Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Fiveby Phil Bildner (text) and Daniel J. O’Brien (illustration) (20th) An inspiring picture book biography about Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out as gay, and the story of how he created the world’...
“Everything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life’s dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end.” Goggins’s Commanding Officer told him, In a society where mediocrity...
Matthew Brown directs and wrote the script, which is based on the biography The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel.“We’re delighted with the response,” Mister Smith CEO David Garrett told ScreenDaily. “We launched the film at the Afm and have ...
We came to Salzburg many times to enjoy the festival and my husband was also invited to lecture at the Mozarteum on American music; on one occasion specifically on Vanessa, the new opera of Samuel Barber. I wish that every musician could experience the romance of Mozart’s birth-town, ...
The exploits of David and the events of his monarchy are related in 2 Samuel. After mourning the death of Saul and executing anAmalekitewho claimed to have killed the former king, David began to consolidate his position as the successor to Saul. He was proclaimed king of Judah inHebronwhile...
David Niven, British stage and motion-picture actor who personified dapper charm. He won an Academy Award for his performance in Separate Tables (1958). Among his other best-known films are Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Guns of Navarone (1961),
Boswell, the biographer ofSamuel Johnson, called Hume “the greatest writer in Britain,” and theRoman Catholic Church, in 1761, recognized his philosophical and literary contributions by putting all his writings on theIndex Librorum Prohibitorum, its list of forbidden books....
Henry David ThoreauTranscendentalist Henry David Thoreau, portrait by Samuel Worcester Rowse, 1854; in the Concord Free Public Library, Massachusetts. Thoreau was born in 1817 inConcord, Massachusetts, the third child of afecklesssmall businessman named John Thoreau and his bustling wife, Cynthia Dunb...
Fischer also wrote a well-regarded work on French explorer Samuel de Champlain (Champlain’s Dream [2008]). Fischer was also noted for his continued dedication to teaching. In 1990 he was awarded the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching and was named Massachusetts Professor of...