Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and educated in England. In , the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his.
Ono Tadashige is a leading representative of Japanese postwar printmaking. His art style was strongly influenced by the movement of social-critical prints that was wide-spread in the s and s in Germany, Russia, China and also in Japan as the 'proletarian and farmers art movement'.
"Amy M. O’Quinn, who crafted a spectacular nonfiction book on Marie Curie, brings her impeccable research skills to a biography of inventor Nikola Tesla. Both the brilliant, eccentric man the fields in which he worked are complex, but O’Quinn brings them to life through photographs, fascinating drawings, and a host of resources, including.
Biography. Laura Amy Schlitz is the author of the Newbery Medal winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, the Newbery Honor Book and New York Times bestseller Splendors and Glooms, the Scott O’Dell Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Hired Girl, the sumptuously illustrated chapter book The Night Fairy, and other critically acclaimed books for young readers.
Russell “Block” Spencer has some things to get off his chest regarding the relationship between him and The Real Atlanta Housewives star, Kandi Burruss. “Raising kids is real sensitive.
Tokujiro Namikoshi Biografia Tokujiro Namikoshi nació el tres de noviembre de en la ciudad de Tadotsu en la isla de Shikoku (la más pequeña de las cuatro islas principales de Japón). Fue el tercer hijo de cuatro hermanos y una hermana menor. Fue un año feliz para Japón: Había ganado la guerra contra Rusia.
Mir is one of four children. Her mother arrived in Scotland in to live with her new husband Arif in Glasgow. Her dad ran a petrol station. Eventually, he would have a string of them.
Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, - July 31, ), scion of the Taft family of Ohio, was a Republican United States Senator and as a prominent conservative spokesman was the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from to
Yet another Sidney revival now seems to be stirring. Jonathan Scott produced the first new biography in a century- -Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, (), followed by Algernon Sidney and The Restoration Crisis, (). John Carswell wrote The Porcupine, The Life of Algernon Sidney ().
Shelburne Museum is presenting landscape and sporting artist Ogden Pleissner's lifetime of work as never seen before. The majority of the sixty paintings and drawings in this new exhibition have not previously been on view.