James Macpherson was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic.
James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884) was a British nineteenth-century writer of penny dreadfuls, and is the probable co-author with Thomas Peckett Prest of both Varney the Vampire (1847) and The String of Pearls (1847), in which the notorious villain Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut.
James Mark Baldwin was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at Princeton and the University of Toronto. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of evolution.
James Martineau was a British religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.
He was the brother of the atheist social theorist, abolitionist, and atheistic Harriet Martineau. One of James Martineau's children was the Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist Edith Martineau.
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote The History of British India (1817) and was one of the prominent historians to take a colonial approach. He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British, a classification which has proved surpassingly influential in the field of Indian historical studies.
James Norman Hall was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934). During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. His awards include the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire, the Légion d'Honneur and the Distinguished Service Cross. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film. He was also the father of Conrad L. Hall, regarded as one of the ten most influential cinematographers in film history.
James Oliver Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, according to Publishers Weekly. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid author in the world.
James Oliver Curwood oli yhdysvaltalainen romaanikirjailija ja luonnonsuojelija. Publishers Weekly sijoitti 1920-luvulla hänen kirjansa kymmenen parhaan joukkoon Yhdysvalloissa. Curwoodin romaanien ja novellien perusteella tai innoittamana on tehty ainakin 18 elokuvaa. Kuolemansa aikoihin hän ansaitsi kirjailijoista parhaiten maailmassa sanaa kohden mitattuna. Hän työskenteli rakennuttamassaan Curwoodin linnassa, joka on nykyään museona Michiganin Owossossa.
James Oliver Curwood, dit Jim Curwood, né le 12 juin 1878 à Owosso, au Michigan (États-Unis), et mort dans la même ville le 13 août 1927, est un romancier américain. Avec Jack London, il est l'un des maîtres des récits du Grand Nord. On lui doit aussi des récits animaliers : Kazan, Nomades du Nord, ou le célèbre Le Grizzly adapté au cinéma en 1988 par le réalisateur français Jean-Jacques Annaud sous le titre L′Ours, et dont le grand succès a suscité un regain d'intérêt pour l'auteur.
