Who Am I? The ATU History game

Based in Manhattan, he is known for one great book:



This is a clue for the book:

Another famous couple.

His books have been mentioned in the ATU literature game.

Catherine wrote:

That is the young Wyatt Earp. (His was about the third or fourth famous 'Wild West' name I checked... )

Constance wrote:Based in Manhattan, he is known for one great book:



This is a clue for the book:

The clue clinched it - 'The Invisible Man' - Ralph Ellison:

Wyatt Earp? Good catch, Felix!

Yes, Zelda and Scott, and Ralph Ellison.

And remember, no right-clicking to get the URL allowed!

An important American writer, young and old:

(Clue: He was a Civil War nurse.)

...that's Walt Whitman.

Yes, the great Walt Whitman, I love his work so much, and I love him, too.

You know, Emerson picked up on his greatness while nobody else did.

Blue Moon, I've read Justin Kaplan's biography of Whitman. It's worth reading, but it's not the important biography Whitman deserves. It's not in the same class as Richard Ellmann's bios of Joyce, Wilde, etc.

I like your Yeats signature!

This time, not a writer. Two photos of the same person.

No clues this time. You guys are so good, you'll get the answer by just looking at the pictures. No right clicking allowed!

oo, oo...I know this one. He's that peanut dude...invented a million uses for the peanut, or something like that.

Washington....um, Washington Carver? Wait, George Washington Carver.

Constance wrote: No right clicking allowed!

Help us avoid the temptation, Constance - copy the URL of any pic you like, load it into tinyurl (just google tinyurl to find the program), then post the new tinyurl into ATU's image function. Bingo! No more cheatin', an' no more cheaters. Not that any ATUer would cheat!

Mac Doobie wrote:oo, oo...I know this one. He's that peanut dude...invented a million uses for the peanut, or something like that.

Washington....um, Washington Carver? Wait, George Washington Carver.

I read about him after I found the picture. What a brilliant man!

Who's this blue monster?

Constance wrote:

Mac Doobie wrote:oo, oo...I know this one. He's that peanut dude...invented a million uses for the peanut, or something like that.

Washington....um, Washington Carver? Wait, George Washington Carver.

I read about him after I found the picture. What a brilliant man!

He was a guest on an episode of The Food Network's Good Eats.

Honest, he really was.

Don't forget the furry blue monster on the previous page.

A new one:



No right-clicking allowed!

Constance wrote: No right-clicking allowed!

Put 'em through tinyurl, Constance - right-clicking'll be pointless then

pinhedz wrote:Right click? Who would need to?

Certainly no one from the Dakota Territory.

Indeed! Mr Bull was so famous, he even toured the world with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show - the show even performed before Queen Victoria.

Here's Mr Bull and Mr Cody in a famous publicity photograph:

The subject of a book I'm reading:



(The furry blue monster is Grover from Sesame Street/)

Yes, that's Alice Liddell. I just finished a new small book about Alice and Charles Dodgson by Simon Winchester, the author of a number of wonderful books. This book was surprising. Winchester usually exhausts all there is to say about his subject, but here his treatment is topical, even rather slight. He says that the curator of photographs at Princeton, where the photograph is, won't let anyone see it! The photo is locked in a vault forever.

Winchester's best books are The Man Who Loved China, The Professor and the Madman, and The Meaning of Everything. The last two are about the making of the OED.

That's a wonderful story! And told with his characteristic flair. Don't wait too long to read his books on the OED. You'll enjoy them. But also take a look at that other book I mentioned: The Man Who Loved China. It's about a Cambridge scientist who--with his wife's permission--takes a Chinese mistress and becomes anamoured with all things Chinese. He writes a multi-volume tome about Chinese inventions. Joseph Needham. It's my favorite Simon Winchester book.

Who's this?:

pinhedz wrote:«Винни-Пух»?

Yes, but who's his little friend?

I'm all red, smaller then I use to be and laying on the deck of HMS Captain.

pinhedz wrote:I'm going to make the call that it's C.R. Milne.

Young Milne with bear.


The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. They were on display in the Donnell Library Center in New York City since the 1980s. According to the New York Public Library's web site "They have recently moved from their previous home in the Central Children's Room to grand new quarters in the History and Social Science Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and will be on display in the Children’s Room beginning in early 2009."


Christopher Robin Milne in later years.

Your turn I think, Pinz.

This beautiful lady is now 71 years old.