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Known for. painting, portraiture, radio/television host. Liverpool Athenaeum with one of three murals (1928) depicting the goddess Athena by Edward Halliday. Edward Irvine Halliday CBE (1902–1984) was a British painter, known for his portraits and his murals in the 1920s. [1] He also worked in television and radio as a host.
Spouse. Jessie Burns (1925–1968) Children. 2, including John Maclean. Parents. John Maclean (father) Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 – August 2, 1990) was an American professor at the University of Chicago who, following his retirement, became a major figure in American literature. Maclean is best known for his Hemingwayesque ...
Halldór Kiljan Laxness ( Icelandic: [ˈhaltour ˈcʰɪljan ˈlaksnɛs] ⓘ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. [2] He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness ...
James Allen (28 November 1864 – 24 January 1912) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass-produced since its publication in 1902. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors.
Benjamin Platt Thomas (February 22, 1902 – November 29, 1956) was an American historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. [1] In 1952 he published a best-selling one volume biography on Lincoln entitled Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Knopf, 1952). Thomas killed himself on November 29, 1956.
St John's College, Cambridge. Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest ...
Peter J. Wilhousky ( Ukrainian: Пітер (Петро) Вільговський; 13 July 1902 – 4 January 1978) was an American composer, music educator, and choral conductor of Rusyn descent. [1] [2] [3] During his childhood he was part of New York's Russian Cathedral Boys Choir and gave a performance at the White House to President Woodrow ...
