Nathaniel Mackey's work displays a deep and idiosyncratic erudition that encompasses many cultures and traditions, but his poetry remains true to an ideal of spontaneous, joyous musicality ultimately derived from improvisational jazz. Mack...

MacKinlay Kantor, in a literary career that covered nearly half a century, produced over thirty novels, several volumes of short stories, and a number of works of nonfiction. Although he utilized various themes and settings for his novels,...

Carolyn Mackler has written two young adult novels featuring ordinary girls who feel awkward about themselves and are trying to find a place in their world. "So many of us feel like we don't fit in, that we're inferior to others," Mackler ...

George Maclean (1801-1847) was a Scottish solider and agent of British imperial expansion. As an administrator of the British-owned Gold Coast forts, he was instrumental in extending British influence in the interior of present-day Ghana. ...

Norman Wicklund Macleod, college professor, editor of literary magazines, poet, and novelist, was born in Salem, Oregon, and was raised in the western United States. His poetry and fiction are influenced by the cultural traditions and hist...

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion....

Jeanie Macpherson was thirty-two years old when she met Cecil B. De Mille, the director with whom she would be most closely identified. Though it was through De Mille that she would become known as a screenwriter, Macpherson had already en...

John Macquarrie (born 1919) was professor of divinity at Oxford University. His authoritative study, Twentieth Century Religious Thought, was a high point of modern scholarship. His later work, Principles of Christian Theology, was charact...

Macrocephaly A congenital disorder characterized by abnormally large-sized head and brain in relation to the rest of the body. Also called macrocephalia and megalocephaly, macrocephaly is diagnosed when the circumference of the head is mor...

What is the role of Macromolecules? Macromolecules have a major role in everyday life, we might not notice this because we don't exactly know what we use them for and why they are so important to us, mainly because we can see them therefor...

As a prolific editor, educator, translator, and biographer, Frank MacShane has dedicated his career to documenting the lives and accomplishments of those writers "with substantial followings and many enthusiastic champions," but who are no...

Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade Born on October 9, 1893, Mário de Andrade lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for most of his life, during which the city turned from a backwater into a vibrant center of culture, industry, ...

If New York City is the capitol of American consumerism, then the Macy's department store is its White House. The self-proclaimed largest store in the world, Macy's has been located on Herald Square at 34th St. in Manhattan s...

Written in 1914 for "All-Star Weekly", The Mad King and its 1915 sequel Barney Custer of Beatrice were "Tarzan" creator Edgar Rice Burrough's retelling of the two books in Anthony Hope's "Ruritanian" series, "The Prisoner of Zenda" and its ...

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine....

Throughout the years, many pieces of literature, fictional and non fictional support various theories and philosophies as depicted in film. The film The Road Warrior, written and directed by George Miller, is just one example of these depi...

A tragic and isolated past has numerous ramifications that gravely affect the victim and his lifestyle. Rudy Wiebe explores these effects throughout his novel, The Mad Trapper. This fictionalized historic event covers the life and death of ...

Madagascar is a 2005 animated film about four Central Park Zoo animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity and are unexpectedly shipped back to Africa, becoming shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. Directed by Eric Darnell...

Madalyn Murry O'Hair (1919-1995) was a staunch atheist whose court cases brought down rulings from the Supreme Court that prayer is not to be required in public schools. Madalyn Murray O'Hair called herself "the most hated woman in America...

One of the most influential occult thinkers of the nineteenth century, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891)left behind conflicting images of adventuress, author, mystic, guru, occultist, and charlatan. With the aid of Col. Henry Olcott an...

As a manufacturer of hair care products for African American women, Madame C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove (1867-1919), became one of the first American women millionaires. Madame C.J. Walker, named Sarah Breedlove at birth, was born Dec...

Although Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, comtesse d'Aulnoy, did not begin her brief, thirteen-year literary career until the age of thirty-nine or forty, she rapidly became one of the most popular and influential authors of the tur...