Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter T

A German novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language r

A German novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.

Is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional music

Is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.

Is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional music

Is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975. Theo Jörgensmann belongs to the 2nd generation of European free jazz musicians. He was part of the clarinet Renaissance in the jazz and improvising music scene. Jörgensmann is one of a few clarinet players for whom unaccompanied solo recordings are a significant part of his work.[1]

Was a German journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. From 1919

Was a German journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime. From 1919 to 1923 Haubach studied philosophy, sociology, and economics and eventually graduated. As of 1920, Haubach, like his friend Carlo Mierendorff, was an SPD me

Is a Dutch journalist, presenter, and writer.He studied Dutch language and History at the University

Is a Dutch journalist, presenter, and writer.He studied Dutch language and History at the University of Amsterdam. He was editor of the satirical student newspaper Propria Cures.[1]

Is a Swedish writer. He is a Greek immigrant to Sweden, but writes in Swedish. In 1946 he and his fa

Is a Swedish writer. He is a Greek immigrant to Sweden, but writes in Swedish. In 1946 he and his family moved to Athens where he finished the high school and studied in the Karolos Koun's theatrical school. He emigrated to Sweden in 1964 and has lived in the country ever since. He studied philosophy, and has worked as a lecturer at Stockholm University between 1969 and 1972 and then as chief of Bonniers literary magazine between 1972 and 1976.

German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist[1] and writer[2],

German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist[1] and writer[2], generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century[citation needed].

Was a German church organist and composer. Pröpper was born in Balve and spent most of his career t

Was a German church organist and composer. Pröpper was born in Balve and spent most of his career there as an organist at Saint Blasius church. He later studied at the State Academy of Music in Munich (with Joseph Haas among his teachers) and also had private composition lessons from Gottfried Rüdinger, returning to Balve in 1925. From 1930 to 1934 he held a position in the local government but was removed by the Nazis. In February 1946 he became deputy mayor of Balve.

Was an American writer and cartoonist, better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss (often pronounced /'s

Was an American writer and cartoonist, better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss (often pronounced /'su?s/, but he himself said /'s??s/). He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by his imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter. His most notable books include the bestselling classics Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. His work has been adapted numerous times, including eleven television specials, three feature films, and a Broadway musical.

Germany - July 4, 1888 in Hademarschen, Germany) studied and practiced law in Schleswig-Holstein and

Germany - July 4, 1888 in Hademarschen, Germany) studied and practiced law in Schleswig-Holstein and - emigrated under Danish rule - in Thuringia. He also wrote a number of stories,

Was a German viola-player, composer and music critic. The illegitimate son of King Frederick Augustu

Was a German viola-player, composer and music critic. The illegitimate son of King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony[1], Uhlig became a member of the Dresden orchestra at the age of 19. In the following year (1842), Richard Wagner came to Dresden for the premiere of his opera, Rienzi, and remained in the city as Kapellmeister until his flight following the May Uprising in the city of 1849 (in which he had taken a leading part).

Was a German composer. After his studies in Stuttgart and Wetzlar, von Schacht arrived in Regensburg

Was a German composer. After his studies in Stuttgart and Wetzlar, von Schacht arrived in Regensburg as a knight (Hofkavalier). There he was appointed in 1773 director of the court music, and assigned also to direct Italian opera.

He is today known as one of the most prominent Greek composers alive, and has toured and performed a

He is today known as one of the most prominent Greek composers alive, and has toured and performed all over the world. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his distinguished career as composer and conductor, he also holds the position of professor of composition at Boston University.

Is of Counsel (retired Senior Partner) at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison L

Is of Counsel (retired Senior Partner) at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and writer, best known as President John F. Kennedy's Special Counsel & Adviser, legendary speechwriter, and "alter-ego." President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank."Born in Nebraska, the son of Christian A. Sorensen, a Danish immigrant,[citation needed], the future attorney general of Nebraska,[2] and Annis Chaikin, of Russian Jewish descent[3], Sorensen graduated from Lincoln High School in 1945. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He attended law school at the same university, graduating first in his class.[1]

Was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natura

Was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm and natural imagery.Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan. His father, Otto Roethke, was a German immigrant, who owned a large local greenhouse along with his brother (Theodore's uncle). Much of Theodore's childhood was spent in this greenhouse, as reflected by the use of natural images in his poetry. The poet's adolescent years were jarred, however, by his uncle's suicide and by the death of his father from cancer, both in early 1923, when Theodore (Ted) was only 15. These deaths powerfully shaped Roethke's psychic and creative lives.

