William Austin

William Austin (1778–1841) was an American author and lawyer, most notable as the creator of the Peter Rugg stories published in the New England Galaxy in 1824–1827. Austin's stories, constructed as long letters signed with the name Jonathan Dunwell, presented the Rugg story as a long-standing New England legend, about a strong and obstinate man who got lost in a thunderstorm in 1770 and wandered the roads ever afterwards. Austin was born in 1778 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, where his family had fled after the British burned down their Charlestown house during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was educated at Harvard College and Lincoln's Inn, London. He married twice, fought one duel with pistols, and had fourteen children. As a young man he served as Unitarian chaplain aboard the USS Constitution. After the Constitution captured a French ship, the salvage proceedings brought Austin $200 and the acquaintance of Alexander Hamilton, who helped the young man begin his legal studies in...

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Peter Hamill

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Peter Hamill

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Peter Hammill

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Peter Hammill

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Peter Beagle

Prozator, eseist, scenarist si cântăreț, Peter Beagle s-a născut în 1939 în Manhattan și a crescut în Bronx. Ca adolescent citea imens și scria poeme și povestiri. În 1955 a fost remarcat de editorul lui Seventeen Magazine și a câștigat, în urma unui concurs literar, o bursă de patru ani la Universitatea din Pittsburgh. In anii ’70, după ce a urmat cursurile unui atelier de creative writing la prestigioasa Stanford University, a hoinărit de a lungul și de a latul Statelor Unite pe un scuter. Tot în această perioada începe să scrie scenarii, fără să-și abandoneze vocația de cântăreț de muzica folk („Cântatul si spălatul vaselor sunt singurele lucruri pe care le-am făcut pentru bani“, avea el să declare). Și-a câștigat existența ca scriitor liber profesionist, cunoscând succesul în 1968, o data cu apariția cărții „Ultima licornă”, roman fantastic devenit clasic și tradus în peste douăzeci de limbi. A mai publicat volumele de povestiri „Rinocerii care citau din Nietzsche... și alte...

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Peter Weiss

Peter Ulrich Weiss (November 8, 1916 – May 10, 1982) was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his play Marat/Sade and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Weiss was born in Nowawes (now part of Potsdam-Babelsberg), Brandenburg, to a Hungarian Jewish father and Christian mother. At age three he moved with his family to Bremen, and then during his adolescence to Berlin where Weiss began training for a career as a visual artist. In 1934 he emigrated with his family to Chislehurst, near London, England, where he studied photography at the Polytechnic School of Photography, and then in 1937-1938 attended the Prague Art Academy. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938, his family moved to Sweden, and Weiss himself removed to Switzerland. In 1939 he again emigrated to Stockholm, Sweden, where he lived for the rest of his life. He became a Swedish citizen in 1946. Weiss was married three times: to the painter Helga...

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Peter Altenberg

Peter Altenberg, *09.03.1859, Wien; †08.01.1919, Wien Scriitor si poet vienez. Printre opere se numără: Wie ich es sehe (Cum văd lucrurile), Prodromos, Bilderbögen des kleinen Lebens (Foi ilustrate ale vieţii mărunte).

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