Lottie Graves Claiborne performed from the late 1940s into the 1980s. She was given the nickname "Lottie the Body" when she was a teenager working in modeling.
Herman Melville (1819–1891), American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819, the son of a commission merchant and importer of French dry.
Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac.