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Robert Phillipe Noonan (17 April 1870 – 3 February 1911), born Robert Croker, and best known by the pen name Robert Tressell, was an Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
The air was full of the sounds of hammering and sawing, the ringing of trowels, the rattle of pails, the splashing of water brushes and the scraping of the stripping knives. It was also heavily laden with dust and disease germs, powdered mortar, lime, plaster, and the dirt that had been accumulating within the old house for years.
Robert Roberts (15 June 1905 – 17 September 1974) was an English teacher, writer and social historian, who penned evocative accounts of his working-class youth in The Classic Slum (1971) and A Ragged Schooling (1976).
George Thackeray, DD, FLS (1777–1850) was a classical scholar and bibliophile, who served as Provost of King's College Cambridge from 1814 until his death. He was born in Windsor and baptised in the parish church there on 23rd November 1777.
Daniel Aloysius Lord, SJ (23 April 1888 – 15 January 1955) was an American Jesuit priest and writer. He wrote 32 books, 15 booklets, and 228 pamphlets, as well as countless articles. Lord also wrote 70 plays, musicals, and pageants. He served as one of the technical consultants on Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 The King of Kings.
A Catholic priest has resigned as pastor of a church in a small central Michigan community, the result of weeks of controversy following his publicly expressed regret that a gay author had read a ...
James Robertson (born 1958) is a Scottish writer who is the author of several novels, short stories and poetry collections. [1] [2] Robertson was born in Sevenoaks, England but grew up in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire.
The Man who Got Even with God is one of Flanagan's most widely-read books. It is about Brother Mary Joachim Hanning, a wild cowboy who became a Cistercian (Trappist) monk in Kentucky. As a hot-tempered young man, Hanning took revenge on his father by burning down a barn full of his father’s freshly cut tobacco.