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Elementary is an American procedural drama television series that presented a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes.Created by Robert Doherty and starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson, the series premiered on CBS on September 27, 2012, and ended on August 15, 2019, after seven seasons consisting of 154 episodes.
Partner. Susan Thornton. For the British writer, see John Gardner (British writer). John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
Joan Fontaine. Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 films in a career that spanned five decades.
William Seward Burroughs II ( / ˈbʌroʊz /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. [2] [3] [4] Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of ...
Joan Armatrading. Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading CBE ( / ˈɑːrməˌtreɪdɪŋ /, born 9 December 1950 [1]) is a Kittitian -English singer-songwriter and guitarist. [2] A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist.
John Ernst Steinbeck (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k / STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".
Born Joan Brady on 4 December 1939 in San Francisco to Mildred Edie Brady and Robert A. Brady. She has one sister, Judy. [1] Before becoming an author, she was a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City Ballet then went on to study philosophy at Columbia University in New York City. In 1963, she married author Dexter Masters ...
