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--James Caan (b. 1940)
American actor.

--James Branch Cabell (1879—1958)
American novelist and essayist.
_The Silver Stallion_ [1926]

--Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864—1936)
American clergyman and author.

--Herb Caen (1916—1997)
American newspaper columnist.

--Gaius Julius Caesar (100 B.C.—44 B.C.)
Roman military and political leader.
"Commentarii de Bello Gallico" [c. 50 B.C.]

--Sammy Cahn (1913—1993)
American songwriter.

--Renι Cailliι (1799—1838)
French explorer who was the first European to visit Timbuktu and return.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Galbraith Welch _The Unveiling of Timbuctoo_ [1939]

--James M. Cain (1892—1977)
American novelist.
_The Postman Always Rings Twice_ [1934]

--Michael Caine [Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)
British actor.

--Nigel Calder (b. 1931)
British science writer and environmentalist.

--Taylor Caldwell [Janet Taylor Caldwell] (1900—1985)
American novelist born in England; she also wrote
under the pseudonym of Max Reiner.
_The Devil's Advocate_ [1952]

--John C. Calhoun (1782—1850)
American political leader who was U.S. congressman,
secretary of war, vice president [1825—1832], senator,
and secretary of state. He championed states' rights.
and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Hermann Von Holst _John C. Calhoun_ [1882]

--John Callahan (b. 1951)
American cartoonist.

--Maria Callas (1923—1977)
American-born operatic soprano.

--June Callwood (1924—2007)
Canadian author.
_Portrait of Canada_ [1981]

--Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734—1802)
French statesman.

--Charles Stuart Calverley (1831—1884)
English poet.

--John Calvin (1509—1564)
French Protestant theologian of the Reformation.

--(Dom) Hιlder Cβmara (1909—1999)
Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop.

--William Camden (1551—1623)
English antiquary and historian.
_Remains Concerning Britain_ [1605]

--"Camelot" [1960 play]

--James Cameron (b. 1954)
Canadian-born American film director.

--Simon Cameron (1799—1889)
American politician.

--Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817—1878)
English hymn-writer.

--Mrs. Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Stella Tanner] (1865—1940)
British stage actress.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Alan Dent _Mrs. Patrick Campbell_ [1961]
Margot Peters _Mrs. Pat : The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell_ [1984]

--Thomas Campbell (1777—1844)
Scottish poet.
"Hallowed Ground" [1825]
Biographies and/or related books about:
William Beattie (ed.) _Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell_ [3 vols., 1849]

--Tony Campolo (b. 1935)
American pastor and author.

--Albert Camus (1913—1960)
French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_L’Ιtranger_ ("The Stranger") [1942]
_La Peste_ ("The Plague") [1947]
_L'Homme rιvoltι_ ("The Rebel") [1951 essay]
_The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays_ [1955 English ed.]
{published in French in 1942}
_La Chute_ ("The Fall") [1956]
_American Journals_ (Paragon House, First English translation edition July 1987)

--Elias Canetti (1905—1994)
Bulgarian-born writer and novelist.
_Das Geheimherz der Uhr_ (The Secret Heart of the Clock) [1987]

--George Canning (1770—1827)
British statesman; prime minister [1827].

--Jimmy Cannon (1910—1973)
American sportswriter, war correspondent, and essayist.

--Eddie Cantor (1882—1964)
American comedian, actor, singer, and songwriter.
_The Way I See It_ [1959]

--Karel Capek (1890—1938)
Czech novelist.
_Letters from England_ [1927]

--Al (Alphonse Gabriel) Capone (1899—1947)
American gangster.

--Truman Capote (1924—1984)
American writer and novelist.
_In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences_ [1966].

--Al Capp (1909—1979)
American cartoonist.

--Frank Capra (1897—1991)
Sicilian-born American film director.
_Frank Capra, The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography_ [1971]

--Orson Scott Card (b. 1951)
American writer.

--Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576)
Italian mathematician and astrologer.

--Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870—1938)
American jurist and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1932—1938].
_The Paradoxes of Legal Science_ [1928]
_Law and Literature_ [1931]

--Thomas Carew (1595—1639)
English poet.

--Drew Carey (b. 1958)
American actor and comedian.

