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Jeff Moss
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Jeffrey Moss (June 19, 1942 - September 24, 1998) was a writer and composer associated with "Sesame Street" until his premature death from cancer. The creator of the "Cookie Monster" & "Oscar the Grouch". Moss penned more than a dozen best-selling books under the "Sesame Street" name, including "The 'Sesame Street' Book of Poetry. Also three children's poetry collections, "The Butterfly Jar," "The Other Side of the Door" and "Bone Poems,".
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Jeff Moss
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Jeffrey Moss (June 19, 1942 - September 24, 1998) was a writer and composer associated with "Sesame Street" until his premature death from cancer. The creator of the "Cookie Monster" & "Oscar the Grouch". Moss penned more than a dozen best-selling books under the "Sesame Street" name, including "The 'Sesame Street' Book of Poetry. Also three children's poetry collections, "The Butterfly Jar," "The Other Side of the Door" and "Bone Poems,".
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Jerome Weidman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Jerome Weidman (April 4, 1913, Lower East Side, NYC - October 6, 1998, Upper East Side, NYC) was the author of many novels and short stories. Best known for his novel "I Can't Get It For You Wholesale", which was made into a hit Broadway musical. He was a Pulitzer prize winner for the book for the hit musical "Fiorello". Weidman died in 1998. His son is John Weidman, co-book writer for the musical "Pacific Overtures" and the hit "dance/ play" "Contact".
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Jerome Weidman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Jerome Weidman (April 4, 1913, Lower East Side, NYC - October 6, 1998, Upper East Side, NYC) was the author of many novels and short stories. Best known for his novel "I Can't Get It For You Wholesale", which was made into a hit Broadway musical. He was a Pulitzer prize winner for the book for the hit musical "Fiorello". Weidman died in 1998. His son is John Weidman, co-book writer for the musical "Pacific Overtures" and the hit "dance/ play" "Contact".
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Jerzy Kosinski
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Jerzy Kosinski, orig. Kosiński (spelled with Polish diacritic sign), birth name: Josek Lewinkopf, (June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-born author who survived the Holocaust. Author of "The Painted Bird" and "Being There". His own personal demons were legendary. He told marvelous stories on talk shows--some of which were true. Committed suicide in 1991. His parting suicide note read: "I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Newsweek, May 13, 1991).
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Joe Klein
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is a longtime Washington, D.C. and New York journalist and columnist, known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously-written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. Klein is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. Since 2003 he has been a contributor at the current affairs Time news group. In April 2006, he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster-consultant industrial complex". He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, LIFE and Rolling Stone.
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Joe Klein
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is a longtime Washington, D.C. and New York journalist and columnist, known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously-written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. Klein is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. Since 2003 he has been a contributor at the current affairs Time news group. In April 2006, he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster-consultant industrial complex". He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, LIFE and Rolling Stone.
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Howard Sackler
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Howard Oliver Sackler (December 19, 1929 – October 12, 1982) was an American screenwriter and playwright who is best known for writing The Great White Hope (play: 1967; film: 1970). The Great White Hope enjoyed both a successful run on Broadway and, as a film adaptation, in movie theaters. James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander both starred in the original Arena Stage production of the play in Washington, DC, then brought their roles to Broadway and later to the film version. Both Jones and Alexander received Academy Award nominations for their work in the movie.
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Howard Engel
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Howard Engel (born April 2, 1931) is a Canadian mystery writer and CBC producer who resides in Toronto, Ontario. He is well known to Canadian readers for his series of Benny Cooperman detective novels, set in the Niagara Region in and around the fictitious city of Grantham, Ontario (which strongly resembles the real city of St. Catharines, Ontario, where Engel was born). Engel is a founder of Crime Writers of Canada.
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Howard Zinn
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an historian and political activist who is best known for "A People's History of the United States." It is name-dropped by Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting. A professor at Spelman College in the early 1960s who had his students take part in the emerging civil rights movement. Zinn is also a playwright. His latest play is "Marx in Soho."
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Harold Robbins
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916-October 14, 1997) was an American author.
Robbins, born Harold Rubin in New York City, claimed to be a Jewish orphan raised in a Catholic boys home but in actual fact, he was the son of well-educated Russian and Polish immigrants. He was reared by his pharmacist father and stepmother in Brooklyn. And his first wife wasn't a Chinese dancer who died from a parrot bite as he had also claimed. She was in fact merely his high school sweetheart (when that marriage ended after 28 years, he married four more times). Robbins made his first million at age 20 by selling sugar for the wholesale trade, but lost it all when World War II began. |
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Fran Lebowitz
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz (b. October 27, 1950) is an American author. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Lebowitz is best known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern day Dorothy Parker. |
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Franz Werfel
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 – August 26, 1945) was an Austrian writer who was born in Czechoslovakia. He was one of the most important "expressionist" writers . A poet, novelist, and playwright. His play "The Eternal Road" was sent to music by Weill and staged in NY. His novel "The Song of Bernadette" became a film. His reputation has grown considerably since the War.
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Franz Boas
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He is famed for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies, a field which was previously based on the formulation of grand theories around anecdotal knowledge.
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Franz Kafka
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Franz Kafka [fʀanʦ kafka] (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class Jewish family based in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary. His unique body of writing—much of which is incomplete and has been published posthumously—is among the most influential in Western literature.
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Franz Boas
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He is famed for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies, a field which was previously based on the formulation of grand theories around anecdotal knowledge.
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Herb Gardner
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Herb Gardner (December 28, 1934 in Brooklyn - September 25, 2003) started drawing a short-lived but always remembered comic strip "The Nebishes" in the early sixties. He later turned to the theater writing such memorable plays as "A Thousand Clowns" and "I'm Not Rappaport".
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Sidney Kimmel
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Sidney Kimmel is a son of a cab driver whose company now controls such famous names as Jones New York, Evan-Picone, Saville, and others. A major benefactor of the Holocaust Museum, among other charities. Forbes Mag. reports he plans to donate all his money.
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Sonia Rykiel
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Sonia Rykiel (Born: 25 May 1930, Paris, France) is a French fashion designer.
Ethnically a Polish Jew, Sonia Rykiel was born in Paris, France in 1930. At the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window displays in a Parisian textile store. Sonia was married to the owner of a boutique which sold elegant clothing. In 1962 she just couldn't find any soft sweaters to wear when she was pregnant. So she used a supplier to her husband from Venice to design her own. |
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Stella McCartney
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Stella McCartney (Born: 13 September 1971) The daughter of (Beatle) Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney is the head designer for Chloe, the famous Paris fashion house. Ms. McCartney, who has real talent, was hired in 1997. If genetics mean anything, Ms. McCartney is well-equipped for the half show biz/half clothing world of high fashion. Her father, who is not Jewish, obviously has the show-biz part down. Linda was Jewish and her grandfather, Max Linder, was the owner of the largest woman's clothing store in Cleveland and later became a manufacturer.
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