Benjamin Graham was a British-born American financial analyst, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging explorations of human nature a…
Laura Esquivel is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, and former politician best known for her internationally acclaimed debut novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate). Blending magical…
Anne Lamott is an author of several novels and works of non-fiction. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her non-fiction works are largely autobiographical, with strong doses of self-deprecating humo…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Marshall Rosenberg was an American psychologist and the creator of Nonviolent Communication, a communication process that helps people to exchange the information necessary to resolve conflicts and di…
Sol Stein was a best-selling novelist and the publisher of works by James Baldwin and Che Guevara. He also worked with David Frost, Jack Higgins, Elia Kazan, Dylan Thomas, and W.H. Auden.
Who was Kate Turabian? Kate Larimore Turabian (1893–1987) was the graduate school dissertation secretary at the University of Chicago for nearly three decades, from 1930 to 1958. She was also the edito…
LÍDIA GUERREIRO JORGE nasceu em Boliqueime, Loulé a 18 de Junho de 1946. Concluído o curso de Filologia Românica, dedicou-se ao ensino liceal (Angola, Moçambique e Lisboa). Publicou os romances O Dia …
João Tordo was born in 1975. He has published twenty-one books - novels, crime novels and essays - and received several awards, including the José Saramago Literary Prize 2009, the Fernando Namora Pri…
Chris Guillebeau is the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup and other books. During a lifetime of self-employment, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35t…
Nasceu em 1971, na Figueira da Foz e estudou nas Belas Artes de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Artes Plásticas da Madeira e na António Arroio. É escritor, músico, cineasta e ilustrador. Escreveu seis…
David Joseph Schwartz PhD (March 23, 1927 – December 6, 1987) was an American motivational writer and coach, best known for authoring The Magic of Thinking Big in 1959.
William Knowlton Zinsser is an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama ed…
Valérie Perrin est une romancière française. Elle est aussi photographe de plateau et scénariste auprès de son compagnon Claude Lelouch. Son premier roman, "Les oubliés du dimanche" (2015), a reçu de n…
Inês Meneses (Lisboa, 1971) é uma comunicadora, jornalista e radialista portuguesa. Com mais de 30 anos de carreira, ela é conhecida por seu programa de entrevistas "Fala com Ela", no ar desde 2005.
