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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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