Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor

Ethevaldo_Mello_de_Siqueira

Ethevaldo Mello de Siqueira (nom de plume Ethevaldo Siqueira; 1 August 1932 – 17 October 2022) was a Brazilian journalist, science writer, consultant and publisher, specializing in new technologies. He wrote a weekly column on the subject for the O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper. Since 1967, he was a collaborator of Veja magazine and a commentator on Rádio CBN, from 2006, with a daily column called Digital World.
Siqueira was born in Monte Alegre on 1 August 1932.
Siqueira was a professor of information technology and telematics on the journalism course at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (ECA - School of Communications and Arts) of the University of São Paulo from 1986 to 1996. He founded and directed the Revista Nacional de Telecomunicações (RNT), from 1979 to 2001, and the magazine TelePress Latinoamérica, from 1991 to 2001.
Siqueira died from leukemia in São Paulo on 17 October 2022, at the age of 90.

Gilbert_Plass

Gilbert Norman Plass (March 22, 1920 – March 1, 2004) was a Canadian physicist who in the 1950s made predictions about the increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the 20th century and its effect on the average temperature of the planet that closely match measurements reported half a century later.

Øystein_Wingaard_Wolf

Øystein Wingaard Wolf (born 17 April 1958) is a Norwegian poet and author, living and working in Oslo. Since his debut in 1980 (Morderleken), he has published numerous books of poetry, as well as three music albums. He was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment in 1986.
His father was Jewish and in his works he "tends and irrigates his Jewish roots."

Anders_Heger

Anders Heger (born 10 July 1956) is a Norwegian publisher and writer, and is one of the six children of Wanda Hjort Heger and Bjørn Heger.
In 1982, Heger started Radio Nova, the first student radio in Norway. In 1985, he wrote a book about the juridical process against the Norwegian writer Agnar Mykle, and in 1999 wrote Et diktet liv, a biography about Agnar Mykle, which received the Brage Prize (comparable in Norway to a Pulitzer Prize). Heger's grandfather, Johan Bernhard Hjort, was Mykle's defense attorney.
Heger became director of the Norwegian publishing company Cappelen (owned by the Swedish mediahouse Bonnier) in 1991. Heger is described in the media as "the most powerful man in the bookpublishing industry in Norway".His interests include cross-country skiing.

Paul_Oskar_Kristeller

Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905 in Berlin – June 7, 1999 in New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism. He was awarded the Haskins Medal in 1992. He was last active as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York, where he mentored both Irving Louis Horowitz and A. James Gregor.

Charles_F._Lettow

Charles Frederick Lettow (born February 10, 1941) is a senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, appointed to that court in 2003 by President George W. Bush.
Born to Carl F. and Catherine Lettow in Iowa Falls, Iowa, Lettow received a B.S.Ch.E. from Iowa State University in 1962. He served in the U.S. Army with the Third Infantry Division from 1963 to 1965, and thereafter received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Stanford University in 1968, where he was Note Editor of the Stanford Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. He was a law clerk to Judge Ben C. Duniway of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, from 1968 to 1969, and to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1969 to 1970. Lettow served as counsel to the Council on the Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President from 1970 to 1973. He then joined the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, first as an associate from 1973 to 1976, and then as a partner until 2003. During that time, he argued three cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and more than 40 cases in the federal courts of appeals, and handled numerous cases in federal trial courts.While at Cleary, Gottlieb, Lettow was active with educational institutions and bar organizations. He served as a member of the board of trustees of The Potomac School from 1983 to 1990, and was chairman of the board from 1985 to 1988. He also was chairman of the Environmental Controls Committee of the Section of Business Law, American Bar Association, from 1983 to 1987. In January 1992, Lettow received an award from the National Association of Attorneys General "for sustained assistance to the States in their preparation for appearances before the Supreme Court of the United States". He became a member of the American Law Institute in 1994, and in 1997 and 1998, he received awards from the National State and Local Legal Center for amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court. Lettow also received a Master of Arts in history from Brown University in 2001.

Elias_Nason

Elias Nason (21 April 1811 in Wrentham, Massachusetts – 17 June 1887 in North Billerica, Massachusetts) was a Massachusetts Congregational clergyman, educator, editor and author.

Pål_Steigan

Pål Steigan (born 31 May 1949) is a Norwegian writer and politician, best known as founder of the newspaper Klassekampen and the website Steigan.no. He was leader of the Maoist Workers' Communist Party, AKP (m-l) from 1975 to 1984, and co-leader of the Red Electoral Alliance (RV) until 1979. Both parties were small fringe parties that were never represented in parliament during his tenure. He co-founded Klassekampen as a monthly periodical in 1969, and during his leadership AKP developed the periodical into a newspaper in 1977. He later founded the alternative news website Steigan.no that is described by mainstream Norwegian media as a platform of Russian propaganda, conspiracy theories, racism and transphobia.