Sites by, or about, authors of literature whose last names begin with G.
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Timothy Gager was born on a Long Island farm. Although neither poor nor farmers, his parents allowed him to get in all kinds of trouble. At fifteen, he acquired a fake ID and bought his ticket to Numbville. By seventeen, he was living with drug addicts and whores. He had no talent as a singer, but his friends believed he did. So he joined a band. And went on to play with a handful of groups. He abruptly stopped his "at risk behavior" in 1988 and began to write after the suicide of a friend in 1989. A graduate of the University of Delaware, he now is living in Boston and is employed as a social worker.
Ernest Kellogg Gann was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA on October 13, 1910. He flew as an airline pilot, served in World War II, built and sailed boats, and wrote books. His experiences gave him the material for some of his adventure and aviation novels. Many of his books were made into movies including Blaze Noon, Island in the Sky, The High and the Mighty, and Soldier of Fortune. He died at his home in San Juan, Washington, USA on December 19, 1991.
Hamlin Garland was born in West Salem, Wisconsin, on 14 September 1860. After moving with his family to a succession of homesteads in Iowa and South Dakota, he went to Boston in 1884, determined to embark on a literary career. His first success was Main-Travelled Roads, a collection of short stories published in 1891. He moved to Chicago in 1893, lectured widely on literary topics, and agitated for a realistic American literature through a number of essays, some of which were revised into his 1894 manifesto, Crumbling Idols. In 1895 he published Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, a novel of a New Woman in which he sought to embody his literary creed. That year he began visiting the American West, making notes of cowboys and the glorious mountain scenery so unlike his native Wisconsin. He also began to study the American Indian, taking copious notes for later use in fiction. A number of his Indian stories were collected in The Book of the American Indian (1923).
In addition to being a novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and memoirist, Garland lectured widely on American literature and writers for over 40 years. Herewith are three of his lecture circulars, which describe both his background and the subjects of his lectures.
Alan Garner was born in his grandmother's front room in Congleton, Cheshire on 17th October 1934, and grew up in Alderley Edge, where his father's family have lived for more than three hundred years, being craftsmen in the area. During his childhood he suffered a number of major illnesses including pneumonia, and meningitis (during which he recalls overhearing the doctor pronounce his case as terminal). He has also described how he had his mouth washed out with carbolic soap by an infant teacher for speaking 'broad', and of having his left arm pinned across his chest because he was left-handed, resulting in him developing a stammer and a lisp.
He was educated at Alderley Edge Primary School, Manchester Grammar School (where he excelled at sprinting, being rated in 1952 "the fastest schoolboy sprinter in Great Britain") and at Magdalen College, Oxford - the first of his family to be given this opportunity - leaving, however, before he completed his degree in classics.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was a popular author in her day, and has never gone entirely out of print. She wrote eighteen books, the first half being published anonymously or under a pseudonym. Primarily a novelist, she also penned a biography of Charlotte Brontë.
Veronica Geng (1941-1997) was the author of many short works of humor and literary criticism. Many of these were first published in The New Yorker, where she worked from 1976 to 1993 and was an influential fiction editor.
Clive Gifford is an experienced journalist and author with over 40 books in print and more than 800 features and stories for adults and children. Clive is an unusual author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. He has traveled through 47 countries, been held hostage in Colombia, coached several sports, runs a computer games company and produces jokes and sketches for a number of well-known comedians.
David Gilmour is a novelist who has earned the praise of literary figures as diverse as William Burroughs and Northrop Frye, and publications ranging from The New York Times to People Magazine. His fourth novel, Lost Between Houses, was a national bestseller in 1999 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Trillium Book Award.
Mr. Gilmour has also been a fixture on Canadian television for more than a decade. He was the national film critic for CBC television's The Journal and hosted his own talk show, the award-winning Gilmour on the Arts. Mr. Gilmour can be seen -- with numbing regularity -- as programmer and host for Classic Films aboard Air Canada.
Recently, he has turned his attention to screenwriting with the adaptation of Carol Shield's Larry's Party in addition to scripting two of his own novels, An Affair with the Moon and Lost Between Houses for Alliance Atlantis Films.
David lives in Toronto with his two children. His latest novel, Sparrow Nights, was published by Random House of Canada in September, 2001.
Sites related to Giraldus Cambrensis, a medieval Welsh-Norman ecclesiastic and writer. The dates of both his birth and death are uncertain: he was born in Pembrokeshire in about 1146 and died probably about the year 1223. He wrote on secular and sacred topics alike, including geography, history, biography, travelogues, and canon law.
Paul Goodman was born in New York City on September 9th, 1911, to Barnett and Augusta Goodman. Barnett Goodman, a businessman, abandoned his family shortly after Paul's birth, and Goodman's mother and older sister raised him. He attended City College of New York and received a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Chicago.
Goodman began publishing poems, short stories, and essays shortly after college, but it wasn't until the 1940s that his work began to gain a wide audience. His first novel, The Grand Piano, was published in 1942.
Graham Greene - British author, born 2 October 1904,
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, died (of natural causes) 3 April 1991, Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
Novels, many of which have been made into movies, include 'The Third Man', 'Brighton Rock', 'Our Man in Havana' and 'Travels with My Aunt'.
James Grey is an author and poet who has been writing since the age of 13 or 14. After winning a contest for young writers he was motivated to continue writing poetry and short stories. He has also published in several anthologies and has worked on a collection of prose and poetry.
James Grey is a deeply spiritual person and much of his work deals with social and spiritual matters. Being from the rural south has also had a big impact on his view of the world and the way he writes.
Rod L. Griffon was born in Austin, Texas on April 26, 1966 to Rene' and Olga Balli. Soon after, his parents divorced and within a few years, after two failed marriages, Olga found herself raising three children on her own. The middle child, Rod gladly found himself helping his mother around the house and taking care of the youngest child (Joe). A natural in sports, he loved baseball and you could often find him playing in the fields of his nearby apartment or in the local city league until he found martial arts at the age of fourteen. By twelve his mother had remarried giving him his second step-father in a relationship that would last for over sixteen years before divorcing again. Forever creating in life, Rod was always doing something, whether playing sports, drawing, writing, or acting with friends. At the age of fifteen he received his first black belt in martial arts just prior to the family moving back to his step-dads home town of Dortches NC. That year, while still a freshman in junior high he started his own martial arts school in Rocky Mt. North Carolina and was probably one of the youngest people to ever do so. His school ran for two years before finally moving to Florida.
Later in life, in three divisions, he went on to become a five time Florida state champion in two different leagues as well as a world weapons 1st place winner at the prestigious US Open World Karate Championships. In high school his electives were drama, art and typing as well as physical education. Seeking a better life, at seventeen he dropped out of high school moving to Florida, with the promise to his mother that he would finish. He kept that promise almost seven years later by obtaining his G.E.D. at the Austin Community College in Austin, Texas.