Frances de Pontes Peebles
Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received several awards, including Brazil's Sacatar Artist's Fellowship and the Michener-Copernicus ... [... more]
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Warren Kozak
Warren Kozak is a journalist who has written for top network news anchors over the past twenty-five years. Winner of the prestigious Benton Fellowship at the University of Chicago in 1993, he has appeared on PBS and NPR as well as in the ... [... more]
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Christina Hardyment
Christina Hardyment read history at Newnham College, Cambridge, and has twice held the Alistair Horne Historians' Writing Fellowship at St. Antony's College, Oxford. She is a writer and broadcaster with wide interests, and lives in Oxford, England. [... more]
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Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall is an expert on particle physics, string theory, and cosmology. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, she has been a tenured professor at Princeton, ... [... more]
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Diane Hammond
Diane Hammond, the author of two previous novels, Going to Bend and Homesick Creek, is the recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission literary fellowship and served as a spokesperson for the Free Willy Keiko Foundation and the Oregon Coast Aquarium. ... [... more]
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Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and educated in India, England, and the United States. She is currently studying at Columbia University, where she is the recipient of a Woolrich fellowship. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and Salman ... [... more]
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Jonathan Aitken
Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our time. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled to 40,000 volunteers working in 100 countries... is a former Member of Parliament and cabinet minister in Great Britain. ... [... more]
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Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon is the author of the novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments, and The Other Side, as well as the memoir The Shadow Man. She has received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, ... [... more]
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Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's other work has been published in the New York ... [... more]
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Matthew D'Ancona
Matthew d'Ancona was born in south London in 1968. He attended St. Dunstan's College and then proceeded to Oxford to read history. After graduation, d'Ancona obtained a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, but based himself in London as a ... [... more]
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Jonathan Ames
He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and lives in New York City, where he performs frequently as a storyteller in theaters and nightclubs. He is a recurring guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, and his books are being adapted for ... [... more]
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Mark Strand
Mark Strand is a former Poet Laureate of the United States. He has written eight earlier books of poems, which have brought him many honors and grants, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of a book of stories, Strand's poems occupy ... [... more]
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