Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter E

Is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of w

Is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole.

Was a Canadian author, best known for a series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Men

Was a Canadian author, best known for a series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Mennonite home cooking as practiced in the Waterloo Region.She was born in Berlin, Ontario (later Kitchener) in 1906 and grew up there. Staebler received a BA from the University of Toronto and a teacher's certificate from the Ontario College of Education. Staebler married in 1933 but divorced in 1962. She wrote articles for Maclean's, Chatelaine, Saturday Night, Reader's Digest, Star Weekly and other newspapers and magazines; she has also written non-fiction with Canadian themes. In 1991, she established an award for creative non-fiction, awarded annually by Wilfrid Laurier University

Is a Dutch conductor of opera and symphony orchestras. He is the chief conductor of the Hong Kong Ph

Is a Dutch conductor of opera and symphony orchestras. He is the chief conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Santa Fe Opera and music director designate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Is a Croatian journalist and writer. He is currently living in Rijeka, Croatia, and is a chief edito

Is a Croatian journalist and writer. He is currently living in Rijeka, Croatia, and is a chief editor and a columnist of a weekly Butiga.He graduated at the Economics Faculty in Rijeka in 1978. After the studies, he started his journalist career. He worked as news reporter, then an editor of local and politics sections, a chief editor of Goranski Novi list.

Was an organist from Lyon in France of international fame who served the Archdiocese of Lyon for ove

Was an organist from Lyon in France of international fame who served the Archdiocese of Lyon for over 50 years. He took up his post at Lyon Cathedral in 1904 and was a professor at the Lyon Conservatoire. Called "the best French organist" by the well-known music critic Emile Vuillermoz, Commette earned similar tributes from his students and listeners from all parts of the world and is responsible for some of the earliest organ recordings. "These – 78s, of course – were intended for a local market: their world-wide success amazed the modest M. Commette."[1]

Is a Mauritian, African poet, critic, and translator. Maunick is a métis or mulatto, and as such wa

Is a Mauritian, African poet, critic, and translator. Maunick is a métis or mulatto, and as such was the subject of discrimination from both blacks and whites. He worked briefly as a librarian in Port-Louis before going to Paris in 1960, where he wrote, l

Edson Lopes studied in Brazil at the Conservatory of Musical and Dramatic Arts "Dr. Carlos de Campos

Edson Lopes studied in Brazil at the Conservatory of Musical and Dramatic Arts "Dr. Carlos de Campos" in Tatuí, and in England at Trinity College, London. He performs throughout Brazil as a soloist and in duos, trios and with orchestra. As an integrant of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, he performed in the cities of Houston, Dallas, Austin, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Hollywood, Indianapolis, Washington DC, New York among other. In 2005 the Quartet participated in the "33rd Arts Festival" in Hong Kong and in the "VII International Guitar Festival" in Monterrey, Mexico and in 2006 in the "V International Guitar Festival" in the city of Aarhus, Denmark.

Is a Brazilian composer from an Italian family. His contemporary classical music has achieved a wide

Is a Brazilian composer from an Italian family. His contemporary classical music has achieved a wide range audience due to its highly expressive musical discourse; due to an invention of a sophisticated musical rhetoric that operates on musical meanings, and due to a harmonic construction that introduces a new functionality in music. Re-interpretation is the key word in his music. By means of this key word all these musical features are achieved.

Was a Brazilian composer and harmonica player. Apart from releasing multiple solo albums, he also pe

Was a Brazilian composer and harmonica player. Apart from releasing multiple solo albums, he also performed with Brazilian composer Radamés Gnattali and his sextet, touring Europa and South America

Was an important Russian poet of the Constructivist School. He was also a Neo-Romantic early in his

Was an important Russian poet of the Constructivist School. He was also a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career. He was also a part of so-called "Ukrainian School" of Russian writers (that also included Isaak Babel inter alia) that incorporated ukrainia

Was an Estonian writer. Bornhöhe is generally considered a pioneer of the genre of Estonian histori

Was an Estonian writer. Bornhöhe is generally considered a pioneer of the genre of Estonian historical novelle, as a lion's share of his creations consist of romantism-influenced historical adventure stories.

Was a Romanian opera composer, also a violin virtuoso, conductor, teacher and critic. He studied wit

Was a Romanian opera composer, also a violin virtuoso, conductor, teacher and critic. He studied with Henri Vieuxtemps.

Was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abu

Was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).

Was a Baltic German pianist and composer. From 1925 he was professor of piano at the Cologne Academy

Was a Baltic German pianist and composer. From 1925 he was professor of piano at the Cologne Academy of Music but was forced to resign from his post by the Nazis in 1935 and became an 'inner exile', composing almost nothing until after the end of World War II. He resumed teaching as Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg in 1950, but died of a heart-attack in 1958. His students at Hamburg included Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky. There has been little revival of interest in his own music and all his post-World War II works remain in manuscript; considering his inter-war eminence, he has received remarkably little attention up to the present day, but in 2006 the cpo label began issuing a series of CDs of his orchestral works.

Was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a w

Was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy and cultivated banker who exposed his children to the best and brightest that Germany had to offer. Frequenters to the Franck home included such luminaries as Heine, Humboldt, Heller, Mendelssohn, and Wagner. His family’s financial position allowed Franck to study with Mendelssohn as a private student in Düsseldorf and later in Leipzig. As a talented pianist, he embarked upon a dual career as a concert artist and teacher for more than four decades during the course of which he held many positions.

Was a Czech conductor and composer, who settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in

Was a Czech conductor and composer, who settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life as the principal conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for many decades. In that capacity, he conducted the premieres of many operas by Russian composers, including those by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Was a German composer of operettas, operas and theatre music. He was born in Emmerich. His daughter

Was a German composer of operettas, operas and theatre music. He was born in Emmerich. His daughter was the actress and singer Evelyn Künneke. Künneke studied musicology and literature in Berlin, and was also an advanced student of Max Bruch. He worked as a repetiteur and chorus master at a Berlin operetta theater, the Neues Operettentheater am Schiffbauerdamm, but relinquished his post as chorus master after his opera Robins Ende (1909) was premiered in Mannheim and then received productions at 38 different German opera houses. Künneke later worked under Max Reinhardt and wrote incidental music for Reinhardt’s staging of Part Two of Goethe's Faust.

S a Russian nationalist writer and political dissident, and is the founder and leader of Russia's un

S a Russian nationalist writer and political dissident, and is the founder and leader of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party. He was convicted in 2002, despite the protests of several State Duma members, for illegally purchasing weapons, and se

Was a Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and translator. He is mostly known as aut

Was a Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and translator. He is mostly known as author of books for children.Petiška published nearly 70 children's books worldwide (usually illustrated by Helena Zmatlíková), even though this milieu was often avoided by writers living in Socialist states. In addition he translated the works of Goethe into Czech. Petiška was also an excellent interpreter of the legends and myths of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece, and published collections of fairy tales and myths.

Was a German composer and organist. He is the cousin of German poet, philosopher, and politician Kar

Was a German composer and organist. He is the cousin of German poet, philosopher, and politician Karl Rottmanner and great nephew of lawyer Simon Rottmanner. He studied the organ and music composition with Joseph Graetz and Kaspar Ett. In 1828 he entered the University of Munich where he studied philosophy, logic, history, physics, and statistics. During that time he continued taking music lessons privately and held organist posts at various churches in Munich, including the Bürgersaalkirche, the Herzogspitalkirche, and St. Michael's Church, Munich. In 1839 he was appointed organist of the Speyer Cathedral, a post he held until his death four years later.[1]

Was a German composer and native of Glatz, Prussian Silesia. While studying law at the University of

Was a German composer and native of Glatz, Prussian Silesia. While studying law at the University of Breslau he devoted himself to music under the direction of Wolf and Mosovius. At the same time he took charge of the Akademische Gesangverein. Having decided not to follow a juridical career, he left Breslau in 1837 to accept a call to Vilnius as director of the orchestra of the theater there. In 1840 he went in the same capacity to Riga, but in 1843 returned to Breslau, and two years later accepted a similar position in Prague, where he also taught music. On the death of Leopold Zwonar he succeeded him as the director of the Sophienakademie.

Is a Russian writer and author of several children's books. Among his most beloved characters are a

Is a Russian writer and author of several children's books. Among his most beloved characters are a serious but adventurous boy known, for his serious disposition, by the sardonic nickname of Uncle Fedya (Uncle Fyodor, ???? ?????), from Uncle Fedya, His D

Austrian dramatist, was born at Vienna.Having studied jurisprudence at the university of Vienna, he

Austrian dramatist, was born at Vienna.Having studied jurisprudence at the university of Vienna, he entered the government service in a legal capacity, and after holding various minor offices was transferred in 1843 to a responsible post on the Lottery Commission. He had already embarked upon politics, and severely criticized the government in a pamphlet, Pie Desideria eines österreichischen Schriftstellers (1842); and in 1845 he made a journey to England, after which his political opinions became more pronounced. After the Revolution, in 1848, he quit the government service in order to devote himself entirely to letters. He lived in Vienna until his death, and was ennobled for his work.

Was a German journalist, television presenter and security expert. Following the Second World War th

Was a German journalist, television presenter and security expert. Following the Second World War the man who would later be known as a 'criminal hunter' and 'crook's bane' eked out a living as a thief and black market trader, for which he served a senten

Is an Argentine composer of classical music.Argentine composer and conductor Eduardo Alonso-Crespo w

Is an Argentine composer of classical music.Argentine composer and conductor Eduardo Alonso-Crespo was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1956, and grew up in the neighboring city of Salta, in Northwestern Argentina. He received his early musical training from Elizabeth Ocaña de García in Salta, and his musical college education and degree at the School of Musical Arts of the National University of Tucumán.