Authors, see also Gray Memorial Library, Poets and Playwrights, dictionary or translators.

Collection of Writings of the Early Christian Church.
Religious texts on the use of art by John W. Dixon Jr of the University of North Carolina, see crucifixion.com, also Phillip Dixon.

Brendan O'Hehir (1927-91), A Lexicon of Finnegan's Wake, the novel by James Joyce.
Gaelic Dictionary.
The Bible in Gaelic.

Myths & Legends Of King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table audio cd

William E. Barrett wrote The Empty Shrine (1958). Two of his books, The Left Hand of God and Lilies of the Field were made into movies.

Orson Scott Card, who was born in Richland, Washington USA, is married to Kristine and has five children, wrote Ender's Game and a sequel, Speaker for the Dead, Fat Farm, How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, an historical novel on Mormons called Saints, religious novels on women of the Bible, etc. See the Gray Memorial Library.

Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain wrote Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He also wrote a life of Saint Joan of Arc.

Andrei Codrescu (1946-) who was born on December 20, 1946, published Messiah (1992), The History of the Growth of Heaven (1973), and Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium (1997). He also recorded Valley of Christmas an an audio CD.

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was born to John and Elizabeth Dickens in a small terraced house at 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsea, on February 7, 1812. On April 2, 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth the daughter of his friend George Hogarth. The same year saw the publication of The Pickwick Papers. Dickens created many memorable characters and, it is believed, that his book, David Copperfield, was based on his own upbringing.
Famous for A Christmas Carol, he also wrote the novels:
Great Expectations, on life in England,
and A Tale of Two Cities, on the French Revolution.
He died of a stroke at Gads Hill Place, his home in Kent, in 1870.

Alexandre Dumas père (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France -died December 5, 1870, Puys, France of a stroke) wrote The Man in the Iron Mask; Three Musketeers.

Michael Farrell wrote Thy Tears Might Cease, a novel an\bout Ireland circa 1900.

Vardis Fischer wrote Children of God a novel about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and the establishment of the Mormon Church.

Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi

Jean Genet (1910-86) was born on Decembre 19, 1910. He was abandoned by his mother to the welfare of the state and was put into an orphanage. It was while in prison for shoplifting that he began to write his autobiographical novels, Our Lady of the Flowers, Thief's Journal, Miracle of the Rose, and Querelle of Brest (1947). Many artists and writers were instrumental in getting him out of prison, including the philosopher/novelist Jean Paul Sartre, by writing his treatise, Saint Genet. Genet later wrote plays for the avant garde theatre, including The Maids, and The Screens, and directed a film,
Un Chant d'Amour (1950), available from Filmmakers Cooperative.
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William Gerald Golding (1911-) was born in Cornwall, England. He wrote Lord of the Flies.

Zane Grey/Pearl Gray wrote many novels of the American West. One of his novels Betty Zane was written about his mother's family. When he became a writer he changed his first name from Pearl to Zane, and the spelling of his last name from Gray to Grey. He lived in a log cabin near Payson, AZ.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wrote poetry and the novels:
Jude the Obscure,
Far from the Madding Crowd,
and Tess d'Ubervilles.
In 1874 he married his first wife, Emma Gifford (-1912). She died suddenly on November 27, 1912. In 1914, he married his second wife, Florence Dugdale.

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza, Chrome Yellow and Ape and Essence. He studied hallucinogens and wrot the treatise The Doors of Perception. Jim Morrison, the poet/songwriter, chose the name for The Doors rock group after being influenced by this book.

Henry James (1842-1916) wrote:
The Bostonians,
The Tragic Muse,
Portrait of a Lady.

James Joyce wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
Ulysses, and
Finnegan's Wake.

Donald S. Johnson () wrote Phantom Islands of the Atlantic. This book includes the story of "Saint Ursula and Her 11 Thousand Virgin Companions." isbn 0-8027-1320-3, Walker Publishing c1996.

Anais Nin (1903-77) was Born February 21, 1903, in Neuilly, France. She was brought to New York City by her mother in 1914. She wrote surreal novels and an extensive diary which she began as a letter to her father. The edited version of her diaries is published as The Diaries of Anais Nin.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) wrote surrealistic novels:
The Trial.

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) wrote
Zorba the Greek,
Report to Greco,
The Last Temptation of Christ,
and The Greek Passion.

Liam O'Flaherty wrote Famine, a novel about the Irish potato famine.

Maurice O'Sullivan (1904-) wrote 20 Years A-Growing (1933: Viking Presss NY HB).

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) wrote
Remembrance of Things Past.

Antoine deSaint Exupery wrote Le Petit Prince/The Little Prince, Sand and Stars, etc.

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-80), existentialist author and philosopher, wrote novels:
Nausea,
The Words,
plays:
No Exit and
The Flies,
and an artistic analysis of the work of Jean Genet, called Saint Genet.
In 1964, he declined the Nobel Prize for Literature when it was offered to him.
20,000 people were in his funeral procession.

Hunter S. Thompson (born July 18. 1937, at Louisville, Kentucky, USA- died on February 20, 2005, near Aspen, Colorado, USA, suicide by gunshot) wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [the movie starred Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire; Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey, Christina Ricci, Mark Harmon. Cameron Diaz, Lyle Lovett, and manu others] & Hell's Angels

Gore Vidal wrote Myra Breckinridge and Messiah.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946, born September 21, died August 13. Wrote many science-fiction novels, three were adapted into popular movies: War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine (once, in 1960, and then the 2003 version which was directed by his great grandson, Simon Wells, born 1961) . The War of the Worlds was adapted into a Rock musical by another relative,

Lillian Hellman wrote The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939) and Watch on the Rhine (1943). Many of her plays became films. The Children's Hour was filmed twice, first as We Three.

Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright wrote an extensive autobiography, in six volumes, beginning with I knock at the door.

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), Irish-American playwright wrote Mourning Becomes Electra, The Hairy Ape, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Long Days' Journey into Night. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

and of course, Shakespeare (1564-1616).

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