![]() By the time she was nine years old, she could write poetry as well as short stories. Truly the talented child, Lewis was able to play the piano by the age of five and created lyrics to the piano piece ‘little fingers’. ![]() Lancaster, Pennsylvania is her place of birth which is found right in the middle of Amish Country. Biography of Lewisīorn as Beverly Marie Jones, Lewis is a self-professed christian, born and raised in a Christian family. She also writes children’s stories and has more than eighty books attributed to her authorship. However, only a handful of authors have made a name for themselves in the writing of Christian fiction. Many authors have established themselves well in this genre covering fiction in the areas of crime, romance and science among many others. ![]() Fiction is one of the most interesting genres in the literary world because even the unreal can be used to create amazing stories. ![]()
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I went to the Secretary of the City Council the day before to ask him about leaving. And suddenly I saw a tank and somebody shouted “the Germans have broken through!” I said: “Don’t spread panic”. I went home, amazed at how I could have missed the air-raid siren. I heard distant gunfire, then there were people running across the garden. An announcer was reading an article about battles in Ukrainian. I was walking from an outpatient clinic after receiving patients and I stopped to listen. The radio conveyed the news in the city garden. ![]() It is hard, Vitya, to truly understand people… The Germans stormed into the city on the seventh of July. I want you to know about my last days, as this idea makes it easier for me to pass away. I will never receive your answer, I will be dead by then. “Vitya, I’m sure my letter will reach you, even though I’m behind the front line and the barbed wire of a Jewish ghetto. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has frequently pressed back against the trend towards aesthetics’ prominence over function in graphic design, so it should come as no surprise that he struggled to find a publisher for the book that could meet his exacting standards. Tufte was well known for being a perfectionist. Throughout the late 70s, he compiled the information for The Visual Display of Quantitative Information while lecturing at Princeton University alongside the renowned John Tukey, another fore-runner to the field of information design. He is recognized most frequently for his professorship at Yale and pioneering the field of data visualization. Tufte is primarily known as a statistician, although he started his academic career in political science. Not just because of its contents, but because the object itself is the pinnacle of information design in the book format. Edward Tufte’s book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is one of the most important books on design that I’ve ever read. ![]() |