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Black and Blue

Author:Anna QuindlenPublisher:Random House Quindlen jumped straight to the No. 5 spot on the best-seller list with this gripping story of a battered wife. Fran Bendetto is a nurse who leaves…

Lucy Lawless

Name at birth: Lucille Frances RyanThe TV show Xena, Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless as a campy barbarian-with-a-bosom, was a surprise TV hit in 1996. (The Xena series began as a spinoff of…

Eugene O’Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was one of the most acclaimed playwrights of the 20th century. A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he is also the only American dramatist to date to win the Nobel Prize for…

Kerry Washington

Actress Kerry Washington is probably best known for her Emmy-nominated role in the cable TV series Scandal -- she plays Olivia Pope, a business "fixer" in Washington, D.C. politics. A native of New…

Notable Female Scientists

Annie Jump Cannon Biographies ofNotable Women Actresses Adventurers Artists Athletes Businesswomen Comediennes Congresswomen Educators and Scholars Fashion Designers and…

Wives and Children of the Presidents

This table displays data about the spouses of U.S. Presidents, including the years of birth, death, and marriage, as well as the gender and number of children for each couple. See also The First…

Ike Turner Biography

musicianDied: Dec. 12, 2007 (San Marcos, California) Best Known as: musician, songwriter, producer, and ex-husband of Tina Turner Turner was an R…

Patty Duke

Name at birth: Anna Marie DukeActress Patty Duke was a star of stage, screen and television from her childhood almost until her death in 2016. As a child star, Patty Duke was famous for her…

Bibi Andersson

Name at birth: Berit Elisabeth AnderssonBibi Andersson was a Swedish actor of film and screen, known worldwide for her performances in Ingmar Bergman films, including The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild…