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Anne Baxter

Anne BaxteractressBorn: 5/7/1923Birthplace: Michigan City, Indiana A versatile stage and screen performer, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Razor's Edge (1946…

Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, her 1997 report on the medical and cultural struggles of an immigrant Hmong family living in…

Ann Curtis

Ann CurtisBorn: Mar. 6, 1926Swimming won 2 gold medals and 1 silver in 1948 Olympics; set 4 world and 18 U.S. records during career; 1st woman and swimmer to win Sullivan Award (1944). Larry…

Seymour, Jane

(Encyclopedia) Seymour, Jane, 1509?–1537, third queen consort of Henry VIII of England. She served as a lady in waiting to both of Henry's first two queens, Katharine of Aragón and Anne Boleyn. Henry…

Hutchinson, Anne

(Encyclopedia) Hutchinson, Anne, c.1591–1643, religious leader in New England, b. Anne Marbury in Lincolnshire, England. She emigrated (1634) with her husband and family to Massachusetts Bay, where…

Couperus, Louis Marie Anne

(Encyclopedia) Couperus, Louis Marie AnneCouperus, Louis Marie Annelwē märēˈ än k&oomacr;pāˈr&oobreve;s [key], 1863–1923, Dutch novelist. In his early works he emphasized with graceful irony…

Condoleezza Rice, 2003 News

national security adviser, maintained her role as one of President Bush's closest and most trusted advisers as the U.S. prepared for a preemptive strike against Iraq. One of the hawks in…

Linda Johnson Rice Biography

Linda Johnson Ricemagazine publisher, executiveBorn: 1957? Linda Johnson graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Journalism and, in 1987, earned a master's degree in…

Cale Young Rice: The Mystic

The MysticCale Young RiceThere is a quest that calls me, In nights when I am lone, The need to ride where the ways divide The Known from the Unknown. I mount what thought is near me And…

Cale Young Rice: Kinchinjunga

Kinchinjunga(Which is the next highest of mountains)Cale Young RiceIO white Priest of Eternity, around Whose lofty summit veiling clouds arise Of the earth's immemorial sacrifice To Brahma in…