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Susan
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/Name	Persian
Meaning	Lotus, Lily
Other names
Related names	Sue, Susie, Sukie, Susannah, Suzanne
Popularity	see popular names
[1]

Look up Susan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Susan is a feminine given name, a form of Susanna, deriving originally from Middle Egyptian "sšn" (lotus flower), first reported on an 11th Dynasty sarcophagus dating from approximately 2000 B.C. However, the Hebrew root for the name for the lily, שושן is derived from the root שוש or ששנ , meaning "to be joyful, bright, or cheerful", which is the basis for the word and name ששון Sasson, meaning "joy of life*". The Persian name for lily is سوسن sousan, susan. The name of Susa, an ancient city of Persia, may be derived from the lilies which abounded in the plain in which it was situated.

Variations[link]

• Susana, Susanna, Susannah
• Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah
• Susann, Suzan, Suzann
• Susanne, Suzanne.
• Zozan

Nicknames[link]

Common nicknames for Susan include :

• Sue, Suse, Susie, Sukie, Sanna
• Suzi, Suzy, Subo, Suzie, suz^[2]

In other languages[link]

• Persian: سوسن‎ (Sousan, Susan) / Tajik: Савсан (Savsan), Tajik: Сӯсан (Süsan)
• Arabic: سوسن‎ (Sawsan)
• Armenian: Շուշան (Šušan)
• Suzanne in French and Dutch
• Susanne in German, Danish and Norwegian
• Hebrew: שושנה‎ (Shoshana) (often shortened to Hebrew: שוש‎ Shosh, Hebrew: שושי‎ Shoshi)
• Zsuzsanna in Hungarian
• Susanna in Italian
• Japanese: スーザン
• Susanna, Sanna and Susanne in Swedish
• Xuxa in Latin origin
• Zuzanna or Zane in Latvian
• Zuzana in Czech and Slovak
• Zuzanna, Zuzia in Polish
• Susana or Susianna in Portuguese
• Susana in Spanish
• Sosamma in Malayalam
• Susanna in Estonian
• Сузана in Serbian
• Сюзанна in Russian
• ܫܘܫܢ or ܫܘܫܢܬ (Shushan or Shushaneh) in Assyrian/Chaldean/Aramaic/Syriac
• Suzan in Turkish
• Сусанна in Ukrainian
• Urdu: کنول

See also[link]

• Lazy Susan
• List of Susans

References[link]

1. ^ Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Susanna
2. ^ Behind the Name: the etymology and history of first names^{[not in citation given]}

External links[link]

• Famous Susans
• Etymology of Hebrew "shoshana" - basis of the name "Susan"

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Look up Anderson in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Anderson (or Andersson) may refer to:

People[link]

• Anderson Cooper, American television personality, son of Gloria Vanderbilt
• Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Manchester United football player
• Clan Anderson, a Scottish clan
• Leroy Anderson, American composer

Places[link]

Canada[link]

• Anderson Bay, British Columbia
• Anderson Bay Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Anderson Lake (British Columbia)
• Anderson Road, New Brunswick
• Anderson Settlement, New Brunswick
• Anderson's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Anderson River (Northwest Territories)
• Anderson Lake (Nova Scotia)
• Anderson, Perth County, Ontario
• Anderson Lake (Vancouver Island)

Australia[link]

• Anderson, Victoria
• Anderson Inlet, Victoria
• Anderson Island (Tasmania)

New Zealand[link]

• Anderson's Bay, a suburb of Dunedin

United Kingdom[link]

• Anderson, Dorset

United States[link]

• Anderson, Alabama
• Anderson, Alaska
• Anderson, California, in Shasta County
• Anderson, Mendocino County, California
  • Anderson Valley AVA, California wine region in Mendocino County
• Anderson, Indiana
• Anderson, Missouri
• Anderson, South Carolina
• Anderson, Texas
• Anderson, Burnett County, Wisconsin, a town
• Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin, a town
• Anderson, Rock County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Antarctica[link]

