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Gibson was a Tony Award-winning playwright and novelist. He is best known for writing The Miracle Worker, which won him the Tony for Best Play. The Miracle Worker is the story of how Helen Keller received her childhood education.
Hayes was an Academy Award nominated screenwriter, who’s most famous work was the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rear Window”. Hayes and Hitchcock worked together quite a bit; the two collaborated on “The Trouble With Harry,” “To Catch a Thief” and the 1956 version of “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” In 1990 Hayes donated his collection of photographs, [...]
Barnes was a well respected writer and broadcaster, he also held the position of chief dance, drama and opera critic for the New York Post. Along with his role at the New York Times, Barnes also wrote a monthly column for Dance Magazine, “Attitudes”. Barnes authored numerous books over the years, all pertaining to theater and the [...]
Crichton was a well-known author, medical doctor, film director, film producer, and television producer. He his best known for his science fiction and thriller novels, television programs, and films based off his books. Some of his more famous work includes The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Timeline, Disclosure, Prey and Next. He also created the Show ER… but [...]
Hillerman was an author of detective novels most notably being his Navajo Tribal Police mystery series. All of his novels are set in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and Arizona. Hillerman is credited for creating the beloved characters Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Below is a list of his Leaphorn & Chee books… 1. The Blessing [...]
Mr. Blackwell was a fashion critic, who is commonly known for his “Ten Worst Dressed Women” list. The list is an annual awards presentation given out each January. Along with his annual list he also wrote two books “Mr. Blackwell: 30 Years of Fashion Fiascos” and an autobiography “From Rags to Bitches”.
Sergio Leone was an Italian filmmaker known mostly for his “spaghetti western” movies. The most famous of these are “A Fistful of Dollars”, “For a Few Dollars More”, and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, all starring Clint Eastwood. Leone was probably the most influential filmmaker in the Spaghetti Western genre which also included Enzo [...]
David Foster Wallace was an American writer who wrote novels, essays, and short stories. His most well known works include the novel Infinite Jest, which was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Best English-Language Novels, quite an accomplishment. He also wrote the novel The Broom of the System, short story collections: Girl with [...]
Messner was a Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was the former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker (who is a convicted felon), and she co-hosted the PTL Club with him from 1976 to 1987. She is probably most remembered as wearing loads of makeup, especially mascara. She often wore oversized [...]
Bradley was a journalist, who is best known for his 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News show 60 Minutes. During his career Bradley was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, anchored his own news broadcast, “CBS Sunday Night with Ed Bradley”, and covered the fall of Saigon. He was the [...]
Haskins was the men’s basketball head coach of Texas Western College (now known as the University of Texas at El Paso). He held the position from 1961 through 1999; his tenure included the 1966 season when his team won the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship over the University of Kentucky Wildcats, who was coached [...]
Ossie Davis was a film actor, director, and writer. He was married to actress Ruby Dee. Mostly known for his acting, he appeared in such notable films as Doctor Doolittle, I’m Not Rappaport, Grumpy Old Men, Jungle Fever, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Bubba Ho-Tep in which he played JFK. Davis was also a political activist [...]
LaFontaine was a voice actor who was featured in over 5,000 movie trailers, television commercials, promotions, and video game trailers. He is known for starting a lot of his voice work with “In a world…”, he parodied this in a recent GEICO commercial. During his career, LaFontaine was known for recording well over 60 promotions per week.
Pate was an Australian actor and writer who is best remembered for his roles on Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Branded, The Virginian, Batman, Mission: Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Get Smart, Rawhide to name a few. Pate began breaking into films between 1946 and 1950. In 1949 he appeared in his first starring role in Sons of [...]
Freeman is best known for co-authoring the book “100 Things to Do Before You Die”. The book had the subtitle “Travel Events You Just Can’t Miss”. He co-wrote the book in 1999 with Neil Teplica. They got the idea for the book from the website whatsgoingon.com, which they ran together from 1996 to 2001.
