Che Guevara of various leftist movements. "Time" magazine named him one of the people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled "Guerrillero Heroico" (shown), was cited by the Maryland Institute College of Art as "the most famous photograph in the world". Ernesto Guevara was born to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna y Llosa, on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina, according to his birth certificate, but the according to biographer Jon Lee Anderson's book "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" Che's mother confided to an astrologer friend that he was actually born on May 14,
Michael Korda task of reading slush pile manuscripts for Henry Simon. Many editors stick to one area of interest, but early on Korda demonstrated an ability and interest in editing both fiction and non-fiction. He states in his memoir that he edited books on everything from mathematics and philosophy, memoirs, fiction, translations from French, politics, anthropology and science history among others. One of the first books Korda bought was "The Forest People" by Colin Turnbull—a memoir of Turnbull's time living with the Mbuti Pygmies in the then Belgian Congo. After Robert Gottlieb left Simon & Schuster for Alfred A. Knopf, Korda became