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Cyril Michael Kornbluth
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Cyril Michael Kornbluth (July 23, 1923–March 21, 1958 — pen-names: Cecil Corwin, S.D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, Jordan Park) pen-names: Cecil Corwin, S.D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, Jordan Park was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. Kornbluth was born in New York City.
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Carlo Levi
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Carlo Levi (November 29, 1902 – January 4, 1975) was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.
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Carl Sagan
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
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Calvin Trillin
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born December 5, 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written much serious journalism, comic verse, and several books of fiction.
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Chaim Grade
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Chaim Grade (April 4, 1910 - April 26, 1982) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century.
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Chaim Potok
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American Jewish author and rabbi.
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Chris Van Allsburg
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He won the Caldecott Medal for Jumanji (1982) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures. He received the Caldecott Honor Medal in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.
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Clarice Lispector
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 - December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels, she was also an accomplished writer of short stories and a journalist with a regular national column.
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Cynthia Ozick
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City) is an American writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson
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Daniel Goldhagen
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born 1959) is an American political scientist. After having taught political science and social studies at Harvard University for many years, Goldhagen reached international awareness as the author of two controversial books about the Holocaust, Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996) and A Moral Reckoning (2002). Goldhagen has received acclaim for his ability to make harsh historical analysis interesting to a large public.
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Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was a prolific American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He served as the U.S. Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987.
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Danielle Steel
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born on August 14, 1947 in New York City, New York) is best known as Danielle Steel and is one of the best selling authors in the United States.
Best known for her mainstream drama novels, Steel has sold more than 530 million copies of her books (as of 2005). Her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks and 22 have been adapted for television. Danielle Steel's estimated net worth as of 1997 was $600-$800 million dollars which has now doubled. |
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David Baddiel
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
David Baddiel (born May 28, 1964, Troy, New York, U.S.) is an English comedian, novelist and television presenter.
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David Brion Davis
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is noted for his study of slavery and abolitionism. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught for 14 years at in the Department of History at Cornell University before moving to Yale in 1970. He is currently Director Emeritus of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, which he founded in 1998 and directed until 2004. He was President of Organization of American Historians (1988-89) and won the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction in 1967, as well as the National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize. In January 2007 Davis received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction. According to fellow historian Ira Berlin, "No scholar has played a larger role in expanding contemporary understanding of how slavery shaped the history of the United States, the Americas and the world than David Brion Davis"
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David Bernard Guralnik
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
David (Bernard) Guralnik (1920–2001), Lexicographer, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. With Joseph H Friend, he edited Webster's New World Dictionary (1953) for the World Publishing Co, and thereby established a major new line of college dictionaries in the American market. As editor-in-chief of the Webster's New World Dictionaries (subsequently published by Simon & Schuster), he edited the Second College Edition (1970), and for nearly 40 years was one of the leading lexicographers in the USA. He retired at the end of 1985, but remained active as a consultant.
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David Halberstam
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.
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David Margolick
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
David Margolick, Contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine and author of a recently published book about Billie Holliday. Formerly was the OJ Trial reporter for the New York Times. |
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David Rieff
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
David Rieff (born September 28, 1952, in Boston) is a nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais, The New Republic, World Affairs (journal), Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and other publications.
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Diana Trilling
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Diana Trilling (July 21, 1905 – October 23, 1996) was an American literary critic and author, one of the New York Intellectuals. Born Diana Rubin, she married the literary and cultural critic Lionel Trilling in 1929.
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Dorothy Parker
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.
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