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“Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.”
“The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.”
| Danny Aiello, Actor (1933) |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld, Poet (1743) |
| Paul Castellano, Criminal (1915) |
| Len Dawson, Athlete (1935) |
| Jacques Delors, Economist (1925) |
| Adam Ferguson, Philosopher (1723) |
| Errol Flynn, Actor (1909) |
| Peter Gay, Historian (1923) |
| Frank Lampard, Athlete (1978) |
| Martin Landau, Actor (1928) |
| Bernard Baruch, Businessman (1965) |
| Clifton Fadiman, Writer (1999) |
| Timothy Findley, Novelist (2002) |
| Vittorio Gassman, Actor (2000) |
| Jack Kilby, Scientist (2005) |