Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the
Children's Defense Fund. She is married to Peter Edelman,
a law professor and they have three sons, Joshua, Jonah,
and Ezra, and one granddaughter, Ellika.

Mary S. Calderone, M.D.An international expert on
human sexuality, she published many books and was
Medical Director for Planned Parenthood Federation
of America from 1953-1964. She was listed in the
World Almanac among the 200 most influential people
in the World. She was the mother of three daughters,
and a grandmother of three and a great-grandmother
of three. She died in 1998.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a poet, essayist,
lecturer, and the the leading exponent of New England
Transcendentalism.Early life and works. He was the son
a Unitarian clergyman and he inherited the profession of
divinity. In 1811, his father died. He taught school while
preparing for part-time study at Harvard Divinity School.
In 1829 he married Ellen Louisa Tucker and when she died
of tuberculosis in 1831, he questioned his beliefs and his
profession. He resigned from the ministry a few years later.

Henry James (1843- 1916) was an American novelist
and a naturalized English citizen from 1915 on.He was
named after his father, a famous social theorist, and
was also the younger brother of the philosopher William
James. A shy, bookish boy, he quietly observed his
active elder brother. As infants, they were taken
abroad and schooled by tutors and governesses.
The editor of The Atlantic Monthly became a friend
and James was published by him regularly. Between
them, they began the era of American "realism."
He never married.