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--Jostein Gaarder (b. 1952)
Norwegian author.
_Sophie's World_ [1996]

--Clark Gable (1901—1960)
American film actor.


--Zsa Zsa Gabor [Sari Gabor] (b. 1917)
Hungarian-born film actress.

--Emile Gaboriau (1832—1873)
French novelist.
_Monsieur Lecoq_ [1869]

--Thomas Gage (c. 1721—1787)
British general who commanded all British forces in North America from 1763—1774.

--Neil Gaiman (b. 1960)
English science fiction author.
_American Gods_ [2001]

--John Kenneth Galbraith (1908—2006)
American economist.
_The Great Crash, 1929_ [1955]
_The Affluent Society_ [1958]
_The Age of Uncertainty_ [1977]
_A Life in Our Times: Memoirs_ [1981]

--Galen (129—199)
Greek physician, anatomist, and writer on medicine and philosophy.
_On the Natural Faculties_

--Bishop of Munster, Cardinal Count August von Galen (1878—1946)
Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

--"Two-Ton" Tony Galento (1910—1979)
American boxer.

--Galileo Galilei (1564—1642)
Tuscan astronomer and physicist.

--Paul Gallico (1897—1976)
American sportswriter and novelist.
_The Snow Goose_

--George Galloway (b. 1954)
Scottish politician.

--John Galsworthy (1867—1933)
British author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

--Lιon Gambetta (1838—1882)
French republican statesman.

--Indira Gandhi (1917—1984)
Prime Minister of India [1966—1977] and [1980—1984].
She was assasinated by Sikh extremists.

--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule.
_An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth_ [1927]
_Young India_ [weekly journal published 1919—1932]
_Ethical Religion_ [1930]
_Non-Violence in Peace and War_ [1942]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Louis Fischer _The Life of Mahatma Gandhi_ [1950]
Robert Payne _The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi_ [1969]

--Greta Garbo [Greta Lovisa Gustafsson] (1905—1990)
Swedish actress.

--Arne Garborg (1851—1924)
Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright.

--Ava Gardner (1922—1990)
American actress.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Roland Flamini _Ava_ [1983]

--Ed Gardner (1901—1963)
American radio comedian.

--Hy Gardner (1908—1989)
American journalist.

--James Alan Gardner (b. 1955)
Canadian science fiction author.
_Radiant_ [2004]

--John Champlin Gardner (1933—1982)
American novelist and teacher.

--John Edmund Gardner (b. 1926)
British spy novelist.

--John W. Gardner (1912—2002)
American administrator.
_No Easy Victories_ [1968]

--James A. Garfield (1831—1881)
20th President of the United States [1881].
Biographies and/or related books about:
William Ralston Balch _Garfield's Words: Suggestive Passages From
The Public And Private Writings Of James Abram Garfield_ [1881]
William Makepeace Thayer _From Log-Cabin to
the White House: Life of James A. Garfield_ [1881]

--Hamlin Garland (1860—1940)
American author and winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for literature.
_Prairie Folks_ [1893]
_A Little Norsk_[1892]
_A Daughter of the Middle Border_ [1921]

--Judy Garland [Frances Gumm] (1922—1969)
American motion-picture singer and actress.

--John Nance Garner (1868—1967)
American Democratic politician.

--Janeane Garofalo (b. 1964)
American actress and political activist.

--David Garrick (1717—1779)
English actor-manager.

--Walt Garrison (b. 1944)
American football player.

--William Lloyd Garrison (1805—1879)
American abolitionist and reformer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Wendell Phillips Garrison & Francis Jackson Garrison
_William Lloyd Garrison 1805—1879: The Story of His Life ..._ [1889].

--Heathcote William Garrod (1878—1960)
British classical scholar.

--Marcus Garvey (1887—1940)
Jamaican born journalist, crusader for black nationalism.

--George Gascoigne (c. 1535—1577)
English poet.

--Josι Ortega y Gasset (1883—1955)
Spanish philosopher.
_Meditaciones del Quijote_ (Meditations on Quixote) [1914]
_La rebeliσn de las masas_ (The Revolt of the Masses) [1930]

--Bill Gates (b. 1955)
American software pioneer, CEO of Microsoft.

--John Warne Gates (1855—1911)
American industrialist, speculator, and gambler.

--Paul Gauguin (1848—1903)
French artist.

--Charles de Gaulle (1890—1970)
French general and politician.

