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Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger
KRUGER, BARBARA 1945- A RTIST Potential Barbara Kruger later admitted that she left Syracuse University after one year because she "felt like a Martian." From a middle-class neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, Kruger could not relate to her more privileged classmates.... Read more
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Lytton, Bulwer (1803-1873) According to his baptismal certificate, the full name of this once famous author was Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. He was born in London, May 23, 1803. His father was a Norfolk squire, Bulwer of Heydon Hall, and colonel of the 106th regiment (Norfolk Rangers);... Read more
Cynthia Cooper Cynthia Cooper
Cynthia Cooper 1963– Professional basketball player At a Glance… Became Star in Europe Led Team to Championship Title Sources After spending many years in the wilderness of women’s basketball, Cynthia Cooper rocketed to fame in the first season of the new Women’s... Read more
Mary Douglas Leakey Mary Douglas Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey 1913-96, British archaeologist, b. London as Mary Douglas Nicol; wife of Louis Leakey and mother of Richard Leakey . She had little formal education, but a fascination with archaeology led to her supervising her first dig in England in 1934. Several years after she met Louis... Read more
Jose Lins do Rego Jose Lins do Rego
José Lins do Rego , 1901-57, Brazilian novelist. His fame rests largely on his semiautobiographical "sugarcane cycle," dealing with social transformation in the Brazilian northeast. The first of the series, Menino de engenho (tr. Plantation Boy, 1966) was published in 1932. Fogo... Read more
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman Singer, songwriter, guitarist For the Record… Selected discography Sources In an era when the label folksinger-songwriter does little to guarantee success, Tracy Chapman has seen her dreams come true. When Chapman takes the stage sporting short dreadlocks, blue jeans, and a... Read more
Charles Wakefield Cadman Charles Wakefield Cadman
Charles Wakefield Cadman 1881-1946, American composer, b. Johnstown, Pa. Although he is known to the public principally for two songs— From the Land of the Sky-blue Water, based on Native American themes, and At Dawning —he composed operas, such as Shanewis (1918), The Sunset Trail... Read more
Martin Cooper Martin Cooper
Martin Cooper American engineer Martin Cooper (born 1928) is often dubbed the father of the mobile phone. In November of 1972, he and a team of associates at the Motorola Company began working on a prototype of the Dyna-Tac phone, and five months later Cooper stood on a Manhattan street and placed... Read more
Peggy Terry Peggy Terry
Peggy Terry Born c. 1922 Factory worker "The first work I had after the Depression was at a shell-loading plant in Viola, Kentucky. My mother, my sister, and myself worked there." Prior to World War II (1939–45), women usually only worked outside of the home following the completion... Read more
Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver 1955-, American writer, b. Annapolis, Md.; grad. DePauw Univ. (B.S., 1977), Univ. of Arizona (M.S.). She studied biology and ecology and was a science writer before completing The Bean Trees (1988), a novel about a young woman who leaves Kentucky for Arizona, where she lives... Read more

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