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Published Oct. 14, 2016, 3:26 a.m. ET. “Empire” star Taraji P. Henson has a buzzy new memoir out titled “Around the Way Girl.” Andrew H. Walker/Variety/REX/Shutterstock. Taraji P. Henson was 6...
Taraji Penda Henson [6] [7] was born September 11, 1970, in Southeast Washington, D.C., the daughter of Bernice ( née Gordon), a corporate manager at Woodward & Lothrop, and Boris Lawrence Henson, a janitor and metal fabricator. [6] [7] [8] [9] She has often spoken of the influence of her maternal grandmother, Patsy Ballard, who accompanied ...
Jan 31, 2015 · Mrs. Gordon was The Times’s oldest cruciverbalist, as those who ply her trade are known, and its longest-serving. One of the best-known crossword creators in the country, she also contributed ...
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Bernice Gordon (January 11, 1914 – January 29, 2015) was an American constructor of crosswords. She created puzzles for many publications after beginning her career in the early 1950s, and holds the record as the oldest contributor to The New York Times crossword puzzle.
Feb 4, 2015 · Bernice Gordon, who delighted, bedeviled and sometimes outraged aficionados of the crossword puzzle during a six-decade career unusual not only for its longevity but the artfulness of her...
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Oct 19, 2016 · Her mother, Bernice Gordon, divorced her husband, Boris Henson, and raised the future Empire star as a single mom. “She never gave up, she always persevered,” the actress says in the current...
Jan 31, 2015 · Bernice Gordon, a doyenne of the crossword whose tautly constructed puzzles appeared for six decades in newspapers across and down the United States, died Jan. 29 at her home in Philadelphia....
