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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
List of Entries by Childhood Experience
List of Entries by Occupational Fields
Foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Encyclopedia
Appendix A: Major Awards and Honors
Appendix B: Other Memorable Adoptees
Persons with Living First Parent(s), Who Were Raised or Legally Adopted by Extended Family Members
Persons Adopted by a Step-Parent
Appendix C: Religious, Mythical, and Fictional Adoptees
Religious and Mythic Figures
Fictional Characters in Popular Culture (Film, Television, Cartoons)
Adopted, Fostered, Orphaned, or Illegitimate Figures of British Literature, by Literary Period
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Nikki McCaslin is a senior instructor at the University of Colorado Denver. She is an Instruction and Reference Librarian at the Auraria Library in Denver. An adoptee and parent of two adopted children herself, McCaslin is active in adoption and orphanage issues, serving as a board member for Adoptees in Search, Colorado's Triad Connection.