actor, writer, director, producerBorn: 3/6/1947Birthplace: New York City Emmy Award-winning television and film actor, writer, director and producer who portrayed Mike Stivic, Archie Bunker's…
country/pop singerBorn: 7/17/1952Birthplace: Helena, Montana Larson rose to pop music fame in the 1970s with her recording of Neil Young's song “Lotta Love” (1978). She began her music career in…
2013 Notable Books for Children Books Inside and Out Types of Literature A Guide to Library Books: The Dewey Decimal System Kids' Top 100 Favorite Books Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children The…
publicist, writerBorn: 5/7/1932Birthplace: Liverpool, England Taylor was the Beatles' press agent for a number of years. He traveled with the group on their 1964 world tour, ghostwrote the…
(Encyclopedia) Sinclair, Upton (Upton Beall Sinclair), 1878–1968, American novelist and socialist activist, b. Baltimore, grad. College of the City of New York, 1897. He was one of the muckrakers,…
(Encyclopedia) Calvinistic Methodist Church, Protestant Christian denomination, closely allied to Presbyterianism. It originated in Wales (1735–36) with the evangelistic preaching of Howell Harris,…
actorBorn: 2/21/1946Birthplace: London, England An Emmy Award winning British actor who often plays show-stealing villains in films like Die Hard (1988) and Robin Hood: Prince of Theives (1991),…
actorBorn: 11/4/1918Birthplace: Mt. Vernon, New York Carney is best-known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of Ed Norton, Jackie Gleason's sidekick on the various incarnations of The Honeymooners (…
writerBorn: 7/21/1905Birthplace: New York A member of the New York intellectuals, a group of writers and critical thinkers of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, Trilling wrote reviews and essays for The…
