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Elizabeth Taylor

One of the great Hollywood stars of the 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor had three fairly distinct career personas: first as the winsome child star of movies like National Velvet (1944); then as a…

Elizabeth Smart

Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom on June 5, 2002 by a gun-wielding stranger who had broken into her family's Salt Lake City home. Her kidnapping, and eventual recovery, became a major…

Shannon Elizabeth

Shannon Elizabeth played a voluptuous Czechoslovakian exchange student in the teen comedy American Pie (1999, with Tara Reid). The movie put Elizabeth on the map, and she raised her profile even…

Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge, the collection of related stories that works as a novel. She grew up mostly in Maine, attended Bates College (class of 1977…

Woodville, Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Woodville, Elizabeth, 1437–92, queen consort of Edward IV of England. She was the daughter of Richard Woodville (later the 1st Earl Rivers). Her first husband, Sir John Grey, was…

Jolley, Elizabeth

(Encyclopedia) Jolley, Elizabeth (Monica Elizabeth Jolley), 1923–2007, Australian novelist, b. Birmingham, England. A nurse during World War II, she immigrated to Western Australia in 1959. Although…