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Lizette W. Reese

Reese, Lizette Woodworth[1856-1935](4)Born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 9, 1856. Educated in the schools of that city. She has been for many years a teacher of English in West High…

Zakia Zaki Biography

journalistDied: June 5, 2007 (Kabul, Afghanistan) Best Known as: politically active Afghan journalist Afghan journalist, who was shot dead in her home while…

Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane

WBMidseason DebutSunday 8:00–8:30 p.m.Cast:Selma Blair, Mary Page Keller, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum and Azura Skye The WB's spin on Friends has four high-school students hanging out in…

Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz has been a regular on American bestseller lists since the 1980s, famous for mainstream suspense novels such as Watchers (1987) and Midnight (1989). Koontz grew up in Pennsylvania and…

America Ferrera

America Ferrera was fresh out of high school when her 2002 film Real Women Have Curves won her raves from independent film critics. From there she landed a few small roles in feature films before…

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn is most famous for his 1980 book A People's History of the United States, a "radical" approach that has earned him the reputation of revising history with an anti-American bias. Called "…

Leon Uris

Leon Uris was a best-selling novelist known especially for modern Jewish heroes such as those depicted in his 1958 novel Exodus. An international success, the book resulted from Uris's research as a…

Lionel Hampton

Lionel Hampton was a 20th century jazz musician and composer, and the most famous player of the vibraphone in the world. Hampton grew up in Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin. While in Catholic school…

Nicole Beharie

Nicole "Nikki" Beharie is an American actress who is best known as Lt. Abbie Mills on the TV series Sleepy Hollow (2013-16, starring Tom Mison). Raised in Florida, Beharie attended high school at…

Timothée Chalamet

American actor Timothée Chalamet shot to stardom with roles in two coming-of-age movies that wowed critics: Chalemet was the indifferent hipster pursued by Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird (2017), and the…