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  • Leila Aboulela
    Leila Aboulela
    Leila Aboulela , Arabic ليلى ابوالعلا is a Sudanese writer and playwright. She writes in English.- Personal life :Born in 1964 Cairo, Egypt, Aboulela grew up in Khartoum, Sudan, where she attended the Khartoum American School and Sister School...

  • Susan Abulhawa
    Susan Abulhawa
    Susan Abulhawa is an American-based author of Palestinian descent. She is the author of the 2010 novel, Mornings in Jenin.-Background:Abulhawa is the daughter of Palestinian refugees of the 1967 War. She grew up in Kuwait, Jordan, occupied East Jerusalem, and the United States...

  • Said K. Aburish
  • Marc Acito
    Marc Acito
    Marc Acito is a United States novelist, humorist, and screenwriter. His comic novel How I Paid for College won the Oregon Book Awards' 2005 Ken Kesey Award for Best Novel, was voted a 2005 "Teens Top Ten for favorite young adult book" of the American Library Association.In April 2008, Acito...

  • Hanan al-Shaykh
    Hanan al-Shaykh
    Hanan al-Shaykh is a Lebanese author of contemporary Arab women's literature.- Biography :Hanan al-Shaykh's family background is that of a strict Shi'a...

  • Al Alvarez
    Al Alvarez
    Al Alvarez is an English poet, writer and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez....

  • Julia Alvarez
    Julia Álvarez
    Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...

  • Steven Appleby
    Steven Appleby
    Steven Appleby is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Britain. He is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. His humour is usually observational or absurd....

  • Eve Arnold
    Eve Arnold
    Eve Arnold, FRPS is an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957....

  • Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...


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  • Chris Bachelder
    Chris Bachelder
    Chris Bachelder is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer.Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia...

  • Anita Rau Badami
    Anita Rau Badami
    Anita Rau Badami is an Indian-Canadian novelist. Born in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary...

  • Rajeev Balasubramanyam
    Rajeev Balasubramanyam
    Rajeev Balasubramanyam is a novelist, writer and workshop leader.Rajeev was born in Lancashire, England. His first Novel In Beautiful Disguises won a Betty Trask Prize and was longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award....

  • Russell Banks
    Russell Banks
    Russell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry.- Biography :Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also...

  • John Banville
    John Banville
    John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.Banville's breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011...

  • Mourid Barghouti
    Mourid Barghouti
    Mourid Barghouti or Mureed Barghouti or Murid Barguti or Murid Barghuti is a Palestinian poet and writer....

  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a Soviet and American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974...

  • Glen Baxter
    Glen Baxter
    Glen Baxter , nicknamed Colonel Baxter, is an English cartoonist, noted for his absurdist drawings and an overall effect often resembling literary nonsense.Born in Leeds, Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art...

  • Derrick Bell
    Derrick Bell
    Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. was the first tenured African-American professor of Law at Harvard University, and largely credited as the originator of Critical Race Theory. He was the former dean of the University of Oregon School of Law.- Education and early career :Born in the Hill District of...

  • Gioconda Belli
    Gioconda Belli
    Gioconda Belli is an author, novelist and renowned Nicaraguan poet.-Early life:Gioconda Belli, of Northern Italian descent, was an active participant in the Sandinista struggle against the Somoza dictatorship, and her work for the movement led to her being forced into exile in Mexico in 1975...

  • Ronan Bennett
    Ronan Bennett
    Ronan Bennett is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family headed by William H. and Geraldine Bennett at 420 Merville Garden Village in the Whitehouse area of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. Since its development in the late-1940s, Merville has...

  • John Berger
    John Berger
    John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.-Education:Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger was...

  • Ambrose Bierce
    Ambrose Bierce
    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist...

  • Peter Biskind
    Peter Biskind
    Peter Biskind is a journalist, former executive editor of Premiere magazine, and the author of numerous books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters...

  • Hans Blix
    Hans Blix
    is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs . Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos...

  • Amy Bloom
    Amy Bloom
    Amy Bloom is an American writer. She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Biography:...

  • Steven Bochco
    Steven Bochco
    Steven Ronald Bochco is a US television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, as well as some notable flops such as Cop Rock....

  • Dennis Bock
    Dennis Bock
    Dennis Bock is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His latest novel, The Communist's Daughter, published in 2006 by HarperCollins in Canada and Knopf in the US, and later in France, the Netherlands, Greece and Poland, is a retelling of the final years in the life of the Canadian surgeon...

  • Bono
    Bono
    Paul David Hewson , most commonly known by his stage name Bono , is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his...

  • Anthony Bourdain
    Anthony Bourdain
    Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain is an American chef, author and television personality. He is well known for his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and is the host of Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.A...

  • Peter Bowler
    Peter Bowler
    Peter Bowler is an Australian lexicographer and author of The Superior Person's Book of Words, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words, and The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words...

  • T.C. Boyle
  • Gene Brewer
    Gene Brewer
    Gene Brewer is the author of the K-PAX series of novels: K-PAX, K-PAX II, K-PAX III, K-PAX IV and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in the K-PAX trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books...

  • Joanna Briscoe
    Joanna Briscoe
    -Early life:Joanna Briscoe was born in London in 1963. Much of her childhood was spent in the southwest of England. At the age of 10 years she moved with her family from Somerset to Jordan Manor, an isolated six-bedroomed thatched Devon long house set within of land in a valley in Dartmoor...

  • M.E. Breen
  • Mick Brown
    Mick Brown
    Mick Brown, a.k.a. "Wild" Mick Brown is a drummer who has played in the bands Dokken, Lynch Mob, and Xciter. He is a co-founder of Dokken and is known by many Dokken fans as "Wild" Mick Brown. Mick played drums for Ted Nugent on his 2006 "Unleash the Beast Global ScorchTour", and also on his 2007...

  • James Brown
    James Brown
    James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...

  • Clare Brown
  • David Browne
    David Browne
    David Browne is an American journalist and author. He was the resident music critic at Entertainment Weekly between 1990 and 2006. He was an editor at Music & Sound Output magazine and a music critic at the New York Daily News before EW...

  • Chico Buarque
    Chico Buarque
    Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...

  • John Burningham
    John Burningham
    -Biography:Burningham was born April 27, 1936 in Farnham, Surrey, England to Charles and Jessie Burningham. After primary school, he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit in 1953. When he was 20, he attended the Central School of Art and graduated in 1959...

  • Aldo Buzzi
    Aldo Buzzi
    Aldo Buzzi was an author and architect.Born in Como, Italy, Buzzi graduated from Milan School of Architecture in 1938...


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  • Angus Calder
    Angus Calder
    Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.-Education:...

  • Ethan Canin
    Ethan Canin
    Ethan Andrew Canin is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa....

  • John Carlin
    John Carlin
    John Carlin is a journalist and author, dealing with both sports and politics. His book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation about former South African president Nelson Mandela is the basis for the 2009 film Invictus.-Personal life:Carlin was born to a Scottish father...

  • Isobelle Carmody
    Isobelle Carmody
    Isobelle Jane Carmody is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.-Biography:Carmody began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles at the age of fourteen...

  • Emmanuel Carrère
    Emmanuel Carrère
    Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d'Encausse after his wife's pen name, and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse....

  • Steven Carter
  • Justin Cartwright
    Justin Cartwright
    Justin Cartwright is a British novelist.He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and...

  • Javier Cercas
    Javier Cercas
    Javier Cercas is a writer and, since 1989, a Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of El País and the Sunday supplement...

  • Jerome Charyn
    Jerome Charyn
    Jerome Charyn is an award-winning American author. With nearly 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life...

  • Annping Chin
    Annping Chin
    Annping Chin , born in Taiwan in 1950, is a Senior Lecturer of History at Yale. Her fields of study include Confucianism, Taoism, and the Chinese intellectual tradition. Before Yale, she was on the faculty at Wesleyan University.- Biography :...

  • Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...

  • Susanna Clarke
    Susanna Clarke
    Susanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...

  • Terry Coleman
  • Paul Collins
    Paul Collins (writer)
    Paul Collins is an American writer, editor and associate professor of English at Portland State University. He is best known for his work with McSweeney's and The Believer, as editor of the Collins Library imprint for McSweeney's Books, and for his appearances on National Public Radio's Weekend...

  • David Cordingly
    David Cordingly
    David Cordingly is an English naval historian who is considered one of the leading authorities on pirates. He held the position of Keeper of Pictures and Head of Exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England for twelve years....

  • Douglas Coupland
    Douglas Coupland
    Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...

  • Patricia Craig
    Patricia Craig
    Patricia Craig is an American operatic soprano and voice teacher.-Operatic career:Born Patricia Duncklee in Long Island, New York, she studied music education at Ithaca College, graduating in 1965. Craig gained her first critical vocal acclaim as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council...

  • Justin Cronin
  • Helen Cross
    Helen Cross
    Helen Cross is an English author. She was raised in East Yorkshire and educated at the University of East Anglia.Cross's first novel, My Summer of Love, was published in 2001 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2002. It was made into an acclaimed film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and...


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  • Sophie Dahl
    Sophie Dahl
    Sophie Dahl , born Sophie Holloway, is an English author and former model. She was born in London, the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandparents were actor Stanley Holloway and...

  • Anna Dale
    Anna Dale
    Anna Dale is an United Kingdom author of children's books.She was born in 1971, and lived in Suffolk and Hampshire before settling in Essex when she was seven...

  • Wade Davis
    Wade Davis
    Edmund Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants...

  • Gavin de Becker
    Gavin de Becker
    Gavin de Becker is a specialist in security issues, primarily for governments, large corporations, and celebrities.-Career:...

  • Thomas de Zengotita
    Thomas de Zengotita
    Thomas de Zengotita is an author and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He holds an anthropology Ph.D from Columbia University and teaches at the Dalton School and New York University. His most recent book is called Mediated: How the Media Shapes your World and the Way you Live in it . De...

  • Meaghan Delahunt
    Meaghan Delahunt
    Meaghan Delahunt is a novelist. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and now lives on the East Coast of Scotland. In 2004 she was Writer in Residence in the Management School at St Andrews University, and she now lectures in Creative Writing there....

