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Larry Linville 2000 Deaths

Larry LinvilleAge: 60 actor best known for playing the whiny Maj. Frank Burns who courted Loretta Swit's “Hot Lips” Houlihan on television's M*A*S*H. Died: New York City, April 10, 2000Petter…

Mildred Benson 2002 Deaths

Mildred BensonAge: 96 author, under the name Carolyn Keene, of 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew mystery novels. She wrote the books, churning out as many as 13 a year, as a side job while…

Julie London 2000 Deaths

Julie LondonAge: 74 singer and actress whose breathy voice and sexy image helped propel her to the top of the charts in the late 1950s. She recorded more than 30 albums, including Julie Is My…

Roberto Clemente Biography

Roberto ClementeBorn: Aug. 18, 1934Baseball OF hit over .300 13 times with Pittsburgh; led NL in batting 4 times; World Series MVP in 1971; regular season MVP in 1966; had 3,000 career hits;…

Charming Billy

Author:Alice McDermottPublisher:Farrar Straus & Giroux Any sentence troubled in its telling is telling indeed, and Alice McDermott's National Book Award winner Charming Billy is no…

1983 National Book Awards

Autobiography/BiographyHardcoverIsak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, Judith ThurmanPaperbackNathaniel Hawthorne in His Time, James R. MellowChildren's FictionHardcoverHomesick: My Own…

David Copperfield Biography

David Copperfield(David Seth Kotkin)magicianBorn: 9/16/1956Birthplace: Metuchan, New Jersey Magician whose tricks made him an international celebrity and a millionaire. Copperfield took to…

Ty Cobb

Ty CobbBorn: Dec. 18, 1886Baseball OF all-time highest career batting average (.367); hit over .400 3 times; led AL in batting 12 times and stolen bases 6 times with Detroit; MVP in 1911; had…

Nancy Marchand 2000 Deaths

Nancy MarchandAge: 71 versatile character actress who most recently portrayed feisty matriarch Livia Soprano on HBO's Sopranos. Theatrically trained, Marchand started her career on stage,…

Christopher Walken Biography

Christopher Walken(Ronald Walken)actorBorn: 3/31/1943Birthplace: Queens, New York Following his Broadway debut in J.B. (1958), Walken attended Hofstra University and returned to the stage in plays…