Clifford K. Hillegass

(1918-2001) born at Rising City, Butler County, lived in Lincoln. Publisher, founder of Cliffs Notes in 1958, literary study guides in their familiar black and yellow covers that assisted college students in their literature course work, about 300 titles available in 7,000 retail outlets. Consult Rolling Stone, March 26, 1987, pp. 111-112, 158, 160, 162 and Sunday/Omaha/World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, March 27, 1983, pp. 6-7 and Lincoln Journal Star obituary, May 6, 2001, pp. A-1, A-11 and editorials of May 13, 2001, p. D-9 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 14 (2002) 127 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 6 (2004) 234-235.

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