--Will Carleton (1845—1912)
American poet.
_Farm Ballads_ [1873]

--George Carlin (1937—2008)
American stand-up comedian and author.
_Brain Droppings_ [1997]

--Richard Carlson (1961—2006)
American author, psychotherapist, and motivational speaker.
_Don't Sweat the Small Stuff_ [1996]

--Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801—1866)
English hostess and letter writer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
J.A. Froude _Letters and Memorials_ [1883]
K.J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen {ed.} _Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters_

--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_Goethe_ (essay) [1828]
_Signs of the Times_ [1829]
_Characteristics_ [1831]
_Sartor Resartus_ [1831]
_The French Revolution: A History_ [1837]
_On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History_ [1841]
_Past and Present_ [1843]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Henry Larkin _Carlyle and the Open Secret of his Life_ [1886]

--Stokely Carmichael (1941—1998)
American Black Power leader.

--Andrew Carnegie (1835—1919)
American businessman and philanthropist of Scottish birth.

--Dale Carnegie (1888—1955)
American writer and lecturer.
_How to Win Friends and Influence People_ [1936]
_How to Stop Worrying and Start Living_ [1948]

--Mrs. Julia Fletcher Carney (1823—1908)
American educator and poet.
"Little Things" [1845]

--Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (1801—1888)
French statesman.

--Carol II (1893—1953)
King of Rumania [1930—1940]

--Emily Carr (1871—1945)
Canadian artist.

--Alexis Carrel (1873—1944)
French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
_Man, the Unknown_ [1935]
_Reflections on Life_ [1952]

--Lord Carrington (b. 1919)
British Conservative politician.

--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865]
_Thorough the Looking-Glass_ [1872]
_The Hunting of the Snark_ [1872]
_Sylvie and Bruno_ [1889]

--William Herbert Carruth (1859—1924)
American educator and author.

--Johnny Carson (1925—2005)
American comedian; host of The Tonight Show [1962-92].

--Rachel Carson (1907—1964)
American marine biologist and author.
_The Sense of Wonder_ [1956]
_Silent Spring_ [1962]

--Chris Carter (b. 1956)
American producer and director.

--Jimmy Carter (b. 1924 )
American Democratic statesman, President [1977—1981].
_Keeping Faith_ [1982]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Robert Shogan _Promises to Keep: Carter's First 100 Days_ [1977]

--Lillian Carter (1898—1983)
U.S. matriarch, mother of American President.

--Barbara Cartland (1901—2000)
British writer of romantic fiction.

--Gaspar de Carvajal (1500—1584)
Spanish Dominican missionary.

--George Washington Carver (1864—1943)
American agricultural chemist and agronomist.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Raleigh Howard Merritt _From Captivity to Fame:
Or, The Life of George Washington Carver_ [1929]

--James Carville (b. 1944)
American political strategist.

--Joyce Cary [Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary] (1888—1957)
Irish novelist and artist.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Barbara Fisher _Joyce Cary: The Writer and His Theme_ [1980]

--Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount of Falkland (1610—1643)
English politician, soldier and author.

--Phoebe Cary (1824—1871)
American poet.

--"Casablanca" [1942 movie]

--Pablo Casals (1876—1973)
Spanish-born cellist and conductor.

--Frank Case (fl. 1938)
American hotel manager.
_Tales of a Wayward Inn_ [1938]

--Sir Roger Casement (1864—1916)
British public servant who was executed for treason and became an Irish martyr.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Brian Inglis _Roger Casement_ [1973]

--Johnny Cash (1932—2003)
American country singer and songwriter.

--Lewis Cass (1782—1866)
American military officer and politician.

--Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 490—585)
Roman statesman and writer.
_Variae_

--Carlos Castaneda (1925—1998)
Peruvian-born American author.
_A Separate Reality_ [1971]
_Journey to Ixtlan_ [1972]

--Bernal Diaz del Castillo (c. 1498—c. 1568)
Spanish historian.
_The Conquest of New Spain_ [c. 1560]

--Barbara Castle (1910—2002)
British Labour politician.

--Fidel Castro (b. 1926)
Political leader of Cuba from 1959.

--Cataline (108—62 B.C.)
Roman politician.

