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American National Biography Online reflects the rich diversity of American life, and the April 2004 update continues that tradition, with 25 new biographies of people who lived as long ago as 1750 or as recently as 2001. Creative occupations loom large in this sampling of Americans: The movies are represented by Hollywood stars Walter Matthau and Loretta Young. Articles on Eudora Welty, Ken Kesey, and other writers testify to the liveliness of the literary scene, while the TV animator William Hanna and the political commentator Herblock illustrate different meanings of the word "cartoon." The story of Lewis B. Puller, Jr., Vietnam veteran, forms a somber sequel to the existing article on General "Chesty" Puller; Margaret James Washington's career is an inspiring pendant to that of her husband Booker T. Washington. Notable women in this update also include Jane Froman, singer and survivor; Elizabeth Gray Vining, tutor to the Emperor Akihito; [and] Tatiana Proskouriakoff, who cracked the code of the ancient Maya.

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