Edward R. Tufte
American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University
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Mikhail Lermontov
Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called “the poet of the Caucasus”, the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin’s death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism
Robert Shapard
Works by Robert Shapard: Sudden Fiction Book by Robert Shapard
Robert McKee
Author, lecturer and story consultant who is known for his “Story Seminar”, which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California
Anne Lamott
American novelist and non-fiction writer
Stephen Schochet
A professional tour guide in Hollywood, Stephen Schochet has researched and told thousands of entertaining anecdotes for over twenty years. He is also the author and narrator of two audiobooks Tales of Hollywood and Fascinating Walt Disney. Tim Sika, host of the radio show Celluloid Dreams on KSJS in San Jose has called Stephen,” The …
O. Henry
American short story writer
Robert Burns
Scottish poet and lyricist
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West