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Ariel Segal
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Ariel Segal, also known as Ariel Segal Freilich, is Latin American correspondent for the BBC in Israel. He also broacasts for the Voice of Israel in Spanish. He was born and raised in Venezeula. Segal's book "Jews of the Amazon" (1999) is a fascinating study of the Jewish community of the town of Iquitos, in the Peruvian part of the Amazon |
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Arnold Wesker
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Sir Arnold Wesker (born Stepney 24 May 1932) is a prolific British dramatist known for his contributions to kitchen sink drama. He is the author of 42 plays, 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings. His plays have been translated into 17 languages and performed world-wide. He was born in London and founded the Roundhouse's first theatre, called Centre 42, in 1964.
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Art Spiegelman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus.
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Art Spiegelman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus.
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Arthur Golden
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Arthur Golden (born in 1956 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is the writer of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha.
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Arthur Koestler
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Arthur Koestler CBE (September 5, 1905, Budapest – March 3, 1983, London) famous for his work "Darkness at Noon", which was one of the earliest works detailing the failures of Stalinism. He also wrote a book on the "Khazars", a central Asian tribe which converted to Judaism in the 10thC. His central thesis, that Ashennazi Jews are significantly descended from Khazars has been refuted by both historical sources and modern genetic tests.
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Arthur Kopit
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Arthur Lee Kopit (born May 10, 1937, New York City) is an American playwright. He is a three-time Tony Award nominee: Best Play, Indians, 1970; Best Play, Wings, 1979; and Best Book of a Musical, for Nine, 1982. He won the Vernon Rice Award in 1962 for his play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad and was nominated for another Drama Desk Award in 1979 for his play Wings.
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Arthur Miller
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are still studied and performed worldwide. Miller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to give evidence before the House Un-American Activities Committee, being the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama among other awards, and for marrying Marilyn Monroe. At the time of his death, Miller was considered one of the greatest American playwrights.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was a Pulitzer Prize recipient and American historian and social critic whose work explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. He served as Special Assistant and Court Historian to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, titled A Thousand Days.
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Arthur Schnitzler
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 - October 21, 1931) was an Austrian writer, dramatist and doctor.
Schnitzler, the son of a prominent Jewish laryngologist, was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked in Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing. |
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Ashley Montagu
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Ashley Montagu (June 28, 1905, London, England - November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey) was a British anthropologist and humanist who popularized issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, of the UNESCO statement The Race Question.
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Avery Corman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Avery Corman is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known as author of the novel Kramer vs. Kramer, which was adapted into a 1979 movie starring Dustin Hoffman, and Oh God!, which became a 1977 movie starring George Burns.
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Ayn Rand
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Ayn Rand (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. She is widely known for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
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Barbara De Angelis
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Barbara De Angelis, New York Times Bestselling author, televison personality and popular relationships expert. She is best known for her opus "Making Love Work" and frequent "infomercials". Once married to John "Men Are From Mars/Women Are From Venus" Gray but divorced in 1984.
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Barbara Seaman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Barbara Seaman (born September 11, 1935) is an American author, activist, and journalist, and a principal founder of the women's health feminism movement.
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Barbara Tuchman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) historian and author who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, her works include The Guns of August, The Zimmerman Telegram, and The Proud Tower. One of the few famous historians to be successful outside of academia.
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Bel Kaufman
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Bel Kaufman (born May 10, 1911) is a Russian-American professor and author. Born in Berlin, Germany, she is best known for her 1965 best-seller, Up the Down Staircase. The semi-autobiographical novel is about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher, hoping to share her love of classic literature (especially Chaucer) and writing with her students. However, her idealism is quickly snuffed out by the gritty realities of her colleagues and students who populate the novel's fictional inner-city high school.
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Belva Plain
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Belva Plain (born 1919 in New York City, New York) author of competent historical novels that have sold more than ten million copies. Born Belva Offenberg, her first novel, "Evergreen", was published when she was 59. She has said she is committed to writing Jewish female characters that are "stronger" than the usual characterizations
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Ben Hecht
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 New York – April 18, 1964 New York) was a Broadway playwright and prolific Hollywood screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry. He was nominated six times for the Academy Award, winning twice, in 1929 and in 1936.
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Ben Hecht
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 New York – April 18, 1964 New York) was a Broadway playwright and prolific Hollywood screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry. He was nominated six times for the Academy Award, winning twice, in 1929 and in 1936.
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