Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her…
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The biography of Joseph James Jones is both the story of the life of an American artist and…
Known during his lifetime as the “King of Ragtime Writers,” Scott Joplin was an African…
Theodore Carl Link is best known as the architect of St. Louis’s Union Station, but if he…
Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey was a lifelong newspaper and magazine journalist, and a regional…
Patricia C. McKissack dedicated her career as a writer to showcasing black voices through children’s books and…
Louis Miller was an influential builder-architect who lived in Arcadia, in Iron County, and…
Of British, Quaker, and Huguenot heritage, William Rockhill Nelson was born five miles west…
Howard Nemerov was born on February 29, 1920, in New York City, and died on July 5, 1991,…