Alfred Elton van Vogt, plus connu comme A. E. van Vogt, né le 26 avril 1912 au sud de Winnipeg (Manitoba) et mort le 26 janvier 2000 à Los Angeles, est un écrivain et romancier de science-fiction d'origienne canadienne, naturalisé américain en 1945.
Alfred Elton van Vogt foi um escritor canadiano de ficção científica. Muitos fãs daquela era consideravam van Vogt, Robert A. Heinlein e Isaac Asimov como os três melhores escritores de ficção científica.
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers, and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot.
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason fue un escritor y político británico reconocido internacionalmente por su novela Las cuatro plumas; publicada originalmente en Londres en 1902. Estudió en el Dulwich College y se graduó en el Trinity College, Oxford en 1888. Mason fue elegido como diputado del partido liberal por Coventry en las elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 1906. Solo estuvo durante un mandato, retirándose en las siguiente elecciones.
Arthur Edward Waite was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck. As his biographer R. A. Gilbert described him, "Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of Western occultism—viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of protoscience or as the pathology of religion."
Alfred Edward Newton (1864–1940) was an American industrialist better known as an author and avid book collector. He is best known for his book Amenities of Book Collecting (1918) which sold over 25,000 copies. At the time of his death, it was estimated that he had approximately 10,000 books in his collection, focusing on English and American literary works, the major part of which were auctioned by Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York in April, May, and October 1941. Highlights of the sale included the autographed manuscripts of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From the Madding Crowd and Charles Lamb's essay Dream Children. However, the fall in rare book prices steadily through the Great Depression meant that many sold lots brought only a fraction of prices they would have realized at the time of the Jerome Kern sale in 1929. The three volume Newton sale catalogue remains a useful reference for literature collectors.
