Biographies

Janet Campbell Hale began her literary career with two poetry awards -- the Vincent Price Poetry Competition in 1963 and the New York Poetry Day Award in 1964 -- but her first major work, the novel The Owl's Song, was not published until 1...

Susan Hale was well known in her time not only as a writer but also as a painter and amateur actress with a flair for comedy. Her travel books for children and adults (most co-authored with her brother Edward Everett Hale), newspaper lette...

Barbara Hall's novels for young adults and adults are evocations of the small-town South where she grew up. Most of her books are set in the South, "a very special microcosm," as Hall described the locale in an interview with Authors and A...

Baseball fans who grew up in Minnesota in the 1960s knew Halsey Hall as the color analyst on radio and television broadcasts for the Minnesota Twins. Hall was a masterful raconteur who wove tales of baseball from an earlier era into his pa...

Judith Goslin Hall is a professor of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, and is head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is also physician-in-chief of the Children's and Women's Heal...

Rodney Hall is one of a group of writers, painters, and musicians who came to prominence in Brisbane in the 1960s. In a sense he began his career outside the literary mainstream, which was then located in Sydney and Melbourne. He is unusua...

Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969) was a director, playwright, and educator who headed the Federal Theater Project, America's first national, federally-funded theater organization, from 1935 to 1939. Born in South Dakota on August 27, 1890, and r...

Albert Halper, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, was born in Chicago--"in a raw slangy city in a raw slangy neighborhood"--3 August 1904. His parents, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, had settled on Chicago's West Side, where his fath...

Murat Halstead had a genius for news enterprise and gained a great reputation for his independent and vigorous editorials. Under his guidance, the Cincinnati Commercial became one of the most notable political and literary influences in th...

As secretary of state under President Ulysses S. Grant, Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) settled the Alabama Claims and avoided war with Spain over the Cuban insurrection. Hamilton Fish was born on Aug. 3, 1808, in New York City. His father was a...

One of the most respected and prolific contemporary authors of books for children and young adults, Virginia Hamilton was the first African American writer to win the prestigious John Newbery Medal, in recognition of M. C. Higgins, the Gre...

Janet Hamilton may have been the most widely read and appreciated working-class poet of Victorian Scotland. Her vigorous, satiric, and recollective poems in English and her native Doric (Lowland Scots) exemplified the values of a region an...

James Hamilton-Paterson is one of those writers who, like James Joyce, chose to forsake his native country for a life of self-imposed exile. Unlike Joyce, however, Hamilton-Paterson has not spent his artistic life writing about the country...

Louis Plack Hammett offers a modern reminder of the classical challenge in organic chemistry to adapt methods from physical chemistry. The main method that Hammett offered the field is the use of quantitative statistics in measuring the re...

James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was governor of South Carolina and a U.S. senator. He was a radical proponent of the doctrine of states' rights. James Henry Hammond was born on Nov. 17, 1807, in the Newberry district of South Carolina. Aft...

The English historians John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond (1872-1952) and Lucy Barbara Hammond (1873-1961) were joint authors of a number of histories of the English working class. Lawrence Hammond was born at Drighlington, Yorkshire, on July...

When he died in 1955, John Hampson's obituary in the Times of London said that he was "the author of the well-known novel Saturday Night at the Greyhound" and the grandson of Mr. Mercer Hampson Simpson, sometime manager of the Theatre Roya...

Han Fei Tzu (ca. 280-233 BC) was a Chinese statesman and philosopher and one of the main formulators of Chinese Legalist philosophy. Elements of Chinese Legalist philosophy can be traced to the 7th century B.C., but it was Han Fei Tzu who ...

Hidesaburo Hanafusa is a prominent researcher in the genetics of cancerous viruses. As explained by Fulvio Bardossi and Judith N. Schwartz in a Research Profile distributed by the Rockefeller University, Hanafusa "has used his training as ...

Spokesperson for the Palestinian delegation in the Arab-Israeli peace talks and later chair of a human rights group in the West Bank and Gaza, Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi (born 1946), a professor of English literature and a political activist, w...

Robert (Bob) Hancock is a bacteriologist and professor of microbiology in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is internationally renowned f...

Pulitizer Prize winner Oscar Handlin (born 1915) ranks as one of the most prolific and influential American historians of the twentieth century, with pioneering works in the fields of immigration history, ethnic history, and social history...

Hanif Kureishi is not only a leading contemporary novelist but also a prominent playwright, essayist, and screenwriter. He has also directed his own screenplay for the movie London Kills Me (1991). His script for the director Stephen Frear...

In his tragically short career, Hank Williams (1923-1953) became one of the most famous country and western performers in the United States. He wrote and recorded songs that are still considered to be country music standards. Hiram King "H...

Nancy Hanks (1927-1983) was called the "mother of a million artists" for her work in building federal financial support for the arts and artists. Her years as chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts and of the National Council on...