Richard Garnett C.B. (27 February 1835 – 13 April 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist (historical linguist) and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum, i.e. what is now the British Library. His son, Edward married translator Constance Garnett, and their son was David Garnett. David's son Richard Garnett was biographer of Constance.

He was born Michael O'Brien in County Cork, and was very young when the family moved to Limerick, Ireland. He attended the University of Dublin, and is believed to have been at one time a soldier in the British Army. On leaving college he went to London, and in the course of four years spent his inheritance of £8,000, meanwhile editing a periodical in aid of the World's Fair of 1851. About 1852 he came to the United States, in the process changing his name to Fitz James and thenceforth he devoted his attention to literature. While he was in college he had shown an aptitude for writing verse, and two of his poems—"Loch Ine" and "Irish Castles"—were published in The Ballads of Ireland (1856). His earliest writings in the United States were contributed to The Lantern, which was then edited by John Brougham. Subsequently he wrote for The Home Journal, The New York Times, and The American Whig Review. His first important literary connection was with Harper's Magazine, and beginning in February 1853, with The Two Skulls, he contributed more than sixty articles in prose and verse to that periodical. He likewise wrote for the New York Saturday Press, Putnam's Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic Monthly. To the latter he sent "The Diamond Lens" (1858) and "The Wondersmith" (1859), which are unsurpassed as creations of the imagination, and are unique among short magazine stories. "The Diamond Lens" is probably his most famous short story, and tells the story of a scientist who invents a powerful microscope discovers a beautiful female in a microscopic world inside a drop of water. "The Wondersmith" is an early predecessor of robot rebellion, where toys possessed by evil spirits are transformed into living automatons who turns against their creators. His 1858 short called "Horrors Unknown" has been referred to as "the single most striking example of surrealistic fiction to pre-date Alice in Wonderland" (Sam Moskowitz, 1971). "What Was It? A Mystery" (1859) is one of the earliest known examples of invisibility in fiction. His pen was also employed in writing plays. For James W. Wallack he made A Gentleman from Ireland, that held the boards for a generation. He also wrote and adapted other pieces for the theatres, but they had a shorter existence. In New York he at once associated with the brilliant set of Bohemians of that day, among whom he was ranked as the most able. At the weekly dinners that were given by John Brougham, or at the nightly suppers at Pfaff's on Broadway, he was the soul of the entertainment. In 1861 he joined the 7th regiment of the New York National Guard, hoping to be sent to the front, and he was in Camp Cameron before Washington for six weeks. When his regiment returned to New York he received an appointment on the staff of General Frederick W. Lander. He was severely wounded in a skirmish on February 26, 1862, and lingered until April, when he died at Cumberland, Maryland. From Wikipedia.

Jaime Poniachik fue un matemático y editor uruguayo, creador de juegos de ingenio, acertijos lógicos, de matemática y de palabras. En Uruguay colaboró con el escritor Mario Levrero, también crucigramista, en la revista Misia Dura de Jorge Sclavo, que aparecía como suplemento del diario El Popular. En 1974 publicó Acertijos derviches, “un libro de cuentos con enigma…cuentos generosamente plagiados y mutilados de las hermosas antologías derviches escritas por el poeta persa Idries Shah …acertijos recogidos en los barrios suburbanos de la lógica y el sentido común…(para) brindar una simple diversión; si alguien logra extraer alguna enseñanza o propósito distinto, está en su completo derecho”.3​4​ En Argentina creó La Revista del Snark en 1976, publicación mensual de recreación mental, con juegos de ingenio, reglas de juegos de tablero y comentarios sobre publicaciones relacionadas con el pensamiento lógico, entre otros temas. Solamente se editaron diez números, pero fue la base para que aparecieran otras revistas similares. Junto a Daniel Samoilovich publicó la revista Juegos para gente de mente en 1982; más tarde la dupla fundó Juegos & Co. S.R.L. que giró bajo el nombre comercial Ediciones de Mente (1980), de donde surgieron las revistas Quijote (1986), Cruzadas, Clip y Pictologic, entre otras; un juego de tablero diseñado por el equipo creativo, Carrera de Mente; y una colección de libros de lógica recreativa. Con el seudónimo de Tadeo Monevín creó un juego de cartas Tango De mente, que nació “hace años en charlas de sobremesa”, “a partir de las historias que cuentan las letras de tango…se aprende rápido y su reglamento ocupa apenas las cuatro páginas iniciales del libro”.​ En 1992 comenzó a editar la revista Acertijos que estuvo en circulación hasta 1997. Publicó, entre otros títulos, el libro Jugar con Borges, con adivinanzas y entretenimientos sobre la base de los poemas y cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges, y un texto apócrifo de Julio Cortázar, El dado egocéntrico, que generó una serie de situaciones equívocas entre 1969 y 1975 en la que fueron protagonistas Jaime Poniachik, Félix Grande, Elvio Gandolfo, Edmundo Valadés, Abelardo Castillo y Julio Cortázar.

Gérard de Nerval was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie, one of the most essentially Romantic French poets. Gérard de Nerval, nom de plume de Gérard Labrunie, écrivain et poète français. Figure majeure du romantisme français, il est essentiellement connu pour ses poèmes et ses nouvelles.