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The 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900
Book Magazine, now defunct, compiled a panel of 55 authors, literary agents, editors, and actors in 2002 to “rank the top one hundred characters in literature since 1900.”Jay Gatsby, The…All About Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, is known as the Windy City. The name may come from the breezes off Lake Michigan or the braggadocious population, no one knows for sure. But its rapid growth from a humble…America's Most Endangered Places 2005
Finca Vigía, National Landscape Conservation System, King Island and “The Journey Through Hallowed Ground” Corridor Endangered In a report released in June 2005, the National Trust for Historic…F. Scott Fitzgerald
Name at birth: Francis Scott Key FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the best known American authors of the 1920s and '30s and is closely associated with the optimism and excesses of that era's…Joan Miró
The collages, sculptures, tapestries and abstract paintings created by Joan Miró were bright, fantastical and reminiscent of cave paintings. Miró is closely associated with both Barcelona and Paris…Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American writer known for her role in the experimental arts and letters of Europe in the early part of the 20th century. She traveled in Paris, Vienna and San Francisco as a…Kenneth Lynn 2001 Deaths
Kenneth LynnAge: 78 historian who wrote biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and Charlie Chaplin. He taught at Johns Hopkins University for 20 years.Died: Manhattan, June 24,…Gregorio Fuentes 2002 Deaths
Gregorio FuentesAge: 104 fisherman who worked as Ernest Hemingway's captain and cook during the author's nearly 30 years in Cuba. He is widely believed to be the title character in Hemingway'…E.E. Cummings
Name at birth: Edward Estlin CummingsWhimsical and experimental, E.E. Cummings was a popular American poet of the early 20th century. Cummings' first published work was his 1922 novel The Enormous…Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh's dramatic glimpses of public figures like Winston Churchill and Ernest Hemingway made him one of the most famous portrait photographers of the 20th century. Karsh and his family fled…Trending
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