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Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was an American author, historian and Unitarian minister. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was a child prodigy who exhibited extraordinary literary skills. He graduated from Boston Latin School at age 13 and enrolled at Harvard College immediately after. There, he settled in with the literary set, won two Bowdoin prizes and was elected the Class Poet.He graduated second in his class in 1839 and then studied at Harvard Divinity School.Hale was licensed to preach as a Unitarian minister in 1842 by the Boston Association of Ministers and in 1846 became pastor of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, Massachusetts. He left the Unity Church in 1856 to become pastor at the South Congregational Church, Boston, where he served until 1899.
In 1847 Hale was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society, and he would be involved with the society for the rest of his life, taking up various positions in the service of the society. He served two non-consecutive terms on its board of councilors and also served as recording secretary. He served as vice-president of the society from 1891 to 1906 and as president from 1906 to 1907, then again took up the position of vice-president from 1907 to 1909.
Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed to the Atlantic Monthly and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1865. In recognition of his support for the Union during the American Civil War he was elected as a Third Class Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In 1869 he assisted in founding the Christian Examiner, Old and New in 1869 and became its editor.
In 1886, Hale founded Lend a Hand, which merged with the Charities Review in 1897, and the Lend a Hand Record. Throughout his life he contributed many articles on a variety of subjects to the periodicals of his day including the North American Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Christian Register, the Outlook, and many more. He was the author or editor of more than sixty books—fiction, travel, sermons, biography and history.
Hale retired as minister from the South Congregational Church in 1899. By the turn of the century he was recognized as among the nation's most important men of letters and Bostonians asked him to help ring in the new century on December 31, 1900, by presenting a psalm on the balcony of the Massachusetts State House. In 1903 he became Chaplain of the United States Senate, and joined the Literary Society of Washington. The next year, he was elected as a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Genres: AOS Naval Fiction (1 short story in anthology)
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Elizabeth Mancke
Elizabeth Mancke is the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New BrunswickGenres: AOS Naval Non-Fiction (as Editor)
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Eric Takakjian
Captain Eric Takakjian, a professional mariner, has been sailing ships and oceangoing tugboats to various corners of the world since 1978. Presently Captain Takakjian is employed aboard an ocean going Articulated Tug Barge unit (ATB) operating in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. He and his wife Lori owned and operated the research vessel QUEST for 17 years, conducting oceanographic and shipwreck research in the North East United States and outer continental shelf waters.
Captain Eric has conducted extensive historical research on New England shipwrecks. Since 1985 captain Eric and his team have conducted expeditions resulting in the location and exploration over 70 previously undiscovered shipwrecks in the waters around New England and outer continental shelf waters. A diver since 1972 and an avid shipwreck diver since 1975. Captain Eric has been a fellow of the Explorers Club since 1997, is a member of the Board of Directors of The Steamship Historical Society of America, and is an associate member of the Boston Sea Rovers.
Genres: ME Other Non-Fiction (co-author 1 book with Randall Peffer)
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F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948-2010), known as Froggy, was a journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator, who lived in New York City and said he had lived in Scotland and Wales. MacIntyre's writings include the science-fiction novel The Woman Between the Worlds and his anthology of verse and humor pieces MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary. As an uncredited “ghost” author, MacIntyre is known to have written or co-written several other books, including at least one novel in the Tom Swift IV series, The DNA Disaster, published as by "Victor Appleton" (a house pseudonym) but with MacIntyre's name on the acknowledgments page. On 25 June 2010 MacIntyre set his Brooklyn apartment on fire and his body was later found there.Genres: AOS Naval Fiction (1 short story in anthology)
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Falklands Conflict
The list below is of those books that have been tagged as being about the Falklands Conflict
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Fantasy Fiction
The list below is of those books which have been tagged as having an element of fantasy.
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Fleet Air Arm
The list below is of those books which have been tagged as being based around Naval Aviation