Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire – francuski poeta i krytyk, parnasista zaliczany do grona tzw. „poetów wyklętych”. Znany z przekładów utworów m.in. Edgara Allana Poego. Prekursor symbolizmu i dekadentyzmu.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire oli ranskalainen runoilija, kääntäjä, esseisti ja kriitikko. Hänen tunnetuin teoksensa on Les Fleurs du mal. Baudelaireen liitetään usein käsite fin de siècle, ja hänet luetaan Edgar Allan Poen ja Théophile Gautierin ohella dekadenttien johtohahmoihin. Baudelaire sai arvostusta myös Edgar Allan Poen teosten ranskantajana.
Charles Beaumont was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Static", "Miniature", "Printer's Devil", and "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You", but also penned the screenplays for several films, such as 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder, and The Masque of the Red Death.
Charles Boardman Hawes was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel The Dark Frigate (1923) as the year's best American children's book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, The New York Times observed that "his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville".
Charles Bucke was an English writer who, despite being poor most of his life, still managed to produce roughly eleven different works, each varying in number of volumes and topics.
