Which American writer lived longer, pediatrician Benjamin Spock or Alex Haley?
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Benjamin Spock Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book "Baby and Child Care" (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time. The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."
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Alex Haley Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book "." ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.
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Sarah Morton Sarah Morton is an American playwright, actor, educator and activist and a native of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Irvin D. Yalom Irvin David Yalom ( ; born 13 June 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.
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Alex Pareene Alex Pareene is an American writer and journalist. He was the editor of the online news magazine Gawker.
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Alex Storozynski Alex Storozynski (born 1961) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, award winning author, and was the President and Executive Director of The Kosciuszko Foundation.
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Armstrong Sperry Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7, 1897 – April 26, 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography, often set on sailing ships, and stories of boys from Polynesia, Asia and indigenous American cultures. He is best known for his 1941 Newbery Medal-winning book "Call It Courage".
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Alex Hammond (author) Alex Hammond (born December 25, 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an Australian crime fiction writer.
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Ian B. Goldberg Ian B. Goldberg is an American television writer and producer.
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Leonard Boudin Leonard B. Boudin (July 20, 1912 – November 24, 1989) was an American civil liberties attorney and left-wing activist who represented Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and Dr. Benjamin Spock, the author of "Baby and Child Care", who advocated draft resistance during the Vietnam War. Other opponents of the Vietnam war whom he represented were Julian Bond, William Sloan Coffin, and Philip Berrigan.
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Roots: The Next Generations Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. (Henning is about 48 miles north of Memphis, which is on the Mississippi River and in the southwest corner of the state, and which was then the largest city in it.) This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled "" plus additional material by Haley.
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Sally Haley Sally Haley (June 29, 1908 – September 1, 2007) was an American painter. Her career spanned much of the 20th century and she is credited for helping to expand the emerging art scene in Portland, Oregon during the middle of the century. Much of her work was an application of egg tempera, a technique which leaves a flat, brushless surface. She preferred domestic subjects and interior spaces with hints of the indoor or outdoor space that lay beyond.
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Melvin M. Grumbach Melvin Malcolm Grumbach (December 21, 1925 – October 4, 2016) was an American pediatrician and academic who specialized in pediatric endocrinology. Called Edward B. Shaw Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Grumbach was noted for his research and writing on the effect of hormones and the central nervous system on growth and puberty and their disorders; the function of the human sex chromosomes; and disorders of sexual development.
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Harry Benjamin Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 – August 24, 1986) was a German-American endocrinologist and sexologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism.
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Marc Seifer Marc Jeffrey Seifer (born 17 February 1948) is an American author who has published books on handwriting analysis (Graphology), human consciousness and the mind, biographies of the inventor Nikola Tesla, and several works of fiction.
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Alex Jamieson Alexandra Marie "Alex" Jamieson (born March 20, 1975) is a natural foods chef, author, speaker, TV personality, and holistic health counselor.
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Alex Cox Alexander "Alex" Cox (born 15 December 1954 in Bebington, Cheshire) is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author, broadcaster and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with "Repo Man" and "Sid and Nancy", but since the release and commercial failure of "Walker", he has directed his career towards independent films.
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Alex Scarrow Alex Scarrow (born 14 February 1966) is a British author most well-known for his young adult science fiction series "TimeRiders".
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Usha Haley Usha C. V. Haley is an American author and academic, currently Professor of Management at the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University in Morgantown in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Prior to this, she was at other universities including Massey University in New Zealand and at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University. Born in Mumbai, India, she received a bachelor's degree in Politics at Elphinstone College, Mumbai and then went on to get graduate degrees from various American universities including a Master's from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Political Science, and New York University, where she received Master's and PhD degrees in International Business and Strategy from the Stern School of Business. Besides the USA, Dr. Haley has lived and worked in Mexico, Singapore, Australia, China, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, Finland, Russia, New Zealand and several other countries.
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Isaac Arthur Abt Isaac Arthur Abt (1867 - 1955) was an American pediatrician and the first president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He was one of the first U.S. physicians to specialize in pediatrics and he authored an influential textbook in the first part of the 20th century.
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Harold Reitman Harold "Hackie" Stuart Reitman, M.D. (b. March 29, 1950 Jersey City, NJ) is a Jewish American orthopedic surgeon, former professional boxer, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and philanthropist. Reitman fought as a professional heavyweight boxer while working full-time as an orthopedic surgeon, and was widely referred to as the "Boxing Doctor" during his career.
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Avraham Steinberg Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg MD (Hebrew אברהם שטינברג; born 25 August 1947) is a medical ethicist, pediatric neurologist, rabbi and editor of Talmudic literature.