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Edith Lewis ( c. 1908 –1947) Signature. Willa Sibert Cather ( / ˈkæðər /; [ 1] born Wilella Sibert Cather; [ 2] December 7, 1873 [ A] – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One ...
J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( / ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn /, ROOL TOL-keen; [ a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and ...
BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine [30] Multidisciplinary: 259,497,239 Metadata for 260 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers Free Bielefeld University: Book Review Index Online: Book reviews: 5,600,000 Reviews of periodicals and books – including those on tape and electronic media Subscription Thomson Gale: Books in ...
The splendid fairywren ( Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. It inhabits predominantly arid and semi-arid regions.
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng ( Chinese: 吳恩達; born 1976) is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). [ 2] Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into a team of ...
E. B. White. Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) [ 1] was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their ...
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. . Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other ...
He was born into a Jewish family at 436 George Street, Sydney, Australia, the third son of Samuel Alexander, a prosperous saddler, and Eliza née Sloman.His father died around the time he was born, of tuberculosis.