Penelope Gilliatt (1932)
Penelope Gilliatt was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic. As one of the main film critics for The New Yorker magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, Gilliatt was known…
Similar Posts
Sigríður Jóhannesdóttir (1943)
Sigríður Jóhannesdóttir is an Icelandic politician and former member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she represented the Reykjanes constituency from July 1996 to May 2003.
Levon Helm (1940)
Mark Lavon “Levon” Helm was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in…
Nell Hall Williams (1933)
Nell Hall Williams was an American artist associated with the Gee’s Bend group of quilters. Her work is included in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Bob Fulton (1947)
Robert Fulton, also nicknamed “Bozo”, was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and later commentator. Fulton played, coached, selected for and commentated on the game with great success at…
Barry O’Farrell (1959)
Barry Robert O’Farrell is an Australian former politician who was Australia’s High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan from February 2020 to 30 June 2023. O’Farrell was the…
Jean Adamson (1928)
Jean Adamson,, was a British writer and illustrator of children’s books. She was best known for the Topsy and Tim books, the first of which was published in 1960 and which have sold 27 million copies.