Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins is the translator of Ingeborg Bachmann's collected poems, Darkness Spoken, as well as author of two books of poems: What She Knew and After Homer. The recipient of a Berlin Prize fellowship in 2005 from the American Academy in ... [... more]
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Will Weaver
In addition to his award-winning Billy Baggs novels Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Will Weaver is the author of two books for adults, Reed Earth, White Earth and A Gravestone Made od ... [... more]
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Virginia Euwer Wolff
The first two books in Virginia Euwer Wolff's Make Lemonade trilogy have won the National Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Honor and the Parents' Choice Award, and have received many other accolades. Virginia Euwer Wolff lives in Oregon City, ... [... more]
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Da Chen from HarperCollins Publishers
Da Chen is the author of Colors of the Mountain, a New York Times bestseller; Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing; Brother; and two books for children, Wandering Warrior and China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural ... [... more]
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Alan Flusser
Alan Flusser is the President of Alan Flusser Designs, a company he founded in 1979. He received the 1985 Coty Award as Top Menswear Designer and the Cutty Sark Award in 1987 for his first two books' "unique contribution to the literature of ... [... more]
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Brooks Haxton
Brooks Haxton, born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1950, is the son of the novelist Ellen Douglas and the composer Kenneth Haxton. He has published three previous collections of poetry, two book-length narrative poems, and two books of ... [... more]
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Julian Barnes
Born in Leicester, England, in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of two books of stories, two collections of essays, a translation of Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain, and nine previous novels. In France, he is the only writer to have won ... [... more]
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Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is a founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine. He wrote a column for Business Week for twenty years, and he also has a weekly column in The Boston Globe and many other papers. He has published two books with ... [... more]
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Sue Halpern
SUE HALPERN received her doctorate from Oxford University in 1985 and first began teaching at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the author of Four Wings and a Prayer, Migrations to Solitude, and two books of ... [... more]
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Julian May
Julian May was born in Chicago in 1931. She has written numerous books, including the four books of The Saga of Pliocene Exile, the two books of Intervention, and The Galactic Milieu Trilogy. She also collaborated with André Norton and Marion ... [... more]
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John Gregory Dunne
John Gregory Dunne wrote five other novels-Vegas; True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr.; The Red White and Blue; and Playland-and seven works of nonfiction, among which are the memoir-like Harp and two books that look at Hollywood, The Studio and ... [... more]
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Magnus Ullman
Magnus Ullman is one of Europe's most distinguished ornithologists. He has contributed to various ornithological journals since the 1980s, and has written two books and coauthored another about rare birds in Sweden. For the past twenty years, he ... [... more]
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