Janet Heimlich, one of the world's foremost authors on the topic and writer of the book Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, says children are more vulnerable to abuse and neglect if they live in religious authoritarian cultures.
He's one of the foremost authors on James Bond, able therefore to explain to me the meaning of A Quantum of Solace and happy to regale me with wealth of entertaining stories over a Bloody Mary (or nine).
Poet and dramatist and very likely a spy in the service of Elizabeth I, Marlowe is reckoned England's foremost author of tragedies before Shakespeare.
Less known is that the foremost author of "transgressional fiction" also happens to like surprises, his most recent arriving in the form of a sealed backgammon box he left tucked inside the bathroom ceiling of his old home to be discovered later by future owners.
Dr. Duke, one of the foremost authorities on herbs and an author of numerous books on herbal medicine, is much more an iconoclast than he seemed on television.
Gaskell died of a heart attack in 1865 when she was just 55. "The world of English letters has lost one of its foremost authors," lamented a friend.
Despite being one of English literature's foremost authors, DH Lawrence's reputation has been sullied and his works ridiculed for their treatment of love and sex.
Myles is the author of "What Executives Need To Know About Social Networking" (2009) and a contributing author for "The World's Foremost Authorities On Marketing: Top CMOs Share What They Know Best" (2012).
In the work of Spain's foremost author in the form – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939-2003) – the conflict that underlies the writing is the Spanish civil war, or, at least, the dictatorship of General Franco that followed and the subsequent transition to a constitutional monarchy, with King Juan Carlos I as a rare example of a monarch as a post-revolutionary figure.
Mr. Buckley wrote prolifically, founded The National Review, hosted "Firing Line" and even ran for mayor of New York, but to some he remains first and foremost the author of "God and Man at Yale," a call for the restoration of what he saw as traditional values at his alma mater.
