Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in The New Yorker and in 1939 she was signed as a Scribner author where Maxwell Perkins, famous for his work with many of her contemporaries, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, became her editor. A 1963 nominee for the National Book Award, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifetime achievement in literature the following year. A friend to many literary and arts figures of her day, including author John Dos Passos, critic Edmund Wilson, and poet E.E. Cummings, Powell's work received renewed interest after Gore Vidal praised it in an 1987 editorial for The New York Review of Books. Since then, the Library of America has published two collections of her novels.
Gunard Hjertstedt, better known by pen name Day Keene, was an American novelist, short story writer and radio and television scriptwriter. Keene wrote over 50 novels and was the head writer for radio soap operas Little Orphan Annie and Kitty Keene, Inc. Several of his novels were adapted into movies, including Joy House and Chautauqua, released as The Trouble with Girls.
Dayal Kaur Khalsa was the American-born author and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books. She discovered her talent in Canada, where she had moved in 1970. Over the span of four short years before her death at the age of 46, she managed to write and illustrate eight picture books, three of them published posthumously.
Dayton Ward is a science fiction author primarily known for his Star Trek novels and short stories, which began with publication in the Strange New Worlds anthology series. He published stories in each of the first three Strange New Worlds volumes, making him the first author to render himself ineligible under the rules of that series. As such, future authors who achieved the same feat were said to have earned a "Wardy".
de Villiers is a common French and Afrikaans surname. It may refer to:De Villiers (playwright), French playwright and actor
AB de Villiers, a former South African international cricketer
Anna de Villiers (1900–1979), Afrikaans South African writer, lexicographer, and educator
De Villiers Graaff, a former South African politician
CJ de Villiers, a former South African cricketer
Fanie de Villiers, a former South African cricketer
Gerard de Villiers, a French writer of spy stories
Giniel de Villiers, a South African racing driver
HO de Villiers, a former South African rugby union player
Jackie de Villiers (1894–1960), South African judge
Jacob de Villiers (1868–1932), judge and Chief Justice of South Africa
Jean de Villiers, a former South African international rugby union player
Jan-Izak de Villiers, a former Namibia cricket and hockey international player
Johan Zulch de Villiers (1845–1910), South African politician
John de Villiers (1842–1914), Cape lawyer, judge and Chief Justice of South Africa
Izak Louis de Villiers, a former South African theologian and author
Juan de Villiers, a former South African cricketer
Karlien de Villiers, South African artist
Louis de Villiers (1908–1970), South African cricketer
Louis Coulon de Villiers (1710–1757), French military officer
M.L. de Villiers (1885–1977), South African clergyman and composer
Nannie de Villiers, a South African tennis player
Peggy de Villiers, a South African deaf swimmer
Peter de Villiers, a South African rugby union coach named in 2008 as the head coach of the country's national team, the Springboks
Philippe de Villiers, a French politician
Pieter de Villiers, a South African hurdler
Pieter de Villiers, a South African-born French international rugby union player
Ryan de Villiers, South African actor
