For decades, schoolchildren the world over have learned about Anne Frank. The teenager who hid with her family from the Nazis, in an attempt to escape the concentration camps where …
Died January 2010
-
-
When J.D. Salinger died, some readers believed we’d see a flood of posthumous releases. A year after his death, can we still hope for them?
-
Why was R&B great Teddy Pendergrass trending on Google many months after his death?
-
News Obituaries
Howard Zinn (1922–2010), A People’s History of the United States author
by Legacy StaffHis book became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts.
-
He shocked Hollywood by leaving TV’s “Bonanza” at the height of its popularity.
-
She would be nominated for another Oscar, for best actress for 1969’s “The Happy Ending,” before moving largely to television roles in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.
-
He was a Yale classics professor and screenplay writer when he turned a proposed movie about two college students — preppy Oliver and smart-mouthed Jenny — into a novel.
-
Bell launched his first restaurant, called Bell’s Drive-In, in 1948.