Finding Our Place : 100 Memorable Adoptees, Fostered Persons, and Orphanage Alumni

by McCaslin, Nikki

• ISBN13: 9780313342707
• ISBN10: 0313342709
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-18
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

This fascinating compendium offers biographies on the lives and accomplishments of 100 well-known adoptees, foster children, and orphanage alumni, including actors and actresses, scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, and politicians throughout time.

Table of Contents

List of Entries	p. ix
List of Entries by Childhood Experience	p. xi
List of Entries by Occupational Fields	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xxvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxiv
Introduction	p. 1
The Encyclopedia	p. 13
Major Awards and Honors	p. 345
Other Memorable Adoptees	p. 347
Persons with Living First Parent(s), Who Were Raised or Legally Adopted by Extended Family Members	p. 349
Persons Adopted by a Step-Parent	p. 350
Religious, Mythical, and Fictional Adoptees	p. 351
Religious and Mythic Figures	p. 351
Fictional Characters in Popular Culture (Film, Television, Cartoons)	p. 351
Adopted, Fostered, Orphaned, or Illegitimate Figures of British Literature by Literary Period	p. 352
Selected Bibliography	p. 357
Index	p. 359
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