Notables in Literature and Journalism

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The Notables in Literature and Journalism Project is a sub-project of the Notables Project.

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Project Leaders: David Randall and Ros Haywood

The main objectives of this project are to...

1) Create profiles for the world's most notable literary figures.

2) Write a fun and accurate biography for each profile.

3) Source each profile as thoroughly as possible.

4) Connect each profile to the Big Tree.

See the COMPLETED PROFILE CHECKLIST for what The Notables Project considers to be an "essentially completed" profile.

If you'd like to join us on this project, please post a comment here on this page or in G2G using the project tag Notables, send a private message to the project manager, or simply hop in and start contributing as you see fit!

Featured Author

Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775-1817) six novels of romantic fiction including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma, with later novels Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion being published after her death. Her first four novels were published anonymously.

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

Jane Austen currently has a CC7 of 5747.

Featured Journalist

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) was a well-known television news anchor on CBS Evening News for nearly twenty years and was considered an American icon. Due to his friendly style, he was known as "the man Americans most trusted."

"That's the way it is!" (Cronkite's signature sign-off phrase)

Walter Cronkite currently has a CC7 of 752.

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For a full list of our featured profiles visit our category page HERE

Romance Authors

Notables in Literature and Journalism Dec 9, 2023.

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Natalie (Durbin) Trott

Respectfully, why is the category called LJ Notables? This seems like a bad name and doesn't explain what it is. Can't it be changed to Literary and Journalism Notables, so that it's clear who should be tagged? And is this going to supercede the country ones like English Authors or is it in addition to those sorts of categories? How many notables categories should one person have for one thing?

Thanks. I'm curious about only the categories. The project is quite a cool thing! Natalie

posted Dec 11, 2023 by Natalie (Durbin) Trott
edited Dec 11, 2023 by Natalie (Durbin) Trott

Ros Haywood

I called it LJ Notables because I didn't want it to have a long long name. Indeed, it has now got two subcategories, which would make it horrendously long: Category:Literature, Literature and Journalism Notables. "English Authors" is an England Project Topic, run by an individual (me) and totally separate from this one. So an author born in England can be in both.

posted Dec 11, 2023 by Ros Haywood
edited Dec 11, 2023 by Ros Haywood

Natalie (Durbin) Trott

Well, long doesn't matter in this case, as it needs to be clear what the category groups. What's an "LJ" was my first question when I saw the category in the feed.

Natalie

posted Dec 11, 2023 by Natalie (Durbin) Trott