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• Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
• Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?
• Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana?
• despite the masculine pen name, British author George Paston was a woman?
• the author Pai Hsien-yung's father was Kuomintang general Pai Chung-hsi?
• the ashes of hillwalker and author Alfred Wainwright lie in his favourite fell, Haystacks in the Western Fells of the English Lake District?
• the American television program Cannabis Planet features horticulturist and author Ed Rosenthal as a cannabis "expert"?
• Jean Follain was a corporate lawyer, magistrate and award-winning author and poet who wrote the poem "Death of the Ferret"?
• Fred Gipson was an American author best remembered for creating a fictional dog featured in a book and the classic 1957 movie Old Yeller?
• author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008?
• author and social worker Ella Mae Johnson attended the inauguration of Barack Obama at the age of 105?
• Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid has also been classically trained as a pastry chef in Paris?
• Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger focused most of her literary works on biographies of her fellow female writers?
• Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
• Carrie Jones is a multi-award winning American author of young-adult fiction?
• Australian author Duncan Ball worked as an industrial chemist and as an editor before he became a full-time author?