July 12, 1874 — December 15, 1927 (aged 53)
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German artist. She represented the dada movement and avant-garde in such fields as poetry, painting, sculpture, performance and assemblage. The artist was also known for her excentric and somehow scandalous behavior …
March 15, 1926
Francis De Tarr, American, French diplomat, writer. Recipient Porter prize, Yale University, 1958. Member of Association Française de Science Politique, Society French History Studies, International Political Science Association, Political Science …
January 3, 1947
Norma Elia Cantu is a Chicana postmodernist writer and the Murchison Professor in the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Norma Cantu served as an instructor at University Nebraska, Lincoln, during 1975-1978. From 1980 to 1987 she …
1965
Bae Suah is a South Korean author. Originally a government employee at Gimpo Airport in Incheon, Bae wrote stories as a hobby. At the time of her debut in 1993, Bae was a government employee working behind the embarkation/disembarkation desk at …
March 2, 1925
Nancy Huddleston Packer, American educator, writer. Recipient O’Henry prize Doubleday & Company, 1968, 81, Outstanding Alumna award Birmingham Southern College, 1980, award for fiction National Endowment for Arts, 1980. Lecturer Birmingham Southern …
September 17, 1950
Dr. Avshalom Kor is an Israeli linguist and expert on Hebrew grammar and semantics. He is known to provide upon request, the grammatical root of any given Hebrew word and/or name along with its Biblical origins and contextual references. He is …
