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Deborah Kerr Biography

actress Died: Oct. 16, 2007 (Suffolk, England) Best Known as: actress in "From Here to Eternity" English actress known for her genteel, tea-sipping screen persona and a sexy beach kiss in "From…

Lewis Carroll: The First Voice

The First VoiceHe trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze from off the sea:It passed athwart the glooming flat— It fanned his forehead as he sat—…

Independence Day (July 4th)

  Grab your sparklers and look skyward—the Fourth of July is almost upon us. The Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in…

Warner LeRoy 2001 Deaths

Warner LeRoyAge: 65 New York City restaurateur whose showmanship made Maxwell's Plum one of the city's trendiest restaurants in the 1960s. In 1973 he took over the Tavern on the Green, making…

Amy Lowell: Breakfast Table

Breakfast TableIn the fresh-washed sunlight, the breakfast table is decked and white. It offers itself in flat surrender, tendering tastes, and smells, and colours, and metals, and grains,…

Lewis Carroll: Echoes

EchoesLady Clara Vere de Vere Was eight years old, she said: Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread.She took her little porringer: Of me she shall not win renown: For the…

Literary Hoaxes

Read about best-selling memoirs that were revealed to mix fact and fiction by Mark Hughes, Liz Olson, and Beth Rowen Related Links The Hoax Files Famous…