Author of A Garden of Thorns, a memoir about surviving Nazi occupation in France including becoming a junior agent performing reconnaissance missions for the French resistance at age 13
JFK - Jerry Dealey, Dallas historian/assassination researcher, is of the Dealey family who gave the Plaza its name. Dealey Plaza was named after the founder of the Dallas Morning News, George B. Dealey, Jerry's great grandfather's brother
French Egyptologist. Born: 11/17/1913, known for her role in the preservation of the Nubian temples (e.g. Abu Simbel) from flooding caused by the Aswan Dam
American author & historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the National Book Award for Nonfiction & the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Executive producer of Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima