THE LIONS OF FIFTH AVENUE Characters By Chapter	EDITOR: Remy Hale

CH FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION 1     New York City, 1913   Jack Lyons The superintendent of the New York Public Library.   Laura Lyons Jack Lyons' wife.   Leo Astor A stone lion.   Leo Lennox A stone lion.   John Jacob Astor One of the founders of the library.   James Lennox One of the founders of the library.   Harry   Jack and Laura's son.   Pearl   Jack and Laura's daughter.   William Shakespeare An English playwright, poet, and actor.   Beatrice   Supposed name of Pearl.   Dr. Edwin H. Anderson The library's director.   Edgar Allan Poe An American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. 2     New York City, 1993   Sadie Donovan The assistant curator.   Fiorello La Guardia Former Mayor of New York City.   Bal Thackeray An Indian politician.   Charles Dickens An English writer and social critic.   Walt Whitman An American poet, essayist, and journalist.   Henry Berg One of the donors of library manuscripts.   Albert Berg One of the donors of library manuscripts.   Claude Racine Sadie's colleague.   Marlene Jerkinson Berg's curator and Sadie's mentor.   Dr. Humphrey Hooper The director of the library.   Richard Jones-Ebbing One of the new board members.   Mrs. Smith One of the new board members.   Mr. Smith One of the new board members.   Bob   A cat.   Cary Grant An English-American actor.   Phillip   Sadie's ex-husband.   Abigail Duckworth An author.   Valentina   Sade's niece. 3     New York City, 1913   Billy   Jack Lyons' friend.   Auguste Rodin A French sculptor.   Joseph Pulitzer A newspaper publisher.   Talcott Williams The head of Columbian Journalism School.   George Wakeman A professor at the Columbian University School of Journalism.   Gretchen Reynolds One of Laura's classmates at Columbian Journalism School.   Larry Kline The former mayor of Hawkins. 4     New York City, 1913   Edwin Gaillard The library detective.   Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President. 5     New York City, 1993   Mr. Babenko A longtime employee at the library.   Lonnie   Sadie's brother.   LuAnn   Lonnie's wife.   Robin Larkin A baby sitter.   Don   Pearl's second husband.   Virginia Woolf An English writer. 6     New York City, 1993   Fred Astaire An American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer.   Hilary Quinn Laura Lyon's former secretary and executor in London. 7     New York City, 1913   Mrs. Marino One of the mothers at tenement.   Dr. Amelia Potter Worked from the city as medical inspector.   Kate Chopin An American author of short stories and novels. 8     New York City, 1914   Henrietta   Amelia's acquaintance.   Margaret Sanger One of the members of the Heterodoxy Club.   Florence   One of the members of the Heterodoxy Club.   Jessie   Amelia's partner. 9     New York City, 1993   Nick Adriano A security consultant.   John Ashbery An American poet and art critic.   Professor Ashton A college mentor. 10     New York City, 1993   Max   A dog. 11     New York City, 1914   Max Eastman An American writer on literature, philosophy and society.   Ida   Max Eastman's wife.   Alexander Hamilton Founding Father of the United States.   Washington Irving An American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, and historian.   Joseph G. Cogswell The first superintendent of Astor Library. 12     New York City, 1914   Mabel Dodge Amelia's acquaintance.   Elizabeth G. Flynn One of the members of the Heterodoxy Club.   Emma Goldman One of the members of the Heterodoxy Club.   Alfred Stieglitz American photographer.   Frank Tannenbaum An Austrian-American historian, sociologist and criminologist. 13     New York City, 1993   Nathaniel Hawthorne An American novelist, dark romantic, and a short story writer.   Chuck   The owner of J&M Books.   Joan Blaeu A Dutch cartographer.   Dorothy Parker An American poet, writer, critic, and satirist.   Elaine Edmundson The name used by Sadie when buying the lost books. 14     New York City, 1993   Inspector Clouseau Berg Collection's inspector.   Wendy Wasserstein An American playwright.   Sue   Nick Adriano's wife.   Sebastian   Nick's dog. 15     New York City, 1914   Inez Haynes Gillmore One of the members of the Heterodoxy Club. 16     New York City, 1914   Marie Jenney Howe A feminist organizer and writer. 17     New York City, 1993   Mr. Blount Claude's acquaintance. 18     New York City, 1993   Charlotte Bronte An English novelist and poet. 19     New York City, 1914   Alva Belmont One of the leaders of the New York suffrage movement.   John Merven Carrere One of the building's architect.   Thomas Hastings One of the building's architect. 20     New York City, 1914   Dr. Bell Harry's physician.   Sam   Harry's classmate.   Red Paddy Harry's acquaintance.   George Washington 1st U.S. President. 22     London, 1993   Leonard Canadian singer-songwriter. 24     New York City, 1914   Mr. Benson The janitor. 26     New York City, 1918   Sarah   Pearl's friend. 27     New York City, 1993   Jack Kerouac An American novelist.   Vladimir Nabokov A Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. 28     New York City, 1993   Jane Austen An English novelist.   Alfred Tennyson A British poet.   William Butler Yeats An Irish poet.   Lesley Stahl An American journalist.     Kiernan A judge.

The Lions of Fifth Avenue suggested by Carol West