writerBorn: 5/6/1942Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina Chilean writer and left-wing intellectual who established himself as a novelist, poet, playwright and critic. His family moved to New York…
(Susan Abigail Tomalin)actressBorn: 10/4/1946Birthplace: New York City Academy Award-winning, self-possessed film actress who is known for her intelligent, sensual presence. Her films include…
Proud, fine-boned and just a bit remote, Kristin Scott Thomas jumped to international stardom as the gorgeous-but-doomed lover in 1996 Oscar champ The English Patient (also starring Juliette Binoche…
Henry Golding spent a decade as a TV host for Discovery Channel Asia and other Singapore-based programs until 2018, when he burst onto the Hollywood movie scene as the star of Crazy Rich Asians.…
Name at birth: Winfried Georg Maximilian SebaldGerman expatriate W.G. Sebald lived nearly all of his adult life in England, where he was a professor at the University of East Anglia from 1970 until…
Robert Hooke was the English scientist and inventor who wrote the 1665 book Micrographia, in which he coined the term "cell" for a basic biological structure. A gifted student with a particular…
Sam Worthington is the Australian actor who played Jake Sully in James Cameron's 2009 science fiction blockbuster Avatar. The film's release marked Worthington as Hollywood's newest action star, but…
Daniel Keyes was a writer and professor of creative writing whose best known work was Flowers for Algernon, a 1966 science fiction novella that became a staple of English literature classes. Born and…
Name at birth: Mary Wollstonecraft GodwinEnglish author Mary Godwin Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus and was second wife of the great poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Godwin was…
Considered by most scholars -- and the Catholic Church -- to be merely a legend, the story of a 9th century woman pope named Joan continues to have a hold on the public's imagination. The story,…
