Brenda James
Brenda James is an English literature lecturer. At the British European Centre, she ran specialist classes in Shakespeare Studies and lectured on English and Civilization. She lives in West Sussex, England. [... more]
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Mako Yoshikawa
Mako Yoshikawa has studied at Columbia University and Oxford. She has been the Vera M. Schuyler Fellow of Creative Writing at the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, and she is a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of ... [... more]
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Jenny Valentine
Jenny Valentine worked in a food shop for fifteen years, where she met many extraordinary people and sold more organic bread than there are words in her first book. She studied English literature at Goldsmith's College, which almost made her stop ... [... more]
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John Niven
John Niven read English literature at Glasgow University and spent the next ten years working in the United Kingdom's music industry. His debut novella, Music from Big Pink, was published in 2006. He lives in Buckinghamshire. [... more]
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Wendy Gimbel
Wendy Gimbel made many childhood visits to the family of her paternal grandmother in pre-Castro Cuba. She later went on to receive a Ph.D. in English literature, and is the author of a scholarly book on Edith Wharton. Her articles have appeared ... [... more]
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Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis was an English literature professor at the University of Ohio. He is the author of seven books, including three that were the basis of major motion pictures: Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances ... [... more]
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The Yellow Cross
Ren? Weis is Professor of English Literature at University College London. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications and of Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson, published to critical acclaim in Britain in 1988. The Story ... [... more]
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Linn Ullmann
Linn Ullmann is a graduate of New York University, where she studied English literature and began work on a Ph.D. She returned to her native Oslo in 1990 to pursue a career in journalism. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for ... [... more]
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Danell Jones
Danell Jones has been teaching writing for more than twenty years. She earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University, where she was awarded both a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and a Bennett Cerf Award for her work on ... [... more]
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Anne Dayton
ANNE DAYTON graduated from Princeton University and is earning her master's degree in English literature at New York University. She works for a New York publishing company and lives in Brooklyn. A quirky and quick-witted girl moves to Manhattan ... [... more]
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Andrew Davidson
Andrew Davidson was born in Pinawa, Manitoba, and graduated in 1995 from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in English literature. He has worked as a teacher in Japan, where he has lived on and off, and as a writer of English lessons ... [... more]
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John Gardner
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story. The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and ... [... more]
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