--Willa Sibert Cather (1873—1947)
American novelist.
_O Pioneers!_ [1913]
_My Mortal Enemy_ [1926]
_Shadows on the Rock_ [1931]

--Catherine the Great (1729—1796)
Empress of Russia fron 1762—1796.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Katherine Anthony _Catherine the Great_ [1926]

--Marcus Porcius Cato [byname Cato The Censor, or Cato The Elder] (234—149 BC)
Roman statesman, orator, and the first Latin prose writer of importance.

--Cato the Younger (96—46 B.C.)
Roman politician and statesman.

--Carrie Chapman Catt (1859—1947)
American women's suffrage leader.

--Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC)
Latin poet.

--Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810—1861)
Piedmontese statesman who helped bring about the unification
of Italy and served as the first prime minister.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Quoted in Charles de Mazade _The Life of Count Cavour_ [1877].

--Madison Julius Cawein (1865—1914)
American poet.

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--Lord Edward Gascoyne-Cecil (1867—1918)
British soldier and colonial administrator in Egypt.

--Richard Cecil (1748–1810)
Anglican clergyman.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Josiah Pratt _Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil_ [1817]

--Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
(1830—1903) British prime minister (1885—1886, 1886—1892, 1895—1902).

--Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (1893—1972)
British Tory politician.

--Louis-Ferdinand Cιline [Louis Ferdinand Destouches] (1894—1961)
French author and doctor.
_Journey to the End of the Night_ (Voyage au bout de la nuit) [1932]

--Bennett Cerf (1898—1971)
American author, humorist, and publisher.
_Try and Stop Me_ [1944]

--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
"Don Quixote de la Mancha" [1605—1615]
_Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote_ [pub. by D. Appleton, NY, 1867]

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--Michael Chabon (b. 1963)
American author.

--Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828—1914)
Major General, Union Army, then four-term governor of
Maine and twelve years as President of Bowdoin College.
_The Passing of the Armies_ [1915]

--Joseph Chamberlain (1836—1914)
British businessman, social reformer, and politician; (father of Neville Chamberlain.)

--Neville Chamberlain (1869—1940)
British Conservative politician, Prime Minister [1937—1940].

--Oswald Chambers (1874—1917)
Scottish Protestant minister and teacher.
_My Utmost For His Highest_ (lectures) [1927]

--Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.
_Pensιes, maximes et anecdotes_ [1795]

--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_Farewell, My Lovely_ [1940]
_The Little Sister_ [1949]
_The Long Goodbye_ [1953]

--Coco Chanel (1883—1971)
French fashion designer.

--Iris Chang (1968—2004)
American historian.
_The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II_ [1997]

--William Ellery Channing (1780—1842)
American Unitarian clergyman and author.
"Remarks on the Life and Character of Napolean Bonaparte" [1827-1828]

--Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880)
American clergyman and author.
_Humanity in the City_ [1854]
_Living Words_ [1861]

--Harry Chapin (1942—1981)
American singer and songwriter.

--Charlie Chaplin (1889—1977)
English film actor and director.
_My Autobiography_ [1964]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Lita Grey Chaplin _My Life with Chaplin_ [1966]

--Ralph Chaplin (1887—1961)
American poet, writer, and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World.
_Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin_ [1922]

--Arthur Chapman (1873—1935)
American writer and editor.

--George Chapman (c. 1559—1634)
English playwright.
_The Blind Beggar of Alexandria_ [1596]
_All Fools_ [1605]

--Graham Chapman (1941-1989)
English comedian, actor, writer, and physician.

--John Jay Chapman (1862—1933)
American author and critic.

--Charlemagne (742—814)
Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor.

--Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1948)
British prince.

--Elizabeth Charles {nθe Rundle} (1828—1896)
English religious writer.
_Chronicle of the Schonberg-Cotta Family_ [1863]

--Hughie Charles (1907—1995)
British songwriter.

--Ray Charles (1930—2004)
American pianist and soul singer.

--Martin Charnin (b. 1934)
American lyricist, writer, and composer.

--Charondas (6th century B.C.)
Greek legislator.

--Pierre Charron (1541—1603)
French moralist.

