Sholto, Ralph en 1 97 Driggs, Howard R. 1873 1963 en 1 73 Howard Roscoe Driggs (1873–1963) was an English professor at the University of Utah and New York University. He also was the author or editor of over fifty books, including at least seven novels. Driggs was born in Pleasant Grove, Utah. His parents had both come to Utah with the Mormon pioneers. Driggs studied at Brigham Young Academy, the University of Utah, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees, the University of Chicago, and New York University where he received his Ph.D. in 1926. Meeker, Ezra 1830 1928 en 1 73 Ezra Meeker (December 29, 1830–December 3, 1928) was an early pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart as a young man. Beginning in his 70s, he worked tirelessly to memorialize the trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. He was the principal founder of Puyallup, Washington. Meeker was born in Huntsville, Ohio, to Jacob and Phoebe Meeker; his family relocated to Indiana in 1840. Married in 1851, in 1852, with his wife and his newborn son Marian, he headed to the Oregon Territory during the era of the donation land claims, ending up near Puget Sound. They settled permanently in Puyallup in 1862, where Meeker began growing hops for brewing beer. By 1885 his business had made him wealthy. His wife Eliza Jane convinced him to allow her to build a mansion similar to those she had seen in Europe. Three years and $26,000 later, her mansion was finished. However, in 1891 an infestation of hops aphids destroyed his crops and nearly ruined him. He subsequently tried a number of ventures, including dehydrating fruits and vegetables, working on packaging milk in paper containers, and four largely unsuccessful trips to the Klondike looking for gold. He also wrote a novel about his experiences on the trip west. Meeker is an important figure in what is now the southern portion of King County and the eastern parts of Pierce County. A statue to Meeker was erected near the Puyallup Library in 1926. --Wikipedia, 5 November 2009 Quiller-Couch, Mabel 1866 1924 en 1 41 (Florence) Mabel Quiller-Couch (c. 1866, Cornwall – November 1924) was an English editor, compiler and children's writer. Adams, Henry 1838 1918 en 2 193 Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. He is best-known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family. Dreiser, Theodore 1871 1945 en 5 511 Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Haseltine, Robert W. en 1 112 Thompson, Don 1935 1994 en 1 104 Nyon, Eugène 1812 1870 fr 1 118 Eugène Nyon est un vaudevilliste et romancier français, auteur notamment de romans historiques et de récits didactiques destinés à la jeunesse. Son récit le plus connu est «Le Colon de Mettray», qui a pour cadre la colonie pénitentiaire de Mettray. Eugène Nyon a également collaboré à plusieurs revues, dont la «Revue pour tous», sous le nom d'Amédée Achard, et le «Messager des dames et des demoiselles», auquel il contribuait des chroniques parisiennes sous le nom de comtesse de Sabran et dont il fut un temps directeur. Dans le domaine théâtral, son plus illustre collaborateur fut Eugène Labiche. (Wikipedia) Richmond, Leigh 1911 1996 en 1 244 Waite, Arthur Edward 1857 1942 en 1 731 Arthur Edward Waite was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Morelly, Étienne-Gabriel 1717 fr 1 147 Morelly est le «philosophe oublié» des Lumières. Par le peu d’écrits qu’il a laissés (hormis le «Code de la Nature», publié en 1755) et l’incertitude concernant sa véritable identité (on a souvent dit que Denis Diderot et Morelly seraient une même personne, et le «Code de la Nature» fut attribué à Diderot jusqu’au début du XXe siècle), son existence et sa pensée sont mal connues. Pourtant, il semble bien que Morelly soit un philosophe à part entière au sens où il serait le premier à avoir développé une philosophie du socialisme, voire du communisme. Dans le «Code de la nature», il stigmatise la propriété privée comme responsable du malheur des hommes et met en place une forme primitive de communisme utopique. Il édicte les «trois lois fondamentales et sacrées qui couperaient racine aux vices et à tous les maux d’une société»: * Abolition de la propriété privée * Système étatique organisant l’éducation, l’assistance et la solidarité * Système de coopération non sans rappeler l’aphorisme de St-Simon «De chacun selon ses capacités, à chacun selon ses oeuvres» (Wikipedia) Underhill, Evelyn 1875 1941 en 1 559 Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the twentieth century. No other book of its type — until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy — met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911. (Source: Wikipedia) Boyd, Lyle G. en 1 231 Jaurès, Jean 1859 1914 fr 1 619 Homme politique français, orateur et parlementaire socialiste, qui s'illustra par son pacifisme et son opposition au déclenchement de la Première Guerre Mondiale. Il fut assassiné à Paris le 31 juillet 1914 par le militant d'extrême-droite Raoul Villain. Vidocq, Eugène-François 1775 1857 fr 4 1542 Aventurier, voleur, bagnard, puis indicateur de police, il devient chef de la brigade de la Sûreté parisienne en 1811. En 1827, Vidocq démissionne de ses fonctions de chef de la Sûreté. Il s'installe à Saint-Mandé, près de Paris, et crée une petite usine de papier. Il invente le papier infalsifiable. En 1828, il publie des Mémoires qui connaissent un grand succès, et qui inspirent notamment à Honoré de Balzac son personnage de Vautrin. Ruiné par son affaire d'usine de papier, il occupe à nouveau durant sept mois le poste de chef de la sûreté en 1832, puis quitte définitivement le service public et fonde en 1833 le Bureau de renseignements pour le commerce, la première agence de détective privée, qui fournit aux commerçants, moyennant finance, des services de renseignement et de surveillance économique, ainsi que des informations sur les conjoints volages. Dalrymple, Leona 1884 en 1 286 Leona Dalrymple (Mrs. C. Acton Wilson) ( 1884 - ? ) was an American author. In 1914, she won a prize of $10,000 for her novel, Diane of the Green Van. Among her other stories are Traumerei (1912); The lovable Meddler (1915); Jimsy, The Christmas Kid (1915); When the Yule-Log Burns (1916); Kenny (1917); "Paul" stories (1920). She also wrote short stories for magazines and moving picture scenarios. Williams, Sam en 1 627 Sam Williams is an American journalist. He is perhaps best known as the author of a biography of software programmer Richard Stallman, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (2002). La Fontaine, Jean 1621 1695 fr 2 2741 Poète, fabuliste, moraliste, dramaturge, librettiste et romancier français. Ses fables constituent l'un des chefs d'oeuvre, universellement connu, de la littérature française. Bédier, Joseph 1864 1938 fr 2 1406 Historien médiéviste français. Professeur de littérature française du Moyen Âge, il publie de nombreux textes médiévaux en français moderne, tels que Tristan et Iseut (1900), La Chanson de Roland (1921), les Fabliaux (1893). Il est élu membre de l'Académie française en 1920.