Traversing the Bernese Oberland on a summer holiday had a profound effect on the 19-year-old author-to-be.
Architect, scriptwriter, actress, activist, author -- she is, or has been, all these.
The Art of the Start makes lavish use of tables and how-to lists, which in most books is lazy-author Power-Point fodder.
Gunther Schuller is a musical Renaissance man -- composer, conductor, teacher, advocate and author -- whose interests range from Mozart to Mingus, from Sousa to Satchmo.
The singer-songwriter-producer-designer-author named his record label Star Trak, selected the image of an astronaut to be the logo for his Billionaire Boys Club clothing line, and even named his son Rocket.
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The lead author--in eye-catching He-Must-Be-Protected-At-All-Costs style--is identified as Anonymous.
Each artist read a section of a poem by Man-Booker prize-winning author Yann Martel - emphasising the need for all the world's population to have access to clean water - followed by a musical or artistic performance.
Day holds down multiple jobs--actress, screenwriter, producer, author--and has plenty of reasons to leave the house: If you saw her on the street, you might recognize her from roles on TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, House M.
Big John is John Grisham, the 45-year-old lawyer-turned-author who became publisher of the magazine in 1994 and used it to test the waters for his upcoming novel, A Painted House, which was serialized in the six issues of the Oxford American last year.
It is no insult to young Paolini to say that his books are effectively co-written with Tolkien, any more than it is an insult to Chatterton-Rowley to say that his had a co-author in Macpherson-Ossian or, for that matter, that virtually all medieval-minded historical novels in the nineteenth century, including some very good ones, were produced jointly with Sir Walter Scott.
The prizing-winning 81-year-old author and academic has written more than 20 works - some fiercely critical of politicians and a failure of leadership in Nigeria.
For those unfamiliar with the term, "auteur" - French for author - refers to a filmmaker whose work reflects his or her creative vision and personal sensibilities.
Others include God Loves Uganda, about American religious leaders and their East African counterparts, and Running From Crazy, in which the actress Mariel Hemingway - granddaughter of author Ernest - explores her family's history of mental illness.
Study co-author Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, director of the clinical research at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.
His co-author, Jean-Francois Mesplede, was longtime director of the vaunted Michelin Guide to France, and the introduction is by one of the most revered living chefs, 3-star Paul Bocuse.
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The lead discussant was Joe Conway, a Research Associate at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and co-author of Long-Range Bombers and the Role of Airpower in the New Century.
But a new Kyowa-funded study of 60 healthy women found a monthlong regime of daily doses of citicoline resulted in improved attention and fewer errors on a cognitive test compared with placebo, says co-author Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a scientist at the Brain Institute at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who is a paid consultant to Kyowa.
Another colleague, Rick Kahler, author and co-author of several books including one of my all-time personal finance favorites, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, insists every financial advisor needs his or her own financial advisor.
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"Exercisers fall asleep faster, suffer fewer middle-of-the-night wake-ups and have a reduced risk of sleep disorders, " says study co-author Brad Cardinal, co-director of the sport and exercise psychology program at Oregon State University.
The subject of the letter sued the activist - as well as the author - for libel.
She now has 83 peer-reviewed published papers for which she is either the author or co-author.
The cardiothoracic surgeon, best-selling author and self-ordained "America's doctor" parlayed a frequent guest gig on Winfrey's show into a series of his own.
Historically, the sturgeon was considered a noble fish in France, says Marie-Christiane Courtioux-Icre, co-author of "Caviar de France" (Atlantica, 2005).
"And that might be generous, " says Mr. Dungan, who is also co-author of a personal-finance textbook.
Steve Walt, the co-author of the anti-Semitic tome The Israel and US Foreign Policy.
Joan Blades, co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace also was cofounder of Berkeley Systems, creator of After Dark and the iconic Flying Toaster screensavers.
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"We think Habibie is willing to transform, " says Umar Juoro, co-author of a soon-to-be-published book explaining the vice president's economic philosophy in palatable terms that one doesn't often hear.
According to Ed Keller, co-author of The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace, 90 percent of real-world conversations about brands, products and services happen offline.
Although researchers could find no link between the crash in cave bear populations and other factors, the event did "coincide with the start of human expansion, " commented co-author Dr Aurora Grandal-D'Anglade of the University of Coruna, Spain.
So you have this incredible mix in one place - this is like a godsend to an author - you can do so many things with that.
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