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Kate Chopin. Luci Christian. Jay Guy Cisco. Bob Clark. Joshua Clark. Margaret Clark (American writer) Lily Conrad, Marchesa Theodoli. Florence Converse. Nicole Cooley.
Joan W. Bennett, biologist and former Tulane University professor. Florence Borders, archivist and historian at the Amistad Research Center. Cyril Y. Bowers, physician and endocrinology researcher. Rick Brewer, president of Louisiana College since 2015; born in New Orleans in 1956. Douglas Brinkley, historian, author and former University of ...
The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story (P.S.) Julia Reed’s New Orleans: Food, Fun, and Field Trips for Letting the Good Times Roll [11] Julia Reed's South: Spirited Entertaining and High-Style Fun All Year Long; One Man's Folly: The Exceptional Houses of Furlow Gatewood; South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in My Native ...
Kate Chopin (/ ˈʃoʊpæn /, [1][2] also US: / ʃoʊˈpæn, ˈʃoʊpən /; [3] born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 [4] – August 22, 1904) [5] was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars [6] to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or ...
Anne Rice[1] (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles. She later adapted the first volume in the series into a commercially successful eponymous film, Interview with the Vampire ...
Paul Barbarin (1899–1969) – New Orleans jazz drummer, usually regarded (along with Baby Dodds) as one of the best of the pre- Big Band era jazz drummers. Achille Baquet (1885–1955) – jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. George Baquet (1881–1949) – jazz clarinetist, known for his contributions to early jazz in New Orleans.
New Orleans has served as the backdrop for a number of films with iconic turns in films such as Gone With the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Little New Orleans Girl (1956), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Live and Let Die (1973), Little New Orleans Girl (1978), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Little New Orleans Girl (2004), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and The ...
William Faulkner. William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈfɔːknər /; [1][2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the ...