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English Literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S....
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B. J. Novak
Benjamin Joseph Manaly “B. J.” Novak (born July 31, 1979) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and director. As an actor, he has appeared in films, including Knocked Up and Inglourious Basterds, and plays Ryan Howard on the NBC...
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MC Lars
Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982) is an American rapper, known by his stage name MC Lars. He is the self-proclaimed originator of "post-punk laptop rap". He has collaborated with many different artists, including Non Phixion/La Coka...
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- 2006
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- 2001
Chuck Newhall
Chuck is a Co-Founder and General Partner of NEA. His investment activities focus on healthcare services, healthcare information services and biopharmaceutical companies. His board memberships include Bravo by ElderHealth, CoGenesys, Hospital...
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Patricia Rozema
Patricia Rozema (born 20 August 1958) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Rozema was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. Her parents, Jacoba Berandina (née Vos) and Jan Rozema, were Dutch Calvinists. Despite seeing...
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- 1981
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Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience....
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- 1925
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Zackie Achmat
Zackie Achmat (born Abdurazzack Achmat in 1962) is a South African activist, most widely known as founder and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and for his work on the behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
Achmat...
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Andrea Jung
Andrea Jung is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Avon Products, Inc., the company for women. Jung, a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, is fluent in English, Mandarin, and can speak Cantonese and...
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- 1979
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Eric Shinseki
Eric Ken Shinseki (born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army four-star general who is currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. His final U.S. Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999...
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Allegra Goodman
Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, Intuition, was published in 2006. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven.
Goodman was raised a Conservative Jew ...
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- 1997
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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ...
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- 1974
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- 1971
Roy J. Bostock
Roy J. Bostock is the Chairman of the Board for Yahoo! Inc. since January 2008. He also serves on the boards of directors of Morgan Stanley and Northwest Airlines. From 2000 to 2001 he served as chairman of the advertising firm BCom3 Group, Inc. He...
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- 1962
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Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Ozick was born in New York City. She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she...
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Scott McKinlay
Scott McKinlay brings nearly 20 years of experience in business and
corporate counsel to his current role as Senior Vice President of
Corporate Development. He previously served as E-LOAN's Vice-President
and Chief Legal Officer. Prior to joining E...
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Rich Shapero
Rich
Shapero (1948- ) is an American venture capitalist who moonlights as a
musician and novelist. He grew up in Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature at University of California at Berkeley. He now works as a venture...
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Christopher Dodd
Christopher John "Chris" Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician currently serving as the senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Dodd is a Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda...
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- 1966
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Ira Levin
Ira Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American author, dramatist and songwriter.
Levin attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. At Drake, he regularly played poker with other notables, such as Martin Erlichman and Eugene...
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist.
As a student,...
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- 1927
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- 1923
Michael O’Hare
Michael O'Hare (born May 6, 1952) is an American actor, best known for playing Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
Michael O'Hare was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Harvard University (where he majored in...
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Empress Michiko of Japan
Empress Michiko of Japan (皇后美智子 Kōgō Michiko, formerly Michiko Shōda (正田 美智子, Shōda Michiko); born 20 October 1934) is the wife and consort of Emperor Akihito, the current monarch of Japan. She was the first commoner to marry into the Japanese...
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- 1957
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader who served as the fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death. He was the oldest...
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- Jun 1932
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Susan Peters
Susan P. Peters is a vice president and leads Executive Development for GE.
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William F. Schwind Jr.
William F. Schwind Jr. is vice president, General Counsel and Secretary of Marathon Oil Corporation and serves as a member of Marathon's Executive Committee. He joined Marathon in 1974 and was named to his current position in 1992.
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Constance J. Horner
Constance J. Horner was elected lead director of the Pfizer Inc. Board of Directors on February 23, 2007.
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- 1964
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Tom Clancy
Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy Jr. (born April 12, 1947) is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War and his video games. His name is also a brand...
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- 1969
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- 1965
Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American Jewish author and rabbi.
Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland. His Hebrew name was...
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Aylwin B. Lewis
Aylwin B. Lewis (born May 28, 1954) is an African American businessman. He is formerly the Chief Executive Officer and President of Sears Holdings Corporation
Sears Holdings was created in connection with the merger of Kmart Holding Corporation and...
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- 1976
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Betty Freeman
Betty Freeman (June 3, 1921 – January 4, 2009) was an American philanthropist and photographer. She was best known as an arts patron, and was regarded as the most significant American sponsor of contemporary classical music of the second half of the...
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- 1942
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Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga (Kannada: ಅರವಿಂದ ಅಡಿಗ, born 23 October 1974) is an Indian journalist and author. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on the 23rd of October, 1974 to Dr. K....
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- 1997
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Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson (born 1951) is an English author.
She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. During her final year of this course, she was married for the first time. The...
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Ellen Alemany
Ellen Alemany is Chief Executive Officer of RBS Americas and Citizens Financial Group, Inc. RBS Americas is the North American and Latin American operations and subsidiaries of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc
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Ellen Moran
Ellen Moran resigned from the position of White House Communications Director. less than 100 days into the Barack Obama administration to become Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Her predessesor was Kevin Sullivan, who held the...
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- 1988
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Kelly Killoren Bensimon
Kelly Bensimon (nee Killoren) is an author, model, jewelry designer, and former editor of Elle Acessories. She currently appears on Bravo The Real Housewives of New York City.
Kelly Jean Killoren was born in 1968, and raised in Rockford, Illinois....
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John Gutfreund
John H. Gutfreund (born September 1929) is the former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc, an investment bank that gained notoriety in the 1980s. Gutfreund turned Salomon Brothers from a private partnership into a publicly traded corporation. He became the...
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Catherine de Castelbajac
Catherine "Kate" de Castelbajac (born Katherine Lee Chambers in Santa Barbara, California) is a former model and fashion journalist who now works as an image consultant and educator. She is currently the founder of CdeC Academy of Santa Barbara, and...
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Chester Dent
Chester Dent is a producer/director from the UK with prime-time credits for the BBC, Channel 4 and DCI. Originally trained as a director of actors under Mike Leigh and Stephen Frears at the UK National Film & Television School, Chester has...
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- 1983
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- 1979
Neil Fraistat
Neil Fraistat is the Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Patrick Gilmore
Patrick Gilmore (born June 1, 1976) is a Canadian actor who plays Dale Volker in Stargate Universe . He has also been seen in other science fiction shows such as Battlestar Galactica and Eureka, as well as playing Trennan in Riese the Series. He has...
