* Pulitzer Prize biography ( 2003 )

In 2003, she received international acclaim for her biography Zoya ’ s Story-An Afghan Woman ’ s Battle for Freedom.

Despite her popularity and significance, another Tubman biography for adults did not appear for 60 years, until Jean Humez published a close reading of Tubman's life stories in 2003, and Larson and Clinton both published their biographies in 2004.

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Scott Connors, 2003 ); Cave of a Thousand Tales by Milt Thomas ( a biography of pulp writer Hugh B. Cave, 2004 ); Other Worlds Than Ours, another collection by Nelson Bond ( 2005 ); and Evermore ( a collection of tales in tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, ed.

In 2003, writer-artist Art Spiegelman and artist Chip Kidd collaborated on a Cole biography, a portion of which had been published in The New Yorker magazine in 1999.

* Mark Sturdy, Truth & Beauty: The Story of Pulp ( Omnibus Press, 2003 )-comprehensive biography

* In 2003, Morecambe's eldest son Gary released " Life's Not Hollywood, It's Cricklewood ", a biography of his father from the point of view of his family, using family photos and extracts from previously unseen diaries.

In Dreamer of Dune, Brian Herbert's 2003 biography of his father, the younger Herbert speculates that the name " Gesserit " is supposed to suggest to the reader the word " Jesuit " and thus evoke undertones of a religious order.

In the most recent book, Rystads biography from 2003, the king is again mainly characterized as a strong-willed shaper of Sweden through economical reforms and an achievement of financial and military stability and strength.

Wood's childhood in Menahga was documented by Bhob Stewart in the illustrated biography, Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood ( TwoMorrows Publishing, 2003 ).

This same view is also expressed by Roy Martin Haines, in his 2003 biography of the king.

* Tobias Wolff, Old School ( 2003 ), loosely based on Wolff's life although more novel than biography.

Modern biographical works such as the 2003 article by Winfried Müller in Saxon biography avoid the problem by not discussing the exact date and circumstances of Zedler's financial collapse in detail.

Other Monteux students included John Canarina, whose 2003 biography was the first full-length study of the conductor in English, and Charles Bruck, one of Monteux's first pupils in Paris, who became music director of the school in Hancock after Monteux's death.

In his 2003 biography of Curtis Mayfield, titled " People Never Give Up ", author Peter Burns noted that Curtis has 140 songs in the Curtom vaults.

The major reference work on his music in English is a biography entitled The Sea on Fire by the British music critic Paul Griffiths ( 2003 ).

( In 2003, Landau published in Russia a biography of her late ex-husband.

A short biography was also done by William Dallmann, reprinted in 2003.

In 2003, Stephan Reimertz, Parisian novelist and art historian, published the biography of Max Beckmann.

Black subsequently completed a 1, 280-page biography, in 2003.

In 2003 Tobin authored his biography titled " All In Good Time ".

The Duke's early life is dramatised in Stephen Poliakoff's 2003 television serial The Lost Prince, a biography of the life of the Duke's younger brother John, who suffered from epilepsy, was isolated from most of the family and also kept away from public gaze, and who died at the age of 13.

It has won the £ 5, 000 Duff Cooper Prize for an outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics, the £ 3, 000 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada.

* 1904 – Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor ( b. 1904 )

* 1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian conductor ( b. 1924 )

* 1922 – Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor ( d. 2003 )

** Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor ( died 2003 )

** Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor ( d. 2003 )

Many conductors have made their debut with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, and several have gone on to become the artistic director, or primary summertime guest conductor at Ravinia, including Seiji Ozawa ( 1964 – 1968 ), James Levine ( 1973 – 1993 ), and Christoph Eschenbach ( 1995 – 2003 ).

The Engberg family's affiliation with the Seattle Symphony has been subject to many subsequent embellishments, some of which have come from the Seattle Symphony organization itself ( including literature celebrating the Symphony's 2003 centennial ), that Mary Davenport Engberg was the Seattle Symphony's first female conductor, the first and only female conductor in the nation, that the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Civic Symphony merged in 1921, and that her son, Paul, played cello in the Seattle Symphony.

" Throughout the orchestra's 2003 centennial celebrations Engberg was touted as an example of the orchestra association's progressiveness in having had a female conductor, although research reveals that she never actually worked for the organization.

** Edwin Carr, composer and conductor ( d. 2003 )

* May 15-John Lanchbery, composer and conductor ( d. 2003 )

16, Bogna Bartosz, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman, Antoine Marchand 2003

An all-Mozart double CD was released in 2003 featuring both orchestral and chamber music with Pinchas Zukerman as conductor and violin soloist.

An egalitarian organization, the AOV elects its own conductor, which as of July 2003 is Thomas-Michael Gribow.

Osmo Vänskä, a Finnish conductor, music director since 2003, took the orchestra into its second century.

The first professional recording of Monckton works, including The Cingalee, was made in 2003 by Theatre Bel-Etage chorus and orchestra, conductor Mart Sander.

That year, it also appointed Edo de Waart as the orchestra's chief conductor and artistic director ; he held the post until 2003.

In recent years, keynote graduation speakers have included future Attorney General Eric Holder ( 2001 ), former President Bill Clinton ( 2002 ), GE CEO Jack Welch ( 2003 ), United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan ( 2004 ), CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein ( 2005 ), Late Night comedian Conan O ' Brien ( 2006 ),> American Symphony Orchestra conductor / Bard College president Leon Botstein ( 2007 ), New York Times reporter David Herszenhorn ( 2008 ), actress / alumna Lucy Liu ( 2009 ), David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama ( 2010 ), and writer / alum Gary Shteyngart ( 2011 ).

* Antonio Vivaldi, Orlando furioso ( 3 CD ), Federico Maria Sardelli, conductor, Amadeus Speciale, February 2003 / CPO, 2007

Since September 2005, the American conductor David Robertson is the Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony, having been named to that position in December 2003.

In 2003, Jarreau and conductor Larry Baird collaborated on symphony shows around the United States, with Baird arranging additional orchestral material for Jarreau's shows.