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| Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez, also known as Gabo is a Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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| Garth Williams (April 16, 1912 - May 8, 1996) Garth Williams grew up on farms in New Jersey and Canada. When Garth was 10, his family moved to the United Kingdom, and he studied architecture there. His talent got him a job as an architect's assistant, and a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. He also served in an ambulance during World War II. |
| Gary Zukav He is a best-selling author and a former Green Beret during the war in Vietnam. Zukav is a recurring guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, having made regular appearances during the mid-to-late 1990s and returning in 2007. His most recent appearance discussed how to create a spiritual partnership. |
| Gaston Leroux (May 6, 1868 - April 15, 1927) In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. |
| Geoffrey A. Moore Geoffrey Moore is a Silicon Valley based high technology consultant and author. |
| Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - October 25, 1400) An English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat courtier, and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. |
| George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) George Bernard Shaw (born 26 July 1856, Dublin, Ireland died November 2, 1950, Hertfordshire, England) was an Irish writer. Famed as a playwright, he wrote more than sixty plays. He was uniquely honoured by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for Pygmalion. |
| George Eliot (November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880) Her name is a pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans. She was also later known as Mary Anne Cross. Marian, as she was often called, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She was famous not just because of her works but also because of the controversies that surrounded her life. |
| George Gissing (November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903) An English novelist, who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. |
| George Ludwig Ludwig is a marathon runner, martial artist, pilot, and volunteer LifeLine Pilot for the transport of children with life-threatening illnesses. |
| George Orwell (June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950) George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism: Animal Farm and 1984. |
| George S. Day George S. Day is the Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of Business. He is well known for his research on aligning organizations with their markets competitive strategies in global markets, strategy development, and managing innovation processes. |
| George Schuyler (February 25, 1895 - August 31, 1977) George Samuel Schuyler (pronounced /ˈskaɪlɚ/) was an American writer known for his conservative views. |
| Georgina Battiscombe (November 21, 1905 - February 26, 2006) Georgina Battiscombe (November 21, 1905 - 26 February 2006) was a British biographer, specialising mainly in lives from the Victorian age. |
| Geraldine McCaughrean Is a British children's novelist. |
| Gerard De Nerval (May 22, 1808 - January 26, 1855) Gérard de Nerval was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie, the most essentially Romantic among French poets. |
| Gregory Maguire Born June 9, 1954 in Albany, New York) is an American author. He is the author of the novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other novels for adults and children. |
| Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 - December 4, 1932) Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem. |
| Gustave Dore (January 6, 1832 - January 23, 1883) Paul Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, and illustrator. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving. |
| Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880) Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) [gystav flobɛʁ]) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel.. |
| Guy Kawasaki One of the original Apple employees responsible for marketing of the Macintosh in 1984, is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He is noted for bringing the concept of evangelism to the high-tech business, focusing on creating passionate user-advocates for the Apple brand. Kawasaki was a former Apple Fellow, and after leaving the company, became CEO of a pseudo-spinoff of Apple called ACIUS, which produced the 4th Dimension database program. |
| Guy de Maupassant (August 5, 1850 - July 6, 1893) enri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (pronounced [gidəmopasɑ̃]) was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. As a protégé of Flaubert, his short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. |
