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Horace A. (Jimmy) Jones 2001 Deaths

Horace A. (Jimmy) JonesAge: 94 thoroughbred trainer who saddled Citation to the final two legs of the 1948 Triple Crown and two additional Kentucky Derby winners; won 54 stakes races and…

2004 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)General Nonfiction: The Reformation: A History, Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking)Biography or Autobiography: De Kooning: An American…

2001 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald (Random House)General Nonfiction: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, Nicholson Baker (Random House)Biography or Autobiography: Boswell's…

Abbie Hoffman

Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was the wild-and-wooly face of the American youth activists who protested U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War at the end of the 1960s. A graduate of Brandeis University…