He called it "The Last Tycoon." Fitzgerald's friend from Princeton University, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, helped to get it published.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot told the story of the tragedy in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The success of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay led to many new attempts on the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The next Royal Astronomer, Edmund Halley, spent another forty years gathering information about the moon's orbit.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The Edmund Fitzgerald was launched the same year the Bradley sank.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

But that was the last anyone heard from the Edmund Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Edmund Hillary was a beekeeper from New Zealand.

VOA: special.2010.06.30