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"Author" can mean one of two things in this context. First, an author is someone who writes prose -- fiction or non-fiction. Second, an author is someone who has written a book, even if that book is comprised entirely of non-prose works, such as a...
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| J. D. Salinger |
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Person | The Catcher in the Rye |
Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as for his reclusive nature. He has not published a new work since 1965 and has not been interviewed since 1980.
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| Film writer | Franny and Zooey | ||||
| Influence Node | Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction | ||||
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| Kevin Kelly |
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Person | Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World |
This article refers to the founding executive editor of Wired magazine. For others by this name, see Kevin Kelly.
Kevin Kelly (b. 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He...
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| Board Member | Asia Grace | ||||
| Tool contributor | Cool Tools | ||||
| Influence Node | Bicycle Haiku | ||||
| New Rules for the New Economy | |||||
| Jean Baudrillard |
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Person | Simulacra and Simulation |
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.
Jean Baudrillard was...
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| Deceased Person | The Gulf War Did Not Take Place | ||||
| Influence Node | The Mirror of Production | ||||
| Danny Hillis |
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Person | The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work |
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer...
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| Computer Designer | The Connection Machine | ||||
| Computer Scientist | Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine | ||||
| Musical Artist | Why Computer Science is No Good | ||||
| Board Member | The Myth of Y2K | ||||
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| Stewart Brand |
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Person | The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer | The Last Whole Earth Catalog |
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly.
Brand is best known for the Whole Earth Catalog (a compendium of tools, texts and information)....
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| Film actor | How Buildings Learn | ||||
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| Neal Stephenson |
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Person | The Big U |
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, cryptography, currency, and the history of science...
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| Fictional Character Creator | Snow Crash | ||||
| Award Winner | The Diamond Age | ||||
| Award Nominee | The Cobweb | ||||
| Influence Node | Cryptonomicon | ||||
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| James Joyce |
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Person | Dubliners |
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly...
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| Film writer | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | ||||
| Deceased Person | Finnegans Wake | ||||
| Influence Node | Ulysses | ||||
| Book Subject | Stephen Hero | ||||
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| Dan Simmons |
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Person | The Rise of Endymion |
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle.
He spans genres such as...
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| Influence Node | The Fall of Hyperion | ||||
| Award Winner | Hyperion | ||||
| Award Nominee | Endymion | ||||
| Fictional Character Creator | Songs of Kali | ||||
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| Haruki Murakami |
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Person | The Elephant Vanishes |
is a popular contemporary Japan writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex."
Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 but spent most of his youth in Kobe. His father...
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| Film writer | A Wild Sheep Chase | ||||
| Book Subject | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | ||||
| Influence Node | South of the Border, West of the Sun | ||||
| Award Winner | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | ||||
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| H. L. Mencken |
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Person | George Bernard Shaw: His Plays |
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880, Baltimore – January 29, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland), was an American journalist, essay, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known...
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| Deceased Person | A Book of Prefaces | ||||
| Influence Node | In Defense of Women | ||||
| The American Language | |||||
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| Donald Knuth |
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Person | 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated |
Donald Ervin Knuth (b. 10 January 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has...
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| Computer Scientist | The Art of Computer Programming | ||||
| Award Winner | Concrete Mathematics | ||||
| Kage Baker | Person | In The Garden of Iden |
Kage Baker (born June 10, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
She was born in Hollywood, California and has lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater,...
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| Award Nominee | Mendoza in Hollywood | ||||
| The Graveyard Game | |||||
| The Life of the World to Come | |||||
| The Children of the Company | |||||
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| Philip K. Dick |
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Person | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16 1928 – March 2 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporation, authoritarian...
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| Film writer | The Man in the High Castle | ||||
| Deceased Person | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | ||||
| Fictional Character Creator | Ubik | ||||
| Film story contributor | Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | ||||
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| Jef Raskin |
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Person | The Humane Interface |
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970.
Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B...
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| Christopher Alexander | Person | A Pattern Language |
Christopher Alexander (born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world. Reasoning that users know more about the...
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| Architect | The Timeless Way of Building | ||||
| Sara Ishikawa | A Pattern Language | ||||
| Murray Silverstein | Person | A Pattern Language |
Murray Silverstein co-author the book A Pattern Language. At that time, he taught architecture courses at the University of California, and subsequently taught at the University of Washington. He had also written several articles on pattern language...
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| Alison Bechdel |
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Person | More Dykes to Watch Out For |
Alison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her autobiographical graphic...
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| Comic Strip Creator | Dykes to Watch out For | ||||
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| Stephen Jay Gould |
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Person | The Structure of Evolutionary Theory |
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....
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| Deceased Person | The Mismeasure of Man | ||||
| TV Actor | Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle | ||||
| Award Winner | Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin | ||||
| Influence Node | Bully for Brontosaurus | ||||
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| Richard Feynman |
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Person | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! |
Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium,...
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| Physicist | The Feynman Lectures on Physics | ||||
| Deceased Person | The Pleasure of Finding Things Out | ||||
| Film writer | What Do You Care What Other People Think? | ||||
| Influence Node | No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman | ||||
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| Terry Pratchett |
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Person | Good Omens |
Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948) is a British fantasy, science fiction and children's author. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet...
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| Fictional Character Creator | The Last Hero | ||||
| TV Program Creator | The Colour of Magic | ||||
| Influence Node | The Light Fantastic | ||||
| Award Nominee | Equal Rites | ||||
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| J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Musical Artist | The Lord of the Rings |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (IPA: ) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkien...
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| Person | The Hobbit | ||||
| Deceased Person | Songs for the Philologists | ||||
| Film story contributor | The Silmarillion | ||||
| Fictional Character Creator | The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien | ||||
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| Tracy Kidder |
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Person | The Soul of a New Machine |
Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945, in New York City) is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the...
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| Award Winner | Mountains Beyond Mountains | ||||
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