  • Jim DeRogatis
    Jim DeRogatis
    James "Jim" DeRogatis is an American music critic and co-host of Sound Opinions. DeRogatis has written articles for magazines such as Spin, Guitar World and Modern Drummer, and for fifteen years was the pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.He joined Columbia College Chicago as a full-time...

  • Christopher Dewdney
    Christopher Dewdney
    Christopher Dewdney is a Canadian writer and poet.He was born in London, Ontario, and presently lives in Toronto, where he is a professor at York University. He is the long-time partner of writer Barbara Gowdy. Winner of the 2007 Harbourfront Festival Prize, he is the author of four books of...

  • Janine di Giovanni
    Janine di Giovanni
    Janine di Giovanni is an author and award-winning foreign correspondent. She is a regular contributor to The Times, Vanity Fair,The Evening Standard and The Guardian.Di Giovanni grew up in Caldwell, New Jersey....

  • Irene Dische
    Irene Dische
    Irene Dische is an American author and journalist, responsible for several international bestsellers.-Biography:Daughter to Jewish refugees, scientist Zacharias Dische and doctor Maria Renate Dische. Dische was born and raised in the Washington Heights district of New York City...

  • Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer Donnelly is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light . She has also written The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Revolution, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children...

  • Doris Dorrie
    Doris Dörrie
    Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied...

  • Patricia Duncker
    Patricia Duncker
    Patricia Duncker is a British novelist and academic.-Academic career:Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Duncker attended Bedales school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge...

  • Karen Duve
    Karen Duve
    Karen Duve is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg...


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  • Lucy Ellmann
    Lucy Ellmann
    Lucy Ellmann is an Anglo-American novelist who now lives in Scotland.Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann, and is married to the American writer Todd McEwen...

  • Tomás Eloy Martínez
    Tomás Eloy Martínez
    Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Life and work:Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris...

  • Nora Ephron
    Nora Ephron
    Nora Ephron is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, author, and blogger.She is best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in...

  • Jeffrey Eugenides
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,...

  • Richard Eyre
    Richard Eyre
    Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE is an English director of film, theatre, television, and opera.-Biography:Eyre was educated at Sherborne School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset in south-west England, followed by Peterhouse at the University...


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  • Harry Ferguson
    Harry Ferguson
    Henry George "Harry" Ferguson was an Irish engineer and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor, for becoming the first Irishman to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99...

  • Eva Figes
    Eva Figes
    Eva Figes is an English author.Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother...

  • Jeff Fisher
    Jeff Fisher
    Jeffrey Michael "Jeff" Fisher is the former head coach of the Tennessee Titans of the NFL. He has a 146-120 career record as an NFL head coach.-Early life:...

  • Aminatta Forna
    Aminatta Forna
    Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Sierra Leonean and Scottish heritage. She is the author of a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water and two novels, Ancestor Stones and The Memory of Love...

  • Gavin Friday
    Gavin Friday
    Gavin Friday is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer, actor and painter.-Career:Gavin was born in Dublin and grew up in Finglas, a neighbourhood located on Dublin's Northside...

  • Mariella Frostrup
    Mariella Frostrup
    Mariella Frostrup is a Norwegian-born journalist and television presenter, well known on British TV and radio, mainly for arts programmes. Her 'gravelly' voice was once voted the sexiest female voice on TV, and research to find 'the perfect voice' has indicated that Frostrup's voice is one of the...

  • Carlos Fuentes
    Carlos Fuentes
    Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...


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  • Mavis Gallant
    Mavis Gallant
    Mavis Leslie Gallant, , née Mavis Leslie Young is a Canadian writer.-Biography:An only child, Gallant was born in Montreal, Quebec. Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried. Gallant received her education at seventeen different public, convent, and French-language boarding...

  • Tom Gauld
    Tom Gauld
    Tom Gauld, is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator. He studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art....

  • Graeme Gibson
    Graeme Gibson
    Graeme C. Gibson, CM is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He is a Member of the Order of Canada , and was one of the organizers of the Writer's Union of Canada . He has a long term relationship with the novelist and poet Margaret Atwood.In 1996 he decided to stop writing novels...

  • Elizabeth Gilbert
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    Elizabeth M. Gilbert is an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoirs, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010, has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and was also made into a film by the same...

  • Lesley Glaister
    Lesley Glaister
    Lesley Glaister is a British novelist and playwright. She has written 12 novels, Chosen being the most recent, one play and numerous short stories and radio plays. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews, and is a regular contributor of book reviews to the Spectator...

  • Gail Godwin
    Gail Godwin
    Gail Kathleen Godwin is an American novelist and short story writer. She has published one non-fiction work, two collections of short stories, and eleven novels, three of which have been nominated for the National Book Award and five of which have made the New York Times Bestseller List.Godwin was...

  • William Goldman
    William Goldman
    William Goldman is an American novelist, playwright, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.-Early life and education:...

  • Daniel Goleman
    Daniel Goleman
    Daniel Jay Goleman is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He is the author of more than 10 books on psychology, education, science, and leadership.-Life:Goleman was born in Stockton,...

  • Nadine Gordimer
    Nadine Gordimer
    Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...

  • Edward Gorey
    Edward Gorey
    Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.-Early life:...

