Anthony Powell By John Perry
In his 12-volume masterpiece, "A Dance to the Music of Time," he manipulated 500 characters through seven decades, creating a social history of the 20th century. (04/15/00)

The decorous libertine By Charles Taylor
At the heart of Roger Vadim's films was a guiltless celebration of the pleasures of sex, love, food, sea and sun. (03/06/00)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins By Whitman McGowan
The high priest of voodoo jive put a spell on us with his own fiery brand of psychotic rock 'n' roll (02/18/00)

Cartoonist Charles Schulz dies at 77 By Mary Ann Lickteig
"Peanuts" made its debut in 1950 and eventually ran in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. (02/14/00)

Don Martin By Steve Burgess
Remembering the Mad magazine cartoonist who created characters like Fester Bestertester and Karbuncle, yet still had the time to invent National Gorilla Suit Day. (01/15/00)

Patrick O'Brian By Ian Williams
The author of the wildly popular 18th century seagoing saga created a fiction nearly as elaborate of his own life. (01/13/00)

Curtis Mayfield By Jody Rosen
A brilliant songwriter, vocalist, instrumentalist, producer and arranger, he had the aphoristic grace of a natural poet who was steeped in the rhetoric of the black church. (01/07/00)

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