Literature
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.
Schindlers Lisgt
Within a 3 1/2 year period, he became mayor of Buffalo, governor of New York, and president of the U.S.
1944’s Absent in the Spring is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie
In 1875 this Tammany Hall “boss” escaped from prison and fled to Cuba and then to Spain.
William Magear “Boss” Tweed?
Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel.
Beloved
On February 1, 1960, four students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this North Carolina city in protest over segregation.
Greensboro
This comedian may have decided “Life Will Be the Death of Me,” but not before she made the bestseller list.
Chelsea Handler
In 1945 scientists in this state witnessed the detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb.
New Mexico
A futuristic society revolves around science and efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World