Born: January 8, 1891Died: August 6, 1967 Ohio connection: Birth Bellefontaine Born Willard Monroe Kiplinger in Bellefontaine, Ohio, to Clarence and Cora (Miller) Kiplinger, Kiplinger developed an early interest in journalism. Serving as the editor of his high school newspaper, he later became one of the first two students to enroll in the School of …
Read More W. M. KiplingerBorn: January 30, 1931Died: July 7, 2011 Ohio connection: Resident Bellefontaine Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York, and was raised in and around Chicago, Illinois. Eckert was a child with an intense love of nature. “I remember crawling about in the gangways between buildings or in vacant lots, overturning boards and pieces of tin …
Read More Allan W. EckertBorn: 1947 Ohio connection: Birth Lorain Terry Anderson is a retired journalist and former foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He served as Chief Middle East Correspondent for the Associated Press and has worked as a newspaper editor, television and radio reporter, and documentary producer. Anderson is the author of the best-selling memoir, …
Read More Terry AndersonBorn: May 29, 1906 Died: January 1987 Ohio connection: Birth Mount Vernon Delano Ames was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on May 29, 1906. He was the son of Benjamin and Isabel Cooper (nee Kirk) Ames. Delano’s father was a prominent businessman in Knox County, but moved the family to New Mexico in 1917. As a …
Read More Delano AmesBorn: November 7, 1929Died: January 15, 2010 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland Author and classical singer, Raoul Abdul was once an editorial assistant to Langston Hughes. Abdul was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Hamid who was born in Calcutta, India and Beatrice (Shreve) Abdul. Abdul attended John Hay High School and later earned a diploma from …
Read More Raoul AbdulBorn: January 25, 1914Died: July 9, 1998 Ohio connection: Birth Bellefontaine Mixing the pathos of surrealism with the impishness of cartoons, James Flora was the master of hand-drawn album cover art before the record industry’s switch to photographic covers in 1956. In the 1940s, Flora was one of the first artists to design and illustrate album covers, thereby …
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The Library of Congress has re-opened applications! See below for new deadline! The Library of Congress is seeking nominations of nonprofit organizations to be considered for the 2021 Literacy Awards. For full details and to apply, visit http://www.read.gov/literacyawards/index.html. Through the generosity of philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program honors nonprofit …
Read More RE-OPENED: Library of Congress Seeking Applicants for Literacy Awards 2021Born: 1948 Ohio connection: Resident Kent Poet, editor, and educator, Maggie Anderson was born in New York City to a mother from Pennsylvania and a father from West Virginia. Anderson has described a childhood of “moving around a lot” but visiting West Virginia every summer. The family moved to West Virginia when Anderson was thirteen …
Read More Maggie AndersonBorn: January 27, 1917Died: July 18, 2007 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland Born in Cleveland, Ohio, writer and historian James Maher was an influential voice, an outstanding cultural critic of jazz and American popular music. A passionate fan of jazz and American popular music since childhood, Maher began his career as a journalist in 1934 at …
Read More James T. MaherBorn: January 20, 1855Died: December 23, 1914 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland The son of Isaac Lewis (a carpenter), Alfred Henry Lewis was born January 20, 1855, in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of 23, Lewis was a prosecuting attorney for Cleveland; but, in 1881, he decided to give up legal work to become a journalist. He was employed …
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