Clay Risen

As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.

Jordan’s home chemistry experiments in his youth set the curtains ablaze and had to be thrown out of the window.

A coach at San Jose State for seven decades, he helped establish the sport in America and trained generations of athletes, many of whom went to the Olympics.

She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.

He provided the research and drafts that helped bring about the Supreme Court’s landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision in 1963.

His Texas-style brisket, made with exacting precision, inspired a generation of New York City pit masters, who opened a wave of smoky joints in the 2000s.

Derived from a recipe Wally Amos had learned from his aunt, they used real ingredients, no coloring or chemicals added, and he kept them as close to handmade as possible.

A progressive nun, she used a welcome address before Pope John Paul II in 1979 to call for equality in the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church.

His work provided the basis for the worldwide best seller “The Bible Code,” but he later rejected the book as unscientific.

In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.