Artists Pay Tribute To Late David Bowie (15+ Pics) The world lost another star yesterday with the passing of David Robert Jones, also known as David Bowie. The 69-year-old died just two days after his birthday and the release of his latest album, Blackstar.
In A Nutshell. Pygmalion, written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw and first performed two years later, tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (speech), who bets his friend that he can pass off a poor flower girl with a Cockney accent as a duchess by teaching her to speak with an upper class accent.
Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games author who found rich pickings in dystopia. There are many bestselling children's authors but only rarely do any come along who break through into the universal cultural consciousness. CS Lewis did it, as did Roald Dahl and JK Rowling. Now along comes Suzanne Collins, a 49-year-old from Connecticut, in the US, with The Hunger Games trilogy.