  • Niven Govinden
    Niven Govinden
    Niven Govinden is an English novelist. He was born in East Sussex and then educated at Goldsmiths College where he studied film. We Are The New Romantics was published by Bloomsbury in 2004. Graffiti My Soul is published by Canongate Books in January 2007.-External links:**...

  • Temple Grandin
    Temple Grandin
    Temple Grandin is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior...

  • Alasdair Gray
    Alasdair Gray
    Alasdair Gray is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel Lanark, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years...

  • A. C. Grayling
    A. C. Grayling
    Anthony Clifford Grayling is a British philosopher. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, a private undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991...

  • John Green
  • David Grossman
    David Grossman
    David Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...

  • Trevor Grove
    Trevor Grove
    Trevor Grove is a British journalist and former editor of The Sunday Telegraph .Raised and educated in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Grove was appointed editor of The Sunday Telegraph on 3 October 1989 under Max Hastings, then editor-in-chief of both the daily and Sunday titles...

  • Romesh Gunesekera
    Romesh Gunesekera
    Romesh Gunesekera FRSL is a British author with a Sri Lankan background.-Life and work:Born in Colombo in 1954, Romesh Gunesekera explores aspects of his native island.He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, moving to England in 1971...

  • Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist based in the United Kingdom.- Career :From 1980 to 1982, Gurnah lectured at the Bayero University Kano in Nigeria. He then moved to the University of Kent, where he earned his PhD in 1982...

  • David Guterson
    David Guterson
    David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist.-Early life:David Guterson was born May 4, 1956, in Seattle, Washington. During his childhood, he attended Seattle public schools and later attended the University of Washington where he earned Bachelor of...


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  • David Halberstam
    David Halberstam
    David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and historian, known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.-Early life and education:Halberstam...

  • Sheila Hancock
    Sheila Hancock
    Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...

  • Colin Harrison
  • Ethan Hawke
    Ethan Hawke
    Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role...

  • Fergus Henderson
    Fergus Henderson
    Fergus Henderson is an English chef who founded the St John restaurant in St John St, London. He is often noted for his use of offal and other neglected cuts of meat as a consequence of his philosophy of Nose To Tail Eating. Following in the footsteps of his parents, Brian and Elizabeth...

  • Patricia Highsmith
    Patricia Highsmith
    Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short-story writer most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951...

  • Edmund Hillary
    Edmund Hillary
    Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE , was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest – see Timeline of climbing Mount Everest...

  • Russell Hoban
    Russell Hoban
    Russell Conwell Hoban is an American writer, now living in England, of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books-Biography:...

  • Will Hodgkinson
    Will Hodgkinson
    Will Hodgkinson is a journalist and author from London, England. He writes for The Guardian newspaper, 'The Times newspaper, 'Mojo magazine, and presents the Sky Arts TV show Songbook, in which he interviews contemporary songwriters....

  • Jerry Hopkins
  • Richard Horne
  • Tony Horwitz
    Tony Horwitz
    Tony Horwitz is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes or Into the Blue, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic, Baghdad Without A Map, and A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. His next book Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked...

  • Barney Hoskyns
    Barney Hoskyns
    Barney Hoskyns is a British music critic and editor of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages.Hoskyns graduated from Oxford with a First Class degree in English. He began writing about music for Melody Maker and New Musical Express, quitting his job as staff writer at NME to research...

  • Khaled Hosseini
    Khaled Hosseini
    Khaled Hosseini , is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician of ethnic Tajik origin. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide....

  • David Hughes
    David Hughes
    David Hughes may refer to:*David Hughes , interim president and CEO of Amtrak, 2005–2006*David Hughes , English astronomer specialising in comets*David Hughes , Swedish bass guitarist...

  • John Hulme
    John Hulme (author)
    John Hulme is one of the two co-authors of The Seems book series. with Michael Wexler. Books in this series are held in over 800 libraries, according to WorldCat....

  • Helen Humphreys
    Helen Humphreys
    Helen Humphreys is a Canadian poet and novelist who has written several books. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. When she was younger she was kicked out of high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education...


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  • Howard Jacobson
    Howard Jacobson
    Howard Jacobson is a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.-Background:...

  • Oliver James
    Oliver James
    Oliver James is a clinical psychologist, journalist, bestselling book author, and television documentary producer. and presenter He also frequently broadcasts on radio and acts as a pundit on television...

  • Tama Janowitz
    Tama Janowitz
    Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.-Life:Her parents, a psychiatrist father, Julian Janowitz, and...

  • Liz Jensen
    Liz Jensen
    Liz Jensen is an English novelist.Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She first worked as a journalist in the Far East, and then for the BBC as a TV and Radio producer...

  • Mat Johnson
    Mat Johnson
    Mat Johnson is an American writer of literary fiction.-Biography:Born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Johnson writes primarily about the lives of African-Americans, using fiction, nonfiction and graphic novels as mediums...

  • Dom Joly
    Dom Joly
    Dominic John Romulus "Dom" Joly is a British television comedian and journalist. He came to note as the star of Trigger Happy TV, a hidden camera show that was sold to over seventy countries worldwide...


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  • Karen Karbo
    Karen Karbo
    Karen Karbo is an award-winning American author.Born in Detroit, she is the author of three adult novels: Trespassers Welcome Here, The Diamond Lane, and Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books...

  • David Katz
  • John Keane
    John Keane
    John Keane is the name of:* John Fryer Thomas Keane , British adventurer* John Joseph Keane , former archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa* John Keane , British artist...

  • Tim Kevan
    Tim Kevan
    Tim Kevan is an English writer, blogger and barrister, responsible for the Baby Barista series of books published by Bloomsbury, and the Baby Barista blog, currently hosted by The Guardian newspaper.-Biography:...

  • Daren King
    Daren King
    Laurence Daren King is an award-winning contemporary English novelist. His debut novel, Boxy an Star, was shortlisted for the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. He won first prize in the Nestle Children's Book Prize in 2006...

  • Ruth Klüger
    Ruth Klüger
    Ruth Klüger is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. She was born in Vienna and, after the Nazi annexation of Austria, she was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp together with her mother at the age of 11; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was...

  • Elizabeth Kolbert
    Elizabeth Kolbert
    Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine.-Youth and education:...

  • Tim Krabbé
    Tim Krabbé
    Tim Krabbé is a Dutch journalist and novelist.Krabbé was born in Amsterdam. His writing has appeared in most major periodicals in the Netherlands. He is known to Dutch readers for his novel De Renner , first published in 1978...


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  • John Lahr
    John Lahr
    John Lahr is an American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...

  • David Leavitt
    David Leavitt
    David Leavitt is an American novelist.-Biography:Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University. and a professor at the University of Florida...

  • Chang-rae Lee
    Chang-Rae Lee
    Chang-rae Lee is a Korean American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, where he has served as the director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.-Early life:...

  • J.T. Leroy
  • Franz Lidz
    Franz Lidz
    Franz Lidz is an American writer and journalist.He was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, and is a correspondent for GQ, Sports Illustrated, Men's Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, AARP the Magazine, Slate and has written...

  • Alan Lightman
    Alan Lightman
    Alan Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. He was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the...

  • Art Linson
    Art Linson
    Art Linson is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, Where the Buffalo Roam, which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer...

  • Antonia Logue
    Antonia Logue
    Antonia Logue is an Irish novelist from Park, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She grew up in Brussels, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University....

  • Isabel Losada
    Isabel Losada
    Isabel Losada is a British writer and former actress, singer, dancer, and television producer. Her four most recent full length books combine humour with a serious look at their subject matters and are true-life accounts of her own experiences...

  • Jim Lynch
    Jim Lynch
    James Robert Lynch is a former American football linebacker who spent his entire eleven-year professional career with the American Football League and National Football League Kansas City Chiefs.-Early years:...


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  • Colin MacCabe
    Colin MacCabe
    Colin MacCabe is a British writer and film producer. He is distinguished professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh, professor of English and humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, and a visiting professor at the University of Exeter....

  • Machado de Assis
  • Catherine Macphail
    Catherine MacPhail
    Catherine MacPhail is a Scottish-born author. MacPhail has quickly established a reputation as a writer of gritty, urban stories that tackle emotitional, contemporary issues but always work towards a positive solution and usually always are realistic....

  • Alberto Manguel
    Alberto Manguel
    Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places , A History of Reading , The Library at Night and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography ; and novels such as News...

  • David Margolick
    David Margolick
    David Margolick is a long-time contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Margolick has held similar positions at Newsweek and Portfolio. Prior to joining Vanity Fair he was a legal affairs reporter at The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly “At the Bar" column and covered the trials of O.J....

  • Lou Marinoff
    Lou Marinoff
    Lou Marinoff is a philosopher and spokesperson for the profession of philosophic counseling.Marinoff, a Commonwealth Scholar originally from Canada, earned his Doctorate in Philosophy of Science at University College London...

  • Michael Marmot
    Michael Marmot
    Sir Michael Gideon Marmot is professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.- Career :Michael Marmot was born in London, England. He moved to Australia as a young child and graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He earned a MPH in 1972...

  • Sam Martin
    Sam Martin
    Sam Alan Martin is a professional speedway rider for Sheffield Tigers.- References :...

  • Patrick Matthews
    Patrick Matthews
    Patrick Matthews is the former bassist of Australian garage rock band The Vines and currently the bassist of Youth Group. Matthews founded The Vines with Craig Nicholls. The two met while working at McDonald's in Sydney. Matthews stayed with the band for two albums...

  • Nichola McAuliffe
    Nichola McAuliffe
    Nichola McAuliffe is an English television and stage actress and writer, best known for her role as Sheila Sabatini in the sitcom Surgical Spirit.-Background:McAuliffe was born in 1955 in Surrey, England...

  • Alice McDermott
    Alice McDermott
    Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St...

  • Heather McGowan
    Heather McGowan
    Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and The Duchess of Nothing. According to her publisher Bloomsbury USA, Schooling was named Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, the Detroit Free Press, and the Hartford Courant. She also co-wrote the screenplay for...

  • Patrick McGrath
  • Jon McGregor
    Jon mcgregor
    Jon McGregor is a British author who has written three novels; If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, which was nominated for the 2002 Booker Prize, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 2003, and So Many Ways to Begin, which was published in 2006 and also...

  • Jay McInerney
    Jay McInerney
    John Barrett McInerney Jr. is an American writer. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City; Ransom; Story of My Life; Brightness Falls; and The Last of the Savages...

  • Bill McKibben
    Bill McKibben
    William Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College...

  • Pauline Melville
    Pauline Melville
    Pauline Melville is a Guyanese-born writer and actress. Her mother was English, and her father Guyanese. Her first book, Shape-Shifter , a collection of short stories, won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize , and the Guardian Fiction Prize.The book consists of a number of short stories dealing...

  • Anne Michaels
    Anne Michaels
    -Background:Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1958. Michaels attended Vaughan Road Academy and then later the University of Toronto, where she is an adjunct faculty in the Department of English. Her first book, The Weight of Oranges , a volume of poetry, was awarded the Commonwealth...

  • Sue Miller
    Sue Miller
    Sue Miller is an American writer who has authored a number of best-selling novels. Her duties as a single mother left her with little time to write for many years, and as a result she did not publish her first novel until 1986, after spending almost a decade in various fellowships and teaching...

  • Rebecca Miller
    Rebecca Miller
    Rebecca Augusta Miller is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits , The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Angela,and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee all of which she wrote and directed.-Life and career:Born in Roxbury,...

  • Magnus Mills
    Magnus Mills
    - Background :Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol. After graduating with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he started a masters degree at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion....

  • Anchee Min
    Anchee Min
    Anchee Min is a Chinese-American painter, photographer, musician, and author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai...

  • Brian Moore
    Brian Moore (novelist)
    Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...

  • Piers Moore Ede
    Piers Moore Ede
    Piers Moore Ede is a British born writer, with a travel book Honey and Dust published by Bloomsbury in 2004.Born in 1975, he was educated at Winchester College, Exeter University and the University of California, Santa Cruz...

  • Peter Morgan
    Peter Morgan
    Peter Morgan may refer to:* Peter Morgan , British sports car manufacturer* Peter Morgan , 1978 British Formula Ford champion* Peter Morgan , Wales and British lions international...

  • Paul Morley
    Paul Morley
    Paul Morley is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications...

  • Jim Mullen
    Jim Mullen
    Jim Mullen is a Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.-Biography:...

  • Ryu Murakami
    Ryu Murakami
    is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is colloquially referred to as the "Maradona of Japanese literature".-Biography:Born as Ryūnosuke Murakami in Sasebo, Nagasaki on February 19, 1952...


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  • Conor O'Callaghan
    Conor O'Callaghan
    Conor O'Callaghan is an Irish poet, born in Newry in 1968. He has published three collections of poetry: The History of Rain , Seatown , and Fiction...

  • Garry O'Connor
    Garry O'Connor
    Garry Lawrence John O'Connor is a Scottish professional footballer who currently plays for Hibernian. He has also played for the Scotland international team....

  • Patrick O'Keeffe
  • Stewart O'Nan
    Stewart O'Nan
    - Life and work :Born on February 4, 1961 to John Lee O'Nan and Mary Ann O'Nan, née Smith. He and his brother were raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....

  • Joseph Olshan
    Joseph Olshan
    Joseph Olshan is an award-winning American novelist.He is the author of eight novels, most recently, The Conversion . His first novel, Clara's Heart, won the Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers' Competition and went on to be made into a feature film starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1988...

  • Steve Olson
    Steve Olson
    Steve Olson is an actor who works for Blue Water Studios. He is best known for the voiceover as Stalker in G Gundam and Jamitov Hymem in Zeta Gundam. He also played Franklin Bidan, father of Kamille Bidan. He is currently a radio instructor at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary, Alberta.-Anime roles:*...

  • Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje
    Philip Michael Ondaatje , OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.-Life and work:...

  • Elsa Osorio
    Elsa Osorio
    Elsa Osorio was born in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires in 1952.She studied literature at the university there in order to become a teacher, and has since worked as a writer, journalist, scriptwriter and assistant professor...

  • Dennis Overbye
    Dennis Overbye
    Dennis Overbye is a science writer specializing in physics and cosmology.-Biography:Overbye received his B.S. in physics from M.I.T.—where he was a member of the Alpha Mu chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma—in 1966. He started work towards a master's degree in astronomy from U.C.L.A...

  • Agnes Owens
    Agnes Owens
    Agnes Owens is a Scottish author.She was born in Milngavie and spent most of her life on the west coast of Scotland. She has been married twice and raised seven children, also working as a cleaner, typist and factory worker....

  • Helen Oyeyemi
    Helen Oyeyemi
    Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi is a British novelist. She was born in Nigeria and raised in London.She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still at school studying for her A levels at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School....


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  • Erna Paris
    Erna Paris
    Erna Paris is a Canadian non-fiction author born in Toronto, Ontario.After earing a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in Honours Philosophy and English, Paris moved to France for several years, where she continued her studies at the Sorbonne...

  • David Park
    David Park
    David Park was a painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.-Biography:...

  • Tim Pears
    Tim Pears
    Tim Pears is an English novelist. His novels explore social issues as they are processed through the dynamics of family relationships.- Biography :...

  • Roger Pearson
    Roger Pearson
    Roger Pearson is a British anthropologist, conservationist, eugenics advocate, founder of the Neo Nazi organization Northern League, and publisher of several journals.-Life and work:...

  • Dale Peck
    Dale Peck
    Dale Peck is an American novelist, critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.-Biography:Peck was raised in Kansas,...

  • José Luís Peixoto
    José Luís Peixoto
    José Luís Peixoto , is a Portuguese writer who has written fiction, poetry, drama, lyrics and has participated in a wide number of projects involving writing.-Biographical note:...

  • Marco Perella
    Marco Perella
    Marco Perella is a Texan character actor and author, who has played a variety of bit part characters in films shot in Texas over the last twenty years, as well as a recurring role in Walker, Texas Ranger, playing Cobalt.-Career:...

  • Barry Pilton
    Barry Pilton
    Barry Pilton is a travel writer, radio and television comedy scriptwriter and novelist. He was educated in Dulwich College and King's College London. In 1967-8 he taught English in Paris and from 1969 worked as a journalist on the Sunday Post, becoming a freelance writer in 1976...

  • Salvador Plascencia
    Salvador Plascencia
    Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.The Plascencia family eventually settled near Los Angeles in the city of El Monte when he was eight years old. Plascencia holds a B.A. in English from Whittier College and an MFA in fiction from Syracuse University...

  • Mark Poirier
    Mark Poirier
    Mark Jude Poirier is a contemporary American novelist, short fiction writer, and screenwriter whose work often is set in the Southwestern United States...

  • Michael Pollan
    Michael Pollan
    Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual."...

  • Charles Portis
    Charles Portis
    Charles McColl Portis is an American author best known for his novels Norwood and the 1968 classic Western novel True Grit , both adapted as films. The latter also inspired a film sequel and made-for-TV movie sequel...

  • Amanda Prantera
    Amanda Prantera
    Amanda Prantera is a British novelist who has been living in Italy since the age of 20. She is the author of a number of novels which vary from metaphysical fantasies to contemporary thrillers set in her adopted home of Italy....

  • Richard Price
    Richard Price (writer)
    Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers and Clockers.-Early life:...

  • Peter Prince
    Peter Prince
    Peter Prince is a British novelist. He was born in England and studied in America. His first novel Play Things won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on the 1980 BBC miniseries Oppenheimer. His novel The...

  • Malcolm Pryce
    Malcolm Pryce
    For the footballer, see Malcolm Price.Malcolm Pryce is a British author, mostly known for his noir detective novels.Born in Shrewsbury, England, Pryce moved at the age of nine to Aberystwyth, where he later attended Penglais Comprehensive School before leaving to do some travelling. After working...


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  • Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

  • Beau Riffenburgh
    Beau Riffenburgh
    Beau Riffenburgh is an author and historian specializing in polar exploration. He is also an award winning American Football coach and author of books on football history.- Early career :...

  • Peter Robb
    Peter Robb
    Peter Robb is an Australian author.Robb spent his formative years in Australia and New Zealand, and between 1978 and 1992 he spent most of his time in Naples and southern Italy, interspersed with sojourns in Brazil. At the end of 1992 he returned to Sydney.His first book, Midnight in Sicily, was...

  • Paul Roberts
    Paul Roberts
    Paul Roberts is an English singer who was the lead singer of The Stranglers between 1990 and 2006.-The Stranglers:...

  • Bruce Robinson
    Bruce Robinson
    Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I , a film with comic and tragic elements, set in London during the 1960s which drew on his experiences as 'a chronic alcoholic and resting...

  • Anne Roiphe
    Anne Roiphe
    Anne Roiphe is an American writer and journalist. She is best-known as a first-generation feminist, and author of the novel Up The Sandbox , which was filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. In 1996, Salon called the book "a feminist classic."-Background and education:Roiphe...

  • J.K. Rowling
  • Paul Rusesabagina
    Paul Rusesabagina
    Paul Rusesabagina is a Rwandan humanitarian who has been internationally honored for saving 1,268 refugees during the Rwandan Genocide. He was the assistant manager of the Sabena Hôtel des Mille Collines before he became the manager of the Hôtel des Diplomates, both in Kigali, Rwanda...

  • Gus Russo
    Gus Russo
    Gus G. Russo was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a Mafia and John F. Kennedy assassination researcher who was part of a team of researchers that worked on the 1993 Frontline Lee Harvey Oswald documentary, "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?," for PBS...


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  • Larry Sabato
    Larry Sabato
    Larry Joseph Sabato is an American political scientist and analyst. He is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, and director of its Center for Politics. He founded Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online newsletter and website that provides free political analysis and...

  • Edward Said
    Edward Said
    Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...

  • Angie Sage
    Angie Sage
    Angie Sage is the author of the Septimus Heap series which includes Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, Syren, and Darke. She is also the illustrator and/or writer of many children's books, and is the new writer of the Araminta Spook series.Angie Sage grew up in Thames Valley, London and Kent. Her...

  • Mark Salzman
    Mark Salzman
    Mark Joseph Salzman is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s....

  • James Sanders
    James Sanders
    James Sanders is an American football safety for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

  • Stacy Schiff
    Stacy Schiff
    Stacy Madeleine Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for The New York Times.-Biography:...

  • Ben Schott
    Ben Schott
    Ben Schott is a British writer, photographer, and author of the "Schott's Miscellanies" and "Schott's Almanac" series.- Early life & university :...

