Nora Roberts. Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American bestselling author of more than 209 romance novels.[1] She writes as J.D.
Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the UK as Sarah Hardesty. Nora Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As of 2011, her novels had spent a combined 861 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, including 176 weeks in the number-one spot. Life and career[edit] Personal life[edit] Early years[edit] The newly married couple settled in Keedysville, Maryland. Present[edit] Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, a carpenter, when she hired him to build her bookshelves. Roberts once stated: "You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder Roberts does much of her research over the Internet, as she has an aversion to flying.[8] J.D.
Keith Haring. Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality and war.[1] Haring's work was often heavily political and his imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century.
Early life and education[edit] Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 4, 1958. He was raised in Kutztown, Pennsylvania by his mother, Joane Haring, and father, Allen Haring, an engineer and amateur cartoonist. He had three younger sisters, Kay, Karen and Kristen. Haring became interested in drawing and art at a very early age. “I’d been convinced to go [to art school] by my parents and guidance counselor. Haring quit school and moved to New York City in 1978 at age 19.
Career[edit] Early work[edit] Haring achieved his first public attention with public art in subways. International breakthrough[edit] Rahi Masoom Raza. Rahi Masoom Reza (1925-1992), born in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India, was an Urdu poet.
He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for the hit film Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki in 1979. He also wrote in Hindustani and Hindi language and was a lyricist of Bollywood. Biography[edit] Early life and education[edit] Rahi Masoom Raza was born in a Muslim family in a village named Gangauli,[1] located in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in Northern India. Literary career[edit] Several of Raza's works vividly depict the agony and turmoil of the consequences of the partition of India, especially its effect on the Hindu-Muslim relationship and the social tension among different Indian social groups. They also depict life in feudal India and the ordinary happiness, love, pain, and sadness of ordinary people. Katra Bi Arzoo ("The Lady Desire Locality") is set in the city of Allahabad, Katra being a locality of the city.