Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Edward Albee is best known for penning Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Zoo Story.
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Edward Bates was a 19th century politician and lawyer who served as U.S. attorney general under President Abraham Lincoln.
1793-1869
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1926-2007
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Some people believe it was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who really wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.
1550-1604
1003-1066
1794-1865
Writer and critic E.M. Forster is the author of Howards End, A Passage to India and A Room With a View.
1879-1970
Edward Gorey was an American illustrator best known for his cartoons of Edwardian children coming to macabre ends. He work can be seen in the animated credits of PBS' Masterpiece Mystery.
1925-2000
Artist Edward Hopper is the painter behind the iconic late-night diner scene Nighthawks (1942).
1882-1967
1749-1823
1812-1888
Since co-founding Essence magazine, Edward T. Lewis has become one of the most successful and respected magazine publishers in the country.
1940-
American radio and television news broadcaster Edward R. Murrow gave eyewitness reports of WWII for CBS and helped develop journalism for mass media.
1908-1965
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Actor Edward James Olmos earned an Oscar nomination for Stand and Deliver before starring on TV's Battlestar Galactica.
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1893-1973
1935-2003
Captain Edward J. Smith played a role in one of the most famous disasters at sea in history, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
1850-1912
1909-1975
Educational psychologist E.L. Thorndike pioneered the fields of animal learning and behavioral psychology with his theory of connectionism.
1874-1949
Edward Weston's photography captured organic forms and texture. Portraits of his family taken in the 1940s are some of his best work.
1886-1958
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