Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He lives in ... [... more]
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She has received a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and four Pushcart Prizes. Her collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book ... [... more]
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Tana Hoban
Tana Hoban's photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in galleries around the world. She has won many gold medals and prizes for her work as a photographer and filmmaker. Her books for children are known and ... [... more]
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Faye Levy from HarperCollins Publishers
Faye Levy is the lead cooking columnist for the Jerusalem Post and the author of more than twenty acclaimed cookbooks, including Feast from the Mideast and 1,000 Jewish Recipes. She has won prestigious prizes for her cookbooks, including a James ... [... more]
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Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala was born in 1982 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was a Mellon Mays Scholar and received a number of prizes for his writing, including the Eager Prize, the Horman Prize, the Le Baron Briggs Prize, ... [... more]
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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, ... [... more]
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Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, and is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine. His many prizes and honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, an Emmy Award, a Writers Guild ... [... more]
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Todd Lewan
Todd Lewan joined the Associated Press as a correspondent in 1988. In 1996 he became an editor on AP's international desk, and later a national features writer. In 1998 he received several feature-writing prizes for this story. [... more]
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Mary Karr from HarperCollins Publishers
Mary Karr was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and her essays. She has also published two bestselling memoirs: The Liars' Club, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and Cherry. She has ... [... more]
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Terry McDermott
Terry McDermott has been a reporter at eight newspapers for twenty-five years, the last seven at the , where he is a national correspondent. He has won prizes for his journalism in a number of fields, including foreign affairs, economics, and ... [... more]
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Leigh Schmidt
Leigh Eric Schmidt is professor of religion at Princeton University and the co-author with Edwin S. Gaustad of The Religious History of America. Widely published as a cultural historian, essayist, and reviewer, he has won book prizes from the ... [... more]
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Antonio Munoz Molina
Antonio Muñoz Molina was born in Spain in 1956. His thirteen books, including Sepharad and Winter in Lisbon have won two Premio Nacional de Literatura prizes and marked him as one of Spain's most important living writers. He resides in New York ... [... more]
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