Founded by members of the Bixby and Flint families and their business partner, I. W. Hellman, in 1888, the Alamitos Land Company was first organized as a land sale company during the real estate boom of Southern California in mid 1880s. The company...
Willis Moore Hawkins (1913-2004) was born in Kansas City, Missouri on 1 December 1913. As the only child of Willis Moore Hawkins, Sr. and Elizabeth Daniels, who divorced shortly after his birth, Willis was raised by his mother. He was one of five...
Arthur Dominique Rozaire (Rosaire) was born in Montreal, Canada on January 17, 1879 to Dominique Joseph Francois Rosaire, a decorative designer, and Mary Hammall. Rozaire attended the Quebec Council of Arts and Manufactures at Monument National....
British novelist Hilary Mantel was born in Derbyshire, England, but has lived and worked in Botswana and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, experience which she utilized in two of her novels, A Change of Climate and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has won...
The Mark Taper Forum opened in Los Angeles in 1967 and is known for its development of new plays and voices for the theatre. Located at the Performing Arts Center (formerly The Music Center) in downtown Los Angeles, the Taper has received virtually...
Burke Eugene Casari, a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, worked as an administrator for environmental programs at the State Health Department. He became interested in Richard Burton in 1962, while teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Casari has...
Henri Coulette (1927-1988) was an award winning poet and educator. He published The war of secret agents (1965) and The family Goldschmitt (1971), and served as editor for The unstrung lyre : Interviews with fourteen poets (1965). Coulette...
Paul Conrad served as chief editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times from 1964 to 1993. His career began at the Denver Post in 1950 where he drew until moving to the Los Angeles Times. Conrad won three Pulitzer Prizes (1964, 1971 and 1984)...
Robert V. Hine is a prominent historian of the American West. Hine earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1952 and spent a year as a fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California before accepting a faculty position at the...
Forrest Winston Coggan was born August 27, 1926 near East Lansing Michigan to Bernard and Blanche Coggan. He began his education in dance at a young age. He attended Michigan State University from 1943-1947 and received his B.A. in Public Speaking...
Arvid T. Johnson was an American soldier during World War I. He joined the Medical Detachment of 354th Infantry American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) where he served as a dental assistant. He spent 1917 training in the United States and was sent...
Harry Ford Sinclair (1876-1956) was born in Wheeling, West Virginia and spent his childhood in Independence, Kansas. Sinclair entered the oil business in 1901, working as a lease broker after oil was discovered in Kansas. Between 1903 and 1904, he...