Biographies
People love storytelling, and what better story to tell than the story of one's life?
pictorials, biographies help us understand the people who've shaped our world.
Artist Biographies
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Bill Cosby remains a beloved actor and comedian.
* After she skyrocketed to fame on the hit TV show ''Hannah Montana'',
Miley Cyrus engineered a global pop takeover as both herself and Hannah.
* From protecting the world from immigrant aliens to protecting himself as the last man on earth,
Will Smith makes it look so easy.
Author Biographies
* With works like ''David Copperfield''and ''Great Expectations''''', '''
Charles Dickens is one the most critically acclaimed writers of the Victorian era.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was just 29 when he published ''The Great Gatsby'', his masterpiece novel set on Long Island, New York.
* A close friend of famed fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien,
C.S. Lewis created his own world in the series ''The Chronicles of Narnia''.
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Jane Austen, author of ''Sense and Sensibility'' and ''Pride and Prejudice'' was little read in her day.
* Best known for ''Walden'',
Henry David Thoreau was a naturalist and philosopher who anticipated the rise of environmentalism and individulism.
* Married to poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Mary Shelley published her masterwork, the gothic horror novel ''Frankenstein'', at the age of 21.
* Playwright and dramatist
Arthur Miller's works include "Death of a Salesman", "All My Sons" and ''The Crucible''.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an influential philosopher and essayist who founded the Transcendentalism movement of the mid 1880s.
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Herman Melville, author of ''Moby Dick'' and ''Billy Budd'', was an overnight success who saw his popularity decline into virtual obscurity.
* A novelist, playwright and poet,
Langston Hughes is best known for his contributions to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.
* One of the first Americans to make a living from writing commerical magazine fiction,
Jack London also wrote classics like ''Call of the Wild'' and ''White Fang''.
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Mark Twain, an acclaimed humorist and novelist, is most widely known for his novel ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''.
Famous Biography
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notebooks allow a glimpse into his life's work of making global communication possible.
* The first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean,
disappearance over the Pacific Ocean remains mystery.
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George Washington Carver was a botanist, inventor and educator who revolutionized agriculture production in the United States.
* The first Africanpilot'>Bessie Coleman was popularly known as "Queen Bess."
* A pioneering Africaninnovator'>Charles Drew helped develop blood banks for use in WWII.
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Coretta Scott King helped lead the civil rights movement after his assassination in 1968.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a tireless clergyman and political activist who organized and led the 1960s American civil rights movement.
* An author and noted abolitionist,
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the influential novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin ''in 1852.
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Jesse Jackson was a Democratic presidential nomination candidate in 1984.
* The first openly gay man elected to public office in San Francisco,
Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978.
* Most famous for her groundbreaking book ''The Silent Spring'',
Rachel Carson's nature writings helped found the environmental movement.
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