Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; January 28, 1929 – September 22, 2003) was an American copywriter, theatrical stage manager, and film production assistant. Austen is best known as the longtime companion of writer Gore Vidal, with whom he lived...
Michael Stuhlbarg ( STOOL-barg; born July 5, 1968) is an American actor. Known for his character roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in...
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he...
Austen is a surname deriving from the Latin Augustine, and was first used around the 13th century.
La Rondinaia is a villa in Ravello on the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy. The property was owned by American writer Gore Vidal from 1972 to 2006.
The author Jane Austen and her novels have been represented in popular culture in a wide variety of forms for nearly two centuries. Adaptations and re-interpretations of her work span literature, illustration, theatre, film, television, digital...
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on the 1811 novel by Jane Austen. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story...
Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre (350,000 m2) cemetery in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of...
Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, and criticism. He has published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville, and a novelized memoir...
Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (born 8 April 1989), known professionally as Gabriella Wilde or Gabriella Calthorpe, is an English actress and model. She has appeared in the films St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold...
