Media and art

ARTISTS

Artist sought the return of her work forced to complete as concentration camp prisoner

Former professional football player who became a successful figurative painter.

Art historian teamed with husband Claes Oldenberg to turn ordinary objects into startling public art.

A wildly expressive and fearlessly opinionated painter who skewered racial and sexual stereotypes with hilarious force.

Modernist sculptor and muralist.

Artist who specialized in creating primitive-looking assemblages from found objects and whose journals received national recognition.

Painter who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based "Abstract Classicists."

Ojai-based master potter, educator and symbol of the midcentury California studio crafts movement.

Painter and museum director helped develop art scene in L.A.

Controversial Austrian artist

Conceptual artist and San Francisco Bay Area guru.

Collaborator with her husband Christo in creating massive environmental works of art.

Hopi artist and jeweler.

Novelist, newspaper columnist and sculptor who as a member of Israel's founding generation helped define modern Israeli culture.

San Francisco artist whose whimsical wheeled sculptures helped popularize the fringe art-car movement, drowned while body-surfing.

Self-taugh artist created mosaic window for Masonic temple in San Francisco.

Ceramics artist and educator who revealed the lives of leading Native Americans potters.

Mexican modernist silversmith.

Artist and potter who taught classes at San Fernando Valley nonprofit school.

Artist and art historian who served as founding director of the National Museum of American Art and played key roles at the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Feminist artist who examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war.

Acclaimed St. Louis artist best known for his "Falling Man" series.

Painter whose durable and realistic scenes of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's best loved artists.

Landscape artist known for his realistic paintings of California scenes.

AUTHORS

Russian writer who was among the last wave of dissidents to be expelled from the Soviet Union.

TV historian wrote The 'I Love Lucy Book, an early definitive appreciation of the classic sitcom.

Novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars.

United Artists official was fired over "Heaven's Gate" debacle and wrote best-selling memoir on making of movie.

British science-fiction author best known for his atypical biographical work "Empire of the Sun."

Uruguayan author whose bestselling poems and novels helped launch Latin America's postwar literary boom.

Producer and literary agent who with humorist Art Buchwald sued Paramount Pictures for using their concept for the 1988 film "Coming to America."

Former CIA operative who became a syndicated newspaper columnist, liberal co-host of the CNN talk show "Crossfire" and author of "Eight Is Enough," a 1975 memoir that spawned the popular television series.

Celebrity columnist for Parade magazine and author who wrote about tycoons of the fashion industry and the Marine "grunts" of the Korean War.

Wrote and edited books on popular culture

Writer whose 1976 book "Friendly Fire" about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam struck a chord with disillusioned Americans.

Prize-winning writer known for her dense, unskimmable prose in such works of fiction as "False Entry" and "In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks."

Poet and punk rocker wrote wry tales of rocky adolescence as an athlete-turned-junkie in the 1978 memoir "The Basketball Diaries."

Wrote "Life and Death in Shanghai," a riveting account of the Cultural Revolution.

Family physician who gained fame as the author of the Spanish Bit Saga novels about the Plains Indians.

Lincoln scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.

French author, fighter for France's World War II Resistance movement and writer of one of its anthems.

Author and former producer specialized in writing about celebrity court cases.

Wrote finale for 'The Fugitive' and produced 'Duel," TV movie directed by a young Steven Spielberg.

Israeli author who examined Jewish history and the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Time writer posed question 'Is God dead?' in provocative 1966 cover story

Science fiction writer was honored for his storytelling skill.

Friend of President Kennedy, he became an undersecretary of the Navy and then wrote a book about their friendship.

Feminist scholar who wrote provocative 1977 novel "The Women's Room."

Grandson of Sigmund Freud was writer, politician and well-known personality on British radio.

A bestselling author of popular black fiction who shattered barriers by writing about gay characters.

Memoir of growing up in exile in Siberia, "The Endless Steppe," became a classic of children's literature.

Journalist and novelist who wrote about sports, country music and the haunted legacy of the South.

Novelist, essayist and short-story writer explored diversity in California and Hawaii.

Author and essayist who was the last editor of the influential journal Christianity and Crisis.

Minister, author and dedicated orator who once spoke continuously for more than 34 hours to commemorate the Fourth of July.

Author whose World War I aviation novel "The Blue Max" was made into a film in the 1960s.

A mystery writer who created four distinctive detectives for series set in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Moscow.

Writer who started his long career crafting articles for newspapers and magazines and moved on to television scripts and novels.

