Jay Parini
Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible ... [... more]
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R.J. Hollingdale
German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the ... [... more]
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the ... [... more]
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