Harvey, Neil,

in full ROBERT NEIL HARVEY (b. Oct. 8, 1928, Victoria, Australia), Australian cricketer who was noted as an outstanding left-handed batsman.

Harvey first gained recognition in 1948 as the youngest member of the Australian team against India at Melbourne. From 1948 until 1963 he played in more Test (international) matches (79) than any other Australian. He also scored more runs for Australia (6,149) than any other player except Donald (later Sir Donald) Bradman and was second only to Bradman in Test centuries (100 runs in a single innings).

Trumbull, John

(b. June 6, 1756, Lebanon, Conn. [U.S.]--d. Nov. 10, 1843, New York, N.Y.), American painter, architect, and author, whose paintings of major episodes in the U.S. War of Independence form a unique record of that conflict's events and participants. .... Trumbull in about 1784 began the celebrated series of historical paintings and engravings that he was to work on sporadically for the remainder of his life. From 1789 he was in the United States, but he returned to London in 1794 as secretary to John Jay, remaining for 10 years as a commissioner for the implementation of the Jay Treaty. In 1800 he married an Englishwoman, Sarah Hope Harvey, an amateur painter. He lived in the United States from 1804 to 1808, and in 1808 he attempted portrait painting in London but with little success. From 1815 to 1837 he maintained a rather unsuccessful studio in New York City.

Arthur,

village on the Douglas-Moultrie county line, east-central Illinois, U.S. Founded in 1872 as a farming centre, it was originally called Glasgow and later renamed for the brother of Robert Hervey, president of the Paris and Decatur Railroad. Members of the Old Order Amish settlement, a conservative religious group in the area since 1865, have contributed to the character of the community. Horse-drawn buggies, the mode of travel for many Amish, share the country roads and village streets with automobiles. Agriculture (grain and livestock) is the mainstay of the economy, supplemented by some light industry, including a broomcorn-processing plant. Inc. 1877. Pop. (1990) 2,112.

Sexton, Anne,

née HARVEY (b. Nov. 9, 1928, Newton, Mass., U.S.--d. Oct. 4, 1974, Weston, Mass.), American poet whose work is noted for its confessional intensity. A lifelong resident of New England, Sexton studied poetry under Robert Lowell at Boston University and also worked as a model and librarian. She taught in high school and at Boston University (1970-71) and Colgate University (1971-72).

Her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), is an intense examination of her mental breakdown and subsequent recovery. All My Pretty Ones (1962) is also autobiographical. Live or Die (1966) is a further record of emotional illness. Later volumes include Love Poems (1969), Transformations (1971), and The Book of Folly (1972). Her last poems were published posthumously in The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975), 45 Mercy Street (1976), and Uncollected Poems with Three Stories (1978). No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose was published in 1985. She died a suicide.

David Alan Harvey,

contract photographer, was formerly on the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC staff. A native of San Francisco, Harvey has published more than 30 articles in the magazine. In 1994 his byline appeared on four articles: “The Wild Mix of Trinidad and Tobago” in March, “The Song of Oaxaca” in November, “Canada’s Highway of Steel” in December, and the June cover story, “Powwow—A Gathering of the Tribes.” Harvey is a former National Press Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year. His ongoing project on Spain was exhibited at the international photo festival in Perpignon, France, in the summer of 1995, and a selection of those images was included in National Geographic’s 1994 book The Photographs. He resides in Washington, D.C.

Harvey’s photographs of the Heartland of Mexico appear in August’s online feature on Mexico.