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Sheldon Peck (August 26, 1797 – March 19, 1868) was an American folk artist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, and social activist. Peck's portraiture – with its distinctive style – is a prime example of 19th century American folk art.
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. [1]
Sheldon is upset at the recent death of science-fiction author Isaac Asimov. Dr. Linkletter is a fan and Dr. Sturgis is interested in his novels. Since Sheldon's late grandfather enjoyed the novels as well, Sheldon talks Connie into joining his book club with the two professors to read "Nightfall". Once the two men find out Dale dumped Connie ...
Master of the Game is a novel by Sidney Sheldon, first published in hardback format in 1982. [1] Spanning four generations in the lives of the fictional McGregor/Blackwell family, the critically acclaimed novel spent four weeks at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list, [2] and was later adapted into a 1984 television miniseries.
In 1979, a motion picture adaptation of Bloodline was released starring Audrey Hepburn as Elizabeth. Since the 50-year-old Hepburn was considerably older than Sheldon's character, Sheldon revised his novel to place the literary version of Elizabeth into the same age range as the actress.
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Kaufman and Hart wrote the play as a vehicle for their friend Alexander Woollcott, the model for the lead character Sheridan Whiteside. [2] At the time the play was written, Woollcott was famous both as the theater critic who helped re-launch the career of the Marx Brothers and as the star of the national radio show The Town Crier.
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