--Jules de Gaultier (1858—1942)
French author and philosopher.

--Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777—1855)
German mathematician and scientist.

--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
_Fables_, pt. 1 [1727]

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--Eric Geddes (1875—1937)
British politician and administrator.

--Marcus Gee
Canadian journalist.

--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.
_Horton Hatches the Egg_ [1940]
_How the Grinch Stole Christmas_ [1957]
_The Lorax_ [1971]
_Oh, the Places You'll Go!_ [1990]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Charles D. Cohen, _The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing But
the Seuss, A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel_ [2004]

--Bob Geldof (b. 1954)
Irish rock musician.

--David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955)
Professor of computer science at Yale injured opening a package from the "Unibomber."
_Drawing Life: Surviving the Unibomber_ [1997]

--Martha Gellhorn (1908—1998)
American novelist and journalist.
_Travels With Myself and Another_ [1978]

--Aulus Gellius (130—180)
Latin author and grammarian.

--Harold S. Geneen (1910—1997)
English-born American communications executive.

--Genghis Khan (1167—1227)
Mongolian warrior-ruler.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Michael Hoang _Genghis Khan_ [1988]

--Eugene D. Genovese (b. 1930)
American historian.

--George II (1683—1760)
King of Great Britain and Ireland (1727—1760).

--King George IV (1762—1830)
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1820—1830].

--George V (1865—1936),
King of the United Kingdom [1910—1936].

--Walter George (1878—1957)
American politican.

--John Gerard (1545—c.1615)
English botanist.
_Herball or General Historie of Plantes_[1597]

--Norman Geras (b. 1943)
Rhodesia-born British profeessor and writer.

--George Gerbner (1919—2005)
American professor of mass communication.

--George Gershwin (1898—1937)
American composer.

--Ira Gershwin (1896—1983)
American songwriter.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Philip Furia _Ira Gershwin_ [1966]

--Bene Gesserit
Fictional group from Frank Herbert's _Dune_.

--"Get Smart" [American TV show 1965—1970]

--J. Paul Getty (1892—1976)
American industrialist and founder of Getty Oil.

--Arnold Geulincx [pseu.: Philaretus] (1624—1669)
Flemish metaphysician and logician.

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--Colonel Dinshah Ghadiali (1873—1966)
Indian-born American medical quack.

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--A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938—1989)
President of Yale and Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
_The Green Fields of the Mind_ [1977]

--Edward Gibbon (1737—1794)
English historian.
_The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ [1776—1788]

--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_The Prophet_ [1923]
_Sand and Foam_ [1926]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Anthony Ferris (translator) _A Second Treasury of Kahlil Gibran_ [1962]
Anthony Ferris (ed. & trans.) _Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran_ [1963]

--Edmund Gibson (1669—1748)
English theologian and jurist.

--John Gibson (b. 1946)
American radio talk show host.
_Hating America: The New World Sport_ [2004]

--Andrι Gide (1869—1951)
French novelist and critic; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.
_Le traite' du Narcisse_ [1891]
_Les Nourritures Terrestres_ [1897]
_Les Faux Monnayeurs_ [1926]

--Sir John Gielgud (1904—2000)
English theatre and film actor.

--"Gigi" [1958 film]

--W. S. Gilbert (1836—1911)
English writer of comic and satirical verse.
_Trial by Jury _ [1875]
_H.M.S. Pinafore_ [1878]
_Pirates of Penzance_ [1879]
_The Mikado_ [1885]
_Ruddigore_ [1887]
_The Yeomen of the Guard_ [1888]
_His Excellency_ [1894]

--Strickland Gillian (1869—1954)
American poet and humorist.

--Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860—1935)
Leading theorist of the women's movement in the United States.
_Women and Economics_ [1898]

--Bernard Gilpin (1517—1583)
English theologian.

--Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)
American politician.

--Haim Ginott (1922—1973)
Israeli-born teacher and author of parenting books.
_Between Parent and Child_ [1965]

--Allen Ginsberg (1926—1997)
American "Beat" poet.
_Howl_ [1956]

--Genevieve Davis Ginsburg
_To Live Again: Rebuilding Your Life After You've Become a Widow_ [1987]

--Nikki [Yolande Cornelia] Giovanni (b. 1943)
American poet and author.

--George Gipp (1895—1920)
American football player.

--Delphine de Girardin (1804—1855)
French author.

