{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=328","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=326","results":[{"id":14105,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Phil Gordon","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"phil-gordon","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/phil-gordon","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:23.888119","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14106,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Gordon S. Wood","bio":"Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of many books, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association; The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize; The American Revolution: A History; The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin; Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, which was a New York Times bestseller; Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (OUP, 2009), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the American History Book Prize from the New-York Historical Society; and Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. He is a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books.","raw_bio":"Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He is the author of many books, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association; The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize; The American Revolution: A History; The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin; Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, which was a New York Times bestseller; Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (OUP, 2009), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the American History Book Prize from the New-York Historical Society; and Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. He is a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books.","slug":"gordon-s-wood","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/gordon-s-wood","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:23.900174","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14107,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Mary Gordon","bio":"Mary Catherine Gordon (M.A., Syracuse University, 1973; A.B., Barnard College, 1971) is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College and is known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism.She and her husband, Arthur Cash, live in New York City and Hope Valley, Rhode Island. They have two adult children, Anna and David. Gordon is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. Cash is retired.In 1981, she wrote the foreword to the Harvest edition of Virginia Woolf's \"A Room of One's Own.\" In 1984 she was one of 97 theologians and religious persons who signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, calling for religious pluralism and discussion within the Catholic Church regarding the Church's position on abortion.Novelist Galaxy Craze has said of Gordon, \"She loves to read; she would read us passages in class and start crying, she's so moved by really good writing. And she was the only good writing teacher at Barnard, so I just kept taking her class over and over. She taught me so much.\" ","raw_bio":"Mary Catherine Gordon (M.A., Syracuse University, 1973; A.B., Barnard College, 1971) is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College and is known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism.She and her husband, Arthur Cash, live in New York City and Hope Valley, Rhode Island. They have two adult children, Anna and David. Gordon is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. Cash is retired.In 1981, she wrote the foreword to the Harvest edition of Virginia Woolf's \"A Room of One's Own.\" In 1984 she was one of 97 theologians and religious persons who signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, calling for religious pluralism and discussion within the Catholic Church regarding the Church's position on abortion.Novelist Galaxy Craze has said of Gordon, \"She loves to read; she would read us passages in class and start crying, she's so moved by really good writing. And she was the only good writing teacher at Barnard, so I just kept taking her class over and over. She taught me so much.\" ","slug":"mary-gordon","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/mary-gordon","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:23.916532","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14108,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Mark Sargeant","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"mark-sargeant","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/mark-sargeant","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:23.928115","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14109,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Jill Mead","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"jill-mead","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/jill-mead","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:23.947997","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14110,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Gordon Ramsay","bio":"Gordon James Ramsay, OBE, is a British chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 16 Michelin Stars, and in 2001 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time. Ramsay currently ranks 3rd in the world in terms of Michelin Stars behind Joël Robuchon and Alain Ducasse.Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as Hell's Kitchen, The F-Word and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.","raw_bio":"Gordon James Ramsay, OBE, is a British chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 16 Michelin Stars, and in 2001 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time. Ramsay currently ranks 3rd in the world in terms of Michelin Stars behind Joël Robuchon and Alain Ducasse.Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as Hell's Kitchen, The F-Word and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.","slug":"gordon-ramsay","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/gordon-ramsay","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:23.981489","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14111,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Gordon Korman","bio":"Korman wrote his first book, \"This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall\", when he was 12 years old, for a coach who suddenly found himself teaching 7th grade English. He later took that episode and created a book out of it, as well, in \"The Sixth Grade Nickname Game\", wherein Mr. Huge was based on that 7th grade teacher.Korman moved to New York City, where he studied film and film writing. While in New York, he met his future wife; they now live in Long Island with their three children.He has published more than 50 books.","raw_bio":"Korman wrote his first book, \"This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall\", when he was 12 years old, for a coach who suddenly found himself teaching 7th grade English. He later took that episode and created a book out of it, as well, in \"The Sixth Grade Nickname Game\", wherein Mr. Huge was based on that 7th grade teacher.Korman moved to New York City, where he studied film and film writing. While in New York, he met his future wife; they now live in Long Island with their three children.He has published more than 50 books.","slug":"gordon-korman","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/gordon-korman","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:24.001012","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14112,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Mem Fox","bio":"Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after.Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children.Mem Fox was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she taught teachers for twenty four years until her early retirement in 1996. She has received many civic awards, honours and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doctorates. She has visited the United States over one hundred times, mostly in her role as a literacy expert although she is also a well-known author in America. She is an influential international consultant in literacy, but she pretends to sit around writing full time.Winner of the Dromkeen Medal (1990).","raw_bio":"Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after.Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children.Mem Fox was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she taught teachers for twenty four years until her early retirement in 1996. She has received many civic awards, honours and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doctorates. She has visited the United States over one hundred times, mostly in her role as a literacy expert although she is also a well-known author in America. She is an influential international consultant in literacy, but she pretends to sit around writing full time.Winner of the Dromkeen Medal (1990).","slug":"mem-fox","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/mem-fox","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:24.027395","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14113,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Deborah Gordon","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"deborah-gordon","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/deborah-gordon","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:24.088457","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14114,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Andrew Harper","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"andrew-harper","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/andrew-harper","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:24.135871","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14115,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Jack C. Richards","bio":"Born in New Zealand, Dr. Richards obtained a Master of Arts degree with first class honours in English from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1966. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Laval University (a French-Language University) in Quebec City, Canada in 1972.He has worked in many parts of the world, including New Zealand, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States. After completing his PhD, he taught in Indonesia and was then appointed specialist in applied linguistics at the Regional Language Centre Singapore, under the auspices of the New Zealand Government. Later he was Senior Lecturer in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before being appointed full professor in the Department of English as a Second Language at the University of Hawaii in 1981. In 1989 he returned to Hong Kong to set up a new department of English at the City University of Hong Kong, where he was head of the department of English and also chair professor. In 1996 he returned to his home country for two years to set up an MA program at the University of Auckland. In 1999 Dr. Richards retired from full-time university teaching and administration and since then has taught for part of each year at the Regional Language Centre (RELC), in Singapore, while making his primary residence in Sydney, Australia. At RELC, Dr. Richards teaches in the MA in Applied Linguistics program, as well as the RELC Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics.Dr. Richards is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops for language teachers, and visits some 12 countries every year.He has written over 60 articles and 20 books. Many of his books and articles are classics in the field of second language teaching and have been translated into many different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic. Among his well known professional books are Error Analysis, (1974), Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms (1996, with Charles Lockhart), Beyond Training (1998), The Language Teaching Matrix (1990), Curriculum Development in Language Teaching (2001), Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (second edition 2001, with Ted Rodgers), Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (4th edition 2010, with Richard Schmidt) and Professional Development for Language Teachers (with Tom Farrell), Cambridge University Press 2005.Professor Richards has for many years made himself available as a speaker at many professional conferences without a fee, and supported scholarship programs in different parts of the world. In recognition of this the Presidents of De La Salle University, Manila and of Philippine Normal University, Manila, presented Professor Richards with a citation in 2001 which states: “Generous in sharing his expertise with junior members of the profession, unstinting in his efforts to promote excellent language teaching in all parts of the world, indefatigable in showing the applications of theory to teaching practice in the classroom, Dr. Richards is a fine example of what English language education and applied linguistics can accomplish.”In December 2011 Dr. Richards was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by Victoria University, Wellington, in recognition of his contributions to English language teaching and the arts.In 2011 Dr. Richards was made an honorary professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia.","raw_bio":"Born in New Zealand, Dr. Richards obtained a Master of Arts degree with first class honours in English from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1966. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Laval University (a French-Language University) in Quebec City, Canada in 1972.He has worked in many parts of the world, including New Zealand, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States. After completing his PhD, he taught in Indonesia and was then appointed specialist in applied linguistics at the Regional Language Centre Singapore, under the auspices of the New Zealand Government. Later he was Senior Lecturer in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before being appointed full professor in the Department of English as a Second Language at the University of Hawaii in 1981. In 1989 he returned to Hong Kong to set up a new department of English at the City University of Hong Kong, where he was head of the department of English and also chair professor. In 1996 he returned to his home country for two years to set up an MA program at the University of Auckland. In 1999 Dr. Richards retired from full-time university teaching and administration and since then has taught for part of each year at the Regional Language Centre (RELC), in Singapore, while making his primary residence in Sydney, Australia. At RELC, Dr. Richards teaches in the MA in Applied Linguistics program, as well as the RELC Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics.Dr. Richards is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops for language teachers, and visits some 12 countries every year.He has written over 60 articles and 20 books. Many of his books and articles are classics in the field of second language teaching and have been translated into many different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic. Among his well known professional books are Error Analysis, (1974), Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms (1996, with Charles Lockhart), Beyond Training (1998), The Language Teaching Matrix (1990), Curriculum Development in Language Teaching (2001), Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (second edition 2001, with Ted Rodgers), Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (4th edition 2010, with Richard Schmidt) and Professional Development for Language Teachers (with Tom Farrell), Cambridge University Press 2005.Professor Richards has for many years made himself available as a speaker at many professional conferences without a fee, and supported scholarship programs in different parts of the world. In recognition of this the Presidents of De La Salle University, Manila and of Philippine Normal University, Manila, presented Professor Richards with a citation in 2001 which states: “Generous in sharing his expertise with junior members of the profession, unstinting in his efforts to promote excellent language teaching in all parts of the world, indefatigable in showing the applications of theory to teaching practice in the classroom, Dr. Richards is a fine example of what English language education and applied linguistics can accomplish.”In December 2011 Dr. Richards was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by Victoria University, Wellington, in recognition of his contributions to English language teaching and the arts.In 2011 Dr. Richards was made an honorary professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia.","slug":"jack-c-richards","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/jack-c-richards","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:24.200428","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":14116,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"John Yau","bio":"nan","raw_bio":"nan","slug":"john-yau","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":null,"url":"/sootradhar/john-yau","tags":"#New_Kavishala_Author,#English_Author","created":"2023-09-22T12:18:24.210432","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2}],"description":"<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 24px;\"> The Great Poets and Writers in Indian and World History! </p>","image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_description/black.jpg"}