(Encyclopedia) Irving, Edward, 1792–1834, Scottish preacher, under whose influence the Catholic Apostolic Church was founded; its members have sometimes been called Irvingites. He was tutor to Jane…
(Encyclopedia) Irving, John, 1942–, American writer, b. Exeter, N.H. His mixture of wild plot strategies and eccentric characters brought him to wide attention with his fourth novel, The World…
(Encyclopedia) Irving, Washington, 1783–1859, American author and diplomat, b. New York City. Irving was one of the first Americans to be recognized abroad as a man of letters, and he was a literary…
(Encyclopedia) Fisher, Irving, 1867–1947, American economist, b. Saugerties, N.Y., Ph.D. Yale, 1891. He began teaching at Yale in 1890 and was active there until 1935. His earliest work was in…
(Encyclopedia) Bacheller, IrvingBacheller, Irvingbăchˈələr [key], 1859–1950, American novelist, b. Pierpont, N.Y., grad. St. Lawrence Univ., 1882. In 1884 he founded the first newspaper syndicate in…
(Encyclopedia) Penn, Irving, 1917–2009, American photographer, elder brother of Arthur Penn, b. Plainfield, N.J.; studied Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts,…
(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, IrvingBabbitt, Irvingbăbˈĭt [key], 1865–1933, American scholar, b. Dayton, Ohio. At Harvard as professor of French literature from 1912 until his death, he was a vigorous…
(Encyclopedia) Berlin, IrvingBerlin, Irvingbərlĭnˈ [key], 1888–1989, American songwriter, b. Russia as Israel Baline; his Jewish family fled a pogrom in 1893 and settled in New York's Lower East Side…
union negotiatorDied: Nov. 17, 2007 (Brookline, Massachusetts) Best Known as: Chief negotiator for General Motors employees Chief negotiator for General Motors…
political commentator and neoconservativeBorn: January 20, 1920Died: September 18, 2009 (New York, USA) Best Known as: Political commentator, architect of neoconservatism…
