Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter J

The first Japanese to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese

The first Japanese to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese language newspaper.Hikozo Hamada was born in Harima province, the son of a local landowner. Following his father’s death, his mother remarried. The fatherless boy had been accepted by a temple school for training and education, something unusual for someone of his social class. His mother died when he was twelve, but his stepfather, a seaman on a freighter often away from home, continued to care for the boy. A year later when returning from Edo after a sightseeing journey

Was an American satirical novelist and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about Ame

Was an American satirical novelist and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War II. It was this work whose title became the term commonly used to express absurdity in choice.Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War II satirists. Although he is remembered mostly for Catch-22, his other works center on the lives of various members of the middle class and remain exemplars of modern satire.

Was a French journalist and novelist.He was born in in Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the

Was a French journalist and novelist.He was born in in Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France. He studied in Nice and Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator.

Was a German violinist, composer, and conductor. His compositions consisted mostly of chamber music

Was a German violinist, composer, and conductor. His compositions consisted mostly of chamber music and instructive pieces for bowed strings and guitar. He is known to have been an instructor of Norbert Burgmüller in Düsseldorf, where he was concert master for a time, and where he died in 1840.

Was a German musician and composer, a contemporary of Beethoven. A quintet of Küffner's for clarine

Was a German musician and composer, a contemporary of Beethoven. A quintet of Küffner's for clarinet and strings was once attributed to Carl Maria von Weber[2], and is still recorded in collections of Weber's music.[6]. He composed seven symphonies and a large number of works for various chamber music combinations. His output also contains a substantial quantity of music for classical guitar (some of it still published as of 2008 and some newly reprinted).

Was a Bohemian composer, violinist, and conductor. He studied with Karl Veit in his youth.[1] Labitz

Was a Bohemian composer, violinist, and conductor. He studied with Karl Veit in his youth.[1] Labitzky joined a traveling orchestra at age 14, and in 1820 took a position in an orchestra in Marienbad. In 1823-24 he was in Munich, and following this he toured Germany as a concert violinist. He put together his own orchestra in 1825, touring Vienna and Warsaw. He took a conducting position in Karlsbad in 1835, and his dance pieces became quite popular throughout Europe, including England. He was involved in "Cocks vs Purday", a British court case concerning copyright.[2] He was the father of August Labitzky.

A daily newspaper in the [Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands](Saipan) for four years. Now

A daily newspaper in the [Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands](Saipan) for four years. Now he chose to be a correspondent to focus more on his visual arts career. He is also a correspondent for GMAnews.TV, an online news source from a major news organization in the Philippines.

Was a composer in the classical era who is sometimes referred to as "the Swedish Mozart.

Was a composer in the classical era who is sometimes referred to as "the Swedish Mozart.

Was an American writer who wrote for The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits

Was an American writer who wrote for The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on the fringes of society, especially in and around New York City.

Is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, radio personality, filmmaker, composer, and actor. His work

Is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, radio personality, filmmaker, composer, and actor. His works include the novels Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza, both of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel

Was an Austrian composer and violinist who lived primarily in Vienna. A contemporary of Ludwig van B

Was an Austrian composer and violinist who lived primarily in Vienna. A contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, very few of his works remain in the active repertoire today.

Was a French author and politician. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in

Was a French author and politician. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in the field of archaeology. After studying at the Lycée Condorcet he was called to the bar in 1887. He attracted the attention of Léon Gambetta by writing articles on Balkan politics for the Revue bleue, and joined the staff of the Republique française.

Was an English author and poet. Born in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai), he is best known for his

Was an English author and poet. Born in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai), he is best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894) and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1902), his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), If— (1910); and h

Was a German composer, violinist, and violist. In 1779, Schubert obtained a position as violinist in

Was a German composer, violinist, and violist. In 1779, Schubert obtained a position as violinist in the court of Heinrich Friedrich, the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. In 1788, Schubert accepted a post as violist in the court orchestra of Dresden, where he remained until his death in 1837.

Was a German composer. In the following years, Schuster's position was solidified with operatic succ

Was a German composer. In the following years, Schuster's position was solidified with operatic successes in Naples and Venice. He was also recognized in Germany as an accomplished composer and his singspiel, Der Alchymist, oder Der Liebesteufel is considered one of the finest examples of the art form. Most of his works are assigned to the opera buffa, but he also composed religious works, chamber music and orchestral music.

Was an American classical scholar and poet. His style has been characterised as fin de siècle and h

Was an American classical scholar and poet. His style has been characterised as fin de siècle and he is known for his sonnets in particular.Stickney's poem "Song" is plagiarized in the 2006 film The Good Shepherd by a Yale professor of English in a failed

Is a French composer, conductor and musicologist.Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France)

Is a French composer, conductor and musicologist.Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France) in 1954. Currently director of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud of the City of Antony (Île-de-France). He is associated with an original movement in Post-modernim, cited in the ‘‘Larousse de la musique’’ (see Histoire de la musique published by Larousse, 2000, p. 1137). His compositional style is situated between the formal conception of a theorised musical heritage and the research of new freely referenced musical climates. He is very sensitive to the sound qualities of contemporary music as well as the human role in the context of musical interpretation. As a cellist, he studied with Robert Cordier, Maurice Gendron and Claude Burgos. He studied orchestral conducting with J.C. Hartmann and Pierre Dervaux. As a composer, he was principally the disciple of Claude Ballif.

Was a French oboist and composer. Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in Lauris, Vaucluse, to

Was a French oboist and composer. Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in Lauris, Vaucluse, to a family of modest means. His father was a shoe-maker in the Place Jean d'Autan. His uncle was a bassoonist, who brought him to Paris to learn the oboe. In 1769 Garnier joined the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music (which was to become the National Opera of Paris after the Revolution),

Is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.[1] He has written several books which d

Is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.[1] He has written several books which deal with musical phenomenology, especially on the symbolic forms of music (1984), on the great musical topics (1994), on musical aesthetics (2000), as well as on musical theory, among them the first French reissue of Rameau’s Traité d'harmonie of 1722, a project supported by the Fondation Singer-Polignac in 1986, and in 1996 Rameau’s Nouveau système de musique théorique of 1726. Must be also mentioned several works of comparative aesthectics [3].

Was a French journalist and Breton nationalist. He also published under pseudonyms, most notably as

Was a French journalist and Breton nationalist. He also published under pseudonyms, most notably as Jos Pempoull. Working for the journal Nouvelliste de Lorient he created the "Celtic Circle of Lorient" and became active in the Breton National Party. He also worked voluntarily for Loeiz Herrieu's Breton language literary magazine Dihunamb.[1]

Was a Basque French composer and pianist of Impressionist and Expressionist music, known especially

Was a Basque French composer and pianist of Impressionist and Expressionist music, known especially for the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his melodies and of his orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. His piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music have become staples of the concert repertoire.

Was a German composer. Fortunate enough to be born into a family rich with musical talent, Josephine

Was a German composer. Fortunate enough to be born into a family rich with musical talent, Josephine Lang was the daughter of Theodor Lang, a violinist, and Regina Hitzelberger, opera singer. Her mother taught young Josephine how to play piano, and from age five it became apparent that Josephine possessed great potential as a composer. As early as age eleven Josephine started giving piano lessons herself. Through her godfather, Joseph Stieler, Josephine was exposed to some of the greatest artists of her time. Both Felix Mendelssohn and Ferdinand Hiller went to great lengths to ensure that Lang learned the proper theory for song-writing, and used their connections to publish Lang's music. Even Robert Schumann published a song of Josephine’s in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1838.

Was an English poet.He translated into English heroic couplets the scriptural epic of Guillaume du B

Was an English poet.He translated into English heroic couplets the scriptural epic of Guillaume du Bartas. His Essay of the Second Week was published in 1598; and in 1604 The Divine Weeks of the World's Birth. The ornate style of the original offered no d

Is a former student of Architecture in University of São Paulo and a food & wine journalist for the

Is a former student of Architecture in University of São Paulo and a food & wine journalist for the major Brazilian daily newspaper, Folha de S. Paulo.He is also owner and director of the gastronomic website Basilico (www.basilico.com.br) and contributes to several publications in Brazil and abroad. He teaches History of Gastronomy at a university in São Paulo. In 1995 he created the main gastronomic event in Brazil at that time, “Boa Mesa”, which was sold in 2000.

Was a Croatian writer.Josip Eugen Tomic was born in Požega. He specialised in writing light-hearted

Was a Croatian writer.Josip Eugen Tomic was born in Požega. He specialised in writing light-hearted fiction, with which he became very popular. Many of his works dealt with neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is also known for translating 50 plays to Croatian. He died in Zagreb.