--Emile Auguste Chartier (1868—1951) - see Alain

--Ilka Chase (1905—1978)
American author and actress.
_Free Admission_ [1948]

--Franηois-Renι de Chateaubriand (1768—1848)
French writer and diplomat.
_Le Gιnie du Christianisme_ [1802]
_Itinιraire de Paris ΰ Jιrusalem_ (Route from Paris to Jerusalem) [1811]

--Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343—1400)
English poet.
_The Canterbury Tales_ [c. 1387]

--Hugo Chavez (b. 1954)
President of Venezuela [1998— ].

--Paddy Chayefsky (1923—1981)
American playwright and screenwriter.

--John Cheever (1912—1982)
American novelist and short story writer.
_The Journals of John Cheever_ [1991]

--Anton Chekhov (1860—1904)
Russian dramatist and short-story writer.
_Uncle Vanya_ [1897]
_The Cherry Orchard_ [1904]
_Notebooks_ [1921]

--Richard Chenevix (1774—1830)
Irish poet and scholar

--Dick Cheney (b. 1941)
The forty-sixth Vice President of the United States [2001—2009.]

--John Vance Cheney (1848—1922)
American poet.

--Margaret Cheney (b. 1921)
American journalist and author.
_Tesla: Man Out of Time_ [1981]

--Cher [Cheryl Sarkisian LaPierre] (b. 1946)
American actress and singer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Mary Anne Cassata _The Cher Scrapbook_ [2002]

--Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886—1959)
British polar explorer.

--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Biographies and/or related books about:
_Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son_ [1827],
Pub. by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope in 3 vols.
_The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son_ [1901], Charles Strachey (ed.)

--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_The Defendant_ [1901]
_The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ [1904]
_Heretics_ [1905]
_Charles Dickens: A Critical Study_ [1906]
_Orthodoxy_ [1908]
_The Man Who Was Thursday_ [1908]
_All Things Considered_ [1908]
_Tremendous Trifles_ [1909]
_The Innocence of Father Brown_ [1911]
_The Wisdom of Father Brown_ [1914]
_The Uses of Diversity_ [1920]
_What I Saw in America_ [1922]

--Maurice Chevalier (1888—1972)
French singer and actor.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Michael Freedland _Maurice Chevalier_ [1981]

--Chiang Kai-Shek (1887—1975)
Chinese military and political leader.

--Madame Chiang Kai-Shek [Soong Mei-ling] (1898—2003)

--Julia Child (1912—2004)
American chef, television personality, and author.
_From Julia Child's Kitchen_ [1975]

--Lydia Marie Child (1802—1880)
Amercan abolitionist and suffragist.
_Flowers for Children_ [1844—1846]

--William Chillingworth (1602—1644)
English theologian.

--Chilon (6th cent. B.C.)
One of the Seven Sages of Greece.

--Jacques Chirac (b. 1932)
President of the French Republic [1995-2007].

--Shirley Chisholm (1924—2005)
American politician.
_Unbought and Unbossed_ [1970]

--Joseph H. Choate (1832—1917)
American lawyer and diplomat.

--Frank Chodorov (1887—1966)
American libertarian and author.

--Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
American linguistics scholar.
_Syntactic Structures_ [1957]

--Frιdιric Chopin (1810—1849)
Polish composer.

--Christian X (1870—1947)
King of Denmark [1912—1947] who symbolized the nation's
resistence to the German occupation during World War II.

--Agatha Christie (1890—1976)
English crime fiction writer.
_An Autobiography_ [1977]

--Julie Christie (b. 1941)
British actress.

--Theodor Christlieb (1833—1889)
German Evangelist theologian.

--Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347—407)
Early Church Father, biblical interpreter, and archbishop of Constantinople.

--Chuang-tzu (369—286 B.C.)
Chinese interpreter of Taoism.

--Christine Chubbuck (1944—1974)
American television news reporter.

--Forrest Church (1948—2009)
American theologian and author.
_Freedom from Fear: Finding the Courage to Act, Love, and Be_ [2004]

--Francis Pharcellus Church (1839—1906)
American journalist.

--Charles Churchill (1731—1764)
English poet.
"The Farewell" [1764]

--Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854—1921)
American-born British mother of Winston Churchill.

