Biography Category
fourth book of the New Testament. This account of Jesus’ life is clearly set off from the other three Gospels (see Synoptic Gospels), although it is...
in the Gospel of St. Luke, kinsman of St. Jude. The original does not specify the relationship....
1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper’s son, he grew up absorbing the music of De...
1906–2005, American architect, museum curator, and historian, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1927). One of the first Americans to study mo...
1780–1850, Vice President of the United States (1837–41), b. Kentucky, on the site of present Louisville. Admitted (1802) to the bar, he became pr...
1871–1938, American author, b. Jacksonville, Fla., educated at Atlanta Univ. (B.A., 1894) and at Columbia. Johnson was the first African American to...