John Ronald Simm (born July 10, 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his role as DI Sam Tyler in the BBC detective drama Life on Mars. He has also recently appeared as the latest incarnation of The Master in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist born in Pasco, Washington. The press release for his latest book, Rant, states he is now living near Vancouver, Washington. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He has one of the largest centralized followings of any author on the Internet, based around his official website.
Anthony Hope is a indierock band originated from Trøndertun folkehøyskole in Norway. The band consists of musicians from a wide variety of genres, but they all have a common goal; to play music for the man on street aswell as the enthusiasts. With a great mix of genres they for sure deliver a great show and give you music that will for sure make you dance. The band consists of:
Michael Steinslien - Vocals, Guitars
Joakim Arnt Holmen - Guitar, Vocals
Martin Kaasa Sletner - Bass
Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood traveling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old. Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm.
Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in the idyllic hamlet of South Haven, Michigan. Her family moved to Evanston, Illinois when she was little; she has lived in or near Chicago for most of her life. She began making prints in 1978 under the tutelage of William Wimmer. Miss Niffenegger trained as a visual artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received her MFA from Northwestern University’s Department of Art Theory and Practice in 1991. She has exhibited her artist’s books, prints, paintings, drawings and comics at Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1987.
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and director. He is the son of Alan Fry, an English scientist, and Marianne Neumann, an Austrian from a Jewish family. He was educated at Stout's Hill, Uppingham School, NORCAT (Norfolk College of Arts and Technology) and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he gained a 2:1 in English. He lives in Norfolk and London. He is an erstwhile comedy collaborator and good friend of Hugh Laurie. He was described as being "a man with a brain the size of Kent" in an interview with Michael Parkinson.
Thought to be one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, James Joyce is a key figure in the modernist movement. He is an Irish writer whose stories always take place in Ireland; however, he actually left the country at 22, returning infrequently. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses, an extremely difficult and intricate story taking place on June 16, 1904. His other major works are the short story collection Dubliners and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.