Julie Orringer
Julie Orringer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, The ... [... more]
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Marilyn Yalom
Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of A History of the Wife; A History of the Breast; Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory; and Maternity, Mortality, ... [... more]
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Michael B. Jacobs MD
A member of the Stanford University faculty since 1973, Michael B. Jacobs, MD, combines his practice of primary care medicine with teaching at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is professor of meidcine and section head of Primary ... [... more]
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Steve Radlauer
Discover the bygone city of Mark Twain and Stanford White, Harry Houdini and Edith Wharton in the venerable shops and restaurants that have served discriminating New Yorkers for generations. In Old World dining rooms, gaslit saloons, at jewelers, ... [... more]
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Glenn Kurtz
Glenn Kurtz holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University and has taught at San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and Stanford. He divides his time between San Francisco and New York. The remarkable ... [... more]
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John O'Brien
John O'Brien has held writing fellowships at the University of Iowa and Stanford University, and he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His work has appeared in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, ... [... more]
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George Bush
Not only is A World Transformed read by President Bush and Brent Scowscroft, Condoleeza Rice, Provost of Stanford University, provides narration. It was a pivotal administration in the history of American foreign policy--for... click for more> It ... [... more]
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Mariam Naficy
Mariam Naficy, a graduate of Williams College, worked as an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as a consultant at Gemini Management Consulting, where she recruited new employees. She is currently pursuing her MBA at the Stanford Business ... [... more]
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Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. He has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in ... [... more]
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Scott O'Dell
Scott O'Dell was born in Los Angeles, California, on May 23, 1898. He attended Occidental College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford University, and University of Rome. He worked as a technical director for Paramount, a cameraman for ... [... more]
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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm was born in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. From 1947-1982 Hobsbawm was Professor of Economic and Social History at Birbeck College, University of London. He also taught at Stanford, MIT, Cornell, and the ... [... more]
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William H. Rehnquist
William H. Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in political science from Stanford University and a second M.A. from Harvard. He graduated first in his ... [... more]
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