|
Here is just a sampling of the
celebrated people from the worlds of art, politics,
literature, and more whose reviews are accessible in
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982.
Steve Allen
◘
Creator and first host of "The Tonight Show" in 1953 and
star of "The Steve Allen Show" in 1956 on NBC.
Isaac Asimov
◘
Russian-born American author and biochemist, a
successful and prolific writer best known for his works
of science fiction and for his popular books on science.
Brooks Atkinson
◘
Editor for The New York Times until he became its drama
critic in 1925 and held the exclusive position as critic
until 1960.
W.H. Auden
◘
A versatile and vigorous poet, Auden ranks among the
major literary figures of the 20th century.
Tallulah Bankhead
◘
Motion picture and Broadway actress, talk-show host, and
bon vivant.
Jacques Barzun
◘
American writer, educator, and historian.
Saul Bellow
◘
American author, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1976, and a major Jewish-American writer.
Leonard Bernstein
◘
First conductor born in the United States of America to
receive world acclaim.
Raymond Chandler
◘
American motion picture screenwriter and author of
detective fiction.
Julia Child
◘
Famous American gourmet cook, author, and television
personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking
techniques to America.
Noam Chomsky
◘
Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creator of the
Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages.
W.E.B. DeBois
◘ American civil rights activist,
sociologist, and scholar.
Amelia Earhart
◘
Famous American aviator, known for breaking new ground
for female pilots, and remembered for her mysterious
disappearance during a flight over the Pacific Ocean.
William Faulkner
◘
Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
◘
Irish-American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer.
Langston Hughes
◘
American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper
columnist.
D.H. Lawrence
◘
One of the most controversial English writers of the
20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems,
plays, essays, and travel books.
Timothy Leary
◘
American writer, psychologist, and drug campaigner.
John Lennon
◘
Best known as singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The
Beatles.
Herman Melville
◘
American novelist, essayist, and poet.
Henry Miller
◘
American novelist, whose novel Tropic of Cancer led to a
series of controversial obscenity trials in the United
States.
Vladimir Nabokov
◘
Nabokov's best-known work in English is Lolita (1955),
frequently cited as one of the most important novels of
the 20th century.
Robert Oppenheimer
◘
American physicist and the scientific director of the
Manhattan Project, known as the "father of the atomic
bomb."
Andreas Georgios Papandreou
◘
Greek economist and politician who served three times as
Prime Minister of Greece.
Edward Vernon (Eddie) Rickenbacker
◘
American fighter pilot dubbed America's "Ace of Aces"
who flew in World War I.
Eleanor Roosevelt
◘
Wife of President States Franklin D. Roosevelt and the
longest serving First Lady of the United States from
1933-1945.
Bertrand Russell
◘
Influential British mathematician, philosopher, and
logician.
William Saroyan
◘
American author who wrote many plays and short stories
about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian
immigrants.
Dr. Seuss
◘
Pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel who was a famous
American writer and cartoonist.
Bobby Short
◘
American cabaret singer known for his interpretation of
songs by such early 20th century composers as Rodgers
and Hart, Cole Porter, and the Gershwins.
Susan Sontag
◘
American essayist, novelist, left-leaning intellectual
and controversial activist.
Sir Tom Stoppard
◘
Czech-born British playwright, famous for such plays as
The Real Thing and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead,
and for the screenplay Shakespeare in Love.
John Updike
◘
American novelist and short story writer.
Gloria Vanderbilt
◘
Member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family
and an accomplished artist, actress, and socialite.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
◘
American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic
artist.
H.G. Wells
◘
British writer known for science fiction classics such
as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.
Virginia Woolf
◘
British author and feminist.
William Butler Yeats
◘
Irish poet, dramatist, and mystic.
|
