Tag Archives: the Brontë sisters

The 50 Greatest Literary Character Names of All Time

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Greg Olear

Greg Olear whittles the Who’s Who of all of literature down to the 50 top names. Continue reading →

Posted in 50 Greatest | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Beverly Cleary, Bram SToker, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Don DeLillo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francine Prose, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Herman Melville, Joe Heller, Laurence Sterne, Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Reage, Raoul Dahl, Richard Wright, Robert Heinlein, Roberto Bolano, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Thomas Pynchon, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, Walker Percy, Washington Irving, William Faulkner, William Gibson, William Goldman | 200 Comments

Gender, Genius, Genesis & James Woods

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Greg Olear

Why is it so much more difficult to make a list of the smartest women than the smartest men? Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Adrienne Rich, Angela Davis, Anna Komnene, Betty Friedan, Carol Gilligan, Caroline Herschel, Catherine the Great, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth I, Emmeline Pankhurst, Fermat's Last Theorem, Florence Nightingale, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, George Eliot, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Hedy LaMarr, Helen Keller, Henrietta Leavitt, IQ 190, James Woods, Jane Austen, Jill Johnston, Judit Polgár, Madeleine Pelletier, Margaret Mead, Marguerite Durand, Marie de Gourney, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Marilyn vos Savant, Mary Somerville, Mary Wollstonecraft, Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi, Olympe de Gouges, Rachel Carson, Shirley Ann Jackson, Susan B. Anthony, Táhirih, the Brontë sisters, the Grimké sisters, Theodora, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Victoria Woodhull, Virginia Woolf | 9 Comments