1170) Paolo Camillo Thaon, Marquess of Revel (1859 – 1948), latterly
titled by Benito Mussolini with the honorary title of 1st Duke of the
Sea. Italian admiral of the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) during
World War I and later a politician. He was born in Turin from a
family of the Savoyard and Niçard nobility of Scottish descent, a minor
son of Marquess and Count Ottavio Thaon di Revel.
Norah Lange (1905 – 1972). Argentine author of Norwegian descent,
associated with the Buenos Aires avant garde of the 1920s and 1930s.
A member of the Florida group, which also included figures such as
Oliverio Girondo (whom she married in 1943) and Jorge Luis Borges (who
dedicated an article to her in his first book of prose, Inquisiciones),
she published in the "ultraist" magazines Prisma, Proa and Martín
Fierro. Her ultramodernist poetry influenced other well-known Argentine writers such as Nydia Lamarque, Maria Elena Walsh, Maria Dhialma Tiberti, and Ines Malinow. Her 1950 novel Personas en la sala, was published in the English as People in the Room in 2018. In 1958, SADE (the Argentine Society of writers) awarded her their Grand Prize of Honor.
- "A particularly striking attribute of Norah Lange's was her mane of
red hair, an exotic attribute in a Latin country and one associated in
the Hispanic world with devilment and mischief. [...] Norah's, then, was
a complex allure: her red hair spoke of passion, but her pale,
Scandinavian looks called to mind the purity of an angel..." https://www.theguardian.com/books/…/sep/11/biography.fiction
- "... Lange became a modernist muse, lauded as much for her Nordic
looks and flaming red hair (she has been described both as a “valkyrie”
and as the ultraístas’s “angel and siren”) as she was for her playful
spirit and her accomplishments as an author." http://www.musicandliterature.org/…/norah-langes-people-in-…
- "... Norah Lange, the muse of Borges's literary generation, a red-haired beauty of Norwegian extraction." https://books.google.it/books…
Samuel Sagan (1905 - 1979). Born in Kamenets-Podolsk (then in the
Russian Empire, in today's Ukraine), when he was about five, he and his
siblings left for the United States. They were sponsored by their uncle
George, who was only about seventeen. He became a garment worker
and married Rachel Gruber in Brooklyn, on March 4, 1933. They had one
daughter, Carol, and one son, Carl, who became a famous astronomer and
author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize with the book The Dragons of Eden.
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (1944 – 2007). American newspaper columnist,
author, political commentator, and humorist. She began her journalism
career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female
police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined The Texas Observer in the
early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a
columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s, and then the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered.
The column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and
carried by hundreds of newspapers. A biography of Ivins, Molly Ivins: A
Rebel Life, was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential
biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith.
- "Friends suggested she did it to be irreverent, to be cool, to be
sure that people colud see the mane of red hair set against the
less-than-girly coat." https://books.google.it/books…
James Francis Edward Stuart (1688 – 1766), nicknamed The Old
Pretender. Son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and
Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales
from July 1688 until, just months after his birth, his Catholic father
was deposed and exiled in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II's
Protestant elder daughter, Mary II, and her husband, William III, became
co-monarchs and the Bill of Rights 1689 and Act of Settlement 1701 excluded Catholics from the English then, subsequently, British throne.
James Francis Edward was raised in Continental Europe. After his
father's death in 1701, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish crown
as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland, with
the support of his Jacobite followers and his cousin Louis XIV of
France. Fourteen years later, he unsuccessfully attempted to gain the
throne in Britain during the Jacobite rising of 1715. Following his
death in 1766, his elder son, Charles Edward Stuart, continued to claim
the British crown as part of the Jacobite Succession.
Maria Karolina Sobieska (1697 – 1740). Polish noblewoman, daughter of
Jakub Ludwik Sobieski. Known as Marie Charlotte or only Charlotte, she
was the Princess of Turenne and later Duchess of Bouillon by marriage.
Charlotte was the last surviving member of the House of Sobieski.
Her younger sister Clementina married the Jacobite pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.
Donald Barthelme (1931 – 1989). American short story writer and
novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction.
Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was
managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts
Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction and a professor at
various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the
University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
