He invokes edifying traditions epitomized by George Kennan the Elder, explorer extraordinary and author of "Tent Life in Siberia" (1871), now largely forgotten.
A massive fresco by Robert Tressell, sign painter and decorator extraordinary, and author of the Socialist classic, "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists," is about to be destroyed.
The immense advantage of Theobalds over Kenilworth lay in the fact that Cecil had put his garden under the charge of the extraordinary John Gerard, author of the celebrated "Herbal, or General History of Plants".
Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters "just appear" and that does happen.
This extraordinary album, authored by the artist formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons, is all about radical changes, and radical change.
Eager to learn and insatiably curious, she was an extraordinary teacher, mentor, author and administrator.
Strange and shocking as it was, there is nothing in Kinsey's study of male sexuality as extraordinary as its author's own life, which is also the subject of a new novel, a film and two biographies.
At the age of 74, a man of exemplary life, and an extraordinary craftsman, the author of this marvelous work, the church, died piously in Barcelona on the tenth day of June 1926; henceforward the ashes of so great a man await the resurrection of the dead.
But thanks to the authors' extraordinary research and sobriety, the accumulation of one well-documented fact after another is compelling.
"That extraordinary period when authors such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Rose Tremain, Hilary Mantel and Salman Rushdie first appeared has perhaps never been repeated.