--Lord Randolph Churchill (1849—1894)
British Conservative politician.

--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55].
_The River War_ [1899]
_The World Crisis_ [5 vols., pub. 1923-1931]
_My Early Life_ [1930]
_The Gathering Storm_ [1948]
_The Second World War_ [1948—1951]
_A History of the English Speaking Peoples_, 4 vol. [1956—1958]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Robert Lewis Taylor _Winston Churchill: An Informal Study of Greatness_ [1952]
Geoffrey Willans and Charles Roetter _The Wit of Winston Churchill_ [1954]
Bill Adler (ed.) _The Churchill Wit_ [1965]
Robert Rhodes James (ed.) _Winston S. Churchill:
His Complete Speeches 1897—1963_ [1974, 8 vol.]
William Manchester _The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill 1874-1932_ [1983]
Martin Gilbert _Churchill: A Life_ [1991]
J.L. Lane (ed.) _The Sayings of Churchill_ [1992]
James C. Humes _The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill_ [1994]

--Winston Churchill (1871—1947)
American novelist.

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--Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903—1944)
Italian politician.

--John Ciardi (1916—1986)
American poet, translator, and etymologist.

--Colley Cibber (1671—1757)
English actor and playwright.
_Love's Last Shift_ [1696]

--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 B.C.)
Roman orator and statesman.
_In Catilinam I-IV_ [63 B.C.]
_Orationes Phillipiae_ [c. 60 B.C.]
_Epistolae ad Atticum_ (59—54 B.C.)
_De Oratore_ (On The Orator) [55 B.C.]
_Paradoxa Stoicorum_ [46 B.C.]
_De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum_ (On the Ends of Good and Evil) [45 B.C.]
_Tusculanae Disputationes_ (Tusculan Disputations) [c. 45 B.C.]
_De senectute_ (On Old Age) [45-44 B.C.]
_De divinatione_ (On Divination) [44 B.C.]
_De officiis_ (On Duties) [44 B.C.]

--E. M. Cioran (1911—1995)
Romanian-born French philosopher.
_The Trouble with Being Born_ [1973]

--"Citizen Kane" [1941 film]

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--Tom Clancy (b. 1947)
American novelist.
_The Sum of All Fears_ [1991]

--Eric Clapton (b. 1945)
English singer and guitarist.

--Kenneth Clark (1903—1983)
British author, museum director, broadcaster, and art historian.
_Civilisation: A Personal View_ [1970]

--Ramsey Clark (b. 1927)
American lawyer and former United States Attorney General.

--Thomas Campbell Clark (1899—1977)
American lawyer, Attorney General, and Justice of the Supreme Court [1949—1967].

--Adam Clarke (1762—1832)
British Methodist theologian.

--Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917—2008)
English science-fiction writer.
_Childhood's End_ [1953]
_The Challenge of the Spaceship_ [1959]
_Profiles of the Future_ [1962]

--James Freeman Clarke (1810—1888)
American preacher and author.

--John Clarke (1596—1658)
Comp. _Proverbs: English and Latine_ [1639]

--Kenneth Clarke (b. 1940)
British Conservative politician.

--Thurston Clarke (b. 1946)
American writer and historian.
_Equator_ [1988]

--Jeremy Clarkson (b. 1960)
British journalist and broadcaster.

--Claudian (c. 370—c. 404)
Roman poet.

--Karl von Clausewitz (1780—1831)
Prussian soldier and military theorist.
_On War_ [1832]

--Henry Clay (1777—1852)
American politician.

--Lucius Clay (1897—1978)
U.S. army officer who became the first director of civilian
affairs in defeated Germany after World War II.

--[Leroy] Eldridge Cleaver (1935—1998)
American black militant.
_Soul on Ice_ [1968]

--John Cleese (b. 1939)
British comedian and actor.

--Georges Clemenceau (1841—1929)
French statesman.
Biographies and/or related books about:
J. Hampden Jackson _Clemenceau and the Third Republic_ [1946]

--Pope Clement I (Clemens Romanus)
[Pope from c.88 -101.]

