Kurš datēja Rebecca West?

Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.

Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night (published posthumously in 1984), and Cousin Rosamund (1985).

Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959; in each case, the citation reads: "writer and literary critic". She took the pseudonym "Rebecca West" from the rebellious young heroine in Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal.

Herberts Džordžs Velss (angļu: Herbert George Wells, dzimis 1866. gada 21. septembrī, miris 1946. gada 13. augustā) bija angļu rakstnieks, viens no zinātniskās fantastikas literatūras pamatlicējiem. Viņa pazīstamākie darbi ir romāni "Laika mašīna" (The Time Machine: An Invention, 1895), "Doktora Moro sala" (The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896), "Neredzamais cilvēks" (The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, 1897), "Pasauļu karš" (The War of the Worlds, 1898), "Pirmie cilvēki uz Mēness" (The First Men in the Moon, 1901). Visi šie darbi tulkoti arī latviešu valodā.

Mūsdienās vispazīstamākie ir tieši Velsa agrīnie darbi, kas tapuši 19. gs. beigās un 20. gs. sākumā, kurus Velss pats dēvēja par "zinātniskajiem romāniem" (scientific romances). Velss kopumā uzrakstījis aptuveni 40 romānus, kā arī vairākus desmitus īsos un garos stāstus, no kuriem vislabāk zināmais ir "Aklo zeme" (The Country of the Blind, 1911).

Uzskatu ziņā Velss bija pazīstamas kā sociālists, redzams Fabiāņu biedrības biedrs. Bieži, bet ne vienmēr, propagandēja pacifistiskus uzskatus. 1933. gadā paredzēja, ka 1940. gada janvārī sāksies pasaules karš. 1940. gadā publicēja darbu "The New World Order" (Jaunā pasaules kārtība), kurā iestājās par Pasaules valdības izveidi.