Lady Amherst:
Pheasants are brilliantly coloured but are also excellently camouflaged so that they disappear when walking among grasses. All pheasants are ground dwellers, fleeing on foot from danger and seeking refuge in the undergrowth. They can fly in ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Alfred Kazin
Kazin has taught at Harvard, Smith, Amherst, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In 1996, he received the Truman Capote Literary Trust's first Lifetime Award in Literary Criticism. Kazin lives in New York City. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jane Isenberg
Jane Isenberg taught English to urban community college students for close to thirty years. She has been writing mysteries ever since she experienced her first hot flash. Her copies of Modern Maturity are delivered to her new home in Amherst, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College-40th Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Ilán Stavans nació en México, en 1961. Cursó estudios de posgrado en la Universidad [... more]
Harper Collins |
Caitlin Friedman
Caitlin Friedman started her own business in 1999 and hasn't looked back. A native of Amherst, Massachusetts, she has been a public relations and marketing expert for more than ten years. Currently, she divides her time between New York City and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Cait N. Murphy
Cait Murphy is an assistant managing editor at Fortune magazine in New York. She previously worked at The Economist in London and the Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong. A former Little League infielder, Murphy played softball at Amherst ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Cait N. Murphy
Cait Murphy is an assistant managing editor at Fortune magazine in New York. She previously worked at The Economist in London and the Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong. A former Little League infielder, Murphy played softball at Amherst ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Alexander Hiam
Alexander Hiam, MBA, is a corporate consultant whose clients include many Fortune 500 companies. He has written numerous books and taught advertising and marketing at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Nalini Jones
Nalini Jones was born in Newport, Rhode Island, graduated from Amherst College, and received an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the Ontario Review, Glimmer Train, Dogwood, and Creative Nonfiction's "Living Issue." She [... more]
Random House |
John Elder Robison
JOHN ELDER ROBISON lives with his wife and son in Amherst, Massachusetts. His company, J E Robison Service, repairs and restores fine European automobiles. Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time ... [... more]
Random House |
J.G. Sandom
Born in Chicago, raised and educated throughout Europe, and a graduate of Amherst College, J.G. Sandom founded the nation's first digital ad agency (Einstein and Sandom Interactive) in 1984, before launching an award-winning writing career. ... [... more]
Random House |
Dan Chiasson
Dan Chiasson was born in Burlington, Vermont, and was educated at Amherst College and Harvard University, where he completed a Ph.D. in English. His first book of poems, The Afterlife of Objects appeared in 2002. A widely published literary ... [... more]
Random House |