Was a German composer, musician, and music teacher.[1] He learned to play wind and string instrument

Was a German composer, musician, and music teacher.[1] He learned to play wind and string instruments from the Stadtmusikus in Fürstenwalde (a small town outside Berlin). At the age of nineteen he studied composition with Böhmer, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, Schneider, and A. W. Bach in Berlin. Oesten is perhaps best known for his easy to play piano compositions, including transcriptions of operatic works, written in the sentimental style of his day. He died in his native city of Berlin. His son Max also became a composer.[2]

Was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist. He is best remembered as the friend and mentor of t

Was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist. He is best remembered as the friend and mentor of the famous naturalist Gerald Durrell, featuring in Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, Durrell's brother Lawrence's Prospero's Cell and Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi. A polymath, Stephanides was respected as a scientist and doctor, and acclaimed as a poet in both Greek and English, and translated a sizeable body of Greek poetry to English -- notably a significant body of work by Greek poet Kostis Palamas and the Greek near-epic work Erotocritos.

Was an American science fiction author.Though his mainstream success was relatively limited, Sturgeo

Was an American science fiction author.Though his mainstream success was relatively limited, Sturgeon is now widely recognized as one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of his era. Many of Sturgeon's works have a poetic, even an elegiac, quality. He was known to use a technique known as "rhythmic prose", in which his prose text would drop into a standard poetic meter. This has the effect of creating a subtle shift in mood, usually without alerting the reader to its cause. His most famous novel More Than Human (1953) won serious academic recognition as literature, a rarity amongst science fiction works of the '50s.

Was a Greek composer, conductor, and basic creator of Greek operetta. The operetta "The Godson" (Gre

Was a Greek composer, conductor, and basic creator of Greek operetta. The operetta "The Godson" (Greek "? ?aft?st????", O Vaftistikos) remains Sakellaridis' most popular work and is regularly performed to this day. It is a comedy of errors done in the classic manner of the French boulevard. It is set in the Balkan Wars. Athens is basking in the news of successive victories of the Greek armies, but Vivika Zacharouli is furious. Her husband has been drafted, but was able to secure an safe auxiliary post in Athens, and is not actually winning any battle glory at all. Her only consolation is her godson, Marko, (the story's McGuffin) whom she had christened when he was a baby and never seen again since. He is a real war hero, because he regularly writes her from the front and recounts his numerous fighting accomplishments.

Was an archaeologist, anthropologist, cartographer, and ethnographer notable for his scientific stud

Was an archaeologist, anthropologist, cartographer, and ethnographer notable for his scientific study of the Arctic.Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen took part in the Fifth Danish Thule Expedition led by Knud Rasmussen.[2] During his travels, Mathiassen gave out thimbles to local Inuit, thus earning the Igloolik nickname, Tikkilik ("the one with the thimbles"). In 1922, Mathiassen began an archaeological investigation at a site he called "Naujan" (Naujaat); the first archaeological excavation in Canada's Arctic

Is a Francophone Guinean novelist. Born in Guinea, he later lived in Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, and

Is a Francophone Guinean novelist. Born in Guinea, he later lived in Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, and finally France since 1973.His most noted book is said to be Pelourinho, which was set in Brazil. For the English-speaking world his significance was more for being one of the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." From this came the novel The Oldest Orphan; the 2004 translation by the University of Nebraska may be his most successful book in the English language.

Is a French composer. " The determination to lead his own freedom has driven Thierry Lancino to reve

Is a French composer. " The determination to lead his own freedom has driven Thierry Lancino to reveal himself as a multifaceted composer of imaginative experiments and invention. This freedom and this independence of tone are the main characteristics of his work."

Was a French journalist, essayist, dramatist, and literary critic. A graduate of the École Normale

Was a French journalist, essayist, dramatist, and literary critic. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in the same class as Roger Vailland, Robert Brasillach, and Maurice Bardèche. While still a student, Maulnier became active in the integralist Action Française, and published in Charles Maurras' newspaper (L'Action française). He made a career in journalism and took part to the movement of the Non-conformists of the 1930s, inspired by the personalist generation of young intellectuals who shared some of the ideals of the Action Française, holding right-wing beliefs as an answer to a "crisis of civilization" and materialism.

Was a French Benedictine monk and scholar. He was a Maurist, and a disciple of Jean Mabillon. Of his

Was a French Benedictine monk and scholar. He was a Maurist, and a disciple of Jean Mabillon. Of his many works, the one now cited is his Acta sincera, a martyrology, written in Latin (French translation 1732 by Drouet de Maupertuy).

Is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament.In June 2004 he was elected to the Europ

Is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament.In June 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament. He is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and for the Committee on Budgetary Control. Further he is the chair of the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.