Fame is a relative concept.
In a community, it may be the corner store owner who is famous, and movie stars are practically irrelevant. Kate Chopin T.S. Eliot William S. Burroughs Learn more about St. Louis authors . Arthur Holly Compton Charles Drew Joseph Erlanger Peter Raven Government Ulysses S. Grant Thomas Eagleton Richard Gephardt John Danforth William Webster, Sr. A new book profiling 100 prominent African-American St. Louisans. Photos by noted local photographer Wiley Price, with interviews by Doris Wesley and intro by Ann Morris, both of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-St.