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Fedor Dostoevsky

Name at birth: Fedor Mikhailovich DostoevskyFedor Dostoevksy (also spelled Fydor, Fyodor or Feodor Dostoyevsky) is the 19th century Russian author who wrote the classic novels Crime and Punishment (…

Leo Tolstoy

Considered one of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy is famous especially for the 19th century classics War and Peace (1865-69) and Anna Karenina (1877-78). Although he was born…

Paradise (Book)

Author:Toni MorrisonPublisher:Knopf After Toni Morrison's first public reading of Paradise, a woman rose from the pews of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and said: “I want to thank you. I…

Paolo Montalban

Paolo Montalban played Prince Charming in the 1997 TV version of Cinderella, co-starring with pop singer Brandy and comedian Whoopi Goldberg. He later won a lead role in the TV show Mortal Kombat (…

Connie Willis

Author Connie Willis has been winning science fiction awards since the late 1980s, including Hugo Awards for the novels The Doomsday Book (1992) and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998). Influenced by…

Lanford Wilson Biography

Lanford WilsonplaywrightBorn: 4/13/1937Birthplace: Lebanon, Missouri Prolific playwright whose works center on dynamic characters, often plagued by psychological problems. In 1969, he co-…

World War II Movies, Part 1

From "Schindler's List" to the summer blockbuster "Pearl Harbor" by Beth Rowen   Source: Internet Movie Database Related Links Memorial Day Pearl Harbor Remembered…

Defining Hate Crimes

No longer a Black and White issue by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco This article was posted on August 18, 1999. Buford O. Furrow opened fire at a Jewish community center. The avowed White supremacist…

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