Biography Category
1914–70, American anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. City College of New York (B.S.S., 1936) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1940). He was a professor of ...
(l v ´-brül) (KEY) , 1857–1939, French philosopher, psychologist, and ethnologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1899 and editor of the Re...
1913–96, British archaeologist, b. London as Mary Douglas Nichol; wife of Louis Leakey and mother of Richard Leakey. She had little formal education...
1944–, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Modesto, Calif. Although Lucas’s first film, THX-1138 (1970), was not successful, his next...
1918–86, American lyricist and librettist, b. New York City. After two years as a radio scriptwriter, Lerner began an association with the composer ...
(l ´m ks) (KEY) , 1867–1948, American folklorist, b. Goodman, Miss. Lomax’s first book, Cowboy Songs (1910), contained for the first time in prin...