Jay Parini
Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible ... [... more]
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River Jordan
River Jordan is a novelist and playwright. She is the founder of W.O.R.D. (Writing for Ourselves and Reading for Discovery), a writing and reading program designed to introduce and inspire a new generation to the power of story, and she teaches ... [... more]
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Mr. Mark Stein
Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been performed off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the country. His films include Housesitter, with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has taught writing and drama at American ... [... more]
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Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons's debut novel, His Mother's Son, won the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel in 2003. She is also a playwright, editor, director, and screenwriter, with many credits and awards to her name. Her plays have been produced at the American Place ... [... more]
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Syrie James
Syrie James is a scholar of 19th-century British literature and a long-time admirer of Jane Austen's work. A member of the Writer's Guild of America, Syrie is a screenwriter and playwright; this is her first work of historical fiction. [... more]
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Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal is the host of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!, the NPR news quiz. He is also an award-winning playwright, occasional screenwriter, onetime extra in a Michael Jackson music video, former staff writer for a motorcycle magazine, and a ... [... more]
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Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) was a French playwright, journalist, novelist, and staunch supporter of the anarchist cause in France. His work was influenced by many, especially Molière and Dostoyevsky. He was also a lover of art and was one of the ... [... more]
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Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage is the author of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth and Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot. An accomplished Playwright, she teaches playwriting at Spelman College, is a cofounder of the literary magazine ... [... more]
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Dominique Nabokov
A distinctive planner for everyone who loves literature, politics, and culture. The New York Review of Books 2009 Desk Diary features fifty-three of Dominique Nabokov's black-and-white photographs of novelists, poets, and playwrights whose works ... [... more]
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Thomas Bernhard
Random House: books by Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard was born in 1931 and grew up in Salzburg and in Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. A winner of the three ... [... more]
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Nina Shengold
Nina Shengold is an award-winning playwright and artistic director of the theatre company Actors & Writers. Set in the gloriously rugged backwoods of the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Nina Shengold's gripping debut novel follows three people in ... [... more]
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Tim Beiser
was born on April Fools' Day in Los Angeles, California. After earning a degree in Economics at Rocky Mountain College in Montana, he moved to New York City where he spent sixteen years as a playwright and science fiction short-story writer. He ... [... more]
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