Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
| Ella Baker, Activist (1903) |
| Herman Cain, Businessman (1945) |
| Emily Carr, Artist (1871) |
| John Davidson, Celebrity (1941) |
| Tom DeLonge, Musician (1975) |
| Anna Eshoo, Politician (1942) |
| Steve Forbert, Musician (1955) |
| Otylia Jedrzejczak, Athlete (1983) |
| Ferguson Jenkins, Athlete (1943) |
| NeNe Leakes, Actress (1967) |
| Ella Baker, Activist (1986) |
| Eileen Caddy, Celebrity (2006) |
| Lord Edward Cecil, Soldier (1918) |
| Christian Furchtegott Gellert, Poet (1769) |
| Konrad Von Gesner, Scientist (1565) |
| Samuel Johnson, Author (1784) |
| Wassily Kandinsky, Artist (1944) |

