Laurie Drinkwater at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York, was an author of the report.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Elizabeth Klein,an assistant professor at the College of Public Health at Ohio State University,was the lead author.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The author,Aife Murray, writes that over the years, Dickinson employed an ethnically diverse group of servants.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Kristen Iversen is an English professor and author of "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth."

VOA: special.2010.03.08

"Man With a Pan" also includes an essay by the author Stephen King.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

Sidney Poitier,the first black actor to win an Academy Award, was honored by the president, as was world renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Michael Kusugak is an award-winning children's author living in Rankin Inlet,Nunavut.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19