Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Author Listing
Peer Gynt
Norwegian Play Based on the fairy tale, Per Gynt, Op. 23 is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name, written by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg
Richard Harris
American Journalist, Science Correspondent, National Public Radio Moderator, Science Writer for the San Fran Cisco Examiner
Oscar Hammerstein II, fully Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hamerstein II
American Lyricist, Musical Comedy Author, Theatrical Producer of Musicals famous for collaborations with Richard Rogers and other composers, Winner of 8 Tony Awards and 2 Academy Awards for "Best Original Song"
Louise L. Hay
American Motivational Author, Founder of Hay House publishing company, One of founders of the self-help movement
J. Rubin Clark, fully Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr.
American Attorney, Civil Servant and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Seymour Cohen, fully Seymour Jay Cohen
American Rabbi in Chicago, President of the Synagogue Council of America
Constitution of the Five Nations NULL
The original Iroquois League was often known as the Five Nations
Lord Collingwood, fully Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
English Admiral of the Royal Navy
Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie
French Psychologist and Pharmacist who introduced a method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion
e. e. cummings, fully Edward Estlin Cummings
American Poet, Painter, Essayist, Author and Playwright
Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow
American Lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial, in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan
Charles de Gaulle, fully Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
French General and Statesman, led Free French Forces during World War II, founded the French Fifth Republic and served as its first President
Max Ehrmann
American Writer, Poet and Attorney, known for his poem "Desiderata" (Latin for "things desired")
Duane Elgin
American Author, Futurist, Speaker, Educator, Consultant and Media Activist concerning "Voluntary Simplicity"
Madame de La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
French Author
E. M. Forster, fully Edward Morgan Forster
English Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Essayist, Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
Willard Gaylen
American Psychiatrist and Bioethicist, Co-founder and President of The Hastings Center, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Medical School and Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, Author and Editor
Dizzy Gillespie, born John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie
American Jazz Trumpet Player, Bandleader, Singer and Composer dubbed "the sound of surprise"
Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known by pseudonymn Peter Parley
American Publisher and Author
Herbert Hoover, fully Herbert Clark Hoover
31st President of the United States, Mining Engineer, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
American Novelist, Short-Story Writer and Journalist
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, born Soong Mei-ling or May-ling
Chinese Politician and Painter, First Lady of the Republic of China, Wife of Gerneralissimo/President Chiang Kai-shek
