Sidney Sheldon, famous American screenwriter and novelist. His first novel The Naked Face which earned him the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writer's of America.

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Henry Adams

Henry Adams (1838-1918) an American author, historian and academic was born on 16 February 1838 in Boston , Massachusetts . He is famous for his journal The Education of Henry Adams (1918) for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for in 1919.

Adams parents were Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), diplomat and writer, and Abigail Brown Brooks (1808-1889). On 27 June 1872 Adams married Marian Hooper (1843-1885).

Adams Writings

Democracy, an American Novel (anonymous; 1880)

Esther: A Novel (1884)

History of the United States - 1801 to 1817 (1889-1891)

The Education of Henry Adams (1907, 1918) Pulitzer Prize

Life of Albert Gallatin (1879)

Life of John Randolph (1882)

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres ( 1913)