• Anderson Dome, prominent ice-covered mountain in Ellsworth Land

Space[link]

• Anderson (crater), lunar crater named for John A. Anderson
• Andersson (crater), lunar crater named for Leif E. Andersson
• Anderson Mesa Station, an astronomical observatory in Arizona (USA)

See also[link]

• Anderson Barn (disambiguation)
• Anderson County (disambiguation)
• Anderson Island (disambiguation)
• Anderson Peak (disambiguation)
• Anderson Road (disambiguation)
• Anderson Township (disambiguation)

Companies[link]

• Anderson Consulting, former name of Accenture, Plc
• Anderson Electric, early 20th century electric car
• Anderson Greenwood, industrial manufacturer
• Anderson Racing Karts, British manufacturer of Superkart racing chassis
• O.P. Anderson, a brand of Swedish aquavit vodka

Transport[link]

• Anderson (automobile), an American car
• Andersen Air Force Base, IATA code UAM, United States Air Force (USAF) on Guam
• Anderson Field (Washington), a public airport in Washington state, United States
• Anderson Field (Nevada), a former airport in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Anderson Municipal Airport, IATA code KAID, a public airport in Indiana, United States
• Anderson Regional Airport, IATA code KAND, a public airport in South Carolina, United States

Schools[link]

• Anderson Arena, a sports arena on the campus of Bowling Green State University, Ohio
• Anderson University, in Anderson, Indiana
  • Anderson Ravens, this school's athletic program
• Anderson University, in Anderson, South Carolina
• The Anderson School, K-8 public school, New York, NY, USA
• UCLA Anderson School of Management, located at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Other uses[link]

• Anderson, a TV show starring Anderson Cooper
• Anderson, popular name for an alcoholic drink in the United Kingdom, containing Vodka Red Bull
• Anderson, a type of mango originating in Miami, Florida.
• The Anderson Packers, basketball team
• Anderson shelter, an Air raid shelter used in Britain during WWII
• Anderson turn, ship or boat maneuver
• USS Anderson (DD-411), US Navy destroyer

See also[link]

• Andersson
• Andersen
• Anderssen

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Undated picture of young Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley (May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.^[1]

Biography[link]

Christopher Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania. His father, Frank Morley, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a poet and musician who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.^[2]

In 1900 the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. In 1906 Christopher entered Haverford College, graduating in 1910 as valedictorian. He then went to New College, Oxford, for three years on a Rhodes scholarship, studying modern history.

In 1913 Morley completed his Oxford studies and moved to Garden City, New York. On 14 June 1914 he married Helen Booth Fairchild (with whom he would have four children). They first lived in Hempstead, and then in Queens Village. They then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1920 they made their final move, to a house they called "Green Escape" in Roslyn Estates, New York. They remained there for the rest of his life. In 1936 he built a cabin at the rear of the property (The Knothole), which he maintained as his writing study from then on.^[3]

In 1951 Morley suffered a series of strokes, which greatly reduced his voluminous literary output. He died on Mar 28 1957 and was buried in the Roslyn Cemetery in Nassau County, New York. After his death, two New York newspapers published his last message to his friends:

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.^[4]

Career[link]

Morley began writing while still in college. He edited The Haverfordian and contributed articles to that college publication. He provided scripts for and acted in the university's drama program (he also played on the cricket and soccer teams).

In Oxford a volume of his poems, The Eighth Sin (1912), was published. After graduating from Oxford, Morley began his literary career at Doubleday, working as publicist and publisher's reader. In 1917 he got his start as a newspaper reporter and then as a newspaper columnist in Philadelphia. He also edited the Ladies' Home Journal (1917–1918) and the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger.

Morley's first novel, Parnassus on Wheels, appeared in 1917. The protagonist, traveling bookseller Roger Mifflin, appeared again in his second novel, The Haunted Bookshop in 1919.

