Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Author Listing
Frank Pierson, fully Frank Romer Pierson
American Screenwriter and Film Director including "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Cool Hand Luke"
Darrell K. Royal
American Football Player and Head Coach at Mississippi State University (1954–1955), University of Washington (1956), and the University of Texas at Austin (1957–1976)
Paul Pearsall
American Author, Public Speaker, Psychoneuroimmunologist, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Professor at the University of Hawaii, Founder and Director of Psychiatric Clinic at Sinai Hospital, Founder and CEO of Ho'ala Hou (To Reawaken), Professor of Psychiatry at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Director of Professional Education at the Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender and Reproduction
Pliny the Younger, full name Casus Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo NULL
Roman Statesman, Letter Writer, Lawyer, Author and Magistrate of Ancient Rome
Ivy Baker Priest
American Political Figure, Treasure of the U.S. under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
John of Ruysbroeck, also St. John of Ruysbroeck, Jan van Ruusbroec, Jan (or Johannes) van Ruysbroeck NULL
Flemish Mystic and Saint
Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
English Novelist, Author, Poet and Gardener, Awarded Hawthornden Prize
Bachya Ibn Pekudah
Spanish Rabbi, Author of book on Ethics "Duties of the Heart (Chovot HaLevovot)"
J. C. Penney, formally James Cash Penney
American Businessman, Founder of J.C. Penny Department Store Chain
D. Z. Phillips and H. O. Mounce
Authors of "On Morality's Having A Point," and "Moral Practices: Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion," Academician, Leading Proponent of Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion, Danforth Chair in Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, California and was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Swansea University
Phaedrus, fully Gaius Julius Phaedrus NULL
Roman Fabulist, Writer, probably Thracian Slave, recognized as first to Latinize entire books of fables, retelling in iambic metre the Greek prose Aesopic tales
Petrarch, anglicized from Italian name Francesco Petrarca NULL
Italian Scholar, Poet and one of the earliest Renaissance Humanists
Red Cloud, fully Maȟpíya Lúta in Lakota NULL
Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe Chief, Warrior and Spokesman
Arnold Seymour Relman
Professor of Medicine, Social Medicine and Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Awarded Honorary Fellowship by the New York University School of Medicine
Winfred Rhoades, fully Winfred Chesney Rhoades
American Author, Philosopher, Psychologist and Poet
Isaac Halevi Satanov, fully Isaac ben Moses Halevi Satanov
German Prussian Scholar, Poet and Teacher, Director of a printing press of the Society for the Education of the Young, wrote a Hebrew-German Dictionary and Thesaurus
Donald Marr Nelson
American Business Executive and Public servant, Executive VP of Sears Roebuck, Director of Priorities of the United States Office of Production Management, Chairman of the War Production Board when it replaced the OPM, President of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers
Dorothy Law Nolte
American Teacher and Lecturer on Family Life Education, Author of the poem "Children Learn What They Live"
William Penn
English Quaker and American Colonist, Founder of Pennsylvania, Real Estate Entrepreneur
Thomas Paine
English-American Politician, Radical Deistic Writer, Influential in French and American Revolutions
Samuel I. Prime, fully Samuel Irenaeus Prime
American Presbyterian Clergyman, Editor, Traveler and Writer
Leo Rosten, fully Leo Calvin Rosten, pen name Leonard Q. Ross
Polish-born American Writer, Political Scientist, Teacher and Humorist
Yisroel Salanter Lipkin
Lithuanian Rabbi, Talmudist, Founder and Spiritual Father of Mussar Movement
