The Best of Me

Christiane Rochefort (17 July 1917 – 24 April 1998)[1] was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.[2][3] Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing […]

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While she is noted for her feminist perspective in her writing,[1]:28–29 her popularity […]

Miodrag Kojadinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Којадиновић, pronounced [mǐodraɡ kojadǐːnoʋit͡ɕ], born 1961) is a Canadian-Serbian linguist, interpreter, translator, writer, anthropologist, and theoretician of gender and sexuality.[1][2] Born in Negotin,[3] he completed his academic education in Canada, Serbia, and Hungary, worked in three embassies (transferring to the Canadian Embassy to Belgrade when James Bissett was ambassador there[4]), in […]

Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret (16 December 1742, La Rochelle – 27 June 1823, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French man of letters. He is the author of over one hundred forty volumes covering the most diverse subjects and in all genres: serious and facetious poems, dramas, parodies, historical compilations, political writings, collections of anas, epistolary novels, novels, memoirs. […]

James Havoc is the pen-name of James Williamson, a British extreme writer of esoteric horror and erotica from Plymouth.[1] Moving to Brighton in later life, he made friends with Alan McGee of Creation Records and became chief editor of Creation Books, Creation Records’ book division.[2] McGee has commented on Williamson/Havoc in his autobiography, Creation Stories […]