Francesco d’Accorso (1970 - 1970)

Usually called simply ‘Accursio’, he was an Italian jurist and a professor at Bologna. He compiled the authoritative “Glossa ordinaria” or “Glossa Magna” on Roman law.

George Washington Cutter (1970 - 1865)

Poet. Served in the United States Army during the Mexican War as a Captain in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Regement, and fought in Battle of Buena Vista. His poetry works include “Buena Vista and Other Poems”, “The Song of Stream and Other Poems” and “Poems, National and Patriotic”. (bio by: Laurie)

Lizzie Petit Cutler (1970 - 1902)

Author. Her first novel, “Light and Darkness,” was republished in London and translated into French. This was followed by “Household Mysteries, a Romance of Southern Life,” and “The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day.” (bio by: Laurie)

Johannes Cuspinian (1970 - 1529)

Humanist, poet, and counsellor of the Emperor Maximilian, who made him curator of the University in vienna. The monument shows him with his two wives and eight children. (bio by: David Conway)

James Oliver Curwood (1878 - 1927)

Author. He wrote adventure novels, drawing from his experience as a reporter following the Northwest Mounted Police through the icy regions of Alaska and Canada. He was an ardent conservationist. Curwood was fishing in the Venice area of Florida when something bit or stung him on his thigh, in or through his rubber boots. It […]

Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851 - 1910)

Journalist, Author. The wife of Philadelphia publishing magnate Charles H. K. Curtis, she contributed a column titled “Women At Home” in her husband’s magazine “Tribune and Farmer”. The column became so popular that it spawned a separate magazine in 1883 that became known as “The Ladies Home Journal”. Read by over a million subscribers at […]

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 - 1952)

American Author, Photographer. Edward Curtis became fascinated with the various North American Indian groups and photography after his family had relocated in the upper mid-west in 1877. He built his first camera at age 12 and would photograph everything. In 1891 Edward moved to Seattle and bought a share in a photography studio with Rasmus […]

Manuel Curros Enríquez (1851 - 1908)

Poet and journalist. In 1877 he won a award for his narrative poem “A Virxe do Cristal”. In 1880 he published the book “Aires da miña Terra”, seized after the writer was accused of heresy and sentenced to two years imprisonment. Eventually a higher court acquitted him. He became the editor of the newspaper “El […]

Barton Wood Currie (1877 - 1962)

Author. Sent by New York World to Labrador in 1909 to meet Peary on his return from his last polar expediction, and wrote story presenting Peary’s side in the Cook-Peary controversy. Contributed about 100 short stories and articles to magazines. Author of the book “Booth Tarkington, a Bibliography.” (bio by: Laurie)  Family links:  Parents:  Duncan […]

Eve Curie (1904 - 2007)

Author. She was best known for “Madame Curie” (1937),  a biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie. The book became a best seller and in 1943 was made into a Hollywood film.  During World War II she supported the Free French cause and served in Europe with the women’s division of General […]

Will Cuppy (1884 - 1949)

Will Cuppy supported himself in New York by writing advertising copy while he tried unsuccessfully to write a play. He served briefly stateside in World War I as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps. Later he began contributing book reviews to the New York Tribune, where his college friend Burton Rascoe […]

Sumner Archibald Cunningham (1843 - 1913)

Journalist. Sumner Archibald Cunningham was the founder and editor of the Confederate Veteran magazine which was one of the New South’s most influential monthlies and made Cunningham a central figure in the “Lost Cause” movement of the late nineteenth century. Sumner was raised on a farm in Bedford County, Tennessee. At the outbreak of the […]

Nancy Clare Cunard (1896 - 1965)

British writer, editor, poet, publisher. Nancy Clare Cunard was the only child of Sir Bache Cunard, of the shipping family and American heiress, Maud Alice Burke (1872-1948). Her parents separated in 1910. She had been brought up at the Leicestershire family estate and moved to London with her mother. Her education was at various boarding […]

E. E. Cummings (1894 - 1962)

Poet and writer. Born Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he began writing poetry at age ten, and continued while studying at Cambridge Latin High School. He attended Harvard College, where his father was a professor, and received a BA Degree in 1915 and his MA Degree the following year. His studies provided him access […]

Bruce Frederick Cummings (1889 - 1919)

Bruce Frederick Cummings was born in Barnstaple in 1889. He was a naturalist at heart and ended up working at the British Museum’s department of Natural History in London. Having begun his journal at the age of thirteen, Cummings continued to record his observations there — gradually moving from dry scientific notes to a more […]

Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946)

Poet, Author. Born Countee Porter, at age 15 Countee Cullen was unofficially adopted by the Reverend F.A. Cullen, minister of Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, one of Harlem, New York City, New York’s largest church congregations. Attending Harvard University, he earned his masters degree in 1926, and quickly became one of the major contributors to the […]

