Alan E. Nourse, né le 11 août 1928 à Des Moines en Iowa et mort le 19 juillet 1992 à Thorp (en) dans l'État de Washington, est un médecin et un écrivain américain de science-fiction et de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse. Il a signé de nombreux récits de science-fiction pour enfants et adultes, ainsi que divers ouvrages, principalement de médecine.
Alan J. Frost, is an Australian academic and professor emeritus at La Trobe University. A major theme of his research has involved the European exploration of the Pacific Ocean over the second half of the eighteenth century. He is best known for books in which he challenges common historical stereotypes and misconceptions concerning the colonisation of Australia. These include Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings, Botany Bay: The Real Story, The First Fleet: The Real Story, and Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty's Enigmatic Voyage. Frost's arguments radically challenge those expressed by prominent historians Manning Clark and Robert Hughes.
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.
Alan Furst es un escritor estadounidense de novelas históricas de espionaje. Furst ha sido considerado "un heredero de Eric Ambler y Graham Greene". Influenciado también por Joseph Roth y Arthur Koestler. La mayoría de sus novelas se sitúan justo antes o durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, más concretamente de 1933 a 1944.
Sus libros son publicados en español por la editorial Seix Barral.
Alan Furst – amerykański autor historycznych powieści szpiegowskich. Furst został nazwany „dziedzicem tradycji Erica Amblera i Grahama Greene'a”, których przytacza razem z Josephem Rothem oraz Arthurem Koestlerem jako mających na niego największy wpływ. Od 1988 większość jego powieści dzieje się przed albo podczas II wojny światowej i bardzo udanie przywołują one ludzi oraz miejsca Europy Wschodniej z okresu od 1933 do 1944.
Alan G. Parker is a British documentary film director best known for his films Who Killed Nancy?, Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut and It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond. He has also written several books about rock musicians and their lives.
Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner, was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar. He is regarded as one of the premier Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century.