--Cleobulus (6th cent. B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

--Grover Cleveland (1837—1908)
22nd [1885-1889] and 24th [1893—1897] President of the U.S..
Biographies and/or related books about:
Allan Nevins _Grover Cleveland_ [1932]

--Voltairine de Cleyre (1866—1912)
American anarchist.
_Anarchism and American Traditions_ [1908]

--Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (b. 1946)
American Democratic statesman and president [1993—2001].
Biographies and/or related books about:
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard _The Secret Life of Bill Clinton_ [1997]

--George Clinton (b. 1941)
American rhythm and blues musician.

--Hillary Clinton (b. 1947)
American politician.

--Arthur Hugh Clough (1819—1861)
English poet.
"Dipsychus" [written 1850, pub. 1865]

--William Benton Clulow (1802—1882)
English clergyman.
_Aphorisms and Reflections_ [1843]

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--Irvin S. Cobb (1876—1944)
American journalist and author.

--William Cobbett (1763—1835)
English politician, agriculturist, and journalist.
_Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women_ [1831]

--Johnnie Cochran (1937—2005)
American lawyer.

--Jean Cocteau (1889—1963)
French poet.

--Paulo Coelho (b. 1947)
Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
_The Alchemist_ [1993]
_The Devil and Miss Prym_ [2000]

--J.M. [John Maxwell] Coetzee (b. 1940)
South-African professor and author; won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.

--Lenore Coffee (1897—1984)
American screenwriter.
_Popcorn in Paradise_
_Storyline; Recollections of a Hollywood Screenwriter_ [1973]

--William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924—2006)
American clergyman and peace activist.

--George M. Cohan (1878—1942)
American songwriter, dramatist, and producer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
John McCabe _George M. Cohan_ [1973]

--Roy Cohn (1927—1986)
American lawyer.

--Sir Edward Coke (1552—1634)
English writer on law.

--Nicholas Colasanto (1924—1985)
American actor and director.

--Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619—1683)
Controller general of finance and secretary of
state for the navy under Louis XIV of France.
_Memoir on Commerce, A Document Presented to the King_ [3 August 1664]

--Frank Moore Colby (1865—1925)
American educator and writer.
_Imaginary Obligations_ [1904]
_The Colby Essays_ [1926]

--Hartley Coleridge (1796—1849)
English poet.

--Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861—1907)
English poet.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
_Osorio_ [1797]
_The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_ [1798]
_Biographia Literaria_ [1817]
_The Friend_ [1828]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Henry Nelson Coleridge (ed.)
_Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ [1835]
Joseph Cottle _Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge and Robert Southey_ [1847]

--William Hart Coleridge (1789—1849)
British Bishop of Barbados and the Leeward Islands [1824—1842].

--Joan Collins (b. 1933)
British actress.

--J. Churton Collins (1848—1908)
British author, critic, and scholar.

--Mary Collyer (c. 1716—1762)
English translator and novelist.

--John Robert Colombo (b. 1936)
Canadian writer.
_Popcorn in Paradise_ [1980]

--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820]

--Betty Comden (1919—2006) & Adolph Green (1915—2002)
Lyricists and screenwriting duo.

--Henry Steele Commager (1902—1998)
American historian.
_Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent_ [1954]
_Freedom and Order_ [1966]

--Philippe de Commynes {also spelled Comines} (c. 1447—1511)
French statesman and chronicler.

--Anna Comnena (1083—1153)
Byzantine historian.
_The Alexiad_ [c.1148]

--Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884—1969)
English novelist.
_Daughters and Sons_ [1937]
_Mother and Son_ [1955]

--James Bryant Conant (1893—1978)
American chemist, educational administrator, and professor.

--Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743—1794)
French philosopher.

--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_

--William Congreve (1670—1729)
English dramatist.
"The Old Bachelor" [1693]
"Love for Love" [1695]
"The Mourning Bride" [1697]
"The Way of the World" [1700]
Biographies and/or related books about:
John C. Hodges (ed.) _William Congreve: Letters and Documents_ [1964]

--John Connally (1917—1993)
American politician.

--Michael Connelly (b. 1956)
American author of detective novels.
_The Narrows_ [2004]

--Cyril Connolly (1903—1974)
English writer.
_Enemies of Promise_ [1938]
_The Unquiet Grave_ [1944]
_Ideas and Places_ [1953]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Clive Fisher _Cyril Connolly: A Nostalgic Life_ [1995]

--Patrick E. Connor (1820—1891)
American general.

