Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990.

Was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to 1990.

Was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmingt

Was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.

Was an American composer. Swanson studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was then taught by

Was an American composer. Swanson studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was then taught by Nadia Boulanger in Paris

Was an American sports journalist.Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of Jewish heritag

Was an American sports journalist.Cosell was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of Jewish heritage, the son of Nellie and Isidore Cohen, who was an accountant. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York. His parents had wanted him to become a lawyer. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from New York University, where he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi. He then went to the New York University School of Law where he earned his JD, and was a member of the NYU Law Review.

Was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a sy

Was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.

Was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia,Ottoman Empire, (today K

Was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia,Ottoman Empire, (today Kilkis, Greece), which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home.

Is a Croatian writer and politician. He is notable for his works for children and youth, most famous

Is a Croatian writer and politician. He is notable for his works for children and youth, most famous of his works being Smogovci, but he also wrote novels, film and TV scripts, dramas. He received several notable Croatian literary awards: "Ksaver Šandor Gjalski", "Ivana Brlic Mažuranic" and "Grigor Vitez".

Was a Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer. Skovoroda received his education at the Kyiv-Mohyla

Was a Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer. Skovoroda received his education at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Haunted by worldly and spiritual powers, the philosopher led a life of an itinerant thinker-beggar. In his tracts and dialogs, biblical problems o

Was a Chinese writer.He became the first Chinese to write and direct a West End play with his 1935 a

Was a Chinese writer.He became the first Chinese to write and direct a West End play with his 1935 adaptation of the popular Chinese story Lady Precious Stream which ran for 1000 nights in London to glowing reviews, was revived several times during the war and soon became a staple of repertory and school productions.

Was a renowned Chinese author and journalist during the late Qing Dynasty (??) and early Republic of

Was a renowned Chinese author and journalist during the late Qing Dynasty (??) and early Republic of China (????). Huang made significant contributions to journalism and literacy in China, particularly as an innovator in both journalistic methodology and writing style.

Was a Chinese writer and poet of the late Qing Dynasty. He was born in Chia-ying, now Mei County, Gu

Was a Chinese writer and poet of the late Qing Dynasty. He was born in Chia-ying, now Mei County, Guangdong, and died after 57 years in the same place.

Was a Dutch-born professor, pianist, and composer who spent the better part of his life in Cuba.Born

Was a Dutch-born professor, pianist, and composer who spent the better part of his life in Cuba.Born in Utrecht, Holland, de Blanck was the son of violinist Willem de Blan(c)k and singer Reine Valet. Hubert studied music with his father until February 1865, when he was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Liege, Belgium. There he studied piano with Felix Etienne Ledent and solfege with Sylvain Dupuis.

Is a Polish actor, journalist and presenter of TVN.He learned at Warsaw XIX lyceum of Warsaw Insurge

Is a Polish actor, journalist and presenter of TVN.He learned at Warsaw XIX lyceum of Warsaw Insurgents (Polish: L.O. im. Powstanców Warszawy), and then he went to University of Warsaw, where he studied Hindi philology. Then he started to study on Theatral Academy of Aleksander Zelwerowicz (Polish: Akademia Teatralna im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza) in Warsaw.

Was a Flemish composer, teacher, and music editor of the Renaissance. As a composer he was a member

Was a Flemish composer, teacher, and music editor of the Renaissance. As a composer he was a member of the generation contemporary with Palestrina, though unlike the most famous composers of the time he mostly worked in northern Europe, and in addition he was progressive in the use of chromaticism and dissonance.

Was a French-born poet and writer and a pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry.Hu

Was a French-born poet and writer and a pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry.Hugh Antoine d'Arcy is most famous for his 1887 poem, The Face upon the Floor. It is sometimes erroneously called The Face on the Barroom Floor, a sorrowful

Was an Australian novelist, journalist and documentary maker.He wrote a number of novels, including

Was an Australian novelist, journalist and documentary maker.He wrote a number of novels, including Low Company, The Pink and the Brown (1957) and The Reckoning. He worked as a journalist, scriptwriter, copywriter and documentary film producer in England, Germany, India and Australia. Originally from Sydney and widely travelled, he settled in London.

Is an American magazine publisher best known as the founder, majority owner,[1] and Chief Creative O

Is an American magazine publisher best known as the founder, majority owner,[1] and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.

A significant Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version

A significant Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century. Unusually for a first generation modernist, he was a communist. Unusu

Is an American magazine publisher, best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, and founde

Is an American magazine publisher, best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, and founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.Hefner graduated from the University of Illinois in 1949 with a major in psychology and a double minor in creative writing and art. He explains that some of the ideas for the Playboy magazine came to him while he was a student there. Despite spending less than three years in college before graduating, Hefner found time to edit the magazine Shaft and sold cartoons to magazines. His first salaried job was with a firm that produced and printed cardboard cartons. In 1949 Hefner also completed a semester of graduate courses in sociology studies at Northwestern University, where he wrote a term paper examining U.S. sex laws in light of the newly published Kinsey Institute research on male human sexuality.

Is an American theatre and film composer, arranger, performer, vocal coach, and playwright. He is be

Is an American theatre and film composer, arranger, performer, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the classic 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door," The Trolley Song, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world and is widely considered one of the ten or so classic Christmas songs of all-time. Martin became a close friend of Garland and was her accompanist at many of her concert performances in the 1950s including her legendary stint at the Palace.

Was an Australian writer.McCrae was born in Melbourne, the son of the Australian author George Gordo

Was an Australian writer.McCrae was born in Melbourne, the son of the Australian author George Gordon McCrae. He was originally articled to an architect, but later took upon writing and acting, settling eventually in Sydney and Camden. His works are notable for a sense of lightness and delicacy, and he had produced, in addition to a volume of memoirs, a considerable body of verse, and a light operetta, an edition of his grandmother's journal, and a volume of prose pieces.

Was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.Starting in 1897, Alfvén travelled much o

Was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.Starting in 1897, Alfvén travelled much of the next ten years in Europe. He studied violin technique in Brussels with César Thomson and learned conducting in Dresden as sub-conductor under Hermann Ludwig Kutzschbach. In 1903-4 he was professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory, Stockholm. From 1910 Alfvén was director musices (music director) at the University of Uppsala (a post he held until 1939).

Was a Croatian writer.Badalic attended primary school in his native city and Kostajnica, and the gym

Was a Croatian writer.Badalic attended primary school in his native city and Kostajnica, and the gymnasium in Zagreb. After finishing the gymnasium he goes for Vienna where he graduates Classical philology in 1874. At the same year he gets appointed as a teacher of the Grandy Gymnasium in Zagreb. In 1879 he served as a professor at the gymnasium in Rijeka, returning in 1882 to Zagreb where he works at the gymnasium in Gornji Grad.

Was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo

Was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden.[1] In 1884, Becker was appointed solo cellist with the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, and the following year became the leading cello teacher at the Frankfurt Hoch Conservatory. From 1909 to 1929, he was professor of cello at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin;[2] among his students was George Georgescu, who would replace him as cellist in the Marteau Quartet before forsaking the cello for the conductor's podium on account of a hand injury.[3] Later, Georgescu would remark, "All I know, I learned from Hugo Becker."[4]

Is a Dutch author known for his achievements in both literature and science.In 1970, he was awarded

Is a Dutch author known for his achievements in both literature and science.In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics. He used to work at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam. However, to the general public he is mostly known for his writing, in particular