Other authors, wiser according to the opinion of many, count six kinds of governments, three of which are very bad, and three good in themselves, but so liable to be corrupted that they become absolutely bad.
Next up, author-wise, is Stephen King.
It's about time that readers -- and the media, which breathlessly repeats the best-selling claims of these authors -- wised up.
Erin Olivo is the author of Wise Mind Living and a licensed clinical psychologist.
In "The God Delusion," Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and author, presents Wise as an Othello figure, destroyed by his own convictions.
Here are some of the best-known facts about the author of "Wise Blood," "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and other stories: She raised peacocks.
"Captains, inspectors, deputy chiefs, they would all come in," said Nicholas Pileggi, 76, the true-crime author of "Wise Guy" and other books and screenplays, and the Associated Press's man in the shack from 1956 to 1966.
Those ad hoc advisers inform the book, along with what the author calls "wise random strangers at bars" and a retinue of "experts": grief counselors, auto mechanics, etiquette savants, her parents and a surgeon who tells patients (in step No. 274), "I'd almost rather they use heroin with clean needles than smoke".
Vince Barabba, author of "Wise Decision Making: Through the Systemic User of Knowledge and Imagination," in his Capitola, CA, wood shop.
Next up for the author's wise words?
