Mark Twain
An adventurer and wily intellectual, Mark Twain wrote the classic American novels 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.'
An adventurer and wily intellectual, Mark Twain wrote the classic American novels 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.'
Andrew Carnegie, a self-made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest 19th century U.S. businessmen, donated towards the expansion of the New York Public Library.
Adlai Stevenson was 23rd vice president of the United States (1893–1897) in the Democratic administration of President Grover Cleveland.
American clergyman Phillips Brooks, ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1860, is best known for authoring the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
French composer and organist Camille Saint-Saëns wrote the popular opera Samson et Dalila. He was also wrote poems, essays and plays.