Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a French poet, linguist and theoretician of language, and essayist. Meschonnic was a renowned tr

Was a French poet, linguist and theoretician of language, and essayist. Meschonnic was a renowned translator of the Old Testament, his translations published as Les Cinq Rouleaux, Le Chant des chants, Ruth, Comme ou les Lamentations, Paroles du sage, Esther and in what is probably his most famous theoretical book, the 710-page Critique du rhythme.[1]

Was a poet originally from Brush Valley (Centre County), Pennsylvania. His native language was Penns

Was a poet originally from Brush Valley (Centre County), Pennsylvania. His native language was Pennsylvania Dutch, and though he learned English in school he wrote his poetry in "Dutch". His original career was as a wheelwright, but he lost an arm near Sp

Is a French martial artist who is considered as the 'father of European and French karate'. He is th

Is a French martial artist who is considered as the 'father of European and French karate'. He is the only 10th dan karate master living outside of Japan, and the only Westerner who holds this rank. He is also the oldest and highest karate ranking Westerner alive, with more than 60 years of fighting arts, including 50 in martial arts. He was a pioneer in introducing karate to France and Europe, and has taught most of today's highest ranking karate masters in Europe.

Was a French politician, diplomat and author who worked for the French and British secret services i

Was a French politician, diplomat and author who worked for the French and British secret services in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. In 1935 he wrote La Guerre revient (published in English as Black Hand Over Europe)[1] in which he attempted to warn of the potential for conflict between Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia.

Was an English Baroque composer. He has often been called England's finest native composer.[citation

Was an English Baroque composer. He has often been called England's finest native composer.[citation needed] Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music.

Was a French academic, essayist and novelist. Roujon was the secretary of Jules Ferry, and later dir

Was a French academic, essayist and novelist. Roujon was the secretary of Jules Ferry, and later director of Fine Arts in 1894. Later he was named secretary for life of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1903 and was an elected member of the Académie française in 1911.

Was a convict transported to Port Arthur, Tasmania and Australia's first novelist. It is generally a

Was a convict transported to Port Arthur, Tasmania and Australia's first novelist. It is generally agreed that his writing is more important for its historical value than its literary merit.[1]Henry Savery was born in Somerset, England into the family of a well to do banker.[2] Little else is known of his early years. He married Eliza Elliott Oliver, daughter of a London business man and their only son was born in 1816. His attempts to earn a living were unsuccessful, a sugar-refining business being declared bankrupt in 1819 and proprietorship of the newspaper The Bristol Observer lasting only a little over two years.[3] But his return to sugar-refining ended in catastrophe.

Was an American author, educator, and clergyman. He graduated from Princeton University, 1873, and f

Was an American author, educator, and clergyman. He graduated from Princeton University, 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1874 and served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923

Was a Welsh metaphysical poet and medical practitioner. Vaughan was born to Thomas Vaughan (son of w

Was a Welsh metaphysical poet and medical practitioner. Vaughan was born to Thomas Vaughan (son of writer and colonial investor William Vaughan) and Denise Morgan at 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Breconshire, Wales. He spent most of his life in the village of L

Was a Polish philologist and journalist.An active member of the Society of the Enthusiasts of the Hi

Was a Polish philologist and journalist.An active member of the Society of the Enthusiasts of the History of Lwów, he was also a tour guide and a journalist, prearing weekly broadcasts on Lwów and the Hutsuls. He was also the author of several books on his home town and a single ethnographic documentary on the Hutsul life (no copy survived the World War II. Following the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, he was arrested and murdered in the Stanislawów prison, under unknown circumstances.

Is a Polish-Jewish writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. He was an award-winning noveli

Is a Polish-Jewish writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. He was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and essayist who had authored twenty books of prose and poetry and two dramas. Grynberg, known as the “chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews”, tackled in his writings the Holocaust experience and the post-Holocaust trauma.[1][2]In 1959, Grynberg graduated from Warsaw University with a master’s degree in journalism. As an actor, Grynberg had connections with the Jewish State Theater company in Warsaw. It was during this time when he started publishing prose and poetry.[1][2]

Was a Polish journalist, poet, writer, and activist from the Zaolzie region. He is considered one of

Was a Polish journalist, poet, writer, and activist from the Zaolzie region. He is considered one of the most important Polish writers from Zaolzie after World War II and one of the most popular local Polish poets.[2]During World War II he was engaged in Polish leftist resistance, where he worked in the underground press and distributed illegal press. After the war he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and became editor-in-chief of Glos Ludu newspaper. He remained in this position until 1957.

Is a Polish composer of classical music. His work in the late 1950s and 1960s was characterised by a

Is a Polish composer of classical music. His work in the late 1950s and 1960s was characterised by a dissonant modernism influenced by Nono, Stockhausen and Górecki's contemporaries Penderecki and Serocki. In the mid 1970s, he moved towards a 'pure' sacred minimalist sound, encapsulated by the 1976 Symphony No. 3. Though he has remained primarily a religious composer, Górecki has progressed through several distinct styles, from the reverence of Beatus Vir (1979), to the meditative Miserere (1981) to the spiritualism of Good Night (1990).

