* 1916 – Ezra Jack Keats, American author ( d. 1983 )

Ezra Jack Keats's John Henry: An American Legend, published in 1965, is a notable picture book chronicling the history of John Henry and portraying him as the " personification of the medieval Everyman who struggles against insurmountable odds and wins.

* Keats, Ezra Jack ( 1965 ) John Henry, An American Legend.

Ezra Jack Keats illustrated the first four novels in the series.

In addition to Yeats, Cuala published works by Ezra Pound, Jack B. Yeats, Robin Flower, Elizabeth Bowen, Oliver St John Gogarty, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, Lionel Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, John Masefield, Frank O ' Connor, John Millington Synge, John Butler Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore and others.

* Ezra Jack Keats, children's picture book author and illustrator.

His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy ( 1980 ), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff ( 1983 ), Emmett in Silverado ( 1985 ), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October ( 1990 ), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ), Roger in Training Day ( 2001 ), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum ( 2007 ), and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch ( 2011 ).

Ezra Jack Keats ( March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983 ) was a children's literature author and illustrator.

In 1947 he petitioned to legally change his name to Ezra Jack Keats, in reaction to the anti-Semitic prejudice of the time.

After his death, the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, which he had established in 1964, became active.

253 in Brooklyn was renamed the Ezra Jack Keats International School.

* Night ( compiled by Ezra Jack Keats, photographs by Beverly Hall, 1969 )

* Ezra Jack Keats Foundation website

* " The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats ," Claudia J. Nahson, Jewish Museum / Yale University Press, 2011.

* Ezra Jack Keats ( 1916-1983 ), American author

A publisher of hardcover fiction and nonfiction, Knopf's list of authors includes John Banville, Max Beerbohm, Carl Bernstein, Willa Cather, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Fernanda Eberstadt, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph J. Ellis, James Ellroy, Anne Frank, Lee H. Hamilton, Carl Hiaasen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Thomas Kean, John Keegan, Christopher Lasch, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriella De Ferrari, Cormac McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, P. D. Ouspensky, Christopher Paolini, Henry Petroski, Ezra Pound, Anne Rice, Dorothy Richardson, Andy Russell, Susan Swan, Donna Tartt, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Andrew Vachss, Carl Van Vechten, James D. Watson, Edmund White and Elinor Wylie.

* 1964 Speedy Digs Downside Up ( illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats )

According to the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah theory, it contains material set aside from the rest of the book of Ezra, which was canonized first.

Ezra-Nehemiah, grouped as a single book with the title " Ezra ", was translated into Greek around the middle of the 2nd century BC.

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

( Haggai 1: 14-15 ) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516 BCE " The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Nothing is known of the biography of the author of the book of Malachi although it has been suggested that he may have been Levitical ( which is curious, considering that Ezra was a priest.

The philosopher and astronomer Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra ( c. 1140 ) established the symmetry of binomial coefficients, while a closed formula was obtained later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( better known as Gersonides ), in 1321.

According to First Esdras, a non-canonical Greek translation of the Book of Ezra, he was also a high priest.

Ezra, a descendant of Seraiah the high priest, was living in Babylon when in the seventh year (~ 457 BCE ) of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, the king sent him to Jerusalem to teach the laws of God to any who did not know them.

Once this task was completed Nehemiah had Ezra read the Law of Moses ( the Torah ) to the assembled Jews, and the people and priests entered into a covenant to keep the law and separate themselves from all other peoples.

The apocalyptic fourth book of Ezra ( also called the second book of Esdras ) was written c. AD 100, probably in Hebrew-Aramaic.

" Ezra restores the law that was destroyed with the burning of the Temple in Jerusalem.

According to Bamidbar Rabbah, Ezra was doubtful of the correctness of some words in the Torah and said, " Should Elijah ... approve the text, the points dots that he scribed above the letters will be disregarded ; should he disapprove, the doubtful words will be removed from the text ".

According to tradition, Ezra was the writer of the Books of Chronicles.

Mary Joan Winn Leith in The Oxford History of the Biblical World believes that Ezra was an historical figure whose life was enhanced in the scripture and given a theological buildup.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda ( née Gray ) and Eugene Ezra Hackman.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

* Ezra Orion ( born 1934 ), Israeli artist

The poet Ezra Pound was born there in 1885.

Ezra T. Benson was born here and became a famous Mormon Missionary and Utah Territory legislator.

* Ezra Koenig ( born 1984 ), musician.

* Thaddeus C. Pound, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and grandfather of the poet Ezra Pound, was born in Elk Township.

* Ezra Miller ( born 1992 ), actor.

Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( Hebrew: אברהם אבן עזרא or ראב " ע, Arabic ابن عزرا ; also known as Abenezra ) ( 1089 — 1164 ) was born at Tudela, Navarre Tudela, Navarre ( now in Spain ) in 1089, and died c. 1167, apparently in Calahorra.

( born Hilda Doolittle ; September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961 ) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington.

Ezra Feivel Vogel ( born July 11, 1930 ) is an Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and has written on Japan, China, and Asia.

The poet Ezra Pound ( 1885 – 1972 ) was born in Idaho but spent much of his adult life in Europe.

* Hen Ezra ( born 1989 ), Israeli footballer

* Abraham ibn Ezra, scholar-probably born in Tudela

Reiser married Paula Ravets on August 21, 1988 and they have two children: Ezra Samuel ( born September 1995 ) and Leon ( born 2000 ).

Baddiel has two children with his girlfriend, fellow comedian Morwenna Banks: a daughter, Dolly Loveday ( born 2001 ) and a son, Ezra Beckett ( born 2004 ).

Frank Raymond Leavis was born in Cambridge, England, in 1895, about a decade after T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, literary figures whose reputations he would later contribute to enhancing.

Sarah told Ezra Stiles of Yale that she was born at East Haven and Dr. Blair Rudes confirmed that she was indeed Quinnipiac.

She was one of five children born to Anna Westover and Ezra Ball.

Ezra Sims ( born January 16, 1928 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition.

Charles Ezra Sprague ( October 9, 1842 – March 21, 1912 ) was an American accountant, born in Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York.

He was, according to Moses ibn Ezra, born in Fes.

Ezra Hendrickson ( born January 16, 1972 in Layou, St. Vincent ) is a retired Vincentian footballer.

Allan Ezra Gotlieb, ( born February 28, 1928 ) is a Canadian public servant and author.