Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

James's correspondents included celebrated contemporaries like Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, along with many others in his wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

In fiction, some of the best-known names are J. M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse.

They had seven children, five of whom lived to adulthood: Ralph, Joseph II, Constance, Edith and Herbert.

Wells, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Radclyffe Hall, Noël Coward, Edith Nesbit, Rumer Godden, and Conrad Aiken.

Siegel grew up in New York City, the son of Joseph, a commercial education teacher, and Edith, a secretary at Stuyvesant High School.

* Thomas B. Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism

York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May ( née Chown ), a musician ; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores.

Nicholson was born in 14 St George's Terrace, a Victorian terraced house and shop in the small industrial town of Millom on the edge of the Lake District, the son of Joseph Nicholson, a gentleman's outfitter, and his wife Edith Cornthwaite ( died 1919 ).

Rzeznik was born in Buffalo, New York, the youngest of five children of Edith ( née Pomeroy ) and Joseph Rzeznik, a bar proprietor and postal clerk.

* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )

* 1944 – Edith McGuire, American runner

* 1862 – Edith Wharton, American writer ( d. 1937 )

* Blumhofer, Edith L. Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture.

" Bradbury's favorite writers growing up included Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote about the American South, Edith Wharton, and Jessamyn West.

Axson died in 1914, and in 1915 Wilson married Edith Galt, a direct descendant of the Native American woman Pocahontas.

** Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author ( b. 1876 )

* August 11 – Edith Wharton, American writer ( b. 1862 )

** Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author ( d. 1957 )

** Edith Storey, American actress ( b. 1892 )

** Edith Head, American costume designer ( b. 1897 )

* January 24 – Edith Wharton, American writer ( d. 1937 )

* February 3 – Edith Barney, American female professional baseball player ( d. 2010 )

* August 20 – Edith Roberts, American actress ( b. 1899 )

But the historic sites that he sees prove to be far less significant than the American expatriates that he meets on his extensive journeys across Great Britain and continental Europe ' He eventually meets Edith Cortright, an expatriate American widow in Venice, who is everything his wife is not: self-assured, self-confident, and able to take care of herself.

Roman Holiday ( 1953 ) introduced Audrey Hepburn to American audiences and led to Oscars for Best Actress ( Hepburn ), Costume Design ( Edith Head ), and Best Writing ( Dalton Trumbo ).

While most of the artistic community gathered here were struggling to eke out an existence, well-heeled American socialites such as Peggy Guggenheim, and Edith Wharton from New York City, Harry Crosby from Boston and Beatrice Wood from San Francisco were caught in the fever of creativity.

In the heats of the event, she equalled Wilma Rudolph's World Record, propelling her to a favored position for the final, where her main rival would be fellow American Edith McGuire.

* Edith Wharton ( 1862 – 1937 ), American novelist, short story writer, and designer

* Amelia Edith Barr ( née Huddleston ), American novelist, born in Ulverston

* In the American television series from the 1970s, All In The Family, the character Edith Bunker reminisced about a weekend she spent at the Lake with a boy she was dating, and his parents.

* Eve Taylor ( born 1928 ); the mother was one of his followers, American socialite Edith Annesley Taylor.

* American Women's Singles Championship – Myrtle McAteer defeats Edith Parker 6 – 2 6 – 2 6 – 0

Eleanor's older sister, Edith, was the mother of John Foster Dulles, who also became a U. S. Secretary of State, Allen Welsh Dulles, a Director of Central Intelligence, and Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a diplomat and noted author.

These selected manuscripts are forwarded to the Director of the Workshop, National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo, who does the final screening and formally approves the final lineup of writing fellows.

* The Edith Adamson Award for Leadership in Issues of Conscience in 1995.

* Closely Watched Trains, translated by Edith Pargeter with a foreword by Josef Škvorecký, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1995

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM ( 28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995 ), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was a British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics ; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.

Tomlin brought Edith Ann to the forefront again in the 1990s with three animated prime-time television specials and also publishing Edith Ann's " autobiography " My Life ( co-written by Jane Wagner ) in 1995.

* Edith Ballantyne ( 1995 )

A study of Far and her life, Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography by Annette White-Parks, was published in 1995.

* Edith Balas, " Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: a new Interpretation ", Philadelphia, 1995

* 1993 – 1995 Edith F. Losa

In 1927 Van der Post met Marjorie Edith Wendt ( d. 1995 ), daughter of the founder and conductor of the Cape Town Orchestra.

A twin sister, Edith, was introduced in 1995, but a year after that character's appearance " Mother Anderson " became known as " Edith Anderson ," the name which has stuck since.

* Edith Balas, " Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation ", Philadelphia, 1995