Is a Polish writer, journalist and publisher.he studied philology at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univ

Is a Polish writer, journalist and publisher.he studied philology at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University. He then became professor of Polish language in a gymnasium and contributed to a farm newspaper in Lublin (Sztandar Ludu). In 1965, he founded a poets association in 1965 called « Prom ». In 1969, he compiled Henryk Cybulski's memoirs, Czerwone noce (Red nights) about Przebraze Defence, the self-defence of Poles against the Ukrainian UPA. Pajak wrote then a novel based on this subject matter, Los (Fate) in 1969.

Was a Polish Romantic-era journalist and novelist.Count Henryk Rzewuski was a scion of a Polish magn

Was a Polish Romantic-era journalist and novelist.Count Henryk Rzewuski was a scion of a Polish magnate family in Ukraine. He was the son of Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski, a Russian senator who resided in St. Petersburg; a great-nephew of a Targowica confederate;[1] and great-grandson of Waclaw Piotr Rzewuski, Polish Great Crown Hetman who had been exiled in 1767–73 to Kaluga by Russian ambassador to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Nikolai Repnin, who was effectively running the Commonwealth.[2]

An Indigenous Australian former stockman and now internationally recognised poet and novelist.A Murr

An Indigenous Australian former stockman and now internationally recognised poet and novelist.A Murri man, his maternal grandmother was Kooma, and both grandfathers Irish.[1] He was born in Yumba, an Aboriginal camp in the south-western Queensland town of Cunnamulla.Wharton has worked as a stockman, a drover and a labourer, but did not begin his writing career until in the 1980s, when he was around 50, he sat down under a tree and began to write. Through his writing he tried to answer questions about his people's past.

Was a composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at t

Was a composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired, several years before his death. Brün left Germany in 1936 to study piano and composition at the Jerusalem Conservatory (later renamed Israel Academy of Music) in (then) Palestine.[1]) He studied at Tanglewood and Columbia University from 1948 through 1950. His work as an electronic-music composer began in Paris in the late 1950s, at the WDR studio in Cologne, and at the Siemens studio in Munich.

Was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Cae

Was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the San Francisco Chronicle from the late 1930s until his death, with an interruption from 1950 to 1958 during which he wrote for the San Francisco Examiner. His collection of essays entitled Baghdad-by-the-Bay was published in 1949. He died of lung cancer in San Francisco and his funeral was one of the best-attended events in recent city history.

Was an American screenwriter and film director who may be equally known for having been one of the H

Was an American screenwriter and film director who may be equally known for having been one of the Hollywood Ten as for having made a striking if somewhat ideological film about a Grant County, New Mexico zinc miners' strike, 1954's Salt of the Earth.

Is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American jazz pianist and composer. He embraces element

Is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz.

Was an American radio reporter best known for his vivid description of the Hindenburg disaster - fir

Was an American radio reporter best known for his vivid description of the Hindenburg disaster - fire that destroyed the Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937.Network policy in those days forbade the use of recorded material except for sound effects on dramas, and Morrison and Nielsen had no facilities for live broadcast. Still the results became the prototype for news broadcasting in the war years to follow. The fame of this recording had no effect on network policies, however, and it was not until after the end of World War II that recordings were regularly used.

Is an American composer, conductor, and author.Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his

Is an American composer, conductor, and author.Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle (accompanied by his mother at the piano). He was also attracted to the popular piano music of the 1920s (such as the novelty piano tunes of Zez Confrey), as well as his family's player piano, which also played popular tunes. He also studied piano with Odessa's only piano teacher, Mrs. Felts, who attempted to interest him in the music of Bach and Beethoven.

Was a very prolific German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.Born in Hagen, Westphalia, Reinecker

Was a very prolific German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.Born in Hagen, Westphalia, Reinecker began to write short stories already as a high school student. In 1936 he moved to Berlin, where he became editor-in-chief of a youth magazine, Jungvolk. In the same year he also co-authored a book, Jugend in Waffen (Armed Youth). This was a time when the Nazis had already been in power for three years and when the media had long been gleichgeschaltet. In 1943 he was editor-in-chief of a book entitled Der Pimpf about the training system of the Hitler Youth.

Was a German composer who became one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich

Was a German composer who became one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich. He was best known for his collaborations with the director Leni Riefenstahl on films such as Triumph of the Will. In 1920 Herr Windt received a grant to study with the renowned Franz Schreker in the composer's master class at the Berlin Academy of Music. A government grant led to his opera "Andromache, which was first performed in 1932. An UFA film producer in the audience took notice of Windt's music. Windt was offered a commission to write the music for UFA's 1933 film "Morgenrot" (Red Morning), a story about a gallant World War I U-boat crew.