| |  | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of... |  | Carl Safina is president and co-founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, and author of several writings on marine ecology and the ocean, including Song... |  | Jack Miles (b. 1942) is a literary intellectual whose work on religion, politics, and culture has appeared in numerous national publications,... |  | Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work... |  | Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant... |  | Jeffrey Renwick Weeks is an American mathematician. He became a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1978, and... | | | Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly... |  | Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at... |  | Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. Galison received his Ph.D. from... |  | Lewis Hyde is a scholar and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property. Hyde received an M.A. in... | |
