Authors
Valles, Jules
Jules Vallès (1832–1885), French writer and revolutionary, is most famous for his trilogy of autobiographical novels: L’Enfant (The Child), Le Bachelier (The Graduate), and L'Insurgé (The Insurgent). Through Vallès’s alter ego, Jacques Vingtras, the books describe the writer's difficult childhood as the abused son of a schoolteacher, his rejection of his classical education and growing admiration for the peasant class, and finally his bohemian life in Paris as a militant journalist and pamphleteer. .....
van den Hoven, Adrian
ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor and founding Executive Editor of Sartre Studies International. He has translated Sartre, Camus, and other French writers, and is the author of several books about Sartre. He was twice elected President of the North American Sartre Society.
van der Meer, Mara
Mara van der Meer studied graphic design at the University of Northumbria. In Spring 1998 she won the Macmillan Children's Book Prize for a book she wrote and illustrated as a college project, during her final year. The daughter of Ron and Atie van der Meer, she has also written the text for three of their books. She live in Langley, Berkshire.
Van der Vat, Dan
DAN VAN DER VAT, author and journalist, was a foreign correspondent on The Times of London for a decade, and later Chief Foreign Leaderwriter on The Guardian until he left to write books on naval history and related subjects. Of his dozen books, three won awards, two were bestsellers and his work has been translated into 14 languages. He still writes occasionally for The Guardian.
Van Doren, Mark
Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) was born in Hope, Illinois, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Columbia, where he taught literature for nearly forty years and where his students included Thomas Merton, John Berryman, and Allen Ginsberg. It was there, and with his book The Liberal Education, that he helped promote the influential "great books" movement. Van Doren was literary editor of The Nation and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. .....
van Sweden, James
James van Sweden is America's leading garden designer and landscape architect based in Washington D.C. His revolutionary garden designs often combine dramatic informal plantings with the practical beauty of architectural 'bones' that anchor his gardens to the ground. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the recipient of many distinguished awards. His work is published widely in gardening books and periodicals and he is a frequent guest on television and radio shows. .....
van Zuylen, Gabrielle
Gabrielle van Zuylen was born in France and lived in Paris. She has written numerous other books on gardens and garden history. She died in 2010.
Vance, Robert
Rob Vance photographs Ireland with special focus on its history, spirituality, identity, beliefs. He has written and presented RTÉ's history series 'The Island' and three series of 'Secret Sights'.
Vane-Wright, Dick
Dick Vane-Wright is a specialist on the taxonomy, evolution and classification of butterflies. Having first joined the Natural History Museum, London at the age of 18, he went onto become the Head of the Department of Entomology. He has written numerous scientific papers and worked on many books about butterflies. Dick retired in 2005.
Varese, Louise
Louise Varese (1891-1989) was an American biographer and translator, and was married to composer Edgard Varese.
Vejjajiva, Jane
Jane Vejjajiva was born in 1963 in London. She returned to Thailand at the age of three. Having cerebral palsy from birth limits her movements and books opened to her an imaginary world. After completing a BA with Honours and further studies in translation, she started her career as a magazine publisher before setting up her own company editing a magazine for children in 1995. She now runs the Silkroad Publishers agency and continues to work as a freelance translator and interpreter. .....
Verey, Rosemary
For much of her long life, Rosemary Verey (1919–2001) was one of England's most celebrated garden designers and garden writers. She created gardens for Elton John and the Prince of Wales. She died in 2001.
Vickery, Roy
Roy Vickery has been involved with the garden from the outset, and has a key role on the development committee that oversees it. Roy is Collections Manager in the Museum's Botany Department and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the plants and animals in the Wildlife Garden.
Vicziany, Marika
Marika Vicziany is a professor of archeology at Monash University, Australia.
Vidal, Elena
ELENA VIDAL has worked as a conservator of paintings in Florence, Spain and the UK. She graduated as an MA in Photographic Conservation at the Camberwell School of Arts, and has subsequently specialised in the history of stereoscopic photography. Since meeting Brian May in 1997, Elena has collaborated with him on a long-term study of Thomas Richard Williams, and has published a number of articles.
Viscardi, Judith
Judith Viscardi is a guide at Strawberry Hill. Her research helped secure the future of that historic building.
Vollmann, William T
William T. Vollmann was born in Los Angeles in 1959 and attended Deep Springs College and Cornell University. He is the author of many works of fiction, long and short, including The Royal Family, You Bright and Risen Angels, Whores for Gloria, and The Rainbow Stories, as well as an ongoing series of seven novels, collectively entitled Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, about the collision between the native populations of North America and their colonizers and oppressors. .....
Von Hofmannsthal, Hugo
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), the poet, dramatist, essayist, and librettist, was raised in Vienna. The son of a banker, Hofmannsthal began to publish under the pseudonym Loris when he was only sixteen. Hofmannsthal’s youth, talent, and precociousness made a splash at Café Griensteidl, the epicenter of literary Vienna; critic Hermann Bahr, in particular, was astounded that someone using the pseudonym of a “well-groomed poodle” and with the figure of a "fine, slender pageboy" could write such brilliant poetry and prose. .....
von Rezzori, Gregor
Gregor von Rezzori (1914-1998) studied at the University of Vienna and for a time lived in Bucharest. Von Rezzori's books include Tales from Maghrebinia, Oedipus Triumphs at Stalingrad, The Hussar, The Death of My Brother Abel, and Anecdotage. He lived with his wife in a village near Florence, Italy, until his death. His Memoirs of an Anti-Semite was reissued by NYRB Classics in 2007.
Vvedensky, Alexander
Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) was a major Russian poet, the founder with Daniil Kharms of the avant-garde and left-wing artist collective OBERIU, a neologism standing for the Union of Real Art. Following OBERIU’s forced dissolution, Vvedensky was imprisoned and sentenced to internal exile; he was subsequently permitted to return to Leningrad and to write children’s books but not to compose poetry. .....
