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McCracken is a hereditary surname derived from Ulster and nearby Galloway, Scotland. [1] It is an Anglicisation of Mac Reachtain an Ulster Gaelic variant of the patronymic surname Mac Neachtain (commonly Anglicised as McNaughton ).
Dame Patricia Ann McGrath DBE [1] [2] (born 11 June 1971) is a British make-up artist. She has been called the most influential make-up artist in the world by Vogue magazine and other commentators. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2019 she was included in Time's 100 most influential people list. [ 6 ]
McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, and an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University.
Mary Elizabeth McCracken (February 2, 1911 – October 19, 1945) [1] was the first woman to overcome infantile paralysis to become a medical missionary. [1] She was the third of eight children [ 1 ] and the daughter of the medical missionaries Josiah Calvin McCracken [ 2 ] and Helen Newpher McCracken, [ 3 ] also known as the "McCrackens of ...
Patricia Marie MacLachlan (née Pritzkau; March 3, 1938 – March 31, 2022) was an American children's writer. She was noted for her novel Sarah, Plain and Tall , which won the 1986 Newbery Medal . Early life
Patricia McCormack (born Patricia Ellen Russo; August 21, 1945) is an American actress with a career in theater, films, and television. McCormack began her career as a child actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance as Rhoda Penmark in Maxwell Anderson 's 1956 psychological drama The Bad Seed .
Fredrick Lemuel "Fred" [1] McKissack, Sr. (August 12, 1939 – April 28, 2013) was an American writer, best known for collaborating with his wife, Patricia C. McKissack, on more than 100 children's books about the history of African-Americans. [2] [3]
Writing as L.A.M. Priestley or L.A.M. Priestley-McCracken, she contributed to journals that ranged from the English suffragist journal The Vote and the more overtly feminist The Irish Citizen, [8] to The Irish Presbyterian and the theosophist journal The Herald of the Star. [9] Some of her articles were collected and published as popular ...