Biography (genre)

Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 62

2013-01-09 07:54:55

Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...

New biography of legendary railroader John Work Garrett

2012-09-27 15:48:23

The optimistic incorporators and builders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the nation's first common carrier railroad, which was founded in Baltimore in 1827 and began building westward the next year, envisioned it would take 10 years and $10 million...

Morgan State professor indicted in fraud scheme

2012-11-14 17:48:07

A full-time engineering professor at Morgan State University was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in an alleged scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding. Manoj Kumar Jha, 45, who...

Ain't Webster's Third grand

2012-10-22 11:35:00

Fifty years ago, people in the United States had very real fears of the possibility of nuclear annihilation in an exchange of nuclear missiles with the Soviet Union. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 brought that fear very close. But the year before,...

Maryland House's historic art to be preserved, but won't return

2012-09-17 13:33:00

The Maryland House on I-95 near Aberdeen may be known more for its fast food and bevy of bathrooms than for fine artwork, but its murals portraying Maryland history, that have adorned the travel plaza for more than 40 years, have a significant history...

Newbery winner Laura Amy Schlitz publishes her magnum opus

2012-08-25 00:00:00

The witch had been weeping in the boxwoods for more than half a century before Laura Amy Schlitz picked up her pen and set her free. The 57-year-old Schlitz is the librarian at Park School and a Newbery Medal-winning author whose newest novel, "Splendors...

Cynthia Earl Kerman, Villa Julie professor

2012-07-28 13:24:05

Cynthia Earl Kerman, a retired Villa Julie College faculty member who wrote biographies of a Quaker economist and a Harlem Renaissance writer, died of pneumonia July 22 at the Glen Meadows retirement community. She was 89 and had lived in Lauraville....

Larry S. Gibson's book on Thurgood Marshall examines the forces in Baltimore that shaped young judge

2012-11-30 16:49:00

Forty-three years of letters, photographs, campaign buttons, itineraries and the occasional miniature flag are crammed into 2,000 fat binders lining three walls — floor to ceiling — of a storage room in the University of Maryland School of...

Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader

2012-04-06 12:26:00

Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...

Biography: Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III

2012-05-03 13:05:00

This official biography of Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III was provided by the Baltimore Police Department. Frederick H. Bealefeld, III was appointed Police Commissioner of the City of Baltimore, Maryland on November 20th, 2007 and commands the...

American Masters does Carson to biographical perfection - except for that masculinity thing

2012-05-14 04:23:00

From Norman Rockwell and Leonard Bernstein to Baltimore's Cab Calloway, no one does biography like "American Masters" on PBS. I've been reviewing these superb productions for all of the 26�seasons that "American Masters" has been on the air, and have...

BWI airport becomes art gallery to celebrate human rights

2012-05-21 07:39:27

Some of the bravest people in the world can be found at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. The Dalai Lama. These and many other figures are featured in a photo exhibit organized to...

Sherlach had worked as the school psychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary School since 1994 and had served on numerous districtwide committees, including the conflict resolution committee, according to a biography on the Newtown Public Schools website.

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Every epoch views art in its own way, so it should not be surprising that a period dominated by popular culture would emphasize the same characteristics in art of the past. "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre" is a spectacular example.

2011-08-25 07:50:31