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August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
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The bad news is that the book leaves out much that it ought to include and includes some that it ought to leave out." [28] As an example of what he felt should have been included, Cooper says: "In spite of the book's strength in depicting Wilson's family life, it is also oddly unsatisfactory about one of its most important figures: his father."
Halsey William Wilson (May 12, 1868 – March 1, 1954) [1] was the creator of the Readers' Guide, the Cumulative Book Index, and the Book Review Digest and founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, a publisher. In 1999, American Libraries named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century". [2]
American Booksellers Ass'n, Inc. v. Hudnut, 771 F.2d 323 (7th Cir. 1985), [1] aff'd mem., 475 U.S. 1001 (1986), was a 1985 court case that successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance, as enacted in Indianapolis, Indiana the previous year.
Wilson was born on 27 October 1950 in Stone in Staffordshire. [1] His father became the managing director of Wedgwood, the pottery company. [2]He was first educated at the independent Catholic day school, St Dominic's Priory School, Stone before moving to Hillstone School (subsequently incorporated into Malvern College) in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, and then at Rugby School from the age of ...
The Occult: A History is a 1971 nonfiction occult book by English writer, Colin Wilson. Topics covered include Aleister Crowley , George Gurdjieff , Helena Blavatsky , Kabbalah , primitive magic, Franz Mesmer , Grigori Rasputin , Daniel Dunglas Home , Paracelsus , P. D. Ouspensky , William Blake , Giacomo Casanova , Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ...