Late Bloomers

Harry S. TRUMAN

Coco CHANEL

Paul CEZANNE

Richard Buckminster FULLER

Andre KERTESZ

Julia CHILD

Eubie BLAKE

Zachary TAYLOR

Barbara WOODHOUSE

Isaac Bashevis SINGER

Ed SULLIVAN

Charles DARWIN

Brooke ASTOR

Colonel Harland SANDERS

Karen BLIXEN

Pope JOHN XXIII

Alice HAMILTON

Edward HOPPER

EDWARD VII

Louise NEVELSON

Thelonious MONK

Mary Baker EDDY

Wilbur Lucius CROSS

Michel de MONTAIGNE

Cathleen NESBITT

Joseph CONRAD

Louise BOURGEOIS

Philip JOHNSON

John CROMWELL

Imogen CUNNINGHAM

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

Romare BEARDEN

Sir Alexander FLEMING

Edith HAMILTON

Louis I. KAHN

Daniel DEFOE

Harriet DOERR

Leo CASTELLI

Margaret Fogarty RUDKIN

Boris KARLOFF

Emily POST

Hans HOFMANN

Miguel CERVANTES

Ellen STEWART

O. HENRY

Larry ALDRICH

Laurence STERNE

Grandma MOSES

Samuel HAYAKAWA

Eugene ATGET

Mother TERESA

Ian FLEMING

Odilon REDON

Jonathan SWIFT

Jacques-Henri LARTIGUE

Ruth GORDON

Charles IVES

Richard Robert WRIGHT

Piet MONDRIAN

Isabelle STEVENSON

John HOUSEMAN

Louis DAGUERRE

Isaac HIRSCHFELD

Margot GAYLE

Roger HORCHOW

Sarah Tomerlin LEE

Ferdinand von ZEPPELIN

Betty FURNESS

Cliff MAY

Edith WHARTON

Jean DUBUFFET

Gertrude JEKYLL

Georges Eugene HAUSSMANN

Anne MEARA

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