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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Brock Clarke (born 1968) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His work is known for its satirical, sometimes surreal exploration of the lives of average Americans and the role of fiction in society. In addition to his career as an author, Clarke has had a career in academia, holding faculty positions at Clemson University ...
The Magnus Archives is a horror-tragedy fiction podcast written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall, and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrated the podcast as the main character, also named Jonathan Sims, the newly appointed Head Archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute, an institution based in London centered on research into the paranormal.
Literature and the arts. Daniel Adair — musician, Nickelback. J.M. Frey (BA, 2005) — award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. Marc Jordan — musician. Peter McLaren — author. Yuri Rubinsky (BA, 1972) — writer and publisher. Kari-Lynn Winters (BA, 1992) — children's author, professor of education.
Hansen had begun writing at the age of nine; his first published work, a poem, appeared in The New Yorker, in 1952. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he had several part-time jobs in bookstores and magazines. He continued writing poetry for various magazines, one of which was ONE, the first pro-gay publication in the United States.
Peter Weller in 2016. RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, it centers on police officer Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller (pictured), who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the ...
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) [1] is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books. His best known is Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general ...
— Jared C. Monti, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (21 June 2006), mortally wounded by rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan "I'm dying." — Steve Irwin, Australian conservationist (4 September 2006), to cameraman Justin Lyons after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb