Washington Irving, born the year the Revolutionary War ended, was America’s first “Man of Letters.” As much as the Founding Fathers structured our government, Irving, with his quirky wit, shaped the i
James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted a number of exquisite paintings, but is largely remembered for one titled Arrangement in grey and black No. 1, and assigned an indelible nickname by an approving
“PaPa” Ernest Hemingway lived large and made a sizable impact on literature. He was a prolific novelist, winning both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many of his sto
