Bill Strickland
One Man's Blueprint for Unlocking Your Hidden Potential and Achieving the Extraordinary MacArthur "genius" award winner Bill Strickland was an aimless kid growing up in a rough Pittsburgh neighborhood when a ceramics teacher at his high school . [... more]
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Campbell McGrath
Campbell Mcgrath's previous collections are . His awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. He teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami. [... more]
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Deborah Willis
Deborah Willis, also a MacArthur Fellow, writes frequently on blacks and the history of photography. Among her latest books are Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840-Present, and The Black Female Body: A Photographic History ... [... more]
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David Levering Lewis
A MacArthur Fellow, David Levering Lewis is the author of several books, including W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century and Du Bois: Biography of a Race. He was awarded the Pulizter for both books, which is ... [... more]
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Clay Blair
is the author of two dozen books that have created a permanent place in the telling of our history. These include Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan; biographies of Admiral H. G. Rickover; Generals Douglas MacArthur, Matthew B. ... [... more]
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Harry Gailey
In March 1942, General Douglas MacArthur faced an enemy who, in the space of a few months, captured Malaya, Burma, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and, from their base at Raubaul in New Britain, threaten Australia. Upon his retreat to ... [... more]
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Mike Davis
A former meatcutter and long-distance truck driver, Mike Davis has taught urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a fellow at the Getty Institute, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of ... [... more]
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Frank J. Sulloway
Frank J. Sulloway has a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a M.I.T. Research Scholar and also a recipient of a MacArthur 'Genius' grant. He is the author of Why do people raised in the same families often differ more dramatically in personality than those ... [... more]
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Jack Turner
Jack Turner was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He received his B.A. in Classical Studies from Melbourne University and his Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Foundation Junior Research ... [... more]
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Donald Boose
When North Korea attacked the South on June 25, 1950, United States forces in East Asia were under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, whose largest ground force was Eighth US Army. This army fought a tenacious defense of South Korea, ... [... more]
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Mark Strand
Mark Strand is a former Poet Laureate of the United States. He has written eight earlier books of poems, which have brought him many honors and grants, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of a book of stories, Strand's poems occupy ... [... more]
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Richard Rhodes
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes has also won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Prize, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and MacArthur foundations and the ... [... more]
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