Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Norris began working with Stern on the radio station WCCC-FM in Hartford in the late 1970s. Fred beg

Norris began working with Stern on the radio station WCCC-FM in Hartford in the late 1970s. Fred began playing guitar as a student at DuBaldo Music. In 1995, Norris married Allison Ferman, a woman he originally met on the "Dial-A-Date" segment of Stern's radio show. The couple has one daughter, Tess. Norris owns a Triumph motorcycle, which he rides on a regular basis, and likes to box.

Is an American songwriter, record producer, and founder of Monument Records.Using his life savings,

Is an American songwriter, record producer, and founder of Monument Records.Using his life savings, in March of 1958, he started the Monument Record Company (so named after the Washington Monument in DC) where he remained active until 1983. Foster is credited with the development of Rock and Roll legend Roy Orbison's career, producing his major hits, including "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Only the Lonely," "Running Scared," "In Dreams," and "Crying," "It's Over," "Mean Woman Blues," "Candy Man," and "Blue Bayou."

Is a French guitarist, born on September 19th, 1973 from a family of musicians (father drummer, moth

Is a French guitarist, born on September 19th, 1973 from a family of musicians (father drummer, mother singer).

Was an Australian poet and novelist.Born in Sydney, Manning was the son (one of eight children) of l

Was an Australian poet and novelist.Born in Sydney, Manning was the son (one of eight children) of local politician Sir William Patrick Manning. His family were Catholics, of Irish origin. A sickly child (asthma), Manning was educated exclusively at home. As a teenager he formed a close friendship with Arthur Galton, a scholarly man who was Secretary to the Governor General. Galton went home to England in 1898, taking Manning with him, but Manning returned to Australia in 1900. In 1903, he finally settled in the UK.

Was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. At the time of his death in

Was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".

Is an American playwright, screenwriter, essayist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immig

Is an American playwright, screenwriter, essayist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants.In 1925, she helped Clara Bow gain cinematic stardom with the film The Plastic Age. From then on she worked with famous stars of the silent film era, such as Norma Shearer, with whom she became an intimate friend, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Barbara Kent and Emil Jannings.

Was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England.

Was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England.

A Philippine-born Australian poet, educator and author.Born to Ermelina Palanca Neri and Frederick R

A Philippine-born Australian poet, educator and author.Born to Ermelina Palanca Neri and Frederick Rosauro Kesner II in 1967 at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital in España, Manila. Frederick is the eldest of five children. He spent his childhood between San Juan del Monte and Coron, Palawan, attending Aquinas School (San Juan) and later the University of Santo Tomas (Manila). After a brief career in island missions he taught kindergarten and highschool English. As part of the language faculty at St. Augustine Academy (Coron), he published with his senior English class Into Janus, a collection of selected creative writing exercises throughout that schoolyear, 1991-92.

Was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which

Was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis; nicknamed 'MacSpaunday' as a group. His body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed, but socially and emotionally aware style. Never as overtly (or simplistically) political as some of his contemporaries, his work shows a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his Irish roots.

Is a French writer.

Is a French writer.

Is the writer of Malta's most popular TV series Santa Monika, which was screened between October 200

Is the writer of Malta's most popular TV series Santa Monika, which was screened between October 2005 and March 2006. The second series has been aired from October 2006, with a third scheduled for October 2007.

Was a Danish literary historian, translator, critic and publisher.[1] [2] He is remembered especiall

Was a Danish literary historian, translator, critic and publisher.[1] [2] He is remembered especially for his editions of Ludvig Holberg and Adam Oehlenschläger.In 1823, he was sent Copenhagen’s most prestigious private school, Borgerdydskolen (Civic Virtue School), whose headmaster, the legendary Michael Nielsen (1776–1846), was said to be a cross between a tyrant and a pedant. Liebenberg would later recount in his memoirs that Adolph Peter Adler and Søren Kierkegaard were both in the same class from 1823 to 1827 where they established a close friendship

Is a German journalist and correspondent for CNN.[1] He studied North American Studies at the Univer

Is a German journalist and correspondent for CNN.[1] He studied North American Studies at the University of Bonn and at Free University Berlin. Pleitgen also spent one year studying at the School of Journalism at New York University and received in 2004 a

Danish writer.From 1812 he called himself Winkel-Horn.

Danish writer.From 1812 he called himself Winkel-Horn.

Was born in Colmar, France and graduated in 1986 from the Conservatoire de Music de Strasbourg with

Was born in Colmar, France and graduated in 1986 from the Conservatoire de Music de Strasbourg with honors in piano, ear training and theory. She earned a Certificate of Chamber Music and Sight Reading and graduated with a diploma in musicology from the Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg.

Was a German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He has been called the "F

Was a German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He has been called the "Father of Finnish music". Pacius was appointed music teacher at the University of Helsinki in 1834. In Helsinki he founded a musical society, a student choir and an orchestra. In 1848 Pacius wrote the music to the poem Vårt land by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, which was to become Finland's national anthem. Pacius’s music was also used for the Estonian national anthem Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm and the Livonian national anthem Min izamo, min sindimo.

Was a Swedish writer and a feminist activist.Fredrika Bremer was born in Åbo (Turku) in Finland but

Was a Swedish writer and a feminist activist.Fredrika Bremer was born in Åbo (Turku) in Finland but moved with her family to Stockholm when she was three years old. She grew up in Stockholm and in the manor Årsta outside Stockholm. Her father was described as somewhat of a house tyrant, and her mother was a socialite, and she and her sisters where brought up to marry in to the aristocracy; a trip on the continent 1821-1822 was the finishing touch of her upbringing before her debute.

Was a French-Iranian journalist, war correspondent, and novelist who resided in Neuilly-sur-Seine in

Was a French-Iranian journalist, war correspondent, and novelist who resided in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.[1] He gained international recognition for his novel La Femme Lapidée, in 1990, which was translated 4 years later as The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story. The book became the basis for screenplay of the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M., in which American actor James Caviezel portrays Sahebjam.[2]

An English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections an

An English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and had many exhibitions.She moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1988, and later settled in Wooroloo, a small hamlet north of Perth, in 1991, where the Australian landscape became the basis of much of her painting. She returned to the UK to live and work when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1997. Her father died in October 1998. Her only sibling, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide on March 16, 2009.[1]

Was an Estonian writer and critic who introduced Impressionism and Symbolism to Estonian literature.

Was an Estonian writer and critic who introduced Impressionism and Symbolism to Estonian literature. The son of a carpenter, Tuglas studied at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium from 1904 to 1905. After imprisonment for revolutionary activities, he went into exi

Is a German composer and professor of music.[1] Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and

Is a German composer and professor of music.[1] Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and piano with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen. In 1966 he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Anton Webern.[1]

Was a German trade unionist and socialist politician. He stands out as one of the more radical membe

Was a German trade unionist and socialist politician. He stands out as one of the more radical members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in imperial Germany. The second youngest of five children, Westmeyer was born in Osnabrück in 1873. West

Was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the 19th

Was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the 19th century. He completed his first opera in 1835, Pierre et Cathérine, but his breakthrough came with Le naufrage de la Méduse (1839), based on the wreck of the warship Méduse. The three-act romantic opera Alessandro Stradella of 1844 is recognized as one of Flotow's finer works. Martha was first staged in Vienna at the Theater am Kärntnertor on 25 November 1847.

Was a violoncellist, pedagogue, and composer. In 1814 he was admitted into the Dresden chapel as an

Was a violoncellist, pedagogue, and composer. In 1814 he was admitted into the Dresden chapel as an oboist, since there were no violoncello vacancies. In the same year Carl Maria von Weber appointed Kummer as a violoncellist at the Royal Opera House.[2]

Was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recen

Was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author gained fame largely due to his avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire. One of his leading sentences was: "A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn". Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten.