Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was the most prolific songwriter of the twentieth century. He composed over twelve hundred songs, including "White Christmas," "Blue Skies," and "Alexander's Ragtime Band." "God Bless America& [... more]
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Mark Lilla
In the fall of 1998, one year after the death of Isaiah Berlin, the New York Institute for the Humanities organized a conference to consider his intellectual legacy. The scholars who participated devoted much of their attention to the question of ... [... more]
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Len Deighton
Len Deighton is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the classic novels The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, as well as his internationally acclaimed histories of World War II. Born in London, he served in ... [... more]
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Piers Paul Read
Paul Piers Read is the author of numerous, critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including A Patriot in Berlin (1996), Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl (1993), On the Third Day (1989), and A Season in the ... [... more]
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Laurence Bergreen
Laurence Bergreen is the author of four biographies, each considered the definitive work on its subject: Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, Capone: The Man and the Era, As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, and Voyage to Mars: NASA's ... [... more]
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Svetlana Palmer
Svetlana Palmer was born in Moscow in 1969. She studied at Moscow State University as well as in London and Berlin. She moved to Britain in 1990 and has worked on critically acclaimed documentaries including the BAFTA-nominated CNN/BBC Cold War ... [... more]
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Judith Hermann
Judith Hermann lives in Berlin, where she works as a freelance writer. Summerhouse, Later is her first book. [... more]
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was born in New York City in 1891 and raised in Brooklyn. He lived in Europe, particularly Paris, Berlin, the south of France, and Greece; in New York; and in Beverly Glen, Big Sur, and Pacific Palisades, California where ... [... more]
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Peter Wyden
The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, and who later became notorious as a "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing chronicle of Stella's agonizing choice, her three [... more]
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Michael Ignatieff
Vertrauen und Respekt praegen die herausragende Biographie, die der Autor und TV-Moderator Michael Ignatieff ueber einen der grossen Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts geschrieben hat: Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997). Confidence and respect form this ... [... more]
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Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is the Berlin bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. In 2001, when he was the Journal's Beijing correspondent, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Falun Gong. He lives in Berlin. Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner ... [... more]
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Michael Wallner
Michael Wallner is an actor and screenwriter. He divides his time between Berlin and the Black Forest. Roth, a twenty-one-year-old German soldier, has spent most of his time in occupied Paris working in the army's back offices. But when his ... [... more]
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