By the time John Henry was a young man, he was one of the best steel-drivers in the country.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

In nineteen fifty-seven, he won a special award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best continuing performance.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Some other of his best-known plays include "All My Sons", "A View from the Bridge" and "After the Fall."

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Later,he wrote some of the best known songs of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the sixties.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

They helped make her book "Coming of Age in Samoa" one of the best-selling books of the time.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

"Is good." "I Remember Mama" earned Irene Dunne an Academy Award nomination for best actress of nineteen forty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

"Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Congressman James Blaine seemed to have the best chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination in eighteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

One of America's best-loved writers of short stories was William Sydney Porter -- better known as O.Henry.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

One of the best-liked songs in Britain then was a song about the better life in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Some of her best work was written in the four years between eighteen fifty-eight and eighteen sixty-two.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27