Carl Rowan
Carl Rowan was born on August 11, 1925 in Ravenscroft, Tennessee to Thomas and Johnnie B. Rowan. Like many other African-American youths growing up in the South, he faced great hardships. However, despite the prejudices and obstacles he encountered, Rowan [...]
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois to Grace Hall Hemingway and Doctor Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School where he not only excelled in academics, but also boxed [...]
H. G. Wells
Herbert George was the fourth and last son born to Joseph Wells, a former domestic gardener and, at the time, shopkeeper and cricketer, and his wife, Sarah Neal, a former domestic servant and occasional housekeeper. A defining incident of young [...]
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The frontier woman, and writer was born into this world on February 7, 1867. She lived in the woods and prairie lands of Kansas. There is some debate as to where the original cabin site was, some believe that Missouri [...]
Linda Goodman
Born as Mary Alice Kemery in Morgantown, West Virginia on April 9, 1925, Linda Goodman grew up to be a New York Times bestselling American astrologer and poet.After graduating from Parkersburg High School in 1943, she went on to host [...]
Lyle Leverich
Biographer Lyle Leverich was born in Brooklyn, NY, as Augustus Lyle Leverich, Jr. He served in the Navy during World War II and after a momentary, unsuccessful career writing screenplays and stories, he opened a bookstore in Stinson Beach, CA. [...]
Maria Marin
Maria Marin is a native of Puerto Rico and an international motivational speaker, national newspaper columnist, author, and radio host. She is known worldwide for her expertise in the “Art of Negotiation,” and her wealth of knowledge in this area [...]
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo was born to an Italian family living in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of New York City on October 15, 1920. Upon graduating from the City College of New York, Puzo decided to join the United States Air Force [...]
Mother Love
The multi-talented and “even more fabulous” , motivational speaker, and humorist. Mother Love has lost over 100 pounds and has improved her diabetes management through hard choices and healthy lifestyle changes. She is a published author; veteran of television sitcoms, [...]
Everson Walls
Everson Walls was born on December 28, 1959 in Dallas, Texas. He did not start playing the game of football until his senior year at Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas. At the end of the regular season, [...]
Casey Johnson
Quote: “I’m Casey Johnson. I’m not ‘The Johnson & Johnson Girl.’” Johnson & Johnson heiress Casey Johnson was the daughter of New York Jets owner Robert Wood “Woody” Johnson. She was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 8 years old, [...]
Cynthia Ice
Cynthia Ice was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1959, to Inez L Busch, MD, and John F. Ice, MD. Ice’s parents were both employed by the US Public Health Service, and the family moved often. At the age of [...]
Damon Dash
Raised in East Harlem by a single mother who worked as a secretary, Damon Dash is a multi-preneur who has had his hands in a bit of everything from the very beginning in the early 1990’s. He began by hosting [...]
Douglas Cairns
In 1989, Douglas Cairns was a British Royal Air Force jet pilot at the age of 25 when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and consequently lost his flying career. In 2000 he regained the freedom to fly in [...]
George Smith
George Smith was the son of famous Bermudian entertainer, Hubert Smith Sr.. In his adult life, Smith shared his father’s love for music and played with him in his calypso band, Hubert Smith and The Coral Islanders. Singing and playing [...]
Howard Hughes
Quote: “Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.” One of the most famed billionaires in American history, Howard Hughes applied his skills early on as a businessman to [...]
Jim Hamblin
Jim Hamblin, a beloved reporter from Southern California, covered politics and the State Capital for radio stations such as KCBS and KFBK. He is fondly remembered for his witty tone, which was present even during times of tragedy. Some highlights [...]
Larry Miller
Larry Miller was born April 26, 1944 as Lawrence Horne West. Two years after his birth, his mother and father divorced, and in 1949 he was legally adopted by his stepfather, who changed the Larry's last name to Miller. As [...]
Milton Rubincam
Milton Rubincam, often called ``the dean of American genealogists'' by the Smithsonian Institution, was a leading genealogist and a well-known author who began the trend of pursuing the histories of families. Rubincam, who primarily taught himself, attended Temple University in [...]
Tom Foster
Thomas Orrin Foster was the youngest of three sons born to Max Foster, founder of Foster Poultry Farms, one of the nation’s top privately held companies. Thomas developed diabetes as a child, which led to heart problems. His brother [...]