Allan Zola Kronzek
Autore di The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter
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Allan Zola Kronzek is an author, educator, and magician. His programs have been featured at colleges, libraries, and elementary and middle schools throughout the New York. Kronzek is the author of The New York Times best seller The Sorcerer's Companion-A Guide to the World of Harry Potter and A mostra altro Book of Magic for Young Magicians--The Secrets of Alkazar. Allan has appeared at New York City's Monday Night Magic and has been featured on CNN. He lives in Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Allan Zola Kronzek
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Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 10, June 1976 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1942
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Sag Harbor, New York, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Istruzione
- Carnegie-Mellon University
Bard College (BA, English) - Attività lavorative
- teacher
magician - Relazioni
- Kronzek, Elizabeth (daughter)
- Breve biografia
- [from author's website]
Allan Zola Kronzek is an author, educator, and sleight-of-hand artist. For more than 25 years, his innovative programs—a blend of conjuring, science, history and art—have been featured in schools, colleges and libraries throughout the Northeast. He is the author of six magic-centric books, including the NY Times Bestseller The Sorcerer's Companion—a Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter (co-authored with his daughter, Elizabeth), and most recently, of Grandpa Magic, a treasury of tricks, stunts, puzzles and brainteasers, designed to make grandpa the coolest guy on the block.
Allan grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, attended Carnegie-Mellon University, and graduated with a BA in English from Bard College. Prior to his current career, he was a freelance writer, a jazz DJ, and the General Manager of a Classic Rock radio station on Eastern Long Island.
He occasionally performs close-up magic at private functions, and socially at the drop of a hat.
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El Diccionario del Mago (Spanish Edition) di Allan Zola
Algunas partes son interesantes pero otras... buff, que sueño me entraba con el libro :(
I have the first edition of this book. It only included the first four novels, because that was all that was published when I bought this one.
I love this book. I read from it all the time. So many interesting things.
I love this book. I read from it all the time. So many interesting things.
A great book for enjoyment as well as research for beginning writing topics.
To start with, the Disclaimer: I am working on a project regarding the folklore of Harry Potter, meaning that, to an extent, it will be competing with this book.
It's not much competition, though. This book is a compendium of data about the "real world" tie-ins of the Potter series, with particular attention to the paraphernalia of magic -- "wands," "spells," and so forth.
Because I've been researching similar topics, I've had to work my way through a number of Potter reference books. And "work my way" is generally the relevant word; too many are shallow and silly. This book stands rather higher on the list. The entries are relatively comprehensive, and often give hard-to-find material (e.g. on tea leaf reading).
Sometimes it's not as accurate as might be desired; as with many such books, some of the articles could have been stuck together based on little research except Wikipedia reading. There are no footnotes. But the defect is rarely that the book is actually wrong; it's that it fails to appreciate the cultural differences between classical Greek, British, Roman, and other traditions.
Do I trust it? Not entirely. It is my reluctant conclusion that no reference work on the Potter series is entirely reliable -- perhaps because J. K. Rowling herself had no qualms about producing a universe full of logical and economic inconsistencies. But if I had to pick just one Potter reference, this would surely be the one.… (altro)
It's not much competition, though. This book is a compendium of data about the "real world" tie-ins of the Potter series, with particular attention to the paraphernalia of magic -- "wands," "spells," and so forth.
Because I've been researching similar topics, I've had to work my way through a number of Potter reference books. And "work my way" is generally the relevant word; too many are shallow and silly. This book stands rather higher on the list. The entries are relatively comprehensive, and often give hard-to-find material (e.g. on tea leaf reading).
Sometimes it's not as accurate as might be desired; as with many such books, some of the articles could have been stuck together based on little research except Wikipedia reading. There are no footnotes. But the defect is rarely that the book is actually wrong; it's that it fails to appreciate the cultural differences between classical Greek, British, Roman, and other traditions.
Do I trust it? Not entirely. It is my reluctant conclusion that no reference work on the Potter series is entirely reliable -- perhaps because J. K. Rowling herself had no qualms about producing a universe full of logical and economic inconsistencies. But if I had to pick just one Potter reference, this would surely be the one.… (altro)
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