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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright.He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.
Althea Douglas (1926–2018) was a Canadian genealogist, archivist, researcher and writer who authored of several books about archival and genealogical research.Over the course of her career, Douglas conducted research for what would become the Burney Centre and McGill University, was an author of technical manuals for IMAX Corporation, and ran a Toronto-based consulting business.
The Secret Rose, 1897, cover by Althea Gyles. Although Gyles continued to work, at writing and painting, she also drifted and had poor health. She gravitated towards a variety of movements and interests, which included horoscope writing, Buddhism, anti-vivisection, and vegetarianism, while being supported by dissatisfied patrons such as Clifford Bax, who considered her a parasite.
Althea (Old English: Alþea) is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name Althaea (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ἀλθος althos ("healing"). Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem (" To Althea, from Prison ") that John Milton later alluded to in his own poem " Lycidas ".
Althea Mary Braithwaite (20 June 1940 – 27 August 2020), was an English children's author, illustrator, publisher and glass artist, best known for Desmond the Dinosaur. [ 1 ] Althea Braithwaite was born in Pinner , Middlesex, the younger daughter of Rosemary (née Harris) and RAF Air Vice-Marshal Francis Braithwaite .
Althea Romeo-Mark (born 1948 in English Harbour) is an Antiguan-born writer and educator, who has travelled throughout the world and now makes her home in Switzerland. In addition to having published five volumes of poetry, she has been an invited speaker at international poetry festivals in Medellín , Colombia and Kisii, Kenya .
Lovelace's brother, Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), was the second governor of the New York Colony appointed by the Duke of York, later King James II of England. They were also great nephews of both George Sandys [ 7 ] (2 March 1577 – March 1644), an English traveller, colonist and poet; and of Sir Edwin Sandys [ 8 ] (9 December 1561 ...
James Stephens' birth is somewhat shrouded in mystery. Stephens himself claimed to have been born on the same day and same year as James Joyce (2 February 1882), whereas he is in fact probably the same James Stephens who is on record as being born at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, on 9 February 1880, the son of Francis Stephens (c. 1840–1882/3) of 5 Thomas's Court, Dublin, a vanman and a ...