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Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English and naturalised French academic editor and writer. The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher edited 24 volumes based on his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth, a task that took 45 years.
Marlowe was christened at St George's Church, Canterbury.The tower, shown here, is all that survived destruction during the Baedeker air raids of 1942.. Christopher Marlowe, the second of nine children, and oldest child after the death of his sister Mary in 1568, was born to Canterbury shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Katherine, daughter of William Arthur of Dover. [8]
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author and journalist. [2] [3] He was the author of 18 books on faith, religion, culture, politics, and literature.
In August 1819 an anonymous writer for The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal suggested that 'Christopher Marlowe' might be a pseudonym assumed for a time by Shakespeare, [12] and this idea was developed further in the same journal in September 1820, [13] noting how Shakespeare "disappears from all biographical research just at the moment when Marlowe first comes on the stage; and who re ...
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. [1] [2] [3] His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret (1966); A Single Man (1964), adapted into a film directed by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His ...
His death was ruled an accident. News of Christopher’s death was announced by his former General Hospital costar Maurice Benard on October 31, 2023. Days Of Our Lives' 50th Anniversary Celebration
Reeve's death was a significant loss, not only to his family and friends but also to the wider community that admired his courage and advocacy. A memorial service was held at Juilliard on Oct. 29 ...
While Wagner wrote about the tragedy in his 2009 memoir, Pieces of My Heart: A Life, and Davern has given interviews to the likes of Today and TMZ, Walken has rarely commented. Christopher Walken ...