--Jean Giraudoux (1882—1944)
French dramatist.
_The Madwoman of Chailot_ [1945]

--Lillian Gish (1896—1993)
American stage and movie actress.

--Todd Gitlin (b. 1943)
American political writer and professor of journalism.
_The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage_ [1987]

--Rudy Giuliani (b. 1944)
Mayor of New York City [1994—2001].

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--William Gladstone (1809—1898)
British Liberal statesman, Prime Minister [1868-74, 1880-85, 1892-94].
Biographies and/or related books about:
John Morley _Life of William Ewart Gladstone_ [1903]

--Ellen Glasgow (1873—1945)
American novelist.
_The Shadowy Third_ [1923]

--Carter Glass (1858—1946)
American newspaper publisher and politician.

--Jackie Gleason (1916—1987)
American comedian and actor.

--John H. Glenn, Jr (b. 1921)
American astronaut and U.S. Senator [1974—1999].

--Germain G. Glidden (1913—1999)
National squash racquets champion in the 1930's and 1950's;
founder of the National Art Museum of Sport, based in Indianapolis.

--Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714—1787)
German opera composer.

--Anthony Glyn (1922—1998)
British novelist.
_The British: Portrait of a People_ [1970]

--Elinor Glyn [Elinor Sutherland] (1864—1943)
British novelist and scriptwriter.

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--Bob Goalby (b. 1929)
American professional golfer.

--George Gobel (1919—1991)
American comedian.

--Bob Goddard (1893—1945)
American physicist and one of the inventors of rocket propulsion.

--Arthur Godfrey (1903—1983)
American entertainer.

--Mike Godwin (b. 1956)
American lawyer and author.

--William Godwin (1756—1836)
English social philosopher and political journalist.
_An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its
Influence on General Virtue and Happiness_ [1793]

--Joseph Goebbels (1897—1945)
German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda.
_The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943_, tr. Louis P. Lochner [1948]

--Hermann Goering (1893—1946)
German Nazi leader.
Biographies and/or related books about:
W. Frischauer _Goering_ [1951]

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Torquato Tasso_ [1790 play]
_Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_ (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship) [1795—1796]
_Hermann and Dorothea_ [1797]
_Faust_ [1808 - Part 1] [1832 - Part 2]
_Elective Affinities_ [1809]
_Maxims and Reflections_ [1819]
_Proverbs in Prose_ [1819]
_Almanac for the Muses_ [1831]
Biographies and/or related books about:
_Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature,
Science, and Art_ [John W. Parker, London, 1853]
John Stuart Blackie _The Wisdom of Goethe_ [1883]
Emil Ludwig (ed.) _The Practical Wisdom of Goethe_ [1933]
Stephen Spender (ed.) _Great Writings of Goethe_ [1958]
Gyφrgy Lukαcs _Goethe and His Age_ [1967]

--Oliver St John Gogarty (1878—1957)
Irish physician and writer of humerous verse.

--Nikolai Gogol (1809—1852)
Russian writer.
_The Inspector-General_ [1836]

--Robert F. Goheen (1919—2008)
American classical scholar and educator who was
President of Princeton University for fifteen years.

--Isaac Goldberg (1887—1938)
American writer.

--Jonah Goldberg (b. 1969)
American conservative commentator and author.

--Paul Goldberger
American journalist and architecture critic.

--William Golding (1911—1993)
English novelist and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_Lord of the Flies_ [1954]

--Emma Goldman (1869—1940)
Lithuanian-born international anarchist who conducted leftist
activities in the United States from 1890 to 1917.
_Anarchism and Other Essays_ [1911]
_Living My Life_ [1931]

--Carlo Goldoni (1707—1793)
Italian dramatist.
_La Pamela_ [1750]

--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
_The Citizen of the World_ [1762]
_The Captivity_ [1764 play]
_The Traveller: Or, A Prospect of Society_ [1764]
_The Vicar of Wakefield_ [1766 novel, completed 1762]
_The Good-Natur'd Man_ [1768 play]
_She Stoops to Conquer_ [1773 play]
Biographies and/or related books about:
Arthur Friedman (ed.) _The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith_, 5 vol. [1966]

--Barry Goldwater (1909—1998)
American conservative politician.
_Why Not Victory?_ [1962]

--Samuel Goldwyn [Schmuel Gelbfisz] (1882—1974)
American film producer.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Alva Johnston _The Great Goldwyn_ [1937]
Arthur Marx _Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth_ [1976]

--Vernon (Lefty) Gomez (1908—1989)
American major-league baseball player.