Former Catholic priest wrote best-selling book calling for reform in the church.

Western author.

Novelist, newspaper columnist and sculptor who as a member of Israel's founding generation helped define modern Israeli culture.

Conservative essayist and editor.

Author and illustrator captured the essence of children's thinking in more than 50 books.

Gag writer for Bob Hope and producer of leading sitcoms including "All in the Family."

Irish playwright wrote Tony Award-winning "Da" and numerous other plays.

Decorated Marine Corps officer, screenwriter, pulp-novelist, movie stuntman and co-founder of Gun World magazine.

Spanish great-grandmother who described herself as the world's oldest blogger.

"Silver Palate" cookbook author revolutionized cooking by popularizing gourmet dishes.

The retired New York schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes."

English novelist

British lawyer and writer who created the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey.

Author and former Iowa farm wife who hounded the U.S. military to find the truth about her son's death in Vietnam.

Literary critic helped found the Library of America, which tried to keep literary classics in print.

Writer was best known for underground works "Cabot Wright Begins" and "Eustace Chisholm and the Works" that inspired censorious outrage and lasting admiration.

Writer whose 1981 book on the Rosenberg proclaimed their innocence.

Author and aviation historian who served as president of the Aero Club of Southern California when the group owned the Spruce Goose.

TV critic for Daily Variety from 1967 to 1997.

San Francisco surgeon who was a pioneer in the use of laparoscopic surgery and later wrote three best-selling books combining anthropology, science and art.

Author and journalist who co-wrote the bestselling golf book "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book."

Playwright best known for "The Runner Stumbles," a drama about a fateful encounter in 1911 between a Catholic priest and a nun.

Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America.

Romance novelist whose 1980 book "Entwined Destinies" was the first novel in the genre to feature African American characters by a black author.

British writer whose works include the novel "Billy Liar."

Coaxed her husband, Caspar W. Weinberger, into politics and wrote and published children's books.

BROADCASTERS

Radio pioneer was known for his flag-waving conservatism.

South African AIDS activist whose radio diaries of her struggle against the virus won her audiences and admiration around the world.

Longtime host of classical music programs on KUSC-FM (91.5).

EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS

Newspaper publisher created television's Weather Channel.

Legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York.

Chairman of Gallup Organization, the opinion poll started by his father.

Lyricist and former vice president and West Coast editor of Cash Box magazine.

Revived the pop-up book as an art form

Influential publisher helped start Atheneum Publishers.

Editor transformed the science journal Nature.

Mogul helped transform Bertelsmann AG from a German book publisher into an international media company.

Writer and editor who co-founded Track & Field News.

A publisher who specialized in audio books and earned a reputation for quick hits with sensational stories, including O.J. Simpson trial figure Faye Resnick's book about Nicole Brown Simpson.

ILLUSTRATORS AND DESIGNERS

Yacht designer and author.

Comic-book collector who was the architect behind the pop-culture showcase in San Diego now known as Comic-Con.

A graphic designer best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film "Yellow Submarine."

Illustrator whose influential work for magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Sports Illustrated.

Artist whose witty caricatures illustrated the New York Review of Books for more than 40 years.

Designer and woodworker whose furniture was prized by collectors, museum curators and U.S. presidents.

Cartoonist worked on TV shows and in Playboy magazine.

Illustrator and production designer who helped visualize several Alfred Hitchcock films.

Grammy Award-winning art director and album cover designer whose work included albums for the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Neil Young and others.

JOURNALISTS

Daily Variety reporter covered Hollywood and announced in 1985 that actor Rock Hudson was suffering from AIDS.

Times foreign correspondent in Latin America from 1967-80.

North Carolina newspaper publisher and editor whose crusades against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950s earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

Former CBS news anchor whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s.

Newsweek journalist who covered the South.

Newspaper editor who in 1978 co-founded the regional Bay City News Service in San Francisco.

Journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 at the Washington Star for her coverage of Virginia school desegregation.

Former Times reporter spent 35 years covering state government.

Former longtime sportswriter for The Times covered boxing, outdoor sports and the WNBA.

Times reporter covered residential real estate market for Business section.

New York Times reporter became State Department specialist on Vietnam War.

San Diego editor whose paper won Pulitzer for air crash coverage

Newspaperman covered Richard M. Nixon's 1946 congressional campaign, then followed the California Republican to the White House.

NBC reporter pioneered economic news on television.

One of the first female combat correspondents covering the Vietnam War.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter helped raise L.A. Times to national prominence.

Copy boy turned reporter who was one of the Los Angeles Times' first Mexican American staff writers.

Syndicated columnist and television commentator who was the first journalist to disclose the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

L.A. sportswriter covered 39 consecutive Super Bowl games.

Journalist who covered skiing and other winter sports for The Times in the 1960s and '70s.

A former Times sportswriter and national correspondent.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who wrote about her battles -- one against sex discrimination at her newspaper, the other against toxic shock syndrome, which nearly killed her.

Former speechwriter for President Nixon won Pulitzer Prize for New York Time columns

Journalist and personal aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Los Angeles Times television critic who covered the TV and entertainment scene for the newspaper from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Journalist reported on life inside Manzanar camp.

Times reporter and education analyst.

Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War.

PATRONS, CURATORS AND COLLECTORS

Collector who caused a sensation in the art world when he bought 240 previously unknown works by the artist Andrew Wyeth.

Major patron of the arts, science and education who was the billionaire widow of publishing magnate Walter Annenberg.

Founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a guiding patron of the Huntington Library.

Philanthropist who ardently supported the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and other cultural institutions.

Curator carried on his mother's work through African American library-museum.

Photograph curator for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Margaret Herrick Library.

Comic-book collector who was the architect behind the pop-culture showcase in San Diego now known as Comic-Con.

Rabbi headed Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for three decades and helped develop the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Physician and HMO pioneer who built the managed-care giant FHP then used his fortune to found the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.

One of the last of Hollywood's celluloid cowboys and a founder of what is now the Autry National Center of the American West.

Art librarian and curator who was a major influence in the emergence of books as an artist's medium.

Painter and museum director helped develop art scene in L.A.

Director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art turned museums from staid institutions into cultural hot spots but had a reputation as a self-promoter

Founder of FoodCraft company and arts patron financed restoration of valuable 1930s-era mural at City of Hope.

Curator of Senegal's historic House of Slaves.

Arts patron and wife of TRW co-founder Simon Ramo.

Artist and art historian who served as founding director of the National Museum of American Art and played key roles at the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

A folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music.

Emeritus senior curator of ornithology and mammalogy at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Former director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

Founded group that made donations to save French art and architecture, forcing the government to match the group's gifts

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Photographer and educator who helped document the evolution of Orange County's Laguna Canyon and the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.

Photographer was one of the few Chinese-Americans to artfully document life in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Art photographer whose pictures of everyday life in New York City's Harlem neighborhood helped clarify the black experience for a wider audience.

New Orleans photographer won acclaim for his pictures of the French Quarter.

Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 -- a group of people scaling a stairway to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop.

Award-winning Italian photographer was known for his images of Pope John Paul II.

Photographer shot Marilyn Monroe when she was 19.

California photographer admired for his stirring images of migrant workers, endangered landscapes and the Black Panthers.

Pioneered street photography in the United States in the 1930s.

Photographer and professor who headed the Missouri School of Journalism's photo sequence and its pictures of the year competition.

Jacksonville Journal photographer was awarded first Pulitzer in spot news photography category for picture of utility worker saving the life of a fellow lineman.

Photographer for the Los Angeles Times for nearly 30 years who worked primarily in the paper's Orange County edition.

A grand master of American fashion photography whose "less is more" aesthetic, combined with a startling sensuality, defined a visual style that he applied to such varied subjects as designer dresses, cigarette butts and cosmetics jars.

Photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot to death in El Salvador

A photographer whose images captured more than five decades of Los Angeles' architectural history.

The last of France's postwar greats of photography.

Photographer whose luminous images of homes and buildings brought fame to a number of mid-20th century modernist architects.

Fine art photographer who reached back to the San Fernando Valley of his youth to lyrically explore the dark side of the suburbs and the American dream.

Eldest member of family of nine child actors who was later a news photographer.

He created enduring images of film stars, including his muse Audrey Hepburn, and jazz musicians.

POETS

South African poet and former political prisoner who fought apartheid.

Distinguished poet and memoirist who wrote lyrically and hauntingly about the challenges of everyday life.

English poet inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital.

Poet and essayist whom Garrison Keillor once called "the sage of Minnesota."

Irish poet and novelist who refused to let cerebral palsy get in the way of his writing.

San Francisco poet often associated with the Beats.

A Santa Monica poet known as FrancEyE who was inspired by Charles Bukowski, lived with him and had a child with him in the 1960s.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career.

Poet who translated numerous Chinese classics into English.