Professor Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, or Tony Hoare, has produced a large body of work relating to the definition and design of programming languages (Hoare's Logic), as well as several other innovations that allow computers to perfo...

C. D. Wright has published seven collections of poetry, the first in 1976 and the most recent in 1992. Her poems have appeared in Field, Ironwood, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and TriQuarterly, among many other magazines and journals....

C. Everett Koop (born 1916), one of America's most outspoken surgeons general, served two terms in the 1980s. Koop's appointment angered liberals. However, the conservative Christian doctor later alienated social conservatives by refusing ...

For thirty years C. H. Herford worked diligently and broadly in Continental as well as English literature, earning a reputation for his discernment and breadth of knowledge. His longtime collaborator on The Man and His Work, Ben Jonson (19...

C. J. Dennis was a prolific poet and journalist who made his name with The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915) and The Moods of Ginger Mick (1916), vernacular verse narratives that celebrated two larrikins (young street rowdies) from inner...

C.L. Moore's literary career neatly divides into two major phases. From 1933 to 1940, she wrote a series of novellas and short stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. Innovative in style and theme, this work established Moore's r...

The English comparative psychologist and social evolutionist Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936) was one of the first to consistently apply the experimental method in observing animal behavior. To interpret animal behavior he formulated his "la...

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1879-1972) was a prominent Indian nationalist leader, first Indian governor general of his country, and founder of the Swatantra party. He also wrote a popular version of the "Mahabharata." Chakravarti Rajagopa...

C. S. Forester is best known for his series of eleven historical novels about the early-nineteenth-century British naval officer Horatio Hornblower. A prolific writer, Forester had produced twenty-four books before he conceived the nautica...

Comer Vann Woodward (born 1908), American historian, is one of the leading interpreters of southern history and race relations. Comer Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas in 1908. He graduated from Emory University in 1930, earned ...

American sociologist and political polemicist C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) argued that the academic elite has a moral duty to lead the way to a better society by actively indoctrinating the masses with values. On Aug. 28, 1916, C. Wright Mi...

Christoph Hendrick Diederik Buys Ballot was one of the pioneers of weather forecasting. He made use of the newly invented telegraph to gather weather observations from stations many miles apart, then attempted to understand large scale wea...

Cab Calloway (1907-1994), blues and scat legend, entertained generations of people with his jazzy big band sounds. Even in his golden years, Calloway still traveled on the road and performed for his fans. Cab Calloway was a famous singer a...

Mildred Cable, Evangeline French, and Francesca French traveled across China for the China Inland Mission--a Bible society established in 1865 to convert the people of China to Christianity. From the time of Evangeline French's arrival in ...

Manuel del Cabral is known not only in Latin America but also throughout the world as a poet of exceptional quality who addresses the concerns of his compatriots and the social inequities of the world. As Cabral states at the beginning of ...

The American botanist and politician Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), a diverse thinker whose scholarship encompassed natural history, the nature of the universe, and medicine, was also lieutenant governor of New York. Cadwallader Colden wa...

Caesar Augustus Rodney served as U.S. attorney general from 1807 to 1811 under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Rodney, a staunch Republican Party member, served in a variety of state and federal government offices. As a memb...

George M. Cain labeled himself a "scorpio"; no other precise information about his early life is available except that he was born in 1943 and grew up in Harlem, where he attended both public and private schools. He entered Iona College in...

Caitlín R. Kiernan is, according to a reviewer for Publishers Weekly, "a leading exponent of the generation-X horror story." Kiernan's novels recount tales of modern gothic terror, as in her debut book, Silk, or more Lovecraftian ta...

Cal Ripken, Jr. (born 1960) holds many records in professional baseball, but it is his breaking of Lou Gehrig's record of 2,131 consecutive games played that especially endears him to his admirers, who call him the "Iron Man" of baseball. ...

Like many screenwriters who came to Hollywood with a literary background, Calder Willingham clearly differentiates between the two forms in which he writes--novels and screenplays. He sees fiction as his "real work," his screenplays as wor...

Caleb Bingham was one of the first American textbook writers of significance. His readers were perhaps the most widely adopted reading texts used in American schools during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Issued in a multitude...

Novelist Dia Calhoun has produced two award-winning titles for teens, Firegold and Aria of the Sea, novels that explore fantastic realms but which are grounded in the universal issues facing adolescents and teens. "My novels are about hero...

The Irish novelist Mary Rose Callaghan focuses primarily on the relationships women have with their mothers, with their siblings, and with each other, as well as those with men—fathers, brothers, lovers, and husbands. Unlike more expl...

S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) is probably the first novel published by an American Indian woman. Callahan's parents were Samuel Benton Callahan, who was one - eighth Creek and seven - eighths white, and Sarah Eli...