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Jerry Garcia
Name at birth: Jerome John GarciaJerry Garcia was the guitarist and acknowledged leader of the long-lived rock band The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead was one of the original "jam bands," famous…Mary Higgins Clark
A giantess of modern suspense fiction, Mary Higgins Clark was the author of the novels A Stranger is Watching (1978), A Cry in the Dark (1982) and Nighttime is My Time (2004). Clark's specialty was…Writing Well: Playing with the Big Kids
Playing with the Big KidsWriting WellWriting Across the CurriculumDifferent Strokes for Different FolksPlaying with the Big KidsFull CreditTwo's Company, Three's a Crowd— Unless You're Writing When…The Harlem Renaissance
Three writers and their contemporary counterparts by Jace Clayton For many young Black writers and artists who gravitated to New York City's Harlem in the 1920s, the sudden interest…Howard Finster 2001 Deaths
Howard FinsterAge: 84 Baptist preacher and prolific folk artist known as much for his outsized personality as for his sculpture made out of trash. He won wide recognition for his Paradise…Foster, Jeanne Robert
Foster, Jeanne Robert[1879-1970](1)Born in the Adirondack Mountains in the town of Johnsburg, N.Y., of English and French stock. Attended the schools of the neighborhood and at the age of…The Devil's Dictionary: Lore
by Ambrose Bierce LORDLOSSLORE -n. Learning - particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature. This…Nina Simone 2003 Deaths
Nina Simone(Eunice Kathleen Waymoa)Age: 70 sultry chanteuse whose difficult-to-classify music combined jazz, classical, folk, and gospel. Her biggest hit was “My Baby Just Cares for Me.” A…Mimi Fariña 2001 Deaths
Mimi FariñaAge: 56 folk singer who, in 1974, created Bread and Roses, an organization that stages benefit performances by popular musicians. She was a sister of Joan Baez and was married to…John Phillips 2001 Deaths
John PhillipsAge: 65 folk musician and songwriter whose band, the Mamas and the Papas, spoke to the '60s generation, with breezy songs that epitomized the laid-back, live-and-love attitude of…Trending
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