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John Knowles (/ n oʊ l z /; September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959). Biography [ edit ] Knowles was born on September 17, 1926, [1] in Fairmont, West Virginia , [2] the son of James M. Knowles, a purchasing agent from Lowell, Massachusetts , and Mary Beatrice Shea Knowles from ...
Martin Secker (6 April 1882 – 6 April 1978), [1] born Percy Martin Secker Klingender, was a London publisher who was responsible for producing the work of a distinguished group of literary authors, including D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Norman Douglas, Henry James, Compton Mackenzie, and George Orwell. He began publishing just before the ...
Chaim Menachem Rabin ( Hebrew: חיים מנחם רבין; 1915–1996) was a German, then British, and finally Israeli professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages . Chaim Rabin was born in Giessen, Germany, 22 November 1915, the son of Israel and Martel Rabin. Having completed his school studies in April 1933 he spent the year 1933–1934 in ...
Bernard Kops (28 November 1926 – 25 February 2024) was a British dramatist, memoirist, poet and novelist. Early life [ edit ] Born in the East End of London , the son of Dutch-Jewish immigrants, [1] Kops was evacuated from London in 1939, and recounted that experience in episode two of Thames Television 's TV series, The World at War , first ...
Henri Langlois. Henri Langlois ( French: [lɑ̃glwa]; 13 November 1914 – 13 January 1977) was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often credited with providing the ideas that led to the development of ...
Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is an anthropological study of the Kikuyu people of central Kenya. It was written by native Kikuyu and future Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta . Kenyatta writes in this text, "The cultural and historical traditions of the Gikuyu people have been verbally handed down from generation to generation.
The series was published by Secker & Warburg. [1] [2] The series was projected for 17 titles, of which ten were published during 1941-42, but bomb damage to Warburg's office and the destruction of his printer's paper stock led to the series being discontinued.
