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
Sidney Howard, fully Sidney Coe Howard
American Playwright and Screenwriter, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Author of "Gone With The Wind"
L. Ron Hubbard, fully Lafayette Ron Hubbard
Author, Cult Leader, Founder of Dianetics and Scientology
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Raymond Chandler, fully Raymond Thornton Chandler
American Fiction Author,Novelist and Screenwriter
Susan Fenimore Cooper, fully Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper
American Author and Naturalist, daughter of James Fenimore Cooper
Hasdai Crescas, fully Hasdai ben Abraham Crecas or Hasday Cresques
Spanish Philosopher, Talmudic Scholar and Halakhist
Karlfried Graf Von Dürckheim, fully Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin
German Diplomat, Philosopher, Psychotherapist, Author, Existential Mystic and Zen Master
Tyler Durden, character created by Chuck Palahniuk in "Fight Club"
Character in "Fight Club" written by Chuck Palahniuk
L. G. Elliott, fully Lloyd George Elliott
Canadian Nuclear Physicist, Led physics research at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories
Willbur Fisk, also Wilbur Fisk
American Methodist Minister, Educator and Theologian, President of Wesleyan University
Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard
American Songwriters who wrote Michael Jackson Hit, "Man in the Mirror"
Benjamin Franklin
American Statesman, Philosopher, Writer, Inventor, Printer, Scientist, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
John Clayton Gifford
First American to hold a Doctorate in Forestry, Professor of Forestry at Cornell University
Sarah Grand, pseudonymn of Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke McFall
British Novelist and Feminist
David Halberstam
American Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist and Author known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and sports journalism
John Henshaw, fully Bishop John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw
American Protestant-Episcopal Divine, Bishop of Rhode Island
Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein
Russian-born American Screenwriter, Musical Composer, Newspaper Writer
Kinza M. Hirai, fully Kinza Ringe M. Hirai
Japanese Religious Author and Professor of the Imperial Normal School
Fenwicke Lindsay Holmes
American Religious Author, Congregational Church Minister, Leader in Science of Mind Movement
Robert A. Heinlein, fully Robert Anson Heinlein, pen name for Anson MacDonald
American Novelist, Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Writer, called the "dean of science fiction writers"
Richard Chenevix, fully Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin
Irish-born English Poet, Biblical Scholar, Philologist, Author and Archbishop of Dublin
Buddha, Gautama Buddha, or The Buddha, also Gotama Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha and Buddha Śākyamuni NULL
Hindu Religious Teacher, Founder of Buddhism
A Course In Miracles, aka ACIM
Written anonymously by Helen Schucman and William Thetford as a Self-Study Curriculum for Spiritual Development describing non-dualistic metaphysics with the concept of forgiveness given practical application in daily living
Dhammapada Sutra NULL
The Five Wisdoms is an upāya or 'skillful means' doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism
Charles Alexander Eastman, first named Ohiyesa
Santee Sioux, Author, First Native American Physician, Instrumental in founding Boyscouts of America and Campfire Girls
Rudolf Driekurs
American Psychiatrist and Educator who developed psychologist Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into a pragmatic method for understanding the purposes of reprehensible behavior in children and for stimulating cooperative behavior without punishment or reward
