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John Montague (28 February 1929 − 10 December 2016) was an Irish poet. Born in the United States , he was raised in Ulster in the north of Ireland . He published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir.
First edition. Tales of St. Austin's is a collection of short stories and essays, all with a school theme, by P. G. Wodehouse.It was first published on 10 November 1903 by Adam & Charles Black, London, all except one item having previously appeared in the schoolboy magazines, The Captain and Public School Magazine.
John Sleigh Pudney (19 January 1909 – 10 November 1977) was a British poet, journalist and author. He was known especially for his popular poetry written during the Second World War , but he also wrote novels, short stories and children's fiction.
William John Watkins (born 1942) [1] is a science fiction writer and poet. [2] In the 1970s and 1980s he was known for novels, but in the last decade he has primarily been a short story writer and poet. In 2002 he won the Rhysling Award for short poem for We Die as Angels. [3]
Adams was the only son of merchant Hon. John Adams and Hannah Checkley of Nova Scotia, [1] and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was pastor there.
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.
John Martin Finlay (January 24, 1941 – February 17, 1991) was an American poet and writer of essays, reviews, fiction, letters, and diaries.. Finlay is best known for his posthumously published poetry collection, Mind and Blood: The Collected Poems of John Finlay.
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was never referred to as "Jack" [citation needed]. The poem echoes the grief of ...