What's New: August 2022

This update features four new biographies, including the extraordinarily influential evangelist Billy Graham; prolific journalist and sportswriter John Lardner; Olivia de Havilland, an Academy Award-winning actress who reshaped the Hollywood system by insisting on choosing her own parts; and poet and scholar Daniel Hoffman.

De Havilland, Olivia (1 July 1916–26 July 2020), actress

Graham, Jr., William Franklin “Billy” (07 Nov. 1918–21 Feb. 2018), protestant evangelist

Hoffman, Daniel Gerard (3 Apr. 1923–30 Mar. 2013),  poet and professor

Lardner, John Abbott (4 May 1912–24 Mar. 1960), journalist and author

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