--Samuel Gompers (1850—1924)
American labor union leader.

--"Gone with the Wind" [1936 movie]

--Maud Gonne (1867—1953)
English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Nancy Cardozo _Lucky Eyes and a High Heart: The Life of Maud Gonne_ [1978]

--Jane Goodall (b. 1934)
English primatologist who studied chimpanzee social and family life for forty years.

--Terry Goodkind (b. 1948
American fantasy author.
_Wizard's First Rule_ [1994]

--Ellen Goodman (b. 1941)
American journalist.

--Roy Goodman (b. 1930)
American politician.

--Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793—1860)
American publisher and children's books under the pseudonym of Peter Parley.

--Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
South African novelist and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
_Not for Publication and Other Stories_ [1965]

--Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833—1870)
Australian poet, jockey and politician.

--Ruth Gordon (1896—1985)
American actress.

--Al Gore (b. 1948)
American politician.

--Gorgias of Leontini (c. 483 B.C.—375 B.C.)
Greek sophist and rhetorician.

--Maxim Gorky (1868—1936)
Russian writer and revolutionary.
_Enemies_ [1906]

--Fred G. Gosman
American author.
_How to Be a Happy Parent ... In Spite of Your Children_ [1995]

--Edmund Gosse (1849—1928)
English translator and literary historian.

--Stephen Gosson (1554—1624)
English satirist.
_The Ephemerides of Phialo_ [1579]

--Sondra Gotlieb (b. 1936)
Canadian journalist and novelist; married to the
former Canadian ambassador to the U.S..

--John Bartholomew Gough (1817—1886)
English-born American social reformer.

--Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818—1897)
English churchman; Dean of Norwich [1866—1889].

--Jack Gould (1914—1993)
Television critic of the New York Times [1947—1972].

--Jay Gould (1836—1892)
American financier and railroad magnate.

--Stephen Jay Gould (1941—2002)
American palaeontologist.
_Ever Since Darwin_ [1977]
_The Mismeasure of Man_ [1981]
_An Urchin in the Storm_ [1987]

--Rιmy de Gourmont (1858—1915)
French novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher.
_The Dissociation of Ideas_ [1899]

--Anagarika Govinda [Ernst Lothar Hoffman] (1898—1985)
German-born author & founder of the Buddhist Order Arya Maitreya Mandala.

--Alex M. Gow
_Good Morals and Gentle Manners_ [1873]

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--Baltasar Graciαn (1601—1658)
Spanish Jesuit philosopher.
_The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647]

--Billy Graham (b. 1918)
American Christian evangelist.

--Bob Graham (b. 1936)
American politician.

--Clementina Stirling Graham (1782—1877)
Scottish writer.

--D.M. Graham (1911—1999)
Oxford pacifist.

--Harry Graham (1874—1936)
English writer and journalist.
_Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899]

--Katharine Graham (1917—2001)
American publisher.

--Martha Graham (1894—1991)
American dancer and choreographer.

--Phil Gramm (b. 1942)
American Republican politician.

--Cary Grant [Alexander Archibald Leach] (1904—1986)
English actor.

--Ulysses S. Grant (1822—1885)
American Unionist general and 18th President of the United States [1869—1877].
Biographies and/or related books about:
Michael Korda _Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero_ [2004]
Edward G. Longacre _General Ulysses S. Grant_ [2006]
John Mosier _Grant_ [2006]

--Gunther Grass (b. 1927)
Polish born Nobel Prize winning author.

--Shirley Anne Grau (b. 1929)
American author.
_The Keepers of the House_ [1965], winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

--Robert Graves (1895—1985)
English poet.

--Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664—1718)
Italian man of letters and jurist.

--Andy Gray (b. 1955)
Scottish football player.

--John Gray (b. 1951)
American author.
_Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus_ [1992]

--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" [1747]
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" [pub. 1751]

--Lucy Grealy (1963—2002)
American poet.

--Horace Greeley (1811—1872)
American newspaper editor.
_Hints Toward Reforms_ [1850]
_The American Conflict_ [1864—1866]

--Abel Green (1900—1973)
American journalist.

--Adolph Green (1915—2002)
American lyricist and playwright who teamed with
Betty Comden on most of his work.

--Dallas Green (b. 1934)
American professional baseball player and manager.

