"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; "Figments of Sancho Panza's Imagination," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (31 December 1972): 2; "Finding a Need for Nature," Viva: North...

"Uhmma's hands are as old as sand. They have always been old, even when we were young. In the mornings, they would scratch across our sleeping faces as she smoothed our foreheads, our cheeks, and told us quietly, Wake up. Time for school."...

Franz Nabl wrote some of his major works at a time when Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Hermann Bahr dominated the Austrian literary scene. In contrast with the impressionism of these contemporaries, he is rooted in the tradi...

With the appearance of his second article "O proiskhozhdenii, sushchestvovanii i padenii ital'ianskikh torgovykh poselenii v Tavride" (On the Origin, Existence and the Decline of Italian Trade Settlements on the Northern Black Sea Coast, 1...

Nadia Comaneci (born 1961) is one of the most-celebrated gymnasts in the history of the sport. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she was the first person in Olympic history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics. In all, ...

Nadir Shah (1687-1747) ruled Persia for eleven years. He rose from abject poverty to become one of the most powerful monarchs of his time. This spectacular success was due, in great part, to his ability to manipulate people, applying the r...

Nagai Kafu wrote many poetic essays as well as stories that, although infused with realism, retain their lyricism. He battled the coarseness of the world around him through the way he chose to live, continually at odds with the modernizati...

Though one of the less heralded from the Silver Age canon of authors, Evdokiia Nagrodskaia in fact merits special acclaim. Through her novels, short stories, and screenplays, she brought complex philosophies and aesthetics to a middlebrow ...

The Hungarian admiral and statesman Nicholas Horthy de Nagybánya (1868-1957) was regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944. He led Hungary during a troubled period which began with a Communist revolution and ended with German and then Rus...

It is one of the minor ironies of literary history that Nahum Tate's small claim to fame is for having the audacity to attempt to "improve" Shakespeare's plays, most egregiously King Lear. His contemporaries found him anything but audaciou...

Ben no Naishi's contribution to the medieval literary corpus is the poetic memoir Ben no Naishi nikki (1246-1252), a record of events that occurred during the thirteen years she served as a personal attendant to the child emperor Go-Fukaku...

Nakagami Kenji was one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Japan. Coming from a blue-collar background and with neither college degree nor specialized training, he belonged to the tradition of writers such as Minakami Tsutomu and ...

Nalo Hopkinson calls her work an attempt at "subverting the [science fiction] genre"; reviewers point to her intriguing blend of African, Caribbean, and Creole folklore with the usual conventions of science fiction and science fantasy; lit...

Lensey Namioka worked primarily as a mathematics instructor before beginning her career as a published writer in the mid-1970s. As she once told Something about the Author, her works "draw heavily" on her "Chinese cultural heritage and on ...

American-born Nancy Langhorne Astor (1879-1964) became the first woman to serve as a member of the British Parliament, a position she held from 1919 to 1945. Born in Danville, Virginia, on May 19, 1879, Nancy Langhorne grew up in the strai...

Award-winning novelist Nancy Farmer writes "large-scale stories in which children battle inner demons and ferocious villains in a series of perilous adventures through hostile but richly conceived landscapes," according to Roger Sutton, wr...

As a U.S. senator from Kansas, Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born 1932) was a political maverick whose stands ranged from support of the Equal Rights Amendment and a woman's right to choose abortion to support for the failed nomination of ...

"All forms of biological manipulation will be it for the twenty-first century," predicted award-winning science fiction writer Nancy Kress in an interview with Authors and Artists for Young Adults. "We're on the verge of a biotech explosio...

Producer, director, and writer Nancy Meyers is best known for screenwriting collaborations with Charles Shyer, collaborations that resulted in films the couple often produced and directed as well. From their break-out hit with Private Benj...

Nancy Ward (1738--1822), a mixed-blood Cherokee woman who lived during the eighteenth century, was the Cherokee nation's last "Beloved Woman." At a time that the Cherokee nation was frequently at battle with American troops and white settl...

Nannerl Overholser Keohane (born 1940), a professor of political science, is the first woman to become the president of both a U.S. women's college, Wellesley, and a major research university, Duke. Dr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane has broke...

In the foreword to Phantom Nightingale: Juvenilia (1981) poet, teacher, and publisher Naomi Long Madgett notes: "I do not recall any time in my life when I was not involved with poetry." Since 1941 Madgett has published seven volumes of po...

Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning poet who has turned her hand to children's books--poetry anthologies, picture books, and young adult novels--which in one way or another deal with the idea of connections. In award-winning anthologies s...

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Carmen Naranjo is one of the most important literary figures in Costa Rica today. She has published seven volumes of poetry, seven novels, four books of short stories, and four books of essays. A creative and visionary writer, Naranjo inco...