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  • Index of People Who Changed the World
Frank Lloyd Wright-1

Frank Lloyd Wright – 1867-1959

Wright served an apprenticeship with the great architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler and in 1892 designed his first building, the...

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John Woolman-1

John Woolman – 1720-1772

Woolman and his father, English Quakers, immigrated to New Jersey when young Woolman was 21 in 1741. Three years later, John Woolman...

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C. Vann Woodward-1

C. Vann Woodward – 1908-1999

A professor of American history at Johns Hopkins (1946–1961) and Yale (1961–1977), Woodward was regarded as the most important...

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Bob Woodward – 1943–

With Carl Bernstein, Woodward made journalism history—and changed American history—with investigative reporting, in the Washington...

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Victoria Claflin Woodhull-1

Victoria Claflin Woodhull – 1838-1927

Born into a family of impoverished eccentrics, Victoria Claflin was part of her family’s traveling medicine and fortune-telling show,...

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Leonard Wood-1

Leonard Wood – 1860-1927

Wood began his military career as a civilian contract surgeon, later becoming a medical officer. He served as military governor of Cuba...

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Grant Wood-1

Grant Wood – 1892-1942

Iowa-born Wood depicted not the impressive landscapes of the eastern or western mountains, but the humbler surroundings of his native...

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Tom Wolfe- 1930–

Wolfe earned instant fame with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine- Flake Streamline Baby (1964), a collection of essays that...

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Thomas Wolfe-1

Thomas Wolfe – 1900-1938

A native of Asheville, North Carolina, Wolfe tried unsuccessfully to become a playwright, then turned to fiction, creating in a very...

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