Mara Bergman is an American children's author, poet and editor. Born in Bronx, New York, on leap year day, she grew up in Wantagh, Long Island, and attended Wantagh High School and the University of the State of New York at Oneonta, spending her third year studying at Goldsmiths College, London. Mara moved to England in 1983, and soon began to work for the children’s publisher Walker Books. When her three children, Marissa, Eva and Jonathan, were young she decided to start writing picture books, and her awards include the BookTrust Early Years Award and the Stockport Prize. In 2014, Mara won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize and her collection The Tailor's Three Sons and Other New York Poems was published by Seren in 2015. Her first full collection, The Disappearing Room, was published in 2018 by Arc Publications. Her children's books have been translated into Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Hebrew.
Mara Rockliff is an American author of nonfiction and educational books for children. The American Library Association selected her book Gingerbread for Liberty! as an ALA Notable Children's Book. She also received the Golden Kite Award for Me and Momma and Big John.
Marabel Morgan is an American author of self-help books for married women, including The Total Woman (1973), Total Joy (1983), The Total Woman Cookbook (1976) and The Electric Woman (1986).
Marah Ellis Ryan, also known as Ellis Martin, was an author, actress, and activist from the United States. She was considered an authority on Native Americans after living with the Hopi.
Marat Viktorovich Baglai is the Soviet and Russian lawyer who served as 3rd Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia from 1997 to 2003. He is corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Marat Aleksandrovich Gelman is a Russian collector, gallerist, and an op-ed columnist. The former director of PERMM contemporary art museum in Perm. The deputy director of Channel One from June 2002 to February 2004. A political consultant, a co-founder of the Foundation for Effective Politics, and a member of Russia's Public Chamber.
Marat Tarasov was a Russian poet, translator, and journalist. He was an Honored Cultural Worker of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, and a People's Writer of the Republic of Karelia.
Marbodus, Marbod or Marbode of Rennes was archdeacon and schoolmaster at Angers, France, then Bishop of Rennes in Brittany. He was a respected poet, hagiographer, and hymnologist.
