Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

male, 84 years old (West Point, New York, United States)
conspiracy theorist, gay, American historical novelist, military brat, writer, The City and the Pillar…library
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and...
Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan

male, 43 years old
University of Virginia, the nation, Movement against intellectual property, MSNBC, New York Times Magazine, the chronicle of higher education…Library Journal, library
Siva Vaidhyanathan , a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How...
Robert Brown

Robert Brown

male, deceased (1858)
Mycologist, British, New Latin author, Botanical collectors active in Australia, herbarium, Naturalist…library
Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of...

Michael Gorman

male, 68 years old
Libraries, thames valley university, From London, library, University of Illinois, California State University, Fresno…American Library Association, Library Services
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run...
Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

female, deceased (1926)
Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Vaudeville performer, Entertainer, American folklore, Phoebe Ann Mosey, exhibition shooter…library
Annie Oakley b. Phoebe Ann Mosey was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and luck led to a starring role in...
John Mills

John Mills

male, deceased (1889)
Astronomer, telescope, Scottish, entrepreneur, observatory, kirk…library
John Mills (1806 - 1889), entrepreneur and amateur astronomer, was a manufacturer of Linen and twine in the city of Dundee. As a young man and a...
Melvil Dewey

Melvil Dewey

male, deceased (1931)
from New York, Louis Kossuth, From Boston, Magazine editor, American Library Association, American…library, library classification, Library and information science, New York State Library, Library Journal
Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851-December 26, 1931) was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey...
Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky

female, 62 years old
from Chicago, writer, Crime fiction writer, University of Kansas alumni, Detective fiction, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business…library
Sara Paretsky (b. June 8, 1947 in Ames, Iowa) is a contemporary American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas. She graduated...
Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan

female, 58 years old
African American, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, University of California, Berkeley, protagonist, Bestseller, University of California at Berkeley…library
Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951, in Port Huron, Michigan) is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a...

David Lister

male
young, Retirement, Downing College, Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge…library
David Lister (born 1930, Grimsby, United Kingdom) is an eminent British Origami Historian. He was a founder member of the British Origami Society,...