Lynne Truss, Writer
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The author Lynne Truss known for writing the best-selling, humorous book on the use and abuse of punctuation has also worked in her native Britain as an editor, columnist, sports journalist, writer of radio scripts, and radio host and earned praise and modest sales for her fiction and nonfiction books. In the wake of the success of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves', four of Truss's earlier books, 'With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed', 'Making the Cat Laugh', 'Tennyson's Gift', and 'Going Loco', were reissued in 2004 by Profile Books and compiled into The Lynne Truss Treasury in 2005.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2006
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Graham Hancock, Writer
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Writer Graham Hancock has written nonfiction books on topics ranging from the inefficacy of foreign aid, to possible existence of life on Mars, to evidence of lost civilization on Earth. His book, co-authored with Robert Bauval, 'Talisman: Gnostics, Freemasons, Revolutionaries, and the 2000-Year-Old Conspiracy at Work in the World Today' and published in 2004, examines the ancient Egyptian and Christian gnostic ideologies known to members of secret, millennia-old societies.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2005
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Suzette Haden Elgin
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The power of language has never ceased to impress Suzette Haden Elgin, linguist, writer, educator and artist and she believes it to be one of the most powerful instruments of social change in existence. Also a science fiction writer, she maintains that the genre is useful in testing the social changes brought about by language before they are implemented in the real world, and underlines the usefulness of the conjunction between science fiction and linguistics.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2006
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