philosopher Olaf Stapledon, (1886 - 1950), author of Last and First Men and Star Maker.

SFRA Pioneer Award

The Pioneer Award is given by the Science Fiction Research Association to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year.

Strategic sourcing

Sally Forth is currently written by the writer-illustrator team of Craig MacIntosh and Francesco Marciuliano.

Street Tech

Street Tech is a personal technology review website founded by the writer, editor, and media critic Gareth Branwyn.

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer hired to pen the script was Eric Bress, who has written scripts for the television show, Kyle XY.

The Keel Row

The writer Rudyard Kipling mentioned the tune in one of his accounts of army life in India under the British Raj: "The man who has never heard the 'Keel Row' rising high and shrill above the sound of the regiment...has something yet to hear and understand".

The Third of May 1808

Although these observations may be strictly correct, the writer Richard Schickel argues that Goya was not striving for academic propriety but rather to strengthen the overall impact of the piece.

Thomas Campion

He was the writer of a poem, Cherry Ripe, which is not the later famous poem of that title but has several similarities.

Thomas Edmund Harvey

His brother was the writer William Fryer Harvey, best known for his short story The Beast with Five Fingers that was turned into a film of the same name, starring Peter Lorre.

Tourism in the Basque Autonomous Community

This is the location of the church of San Miguel, home to the patron saint, the White Virgin, and Santa María Cathedral, whose restored works which are open to the public inspired the writer Ken Follett to write his novel World Without End in 2007.

William B. Quandt

He is married to the writer Helena Cobban, has one daughter and two stepchildren, and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Wupper

The writer of the song was Gus Kahn who was born in Koblenz, about 100 kilometres from the Wupper Valley and might have known this saying.

Zi:Kill

They were featured in a chapter of Karl Taro Greenfeld's novel Speed Tribes that documents the writer's time spent with the band and the events that nearly caused their break up.

Zimmern Chronicle

When the anonymous, unpublished chronicle was rediscovered in the 19th century, historians were not sure about the identity of the author (most of the chronicle is written in the third person, while at some times the writer slips into the first person).