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Due to Alexandra's fame on Baywatch, Caroline Paul was often mistaken for her twin sister even when in full firefighter gear. [9] This prompted her to write the short book Almost Her, which examines the peculiarities of fame and the science of twins. The two sisters were featured in a People magazine feature on twins, "Seeing Double," in 1998. [10]
Caroline Gordon: 1895 – 1981 Author of None Shall Look Back and The Strange Children [382] Louis Bromfield: 1896 – 1956 Pulitzer Prize author of Early Autumn: John Dos Passos: 1896 – 1970 Author of the U.S.A. trilogy [383] William Faulkner: 1897 – 1962 Nobel Laureate author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom ...
Caroline Fairfield Corbin (born Caroline Fairfield; November 9, 1835 – March 27, 1918) was an American author, social reformer, and anti-suffragist from Illinois. She is best known for her opposition to women's suffrage and her writings on social issues. Her known literary works include Rebecca, or Woman's Secret, The Marriage Vow, and others.
Frances Ann Lebowitz (/ ˈ l iː b ə w ɪ t s /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and actor. [5] She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese ...
John Francis Lee was born to a family of Irish Immigrants in September 19, 1918, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Michael Francis Lee was 23 and his mother Catherine Marie Arrigal was 24 at the time of his birth. [4] He had three brothers and three sisters, most of them being half siblings besides his younger brother Michael Peter Lee.
Peter Staley (1983), AIDS activist, founding director of the Treatment Action Group; Lucy Stone (1847), feminist and abolitionist; Anna Louise Strong (1905), activist and author; Mary Church Terrell (1884/1888), author, activist; John Todd (1841), abolitionist, conspirator with John Brown, founder of Tabor College
Lee Radziwill was known as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ sister, but she had a fascinating life on her own. Now, her style and sharp wit are on full display in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans .
Patricia Aldyen Austin Buckley (née Taylor; July 1, 1926 – April 15, 2007) was a Canadian-American socialite, noted for her fundraising activities.She was the wife of conservative writer and activist William F. Buckley Jr. and the mother of writer Christopher Buckley, their only child.