  • Robyn Scott
    Robyn Scott
    Robyn Scott, is a British-born journalist, writer and businesswoman.She studied at Auckland University and Cambridge University. She was a Gates Scholar. Her first book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, a memoir about growing up in Botswana, was published in March 2008...

  • Meryle Secrest
    Meryle Secrest
    Meryle Secrest is an award-winning American biographer, primarily of American artists and art collectors.-Biography:Secrest was born in Bath, England and educated there. Her family emigrated to Canada, where she began her career as a journalist...

  • Lisa See
    Lisa See
    Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her Chinese-American family has had a great impact on her life and work. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family and the novels Flower Net , The Interior , Dragon Bones , Snow Flower and the...

  • Maurice Seezer
    Maurice Seezer
    Maurice Seezer is an Irish musician, whose real name is Maurice Jebidiah Roycroft. He has frequently written and composed songs with Gavin Friday, who he first met through a mutual friend...

  • Hubert Selby Jr.
  • Will Self
    Will Self
    William Woodard "Will" Self is an English novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time...

  • Danzy Senna
    Danzy Senna
    -Biography:Danzy Senna was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the middle child of three children. Her mother is the Anglo-American poet and novelist Fanny Howe. Her father is the African-American writer and journalist, Carl Senna, author of The Black Press and the Struggle for Civil Rights and The...

  • Kamila Shamsie
    Kamila Shamsie
    Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani novelist who writes in the English language. She was brought up in Karachi and attended Karachi Grammar School....

  • William Shaw
    William Shaw
    William Shaw may refer to:* William Shaw , leader of the Home Rule League after between Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell....

  • Gary Shteyngart
    Gary Shteyngart
    Gary Shteyngart is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR. Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times.-Life:...

  • Lauren Slater
    Lauren Slater
    Lauren Slater is an American psychologist and writer. She is the author of six books, including Welcome To My Country , Prozac Diary , and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir...

  • Rebecca Smith
  • Andrew Smith
    Andrew Smith (author)
    Andrew Smith is a British author. He is the author of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, which tells the story of the twelve U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972....

  • Rebecca Solnit
    Rebecca Solnit
    Rebecca Solnit is a writer who lives in San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art....

  • Ahdaf Soueif
    Ahdaf Soueif
    Ahdaf Soueif is an Anglo-Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.-Life and career:Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England...

  • Susan Spaull
    Susan Spaull
    Susan Spaull is a cookery writer, teacher and chef. She trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London and went on to become one of their senior teachers. She has written several cookery books for Leiths including Leiths Techniques Bible which won a Gourmond Book Award for the "Best Book in...

  • Ralph Steadman
    Ralph Steadman
    Ralph Steadman is a British cartoonist and caricaturist who is perhaps best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson.-Personal life:Steadman was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales...

  • Manil Suri
    Manil Suri
    Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year...

  • Luke Sutherland
    Luke Sutherland
    Luke Sutherland is an English-born Scottish novelist and musician.-Biography:Sutherland was brought up in Orkney and Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross by his adoptive Scottish parents, who moved to Scotland from Lincolnshire in 1976. He was educated at Glasgow University, where he read English and...


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  • Donna Tartt
    Donna Tartt
    Donna Tartt is an American writer and author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend . She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003.-Early life:...

  • Peter Taylor
    Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
    For other people named Peter Taylor, see Peter Taylor.Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer.-Biography:...

  • Frederick Taylor
    Frederick Taylor (historian)
    Frederick Taylor is a British historian and author of such works as Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 about the bombing of Dresden in World War II....

  • Hunter S. Thompson
    Hunter S. Thompson
    Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 .He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to...

  • Rupert Thomson
    Rupert Thomson
    -Biography:Following the sudden death of his mother, Rupert Thomson was educated as a boarder at Christ's Hospital School. At seventeen, he was awarded a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied Medieval History and Political Thought. He worked for four years as a...

  • Uwe Timm
    Uwe Timm
    -Life and work:Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943...

  • Polly Toynbee
    Polly Toynbee
    Polly Toynbee is a British journalist and writer, and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998. She is a social democrat and broadly supports the Labour Party, while urging it in many areas to be more left-wing...

  • Barbara Trapido
    Barbara Trapido
    Barbara Trapido, born 1941 as Barbara Schuddeboom, is a British novelist. Born in Cape Town and growing up in Durban she studied at the University of Natal gaining a BA in 1963 before emigrating to London. After many years teaching she became a full time writer in 1970.Trapido has published six...

  • Joanna Traynor
    Joanna Traynor
    Joanna Traynor is the author of Sister Josephine, Divine and Bitch Money, all published by Bloomsbury, and an educational television producer/writer....

  • Joanna Trollope
    Joanna Trollope
    Joanna Trollope OBE , is an English novelist.-Life:Joanna Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office...

  • Steve Turner
    Steve Turner (writer)
    Steve Turner is an English music journalist, biographer and poet, who grew up in Northamptonshire, England. His first published article was in the Beatles Monthly in 1969. His career as a journalist began as features editor of Beat Instrumental where he interviewed many of the prominent rock...

  • Kelly Tyler-Lewis
    Kelly Tyler-Lewis
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