#biographical information

[thefugitivesaint]

Classics Illustrated #124 - ''War of the Worlds'' by H. G. Wells, 1955 Source

[kingbuddhamonkey]

Overlooked No More: Ana Mendieta, a Cuban Artist Who Pushed Boundaries

Mendieta’s art, sometimes violent, often unapologetically feminist and usually raw, left an indelible mark before her life was cut short.

[snarp]

[youthchronical]

Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. From the time Beulah Henry was a child in the late 19th century, she dreamed of ways to make life easier. That impulse would eventually drive her to secure dozens of patents and would earn her a nickname: Lady Edison. When she died in the early 1970s,…

Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination

[evilhorse]

Keith Giffen’s bio from the letter column in Trencher #1

[thedpu]

THE BROTHERS WOLFF (Published 1989)

“His memoir begins with a brilliantly emblematic scene. In 1955, en route to Salt Lake City “to get away from a man my mother was afraid of and to get rich on uranium,” Tobias and his mother are stalled just past the Continental Divide, waiting for their boiling Nash Rambler to cool down. Suddenly they hear “the bawling of an airhorn” and watch a truck that has lost its brakes speed past them and plummet off the edge of a precipice:

“We stood with the others at the cliff's edge. Nobody spoke. My mother put her arm around my shoulder. For the rest of the day she kept looking over at me, touching me, brushing back my hair. I saw that the time was right to make a play for souvenirs. I knew she had no money for them, and I had tried not to ask, but now that her guard was down I couldn't help myself. When we pulled out of Grand Junction I owned a beaded Indian belt, beaded moccasins, and a bronze horse with a removable, tooled-leather saddle.””

[newstrendingzone]

Author: BY CHOE SANG-HUN - Publish Date: October 22, 2021 at 12:07AM

Her public testimony about the horrors of sexual slavery that Japan had engineered for its World War II military encouraged other survivors to step forward.

[newstrendingzone]

Author: BY JULIA BOZZONE - Publish Date: September 25, 2021 at 01:18AM

In the 1950s, and ’60s, she depicted women, artists and thinkers in intricate dreamlike canvases that now fetch high prices.