Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of...

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...

E. Howard Hunt was a major figure in the Watergate scandal that destroyed the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. Hunt, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer as well as a prolific fiction writer, coordinated the White House "Plumbers" un...

The American biologist Edward O. Wilson (born 1929) is a leading authority on ants and social insects and an influential theorist of the biological basis of social behavior. He promotes the controversial discipline of sociobiology, which h...

While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The au...

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 ...

During the 16-year term of Earl Warren (1891-1974), a chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court decided a series of landmark cases regarding individual civil liberties and civil rights, particularly for minority groups. Earl Warre...

During the 1920s, Earle Leonard Nelson killed 22 women across the United States and Canada after sexually assaulting them. Born in 1892, Nelson was struck by a streetcar as a child and suffered a trauma to his head, which caused him chroni...

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...

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was a devoted public servant who served in many positions during his long career. Hoar served as U.S. attorney general from 1869 to 1870 under President Ulysses S. Grant and went on to serve in the U.S. House of Repr...

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 ...

Edgar Frank Codd is best know for his work on databases, specifically the invention of the first abstract model for database management. Edgar Frank Codd was born in 1923 in Portland, England. In 1942, after his schooling, Codd joined the ...

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...

Head of a specialized school in Brussels, Belgium, for training nurses, Edith Cavell became part of a group that helped soldiers and other refugees escape from the German army during World War I. She was eventually arrested, tried by a Ger...

Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) was the first woman from New England to be elected to Congress. Reelected 17 times, she worked tirelessly for veterans' concerns throughout her congressional career. Edith Nourse Rogers, daughter of Franklin...

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...