--William Connor [Cassandra] (1909—1967)
British journalist.

--Robert Conquest (b. 1917)
English historian.
_Reflections on a Ravaged Century_ [1999]

--Joseph Conrad [Teodor Jσzef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski] (1857—1924)
Polish-born English novelist.
_An Outcast of the Islands_ [1896]
_Youth_ [1898 autobiographical short story]
_Lord Jim_ [1900]
_Heart of Darkness_ [1902]
_Under Western Eyes_ [1911]

--Russell H. Conwell (1843—1925)
American lawyer, author, clergyman, and educator.

--Eliza Cook (1818—1889)
English poet.

--James Cook (1728—1779)
British naval captain, navigator, and explorer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
J.C. Beaglehole (ed.) _The Journals of Captain James Cook:
The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768—1771_ [1955]

--Peter Cook (1937—1995)
English satirist and actor.

--Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (1908—2004)
British-born American broadcater and journalist.
_Letters from America_ [1951]
_America_ [1973]
_Six Men_ [1977]
_Memories of the Great and the Good_ [2000]

--Edmund Vance Cooke (1866—1932)
Canadian poet.
_Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed_ [1903]
_Little Songs for Two_ [1909]

--Sam Cooke (1931—1964)
American R&B and pop singer.

--Terence Cooke (1921—1983)
American cardinal.

--"Cool Hand Luke" [1967 film]

--Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933)
American Republican statesman and President [1923—1929].
_Autobiography_ [1929]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Michael Hennessy _From a Green Mountain Farm to the White House [1924]
Ishbel Ross _Grace Coolidge and Her Era: The Story of a President's Wife_ [1962]

--David Cooper (b. 1931)
South African psychiatrist.
_The Death of the Family_ [1970]

--Gary Cooper (1901—1961)
American film actor.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Larry Swindell _The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper_ [1980]

--James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851)
American novelist.
_The Last of the Mohicans_ [1826]
_The American Democrat_ [1838]
_The Deerslayer_ [1841]

--Tommy Cooper (1921—1984)
Welsh comedian and magician.

--Edward Drinker Cope (1840—1897)
American paleontologist and evolutionist.

--Aaron Copland (1900—1990)
American composer.

--Harvey W. Corbett (1873—1954)
American architect.

--James (Gentleman Jim) Corbett (1866—1933)
American boxer; heavyweight champion [1892—1897].

--Angel Cordero Jr. (b. 1942)
Puerto-Rican born jockey.

--Marie Corelli (1855—1924)
British author.
_The Life Everlasting_ [1911]

--Pierre Corneille (1606—1684)
French dramatist.
_Le Cid_ [1636]
_Polyeucte_ [1640]
_Hιraclius_ [1647]

--Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel (1605—1694)
French society hostess.
_Lettres de Mille Aοssι_ [1728]

--Bill Cosby (b. 1937)
American comedian.

--Howard Cosell (1918—1995)
American sports journalist and author.
_Like It Is_ [1974]

--Cosimo I de' Medici (1519—1574)
Duke of Florence [1537-1574].

--Elvis Costello [Declan MacManus] (b. 1954)
English singer and songwriter.

--Charles Cotton (1630—1687)
English poet and writer.
_The Sleeper_ [1689]

--Ιmile Couι (1857—1926)
French psychologist and pharmacist.
_How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion_ [1923]

--Ann Coulter (b. 1961)
American lawyer, author, and consevative commentator.
_Treason - Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism_ [2003]

--Norman Cousins (1915—1990)
American publisher.

--Jacques Cousteau (1910—1997)
French underwater explorer.

--Stephen Covey (b. 1932)
American author.
_The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_ [1989]

--Noλl Coward (1899—1973)
English playwright, actor, and composer.
_Blithe Spirit_ [1941]
_Future Indefinite_ [1954]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Dick Richards _The Wit of Noλl Coward_ [1968]
Philip Hoare _Noλl Coward: A Biography_ [1996]

--Abraham Cowley (1618—1667)
English poet and essayist.

