Frederic Goudy (1865)

Bengt Holbek was a Danish folklorist known for his unorthodox approach to folklore theory. He wrote one of the definitive works of fairy tale scholarship entitled Interpretation of Fairy Tales (1987).

Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas is an American actress, producer, author, and social activist. She is best known for starring as Ann Marie in a sitcom series That Girl (1966–1971) and her children’s…

Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey’s most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in…

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on…

Neil Rosenshein is an American operatic tenor, who sang leading tenor roles in the major American and European opera houses. He created the roles of Aspern in Dominick Argento’s The Aspern Papers…

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.