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Douglas, Donald Wills, Jr.
(Encyclopedia)Douglas, Donald Wills, Jr.: see under Douglas, Donald Wills. ...Hunt Lieberson, Helen
(Encyclopedia)Hunt Lieberson, Helen: see under Lieberson, Peter. ...Holt, Helen Maud
(Encyclopedia)Holt, Helen Maud: see Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm. ...Lynd, Helen Merrell
(Encyclopedia)Lynd, Helen Merrell: see under Lynd, Robert Staughton. ...Keller, Helen Adams
(Encyclopedia)Keller, Helen Adams, 1880–1968, American author and lecturer, blind and deaf from an undiagnosed illness at the age of two, b. Tuscumbia, Ala. In 1887 she was put under the charge of Anne Sullivan (...Brown, Helen Gurley
(Encyclopedia)Brown, Helen Gurley, 1922–2012, American writer and editor, b. Green Forest, Ark. A child of poverty, she became a successful advertising copywriter and wrote the best-selling Sex and the Single Gir...Blackburn, Elizabeth Helen
(Encyclopedia)Blackburn, Elizabeth Helen, 1948–, Australian-American molecular biologist, b. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1975. Blackburn was a professor at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, fro...Taussig, Helen Brooke
(Encyclopedia)Taussig, Helen Brooke, 1898–1986, American physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1927. She spent her entire career at Johns Hopkins, where she founded the field of pediatric card...Vendler, Helen Hennessy
(Encyclopedia)Vendler, Helen Hennessy, 1933–, American poetry critic, b. Boston, Ph.D. Harvard, 1960. One of America's most lucid critics of poetry, uniquely adept at close reading, she is also among the genre's ...Thomas, Helen Amelia
(Encyclopedia)Thomas, Helen Amelia, 1920–2013, American journalist, b. Winchester, Ky., grad Wayne State Univ. (B.A., 1942). The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, she was a pioneering woman journalist in an era do...Browse by Subject
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