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Ernest J. Gaines

American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese

Richard P. Feynman

American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model

Lars Eighner

Author of Travels with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s; the included essay “On Dumpster Diving,” which is widely anthologized both at full length and in abridged form under the title “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster”; Pawn to Queen Four, a novel; Lavender Blue: How to Write and Sell Gay Men’s Erotica, also published as Elements of Arousal ; Gay Cosmos, a work of gay theory; and numerous short works of gay men’s erotica, collected under various titles