Kirby was one of the most recognizable, prolific, and influential comic artists of all time. He co-created some of the greatest comic book icons such as the Fantastic Four, X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and literally hundreds more. Without having any formal training, Kirby got his start in comics in when he met Fox editor Joe [...]
Elzie Crisler Segar was a cartoonist whose claim to fame was being the creator of everybody’s favorite spinach-eating seaman Popeye the Sailor Man. Segar’s Popeye cartoon originally appeared in 1929 in the “Thimble Theatre” comic section of the New York Journal. Interestingly enough, Segar had been contributing cartoons to this publication for a decade prior to Popeye’s [...]
William Seward Burroughs II was a writer of novels and essays as well as a painter and a spoken word performance artist. He also did a little acting including performances in Gus Van Sant films. He graduated from Harvard University after losing his virginity to a female prostitute. He then went to the Army just after [...]
Angelo Bartlett “Bart” Giamatti was the father of actor Paul Giamatti, and the President of Yale University from 1978 to 1986. He then went on to become the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball (only after being the President of the National League). He was responsible for Pete Rose leaving the league. In his Yale days (where [...]
William Maxwell Gaines spent his early adult life in the Army as World War II started. He then became the publisher and co-editor of EC Comics which started out adapting Bible Stories then went on to publish titles like Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, the Vault of Horror (and other horror titles - sometimes adapting [...]
Wilton Norman Chamberlain was a professional basketball player who played for the Warriors, the 76ers, the Lakers, and even the Harlem Globetrotters. At 7 foot 1 inch, many consider him to be one of the best basketball players in history. After basketball, he became sort of a jack-of-all-trades. He played Volleyball and was even a board member [...]
Fred McFeely Rogers will forever be known as the beloved sweater-wearing, shoe-changing Mr. Rogers from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. He dazzled children for decades with his land of make believe - a kingdom of talking puppets that you were transported to via a small red trolley. The show ran new episodes from 1968 to 2001, and it is [...]
Elwyn Brooks White was an American author, whose most famous book would have to be the children’s classic Charlotte’s Web, a story that has since been made into a film twice. He started out as an editor, and then a columnist for various New York publications, and then in the 30s decided to start writing children’s [...]
Abraham “Bram” Stoker is known if for nothing else, for writing the novel Dracula, which has gone on to inspire thousands of other stories and movies about vampires, not to mention many film versions of Dracula itself (most notably the Bela Lugosi version). Dracula was conceived drawing influence from both Vlad the Impaler and the most [...]
Beatrix is known for her time-honored children’s books which featured characters such as Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Benjamin Bunny, Johnny Town-Mouse, and Little Pig Robinson. When many may not know about Potter, is that she was also something of a scientist, considered an expert in mycology. She was actually one of the first people to make [...]
Agatha Christie is one of the most popular writers in the crime and mystery genre of all time. She wrote 80 detective novels as well as a number of plays. Her books have been translated into 56 languages. Much like what could be considered her film counterpart Alfred Hitchcock, Christie was considered a “Master of Suspense”.
Darwish was a Palestinian poet. In fact, he was considered the Palestinian National Poet. He won a variety of awards including: The Lotus Prize, the Lenin Peace Prize, The Lannan Foundation Prize and the Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings.
While famous for cake mix, Duncan Hines was actually a writer of travel guides, and a restaurant/hotel critic. He published a cookbook in 1939, and by ‘47, his name was well respected. It was then that Roy H. Park, an entrepreneur, wanted to sell kitchen products using the Duncan Hines name. That name was eventually sold [...]
Simon Gray was a British playwright, memoirist, and screenwriter. Some of his best known works included Butley, The Common Pursuit, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette, and A month in the Country.
Schulz was a beloved cartoonist who is best known for his Peanuts comic strip. He got his start in comics after he submitted one of his drawings to The Saturday Evening Post, they paid him $40 and asked that he send more. Schulz sent in a total of 13 comics before he ended his partnership with [...]