Russell Banks

Russell Banks

male, 69 years old
University of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park, John Dos Passos Prize, tax resister, writer, Cloudsplitter…Rule of the Bone, AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni, American
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is president of the International...
Elliott Carter

Elliott Carter

male, 100 years old
Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Juilliard School faculty, St. John's College, Peabody Conservatory, European classical music, United States National Medal of Arts recipient…AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, longy school of music, American
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is an American composer of classical music. Elliott Carter was born in New York, New York. He was...
Martin Bresnick

Martin Bresnick

male, 63 years old
Yale School of Music faculty, Arthur and Lillie, Works of a Poor Music, The Day After Trinity, Opera della Musica Povera, David Lang…AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, American
Martin Bresnick (born 1946 in New York, New York) is a composer of contemporary classical music. As a professor at Yale, he has been a widely...
John Cheever

John Cheever

male, deceased (1982)
Wapshot, Bullet Park, The Wapshot Scandal, