Wrong author

[[deleted user]]

Hi,

John F Harris

the-survivor
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
The Survivor
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
The Survivor
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
belong to John Furby Harris.

The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
Way to Win
belong to John Furby Harris and Mark Halperin

Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook
New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings: A Supplement to Understanding Maya Inscriptions
A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings belong to John Ferguson Harris

Kind regards

[[deleted user]]

Hi,

John F Harris (cont)

Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon: The Man And His Work
Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon: The Man And His Work
Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon: The Man And His Work
Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon: The Man and His Work
Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon: The Man And His Work
belong to John Frederick Harris

Kind regards

[[deleted user]]

Hi,

Back to John Harris #13 b.1942
Tungsten John : Being an Account of Some Inconclusive but Nonetheless Information Attempts to Reach the South Nahanni River by Foot and Bicycle
Barry McKinnon are his.

Kind regards

[[deleted user]]

Hi,

These are John Harris #12 b.1931
William Talman
William Talman: Maverick Architect

Kind regards

[Violetta]

C.J. wrote: "Hi,

John Harris #18 d.o.b.21/8/1945

Bioethics

Kind regards"

My search on that book showed him as the same author as On Cloning so for now he's in (3)John Harris

[Violetta]

Got 52, 53, 54 :) Working on 51.

ETA: Finished with 51. John F. Harris is now the lone author of a book on Swedish massage.

[Violetta]

I found at LoC that our John Harris is "not the same as: Harris, John 1942 Dec 16 and Harris, John 1942 May 3". Oh bother.

[Violetta]

Ok, I've been compiling and here's what the standings currently are:


(1)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ambiguous
(2)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1916-1991, war novels
(3)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ????, treehouses
(4)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1945, bioethics and cloning
(5)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1969, british pop music
(6)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ????, social care-social work
(7)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1951, child psych and lang dev
(8)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1950, children's books
(9)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ????, storyteller
(10)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1820-1884, poet and preacher
(11)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ????, rifleman
(12)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1931, architecture & design
(13)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1942, above the falls, tungsten john
(14)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1802-1856, Reverend
(15)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1954, English sound structure
(16)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1908, Old Boston photos
(17)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1937, Goronwy Rees
(18)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1942, reading children's writing
(19)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1948, graphic artist
(20)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1943, Small Rain, stories
(21)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... 1617?-1719, treatises etc

Again, parentheses indicate the number of spaces between John and Harris. 18 and 21 are earmarked for the future (perhaps for the Johns in message 57?). If you, C.J., (or anyone else with a manic disposition, lol) could double check some of the authors greater than 10, it would really help!

UPDATED: #18 and #21 are new

[Violetta]

Also: an address to... is most likely either attributable to (10)John or (14)John, but I haven't figured it out yet.

[[deleted user]]

Violetta wrote: "Also: an address to... is most likely either attributable to (10)John or (14)John, but I haven't figured it out yet."

Hi Violetta,

We have several sermons or homilies that date from 1703, 1705ish. This may be that John, who we haven't identified.

Watch this space

CJ

[[deleted user]]

Violetta wrote: "I found at LoC that our John Harris is "not the same as: Harris, John 1942 Dec 16 and Harris, John 1942 May 3". Oh bother."

Hi Violetta,

So far as I can tell our John Harris is the one who's married to Vivien Lougheed. In this case, according to the British Columbia Bookworld, http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_auth..., he has

Above the Falls
Barry McKinnon
Tungsten John : Being an Account of Some Inconclusive but Nonetheless Information Attempts to Reach the South Nahanni River by Foot and Bicycle

he also has:
Small Rain
other-art
George Bowering and His Works
which contradicts the LofC (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!)

Tom Wayman is also his.

However,
Reading Children's Writing: A Linguistic View belongs to John Harris 3/5/42.

Mao's march was nothing on this.

CJ

[[deleted user]]

Hi,

According to the cover of Wayside Pictures, Hymns, and Poems shown on Amazon, this John Harris was a Cornish miner. LofC says that John_Harris was also a Cornish miner, which suggests that our poet and preacher did a bit of mining in his spare time. The publication date quoted, 1879, is in the right frame too.

Kind regards

[[deleted user]]

C.J. wrote: "Violetta wrote: "Also: an address to... is most likely either attributable to (10)John or (14)John, but I haven't figured it out yet."

Hi Violetta,

We have several sermons or homilies that date f..."

Hi Violetta,

Looking at this one, it has a print date of 1783, so this is someone other than (10)John or (14)John.

Still digging!

CJ

[[deleted user]]

Hi Violetta,

Just come across Pocket Adventures Bolivia (Pocket Adventures) (Adventure Guide to Bolivia which is co-written by John Harris and Vivien Lougheed, so I imagine it's safe to assume that he's her husband.

Kind regards

[[deleted user]]

Hi Violetta,

No joy on the ~Great Stanmore John, but the British Library turned up John Harris #22 1667?-1719 whom it credits with:
Lexicon Technicum, Or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art but the Arts Themselves
A letter to the fatal triumvirate: in answer to that pretended to be written by Dr. Byfield: and shewing reasons why Dr. Woodward should take no notice of it.
Elements of plain and spherical trigonometry; together with the principles of spherick geometry, and the several projections of the sphere in plano. ... By J. Harris, D.D.F.R.S. The second edition.
A new short treatise of algebra: with the geometrical construction of equations, as far as the fourth power or dimension. Together with a specimen of the nature and algorithm of fluxions. The second edition, with additions. By John Harris, M.A. ...
Astronomical Dialogues Between a Gentleman and a Lady: Wherein the Doctrine of the Sphere, Uses the Globes, and the Elements of Astronomy and Geograph
The practice of religious and moral duties, the best way to make a nation happy. A sermon preach'd in the parish church of St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish-Street, on Friday the fourth of April, 1701. ... By John Harris, ...

Kind regards

[[deleted user]]

Violetta wrote: "Ok, I've been compiling and here's what the standings currently are:


(1)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ambiguous
(2)http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/......"

Hi Violetta,

As requested, I've checked (10)John. British Library confirms all except
The divine physician, which shows a print date of 1709 and an author of John Harris MA. This could be #22 1667-1719 but who knows?
Treasures of New England looks like it's astray. I would guess (16)John 1908 but neither BL nor LofC admit that the thing exists.
BL does confirm about Wayside Pictures, Hymns, and Poems (message 62 above)

Kind regards

[Violetta]

got 65, working on the rest...

[Violetta]

C.J. wrote: "Hi,

According to the cover of Wayside Pictures, Hymns, and Poems shown on Amazon, this John Harris was a Cornish miner. LofC says that John_Harris was also a Corn..."

Got it :)

[[deleted user]]

Hi again,

I've run another one to earth. According to the British Library, the-fury belongs to
John Farris.

Kind regards

[Violetta]

Got 69.

[Lobstergirl]

I'm not involved in this particular thread or process, but making John F. Harris "John Furby Harris" is not a good solution. That's not what the cover of the book says his name is. People who are searching for his book(s) are not going to be looking for a "Furby." A better solution is to have your various "John F. Harris"s and disambiguate by spaces, wherever they go, I guess after the F.

[Lobstergirl]

For awhile, Tom Wolfe was labelled "Thomas Kennerly Wolfe" and a lot of readers and users were hella confused.

[Violetta]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I'm not involved in this particular thread or process, but making John F. Harris "John Furby Harris" is not a good solution. That's not what the cover of the book says his name is. People who are..."

Ok, I'll have to take a look back over some of the ones with initials over the weekend. *sigh* Guess I imagined most people would either search by title or by just "john harris"

[[deleted user]]

Hi Lobstergirl and Violetta,

John Furby Harris v John F Harris

I have to say that I can't see that it makes that much difference what you call him. This search engine is a load of rancid halibut giblets and the chances are anyone searching for John anythingornothing Harris is going to give up in despair before long.

I just searched on john harris and the first offering it gave me was Huckleberry Finn. Q.E.D., I think.

Kind regards

P.S. If this post strikes anyone as a little intemperate then I apologize, but search engines are a particular bete noir of mine, considering people make fortunes out of coding them and they never work properly. Using this dratted thing for four days would drive Gandhi to see the red-mist.

[Meredith]

Author Peter May is at least two different Peter Mays - one who writes mysteries and one who writes sports.

[Dimmie]

#75 I've combined, serialized and moved the thrillers over to GR author Peter May according to the bibliography at his official site.

Although from the mish-mash of genres in what's left at the Peter^May profile (sports, gardening, romance, language studies), it seems there are still more unique Mays to be sorted through.