E. Annie Proulx (born 1935) won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News. While she was certainly not an overnight sensation, having written stories from the age...

E. E. Cummings's experimentation with form and language places him among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets. His style eludes specific association with any one modern line. He was applauded by such various poets as Ezra Pound, ...

The English statesman Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959), was viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931. He later served as foreign secretary and as ambassador to the United States during World War II. Edward Frederick...

Edward Franklin Frazier (1894-1962), one of America's leading sociologists, specialized in studies of black people in North and South America and in Africa. On Sept. 24, 1894, E. Franklin Frazier was born in Baltimore, Md. He took his bach...

One of the most celebrated and controversial novelists of the past two decades, E. L. Doctorow has an uncanny ability to reach both the general audience (The Book of Daniel, Welcome to Hard Times, and Ragtime have been made into movies) an...

Best known as the author of such children's novels as The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, the English writer E. Nesbit (1858-1924) also authored fiction, drama, and poetry for adults. In addition she was active in p...

Edward Plunket Taylor (1901-1989) was a Canadian-born financier and thoroughbred horse breeder who orchestrated the powerful Argus Corporation empire. Some may say that Edward Plunket Taylor's most notable accomplishment was the breeding o...

An ironist and humorist par excellence, the prolific storyteller E. T. A. Hoffmann occupies a prominent place in the canon of nineteenth-century European literature. He is regarded today as the influential, eccentric genius of German Roman...

Earl Russell Browder (1891-1973) was the head of the Communist party of the United States during its most influential and prosperous period, 1930-1945. He was the best-known native-born Communist in American history. Earl Browder was born ...

Robert Dudley was the fifth son of Edward VI's most powerful subject, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. Robert was brought to court and knighted during the reign of Edward VI. Marriage to a Norfolk heiress, Amy Robsart, followed. The Du...

No hitter was eager to bat against Early Wynn (1920-1999). One of baseball's most feared pitchers, he pitched 23 seasons, refusing to quit until he had won 300 games. Wynn learned how to pitch in an era when managers instructed their pitch...

The American painter Jonathan Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) excelled at genre paintings of life in America during the 1860s and 1870s. He also drew and painted many portraits. Eastman Johnson was born in August 1824 at Lovell, Maine. His fam...

Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboué (1885-1944) was a governor of French Equatorial Africa. As a successful and apparently well-adjusted black Frenchman, he represented the epitome of French assimilationist policy. Felix Eboué was ...

Edward I. Koch (born 1924) was one of New York City's most controversial mayors. He led the city from the edge of bankruptcy in 1978 to a substantial budget surplus in 1983. Edward I. Koch was born December 12, 1924, in New York City, the ...

Eddie Bauer (1899-1986) was the founder of the retail stores and mail order company which bore his name. An avid outdoors man, Bauer parlayed his interests into a successful business based on quality products and serving consumer satisfact...

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973), early automobile race driver and America's top fighter pilot in World War I, went on to manage giant Eastern Air Lines during its expansion era. Eddie Rickenbacker was one of those rare heroes who en...

The English neurophysiologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge (1889-1977), shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Charles Sherrington for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons. Edgar D...

Edgar Dean Mitchell (born 1930) became the sixth person to walk on the surface of the moon during the third manned moon mission, Apollo 14. With him on the surface was Alan B. Shepard, who had made history in 1961 as the first American in ...

Beginning in May 1914 Edgar Lee Masters, then an eminently successful Chicago lawyer, published in the St. Louis magazine Reedy's Mirror, under the pseudonym Webster Ford, some two hundred poems about talkative ghosts in a midwestern cemet...

A leading exponent of American Personalism, Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1884-1953) was an eminent philosopher of religion. His provocative idea of a God limited in power was a unique effort to solve the problem of suffering and evil. Born i...

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), French-American composer, was one of the major prophets of the new music after World War II. In 1958 John Cage wrote, "More clearly and actively than anyone else of his generation he established the presen...

Edith Evans (1888-1976) was a distinguished English actress most known for her portrayals of comic character roles. Edith Evans was born in London in 1888. After finishing her schooling at the age of 15 she worked as a milliner for a numbe...

Edith Head (1898-1981) is widely viewed as Hollywood's most successful costume designer, as well as one of its most colorful personalities. Head was nominated for 35 Academy Awards, won eight, and designed the costumes for several hundred ...

Of all the modern poets who came of age during the second decade of the twentieth century, Edith Sitwell remains the least understood and least appreciated. The reasons for this apparent neglect include: sexual prejudice, reluctance to adm...

While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depressi...