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August Wilson August Wilson
August Wilson 1945-2005, American playwright and poet, b. Pittsburgh as Frederick August Kittel. Largely self-educated, Wilson first attracted wide critical attention with his Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), a play set in 1927 that dramatizes the clash between the blues diva and... Read more
Paul J Sachs Paul J Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more
Ornithology Ornithology
ORNITHOLOGY ORNITHOLOGY, the branch of natural history that deals with the systematic study of birds, began in America in the eighteenth century. The British naturalist Mark Catesby was the first individual to thoroughly document the flora and fauna of the New World. His illustrated, two-volume... Read more
Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn , 1922-, U.S. historian, b. Hartford, Conn. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953, he taught (1953-93; emeritus 1993-) U.S. colonial history there, becoming full professor in 1961. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice: first for his book The Ideological Origins of the American... Read more
Christopher Lasch Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch , 1932-94, American historian, b. Omaha, Neb., grad. Harvard, 1956, Ph.D., Columbia, 1961. After teaching at the Univ. of Iowa (1961-66) and Northwestern Univ. (1966-70), he became a professor of American history at the Univ. of Rochester. In his early works, The New Radicalism in... Read more
John White (artist) John White (artist)
John White fl. 1585-93, artist, cartographer, and Virginia pioneer, b. probably in England. In 1585 he was commissioned to go with the expedition to Roanoke Island to depict life in the New World. His paintings provide some of the earliest and most valuable source materials on the natural history... Read more
Horace Gregory Horace Gregory
Horace Gregory 1898-1982, American poet and critic, b. Milwaukee, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1923. His poetry is noted for its dramatic structure and penetrating insights into the harshness of contemporary life. Among his volumes of poetry are Chelsea Rooming House (1930), Poems, 1930-1940 ... Read more
Denis William Brogan Denis William Brogan
Denis William Brogan , 1900-1974, British historian and political scientist, b. Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at the Univ. of Glasgow, Oxford, and Harvard and was professor of political science at Cambridge from 1939 to 1968. Brogan was best known as an interpreter of American history and... Read more
Clarence Shepard Day Clarence Shepard Day
Clarence Shepard Day 1874-1935, American essayist, b. New York City, grad. Yale, 1896. His biographical sketches of his parents, God and My Father (1932), Life with Father (1935), and Life with Mother (1937), won him popular recognition; incidents from these three books were used by Howard... Read more
Mathew Carey Mathew Carey
Mathew Carey 1760-1839, American publisher, bookseller, and economist, b. Dublin. In his Dublin journal he violently attacked English rule of Ireland, was imprisoned for a month, fled to France, where he worked in Benjamin Franklin's printing shop at Passy, returned to Ireland, and finally... Read more

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