Paramount Books

Talented Individuals

A

• William Edward Armytage Axon
  Presentation
  He was a librarian and antiquary, and a journalist for Manchester Guardian.
• John Aikin
  Presentation
  He was an English doctor and writer.
• Masaharu Anesaki
  Presentation
  He is credited as being the father of religious studies in Japan.

B

• Robert Stawell Ball
  Presentation
  He was astronomer who founded the screw theory.
• Horatio Bridge
  Presentation
  He was an officer of the United States Navy.
• Isabella Varley Banks
  Presentation
  She was a 19th-century writer of English poetry and novels, born in Manchester.
• Germain Bazin
  Presentation
  He was an art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum.
• Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique
  Presentation
  She was curator at the Cabinet des Dessins du Louvre.
• Samuel Beal
  Presentation
  He was an Oriental scholar.
• Auguste Bailly
  Presentation
  He was a French writer.
• Benjamin Brierley
  Presentation
  He was an English weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect.
• Johann Georg Bühler
  Presentation
  He was a scholar of ancient Indian languages and law.
• Thomas Baines
  Presentation
  For thirty years was an active promoter of liberal interests in Lancashire.
• John Bunyan
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  He became a target for slander and libel.

C

• Nathan Salomon Calisch
  Presentation
  He was journalist and secretary of the Stock Exchange
• Isaac Marcus Calisch
  Presentation
  He was head teacher and translator.
• Paul Cohen-Portheim
  Presentation
  He was a German author and translator.
• Gaius Valerius Catullus
  Presentation
  He was a poet who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry.
• Marie Corelli
  Presentation
  Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries.
• Thomas Carlyle
  Presentation
  Expected to become a preacher, he lost his Christian faith at University.
• Joseph Conrad
  Presentation
  He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English.
• Edward Caswall
  Presentation
  He was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer who converted to Roman Catholicism.
• Neville Cardus
  Presentation
  Turned cricket into vivid description and criticism.
• Leslie Charteris
  Presentation
  Best known for his books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar.

D

• Billy Drake
  Presentation
  He was a British air ace.
• Bert Davis
• Henry Drummond
  Presentation
  He was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer.
• Sukumar Dutt
• Gaston Dubois-Desaulle
• Arthur J. Dobb
• Charles Dickens
  Presentation
  He is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

E

• Friedrich Engels
  Presentation
  He was indebted to German philosophy.
• Les Edwards
  Presentation
  A British illustrator.
• Rudolf Cristoph Eucken
  Presentation
  Philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature.

F

• John William Fletcher
  Presentation
  He was Methodism's first great theologians.
• Asher Feldman
• David K. Frasier
• John Nicol Farquhar
  Presentation
  He was a professor of comparative religion.

G

• Robert Graves
  Presentation
  He was an English poet, novelist, critic, and classicist.
• Milton Glaser
  Presentation
  He is an American graphic designer.
• Oliver Goldsmith
  Presentation
  He planned to emigrate to America but failed because he missed his ship.
• Melville Bell Grosvenor
  Presentation
  He campaigned to save the California redwoods before conservation became a popular cause.

H

• Bret Harte
  Presentation
  Best known for his fiction featuring miners, gamblers of the California Gold Rush.
• Charles Hamilton
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  He is estimated to have written about 100 million words in his lifetime.
• Arthur Rowland Howell
  Presentation
• Antoine Hamilton
  Presentation
  He interchanged amusing verses with the Duke of Berwick.
• Richard Harris Barham
• Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann
  Presentation
  He lived a retired life of study, while suffering great pain.
• Dezo Hoffmann
  Presentation
  He earned international acclaim shooting photographs of well known pop and showbiz personalities.
• Thomas Humphry Ward
  Presentation
  Author and journalist, most notable as the husband of Mrs Humphry Ward.
• Thomas Hardy
  Presentation
  He focused more on a declining rural society.

J

• Charles Alexander Johns

K

• E. J. Kollist
  Presentation
  He was a chef pâtissier
• Rudyard Kipling
  Presentation
  He is remembered for his tales for children.
• Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
  Presentation
  He continued work after his retirement.

L

• John Gibson Lockhart
  Presentation
  He was a Scottish writer and editor.
• William Lees
  Presentation
  He was a lecturer.
• Arthur Lillie
  Presentation
  He was a soldier in the British Army in India.
• Oliver Lodge
  Presentation
  Lodge is known for his advocacy and elaboration of Maxwell's aether theory.
• James Legge
  Presentation
  He was third and final editor of the Chinese Serial.
• Wilmot Lunt
  Presentation
  He was a cartoonist and painter.
• Brian Lumley
  Presentation
  He wrote stories in his spare time.

M

• Paul Marcoy
• H.V. Marrot
• William McDougall
  Presentation
  He wrote a number of highly influential textbooks.
• Karl Marx
  Presentation
  Described as one of the most influential figures in human history.
• William Percival Matthew
• Monier Monier-Williams
• John Arnott MacCulloch
• Emily Jane Moore
• John Murphy
• Samuel Maunder
  Presentation
• Alan Alexander Milne
  Presentation
  A noted writer, primarily as a playwright.

N

• Harold Nicolson
  Presentation
  Author, diarist and politician.

P

• Richard Phillips
  Presentation
  He was a distinguished British chemist.
• Jean Porcher
• Frank Plucknett
• Morton Prince
  Presentation
  He was a leading force in establishing psychology as academic discipline.
• Jal Dastur Cursetji Pavry
• Archibald Philip Primrose
  Presentation
  He was the first to coin the term the Commonwealth of Nations.
• Preston Albert Lambert

R

• John Roscoe
  Presentation
  He conducted anthropological data collection of the Africans he encountered on mission.
• John Roby
  Presentation
  He called himself simply a collector of oral traditions.
• Thomas William Rhys Davids
  Presentation
  He claimed that Britons had a natural, "racial" affinity with Buddhist doctrine.
• Robert William Rogers

S

• Albert Skira
  Presentation
  He was a Swiss publisher.
• William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
  Presentation
  He wrote on Australian life and literature.
• George Bernard Shaw
  Presentation
  Awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar.
• Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz
  Presentation
  He is best remembered for his historical novels.
• Clifford Saber
• Ernest Howard Shepard
  Presentation
  He grew to resent "that silly old bear".
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  Presentation
  A novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.
• Walter Scott
  Presentation
  He truly had international career in his lifetime.

T

• Frederick Treves
  Presentation
  He was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras
• Mary Tourtel
  Presentation
  She was an English artist and creator of Rupert Bear.
• Peter P. Tang
• Whiteley Turner
  Presentation
  He was a mill worker, shopkeeper and author.
• William Makepeace Thackeray
  Presentation
  He wrote papers with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts.
• Paul Topinard
• Hermann Türck
• Leo Tolstoy
  Presentation
  Considered one of the world's greatest novelists.
• Jerrard Tickell
  Presentation
  A writer, known for his novels and World War II historical books.

U

• William Swan Urquhart
  Presentation

V

• Brian Vesey Fitzgerald
  Presentation
  He was a naturalist and writer of books on wildlife, cats, and dogs.

W

• Walt Whitman
  Presentation
  He was a poet, essayist, journalist and humanist.
• Alfred Russel Wallace
  Presentation
  Independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection.
• V. H. Watson
• John Dover Wilson
  Presentation
  He has considerable boldness and confidence in his own judgement.