Futrelle, Jacques
1875 - 1912

The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he...

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Asimov, Isaac
1920 - 1992

Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three...

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King, Stephen
1947 -

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...

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Reichs, Kathy
1948 -

Kathleen Joan Reichs, better known as Kathy Reichs, is a prominent anthropologist and professor at the Department of...

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