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EVB2932756: Mary McCarthy, 1912-1989, American author best known for her autobiography "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" (1957), and her novel, "The Group" (1963), Marsico, Dick De (1950s) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932823: Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) won an Oscar for his screenplay of "The Brave One" (1956), written under the pseudonym Robert Rich while he was still black-listed for his membership in the Communist Party. By 1960 he was again writing under his real name for important films, "Exodus" and "Spartacus." 1959 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932819: James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist and editor of the New Yorker, in a 1935 photo / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932835: Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) editor and prominent literary critic, 1946 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932855: Edna Ferber (1887-1968) American novelist and short story writer won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for SO BIG, a story about the struggles and strength of her female character. 1931, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932859: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), African American author and folklorist, beating the hountar, or mama drum. 1937 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932894: Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) and General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) holding hand-written pages of MacArthur's memoirs, that LIFE magazine had bought rights to publish. 1963 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932943: Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533)of the epic poem ORLANDO FURIOSO (1516) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932951: Robert Browning (1812-1889) eminent English Victorian poet in 1855 at age 43, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932964: Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet in 1961 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932969: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) proto-Romantic German poet. 1779 portrait engraving / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932980: Sappho (610-570 BC) ancient Greek poet depicted holding lyre. 19th century engraving / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933010: Mary Martin (1913-1990), surrounded by her collaborators prior to the opening of the classic musical comedy, THE SOUND OF MUSIC IN 1959. Left to right: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Mary Martin, Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933037: Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), African American Jazz musician, with his trademark smile and trumpet, 1953 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933043: Josephine Baker (1906-1975), dressed in a fashionable, but conservative coat, reflecting her post World War II life as a philanthropist and good will ambassador. 1949 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933064: Ornette Coleman (b. 1930) African American jazz saxophonist in 1960 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933097: Jerome Kern (1885-1945), talking on the telephone while his lyricist, Dorothy Fields (1905-1974), works at the piano, 1945 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933130: Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), signs his induction papers while Chief Clerk Mrs. Mae E. Jones helps out at local board No. 19-160 in Jersey City. Sinatra was exempted from military service due to a perforated eardrum / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933157: Stephen Douglas (1813-1861) was the leading Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1860 and could have won if the Southern Democrats had not split and run John Breckenridge. With the Democratic Party's vote divided, the Republican, Abraham Lincoln won / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933172: Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), probably as Lincoln's Vice President during the Civil War. Hamlin's long political career included representing Maine in both houses of Congress, and as the state's governor, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933211: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1856) portrait taken by Alexander Gardner on Feb. 5, 1865, during Lincoln's last photography sitting, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933214: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1856) in the classic 1863 portrait photograph by Alexander Gardner, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933235: Juan T. Trippe, pioneer of commercial aviation and founder of Pan-American Airways, in 1927, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933247: Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1899-1936) in police custody after being questioned in connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. He was convicted and executed for the crime / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933256: Dutch Schultz, born Arthur Flegenheimer (1902-1935), gangster and New York bootlegger was brought down by legal troubles with the IRS in 1933. His purported plan to assassinate his nemesis, Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewy, was too brash for his mob associates, who had him killed on October 23, 1935 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933265: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and congress of rough riders of the world., 1899 (poster), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932972: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet, seated behind NBC microphone reciting her poetry. 1945 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933002: Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), half-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding telephone receiver at New York's airport in 1959, the year she starred in PORGY AND BESS / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933017: Lobby card for "The Big Benefit" shows Bill "Bojangles" Robinson dancing and the faces other stars, including Rae Samuels, Ann Seymour, Evans and Mayer, and the Four Mullen Sisters. 1933 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933050: Irving Berlin (1888-1989) in WWI army uniform and seated on cot. In 1942, for he created an all soldier revue, THIS IS THE ARMY, to boost morale and raise money for the war effort / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933083: Benny Goodman (1909-86), at rehearsal with his musicians, around piano left to right: Vernon Brown, George Auld, Gene Krupa, Clint Neagley, Ziggy Elman, Israel Crosby and Teddy Wilson (at piano). 1952 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933107: Elvis Presley , advertising for JAILHOUSE ROCK. 1957 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933015: Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, played a role in the 1943, all-black casted movie, STORMY WEATHER. 1941 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933161: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), wife of Abraham Lincoln, in a ball gown and flowers in her hair. She was both admired and criticized for her stylish extravagance, Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933051: Irving Berlin (1888-1989), seated alone in auditorium in 1942. In addition to theatrical hits, Berlin's film credits include: TOP HAT, FOLLOW THE FLEET, EASTER PARADE, CALL ME MADAM, HOLIDAY INN, and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933215: Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, a log cabin in Kentucky with fireplace and the spinning jenny of Mrs. Lincoln. 1891 photo, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
