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Guy Louis Gabaldon (March 22, 1926 – August 31, 2006) was a Chicano in the United States Marine who, at age 18, captured or persuaded to surrender over 1,300 Japanese soldiers and civilians during the battles for Saipan and Tinian islands in 1944 during World War II. Called "Gabby" by his friends, he became known as "The Pied Piper of Saipan ...
Gabaldon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Argimiro Gabaldon, poet and former Venezuelan revolutionary of FALN; Arnoldo Gabaldon, Venezuelan sanitarist; Arnoldo Gabaldon Berti, Venezuelan engineer, first Environment minister of Latin America; Diana Gabaldon, author of works including the "Outlander" and "Lord John" series
Diana J. Gabaldon (/ ˈ ɡ æ b əl d oʊ n /; [1] born January 11, 1952) is an American author and television writer. She is best known for the book series Outlander . Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction , romance , mystery , adventure and science fiction / fantasy . [ 2 ]
Gabaldon died at his home from a heart attack on January 3, 1998, at the age of sixty-seven. He was survived by his second wife Margaret, [2] to whom he was married for 23 years at the time of his death; [3] two daughters (with his first wife, Jacqueline Sykes Gabaldon, Sept. 16, 1930-July 21, 1971): [citation needed] one of whom the bestselling author Diana J. Gabaldon; and four grandchildren.
Guy (/ ɡ aɪ / ghy, French:) is a masculine given name derived from an abbreviated version of a Germanic name that began either with witu, meaning wood, or wit, meaning wide. In French, the letter w became gu and the name became Gy or Guido.
In August 2016, Joanna Robinson of Vanity Fair called Grey "a character so popular, Gabaldon eventually spun him off into his own novels". [16] Grey has been called "one of the most complex and interesting" of the hundreds of characters in Gabaldon's Outlander novels. [1] Publishers Weekly described him as "a competent and likable sleuth" in 2003.
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.
The following is a partial list of characters from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series as first introduced, beginning with the 1991 novel Outlander.The story focuses on 20th century nurse Claire Randall, who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser.