Coming Spring 2023
99 Amazing People
Glad you’re interested, but Volume 7 hasn’t been published yet. We’re a bit backed up.
Sorry about that! It’s the perils of a one-man publishing operation….
Available now: Amazon Kindle versions of the first five volumes: see the list in the sidebar for more info.
Coming: more volumes, ebook access directly from us (and not just for Kindle), and paperback versions are also starting to come out.
Volume 7
With this seventh volume in the series, the stories delve a bit deeper, and thus get longer.
World War II spies, including one you never would have known by looking at her. The creator of the minicomputer. The woman who brought dignified death to California. The inventor of email, and the inventor of disposable diapers. A young police officer who knowingly sacrificed his life to save two civilians.
The TV executive who bought scads of shows, from Petticoat Junction to All in the Family. Book editors, war heroes, actors, writers, singers. The first Femtochemist (and what the heck that means). Amazing doctors, including the one who completely eradicated a disease that had killed 300 million people. An engineer who saved the Apollo 11 moon landing when Neil Armstrong had trouble. A stewardess who fell 33,333 ft from an airliner without a parachute — and was the only one on the plane who survived.
And all those are in the first half! There are so many more.
The mainstream media tend to worship celebrities and sports figures, but the real heroes in life are often anonymous to the public. Each of the stories will make you realize the cool people you have missed in your midst. These are the people you will wish you had known.
The Honorees
Included in Volume 7:
- Writers’ Friend Mary Adelman
- Voice man Joe Alaskey
- Ghostwriter Donald Bain
- Press freedom champion Ben Bagdikian
- Trapped voice actor Erik Bauersfeld
- Cost disease economist William Baumol
- Comedy Writer Chris Bearde
- Residency reformer Bertrand Bell
- Drum pioneer Remo Belli
- Acoustic engineer Leo Beranek
- Healing Force Barbara Blaine
- Parachute Pastor Richard Bolles
- Communications visionary Vanu Bose
- Songwriter Oscar Brand
- TV producer Al Brodax
- Pilot’s pilot Eric Melrose Brown
- Jazz pianist Barbara Carroll
- Good girl! Chaser
- Personal computing pioneer Wesley A. Clark
- Soldier of Conscience Lawrence Colburn
- Heart surgeon Denton Cooley
- Comedian Bill Dana
- TV programmer Michael Dann
- Editor Byron Dobell
- “Queen of Carbon” Mildred Dresselhaus
- Risk-taking philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle
- Humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi
- Child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden
- Digital Detoxer Levi Felix
- Familiar voice June Foray
- Computer memory/simulation pioneer Jay Forrester
- Moon landing hero Jack Garman
- Attorney for Underdogs William Genego
- Animator Bob Givens
- Disposable diaper inventor Valerie Hunter Gordon
- Film producer Howard Gottfried
- Writer Earl Hamner Jr.
- Epidemiologist D.A. Henderson
- Volunteer Richard Hendrickson
- Scientist Lilli Hornig
- Professional Pitcher Mamie Johnson
- Cardiologist W. Dudley Johnson
- Acquisition editor Judith Jones
- Pioneering sleep researcher Michel Jouvet
- Mahler conductor Gilbert Kaplan
- Cardinal William Keeler
- Escaped slave Jennifer Kempton
- Chemist and physicist Walter Kohn
- Deputy sheriff John Kotfila Jr.
- Biochemist Fred Kummerow
- Actor Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk
- Educational dreamer Eugene Lang
- Olympic champion Sammy Lee
- Gourmet burger maven Marilyn Lewis
- Bassist Jane Little
- Jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe
- Practical physicist David MacKay
- NMR physicist Peter Mansfield
- Lifelong Entertainer Rose Marie
- Actor Don Marshall
- TV director Leslie Martinson
- Actress Dina Merrill
- Ms. Sheila Michaels
- Math professor Maryam Mirzakhani
- Lt. Commander John Moffat
- Cosplay hero John Mollo
- The automated Dick Morley
- “Lead industry” foe Herbert Needleman
- Unsung Singer Marni Nixon
- The law-abiding Christy O’Donnell
- The dignified Jeremiah O’Keefe
- Fox Phantom Joe Griffin Patten
- The cool-headed Stanislav Petrov
- “Elephant” playwright Bernard Pomerance
- Polymath Writer Jerry Pournelle
- Foreign correspondent Bernard Redmont
- Satellite engineer Harold Rosen
- Humble spy Jeannie Rousseau
- The jumpy Ken Sailors
- Pain doctor John Sarno
- Comedy Writer Bob Schiller
- The Real Eve Chris Sizemore
- Clandestine radio operator Haakon Sørbye
- Mental health advocate Ted Stanley
- Transplant researcher Thomas Starzl
- Scuba trainer Jim Stewart
- Computer networking visionary Robert W. Taylor
- Doolittle raider David Thatcher
- Futurist Alvin Toffler
- Email inventor Ray Tomlinson
- “Harry Potter” ride operator Luis Vielma
- High-faller Vesna Vulovic
- Gutsy publisher George Weidenfeld
- Psychologist George Weinberg
- Illustrator Tyrus Wong
- Sound editor David Yewdall
- Human actress Francine York
- Vaccine pioneer Julius Youngner
- Femtochemist Ahmed Zewail