In 1920 he returned to New York City to write a column (The Bowling Green) for the New York Evening Post.^[5]

He was one of the founders and a longtime contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A highly gregarious man, he was the mainstay of what he dubbed the "Three Hours for Lunch Club". Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories, he helped to found the Baker Street Irregulars^[6] and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote an introduction to standard omnibus edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare in 1936, although Morley called it an "Introduction to Yourself as a Reader of Shakespeare".^[7] That year, he was appointed to revise and enlarge Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (11th edition in 1937 and 12th edition in 1948). He was one of the first judges for the Book of the Month Club, serving in that position until the early 1950s.

Author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry, Morley is probably best known for his 1939 novel Kitty Foyle, which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. Another well-known work is Thunder on the Left (1925).

From 1928 to 1930, Morley co-produced theater productions (dramas) at his theater in Hoboken, New Jersey,^[8][9] which he had "deemed the last seacoast in Bohemia".^[10][11][12]

For most of his life, he lived in Roslyn Estates, Nassau County, Long Island, commuting to the city on the Long Island Rail Road, about which he wrote affectionately. In 1961, a 98-acre (40-hectare) park was named in his honor on Searingtown Road in Nassau County. This park preserves as a publicly available point of interest his studio, the "Knothole" (which was moved to the site after his death), along with his furniture and bookcases.

Notable works[link]

• Parnassus on Wheels (novel, 1917)
• Shandygaff (book of essays, 1918)
• The Haunted Bookshop (novel, 1919)
• Pipefuls (collection of humorous essays, 1920)
• Where the Blue Begins (satirical novel, 1922)
• The Powder of Sympathy (collection of humorous essays, 1923, illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan)
• Thunder on the Left (novel, 1925)
• Off the Deep End (collection of essays, 1928, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell)
• Born in a Beer Garden, or She Troupes to Conquer (co-author with Ogden Nash, 1930)
• Seacoast of Bohemia ("history of four infatuated adventurers, Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, who rediscovered the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, and refurnished it", 1929, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell)
• John Mistletoe (autobiographical novel, 1931)
• Ex Libris Carissimis (non-fiction writing based on lectures he presented at University of Pennsylvania, 1932)
• Shakespeare and Hawaii (non-fiction writing based on lectures he presented at University of Hawaii, 1933)
• Human Being (novel, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City NY, 1934)^[13]
• The Trojan Horse (novel, 1937)
• Kitty Foyle (novel, 1939)
• Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Textbook of Friendship (analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle's writings, 1944)
• The Old Mandarin (book of poetry, 1947)
• The Man Who Made Friends with Himself (his last novel, 1949)^[14]

Literary connections[link]

• Morley was a close friend of Don Marquis, author of the Archy and Mehitabel stories featuring the antics and commentary of a New York cockroach and a cat. In 1924 Morley and Marquis co-authored Pandora Lifts The Lid, a light novel about the well-to-do in contemporary Hamptons. They are said to have written alternate chapters, each taking the plot forward from where the other had left off.
• Morley's widow sold a collection of his personal papers and books to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin after his death.
• Morley helped to found the Baker Street Irregulars, dedicated to the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
• Morley edited two editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: 1937 (11th) and 1948 (12th.)^[15]
• Morley's 1939 novel Kitty Foyle was unusual for its time, as it openly discussed abortion. It became an instant best-seller, selling over one million copies.^[15]
• Morley's brothers Felix and Frank were also Rhodes Scholars. Felix became President of Haverford College.^[16]
• In 1942 Morley wrote his own obituary for the biographical dictionary Twentieth Century Authors.

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Works by or about Christopher Morley at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
• Works by Christopher Morley at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
• Christopher Morley index entry at Poets' Corner
• Essays by Morley at Quotidiana.org
• The Baker Street Journal Writings about Sherlock Holmes
• The Baker Street Irregulars Weekend
• — Biography
• Christopher Morley Quotes