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Warner, Susan Bogert

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Susan Bogert, pseud. Elizabeth Wetherall, 1819–85, American novelist, b. New York City. Of her many books the best known was The Wide, Wide World (1850), a pious, tearful tale of an orphan. ...

Warner, Anna Bartlett

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Anna Bartlett: see under Warner, Susan Bogert. ...

Wetherall, Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia)Wetherall, Elizabeth: see Warner, Susan Bogert. ...

Lothrop, Amy

(Encyclopedia)Lothrop, Amy: see under Warner, Susan Bogert. ...

Glaspell, Susan

(Encyclopedia)Glaspell, Susan glăsˈpĕl [key], 1876–1948, American author, b. Davenport, Iowa, grad. Drake Univ. She married the playwright George Cram Cook (1913) and with him organized (1915) the Provincetown...

Warner Brothers

(Encyclopedia)Warner Brothers, American movie studio executives and producers. Sons of poor E European Jewish immigrants, the brothers were Harry Morris (1881–1958), Albert (1884–1967), Samuel Louis (1887–192...

Warner, Pop

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Pop: see Warner, Glenn Scobey. ...

Sontag, Susan

(Encyclopedia)Sontag, Susan sŏnˈtäg [key], 1933–2004, American writer and critic, b. New York City. She grew up in Arizona and California, studied philosophy at the Univ. of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford, absor...

Warner, Albert

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Albert: see Warner Brothers. ...

Warner, Rex

(Encyclopedia)Warner, Rex, 1905–86, English author, b. Birmingham, grad. Oxford, 1928. A classical scholar noted for his translations from Greek and Latin, Warner taught in England, Egypt, and the United States. ...