Jorge Cuesta (1903 - 1942)

Poet. He was born in Córdoba (Veracruz) and died in Mexico D.F. He is best remembered for his works “Canto a un Dios Mineral,” “A Pesar del Oscuro Silencio,” “La Calle del Amor” and “Poeta, Funde tu Campana.” In his last years, he was interned in a sanatorium, where he took his life, hunging wiht […]

Heloise Bowles Cruse (1919 - 1977)

Journalist. She was well-known for her column “Hints From Heloise” from 1962 to 1977. She helped people with everyday problems to the right out bizarre. At the time the column ran, it was in over 600 newspapers worldwide.  Family links:  Parents:  Charles Louis Bowles (1899 – 1971)  Amelia Harrison Bowles (1901 – 1973)  Spouse:  Marshal […]

E. Paul Crume (1912 - 1975)

A leading columnist with The Dallas Morning News, where his column, “Big D” received front-page space. Mr. Crume was also the author of A Texan at Bay and a compilation of his daily columns was also featured in The World of Paul Crume – edited by his wife. (bio by: Larry Chenault)

Frank Crowninshield (1872 - 1947)

Writer, Publisher, Creator and Editor of “Vanity Fair” Magazine, Art Critic and Collector, and Toastmaster of New York.  Son of Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918) artist, instructor, and Director of The American Academy in Rome, and Helen Susette Fairbanks Crowninshield (1841-1924).  Brother of Edward A. Crowninshield (1870-1938) an authority on antiques. Descendant of Johannes Caspar Richter von […]

Marjorie C. Craig Crowley (1912 - 2003)

Author. Some of her self-help books include “Miss Craig’s Twenty-One Day Shape Up Program for Men and Women” and “Miss Craig’s Face Saving Exercises.” She also wrote “Miss Craig’s Ten Minute a Day Spot Reducing Program” and “Miss Craig’s Growing Up Exeercises.” She was Director of Exercise at Elizabeth Arden Salon, Fifth Ave, New York […]

Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)

Occultist. Widely considered the most influential figure in Western occultism, Aleister Crowley first rose to prominence in mystical circles as a member of the London-based Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an esoteric offshoot of freemasonry with many well-known members, including poet and folklorist William Butler Yeats. After a power struggle within that group, Crowley […]

Grace Noll Crowell (1877 - 1969)

Grace Noll Crowell was born in Inland Township in Cedar County, Iowa, to Adam and Sarah Noll. She was educated at the German-English college in Wilton, Iowa. Crowell first attempted writing poetry at the age of 8, but in a rare instance of non-support by her otherwise loving family, found her efforts laughed at as […]

Joseph Medicine Crow (1913 - 2016)

Native American Historian, Author, Veteran, Elder. The last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow Tribe, Joseph Medicine Crow was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. A member of the Crow Tribe’s Whistling Water clan, Chief Joseph was raised by his Grandfather, Yellowtail to be a warrior which he did during WWII. He became a […]

Beverley Cross (1931 - 1998)

Beverley Cross (13 April 1931 – 20 March 1998) was an English playwright, librettist and screenwriter. Born in London into a theatrical family, and educated at the Nautical College Pangbourne, Cross started off by writing children’s plays in the 1950s. He achieved instant success with his first play, One More River, which dealt with a mutiny […]

Archibald Joseph “A.J.” Cronin (1896 - 1981)

Scottish physician and author. Noted during the 1930s and 1940s for his novels that attracted a huge readership and combined realism, romance, social criticism and melodrama. After being forced to give up his job as a doctor because of poor health, Cronin began writing. His many books include, “Hatter’s Castle” (1931), “The Stars Look Down” […]

Richmal Crompton (1890 - 1969)

Richmal Crompton was born in Bury, Lancashire, the second child of the Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn, a Classics master at Bury Grammar School and his wife Clara (née Crompton). Her brother, John Battersby Crompton Lamburn, also became a writer, remembered under the name John Lambourne for his fantasy novel The Kingdom That Was (1931) […]

Milos Crnjanski (1893 - 1977)

Author, Serbian Diplomat.He was part of a generation of the first post-war modernists in Serbian literature. In 1918, he published the play “Maska” (Mask), which he started writing in 1914. His novels are among the most significant works in Serbian literature: “Dnevnik o Carnojevicu” (The Journal on Carnojevic), “Seobe” (Migrations) – first edition in 1929, […]

Jim Critchfield (1923 - 1998)

Writer for motion pictures and television. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Quentin Crisp (1908 - 1999)

Author, actor, social wit, gay icon. The British author was born Denis Charles Pratt on Christmas Day in Sutton, Surrey, England, the son of Charles and Frances Phillips Pratt. Quentin Crisp was an intelligent, scholarly boy who at the age of fourteen won a scholarship to Denstone College and went on to study journalism at […]