(Encyclopedia) Powell, Jerome Hayden, 1953–, U.S. investment banker and government official, b. Washington, D.C., A.B. Princeton, 1975, J.D. Georgetown Univ., 1979. He worked with New York law firms…
(Encyclopedia) Harris, Kamala DeviHarris, Kamala Devikäˈmələ dāˈvē [key], 1964–, Vice President of the United States (2021–), b. Oakland, Calif., B.A. Howard Univ., 1986, J.D. Univ. of California,…
Ian HamiltonAge: 63 British poet, editor, and biographer who wrote a controversial, unauthorized biography of J. D. Salinger. Salinger successfully sued to block distribution of the book.…
(Encyclopedia) Terkel, Studs, 1912–2008, American writer, social historian, and radio and television personality, b. the Bronx, N.Y., as Louis Terkel, grad. Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B. 1932, J.D. 1934).…
(Encyclopedia) Roberts, John Glover, Jr., 1955–, American public official, 17th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2005–), b. Buffalo, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1976, J.D. 1979). He clerked (…
Isabel SanfordAge: 86 actress who won an Emmy Award for her role as Louise on The Jeffersons. She made her film debut in 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Died: Los Angeles, July 9,…
Françoise SaganAge: 69 French novelist who wrote her first book, the best-selling Bonjour Tristesse, about France's sophisticated yet immoral society, at age 19. Died: Honfleur, France, Sept…
Book Magazine, now defunct, compiled a panel of 55 authors, literary agents, editors, and actors in 2002 to “rank the top one hundred characters in literature since 1900.”Jay Gatsby, The…
Liddy, G. Gordon
(Encyclopedia) Liddy, G. Gordon
(George Gordon Battle Liddy), 1930-2021, American political operative and
conservative commentator, b. Brooklyn, N.Y…
