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George Tucker (August 20, 1775 – April 10, 1861) was an American author, educator and historian in Virginia, following early years as an attorney and politician.His literary works include The Valley of Shenandoah (1824), the first fiction of colonial life in Virginia, and A Voyage to the Moon (1827), which is among the nation's earliest science fiction novels.
Each year, the organization presents its highest award, the BIO Award, to an individual who has made notable contributions to advancing the art and craft of biography. [2] BIO's annual Plutarch Award is given to the best biography of the year – as judged by biographers.
Plutarch and his wife, Timoxena, [19] had at least four sons and one daughter, although two died in childhood. A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not to grieve too much at the death of their two-year-old daughter, who was named Timoxena after her mother, which also mentions the loss of a young son, Chaeron ...
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Dove married Fred Viebahn, [83] a German-born writer, in 1979; they first met in the summer of 1976 when she was a graduate student in the Iowa Writers Workshop and he spent a semester as a Fulbright fellow in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.
Elmer Leon Towns (born October 21, 1932) is an American Christian academic, pastor and writer who co-founded Liberty University alongside Jerry Falwell in 1971. [1] He is a speaker on the principles of church growth, church leadership, Christian education, Sunday school, prayer and fasting.
Eighty-three years after leaving her master’s program at Stanford University for love, 105-year-old Virginia “Ginger” Hislop returned to earn her degree.
They offer courses, contests and hold an annual writing symposium in Virginia. [45] The Poetry Society of Virginia formed in May 1923. [46] According to their mission statement they "seek to promote the writing and enjoyment of poetry through a wide range of programs and monthly events, offered in seven regions across Virginia". [47] Dr.