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
Morris Ernst, fully Morris Leopold Ernst
American Lawyer and Co-founder of the Civil Liberties Union
John W. Forney, fully John Wien Forney
American Politician, Journalist, Publisher, Diplomat and Railroad Official
Isaac Friedman, fully Jerome Isaac Friedman
American Physicist, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Geach, fully Peter Thomas Geach
British Philosopher awarded the papal cross "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by the Holy See
Gustave Geley
French Psychical Researcher and Director of the Institute Metapsychique International
James Patrick Griffin
American-born Moral Philosopher, Professor at Oxford, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Madame Guizot. Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline Guizot
Author on Female Education, First wife of French Historian and Prime Minister François Guizot
William Henry Harrison
American Politician, 9th President of U.S., Farmer, Horse-Breeder, Congressman, Governor, General, Distiller
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Scottish Judge, Advocate, Philosopher, Writer and Agricultural Improver
Gardner Hunting
American Presbyterian Pastor, Writer for Unity Digest, Author of "Working for God"
Frédéric Chopin, fully Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
Polish-born French Composer
Grover Cleveland, fully Stephen Grover Cleveland
American Politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States
Pema Chödrön, born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown
American Buddhist Nun, Author and Teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist Lineage
Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando, born Joseph Marie Degérando, also Joseph-Marie de Gérando
French Philosopher, Linguist, Educator and Philanthropist
George Dawson
America's favorite poster child for literacy" after learning to read at the age of 98
Francis Fane, fully Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck
English Dramatist, Writer of Stage Plays and Poems, Courtier
George Farquhar
Irish Dramatist best known for his plays "The Recruiting Officer" and "The Beaux Stratagem"