--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
_The Task_ [1785]
_Poems by William Cowper_ [2 vols., 1794]

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--George Crabbe (1754—1832)
English poet.
_The Borough_ [1810]
_Tales of the Hall_ [1819]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Edward Clodd _George Crabbe: A Biography_ [1865]

--Roger Craig (b. 1930)
American Major League baseball pitcher.

--Dinah Mulock Craik (1826—1887)
English writer and poet.
_A Life for a Life_ [1859]
_Magnus and Morna_ [1881]

--Stephen Crane (1871—1900)
American author and journalist.
_War Is Kind and Other Lines_ [1899]

--Adelaide Crapsey (1878—1914)
American poet.
"The Immortal Residue" [1915]

--Joan Crawford [Lucille Fay LeSueur] (1904—1977)
American actress.

--Thomas Creech (1659—1700)
English classical scholar and translator.
_The Odes , Satires and Epistles of Horace_ [1684]

--Thomas Creevey (1768—1838)
English politician.

--Bishop Mandell Creighton (1843—1901)
English historian and ecclesiastic.

--Michel Guillaume Jean de Crθvecoeur (1735—1813)
French-born American agriculturalist, writer, and diplomat.
_Letters from an American Farmer_ [1782]

--Michael Crichton (1942—2008)
American author.
_State Of Fear_ [2004]

--Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (1908—1999)
English writer.
_The Naked Civil Servant_ [1968]
_How to Become a Virgin_ [1981]

--Judith Crist (b. 1922)
American film critic.

--John Jordan Crittenden (1787—1863)
American statesman.

--David Crockett (1786—1836)
American folk hero who died at the Alamo.
_Exploits and Adventures in Texas_ [1836]
Biographies and/or related books about:
John S.C. Abbott _David Crockett: His Life & Adventures_ [1874]

--Croesus (595— c. 547 BC)
Lydian king [560BC-547 BC].

--Herbert Croly (1869—1930)
American political writer and editor.
_The Promise of American Life_ [1909]

--Oliver Cromwell (1599—1658)
English soldier and statesman; Lord Protector from 1653.

--A. J. [Archibald Joseph] Cronin (1896—1981)
British doctor and novelist.
_The Citadel_ [1937]

--Betsy Cronkite (1916—2005)

--Walter Cronkite (1916—2009)
American broadcast journalist.
_A Reporter's Life_ [1996]

--Bing Crosby (1903—1977)
American singer and film actor.

--David Crosby (b. 1941)
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter; an original member
of both The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

--Howard Crosby (1826—1891)
American preacher and teacher.

--Amanda Cross [pseu. of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun] (1926— 2003)
American academic and author.

--Russell Crowe (b. 1964)
New Zealand-born film actor.

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--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (b. 1934)
Psychology professor at the University of Chicago.
_Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience_ [1990]

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--Countee Cullen (1903—1946)
American poet.
_The Medea and Some Poems_ [1935]

--Richard Cumberland (1631—1718)
English theologian, Anglican bishop, and philosopher of ethics.

--Richard Cumberland (1732—1811)
English dramatist.

--E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894—1962)
American poet.
_A Miscellany_ [1958]

--William Thomas Cummings (1903—1945)
American priest.

--Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)
American lawyer and politician.

--Will Cuppy (1884—1949)
American humorist and journalist.

--Marie Curie [nιe Sklodowska] (1867—1934)
Polish-born French physicist who was the co-winner of the 1903 Nobel
Prize for Physics and the winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

--John Philpot Curran (1750—1817)
Irish judge.

--George William Curtis (1824—1892)
American essayist, editor, and reformer.

--Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz] (1925—2010)
American actor.

--George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon (1859—1925)
British statesman, viceroy of India (1898—1905), and foreign secretary [1917—1924].

--George Armstrong Custer (1839—1876)
American cavalry officer.

--Astolphe Louis Leonard, Marquis de Custine (1790—1857)
French writer, playwright, poet and traveler.
_La Russie en 1839_, vol I [1843]

--Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D.D. (1822—1909)
American clergyman.
_Recollections of a Long Life_ [1902]

--Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619—1655)
French satirist and dramatist.
_The Other World: States and Empires of the Moon_ [1656]


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