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“With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.”
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
| John Adams, President (1735) |
| Joe Adcock, Athlete (1927) |
| Robert Caro, Writer (1935) |
| Timothy Findley, Novelist (1930) |
| William Halsey, Soldier (1882) |
| Harry Hamlin, Actor (1951) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1914) |
| John Abbott, Statesman (1893) |
| Steve Allen, Entertainer (2000) |
| Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity (1983) |
| Clifford Geertz, Scientist (2006) |
| Jam Master Jay, Musician (2002) |
| Rose Wilder Lane, Journalist (1968) |