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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
| Stephen Carter, Lawyer (1954) |
| Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary (1759) |
| Geoff Davis, Politician (1958) |
| Rosemarie DeWitt, Actress (1974) |
| Ted Demme, Director (1963) |
| Cary Elwes, Actor (1962) |
| Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher (1466) |
| Paul Farmer, Educator (1959) |
| Mahalia Jackson, Musician (1911) |
| Judy Johnson, Athlete (1899) |
| Timothy Dexter, Businessman (1806) |
| Elizabeth Jennings, Poet (2001) |
| Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer (1957) |