--Bob Greene (b. 1947)
American journalist.
_Cheeseburgers: The Best of Bob Greene_ [1985]

--Felix Greene (1909—1985)
British-American journalist.
_The Enemy: What Every American Should Know About Imperialism_ [1970]

--Graham Greene (1904—1991)
English novelist.
_The Power and the Glory_ [1940]
_The Heart of the Matter_ [1948]
_Ways of Escape_ [1980]

--Robert Greene (1558—1592)
English playwright.
_Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_ [acted 1594]

--William I. Greener Jr. (b. 1925)
American publicist.

--Meg Greenfield (1930—1999)
American journalist and editor of the editorial page of the "Washington Post."

--Alan Greenspan (b. 1926)
American economist and former Chairman of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve [1987—2006].

--Philip Greenspun (b. 1963)
American computer scientist.
_Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing_ [1999]

--Grace Greenwood [pseudonym of Sara Jane Lippencott] (1823—1904)
American poet, newspaper woman, and essayist.
_New Life in New Lands_ [1873]

--Lee Greenwood (b. 1942)
American country singer-songwriter.

--Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
Australian feminist.
_The Female Eunuch_ [1970]
_Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility_ [1984]

--Dick Gregory (b. 1932)
American comedian and social activist.
_From the Back of the Bus_ [1962]
_Dick Gregory's Political Primer_ [1972]

--Stephen Grellet (1773—1855)
French missionary.

--Fulke Greville (1554—1628)
English philosophical poet.

--Sir Edward Grey (1862—1933)
British Liberal politician.

--Mervyn Griffith-Jones (1909—1979)
British lawyer.

--John Grigg (1924—2001)
British writer and journalist.

--Baron Friedrich von Grimm, Friedrich Melchior (1723—1807)
French author.

--Ken Grimwood (1944—2003)
American author.
_Replay_ [1986]

--Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906—1963)
American historian and educator.
_Essays on Education_ [1954]

--Erwin N. Griswold (1904—1994)
American lawyer and professor of law.

--Lewis Grizzard (1946—1994)
American author and commentator on the American South.

--Bruce Grocott (b. 1940)
British politician.

--Matt Groening (b. 1954)
American cartoonist, creator of "The Simpsons."

--Gerard Groote (1340—1384)
Dutch Roman Catholic reformer; some scholars believe
Groote was the author of "The Imitation of Christ."

--Vasily Grossman (1905—1964)
Russian writer and journalist.
_Forever Flowing_ [1972]

--Hugo Grotius (1583—1645)
Dutch philosopher. playwright, and poet.

--Andrew Grove (b. 1936)
American businessman.

--Edwin Osgood Grover (1870—1965)
American publisher and educator.
_From Friend to Friend: A Partnership in Friendship_ [1913]

--Leslie R. Groves (1896—1970)
General in charge of the Manhattan Project.

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--Philip Guedalla (1889—1944)
British barrister and author.
_Supers and Supermen_ [1920]

--Edgar Guest (1881—1959)
American poet.

--Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928—1967)
Argentinian revolutionary.

--Francesco Guicciardini (1483—1540)
Florentine historian and statesman.

--Mary Cecelia Louise "Texas" Guinan (1884—1933)
American saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur.
Biographies and/or related books about:
Louise Berliner, _Texas Guinan, Queen of the Night Clubs_ [1993]

--Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
American poet and essayist.
_Happy Ending_ [1909]

--Arthur Guiterman (1871—1943)
American poet.

--Sacha Guitry (1885—1957)
Russian-born French actor and director.

--Jean Guitton (1901-1999)
French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
_A Student's Guide to Intellectual Work_ [1951]

--Nubar Gulbenkian (1896—1972)
British industrialist and philanthropist.

--John Gunther (1901—1970)
American author.
_Inside Europe_ [1936]
_Inside Asia_ [1939]
_Inside USA_ [1947]
_The Riddle of MacArthur_ [1951]
_Inside Europe Today_ [1961]

--Dorothy Frances Gurney (1858—1932)
English poet.

--Joan Gussow (b. 1928)
American organic-food advocate and professor.

--Woody Guthrie (1912—1967)
American folksinger and songwriter.
_This Land is Your Land_ [1956 song]

--Arthur Gutterman (1871—1943)

--Edmund Gwenn (1875—1959)
English actor.

--Albert von Szent-Gyφrgyi (1893—1992)
Hungarian-born biochemist; winner of the 1937 Nobel prize for Medicine.


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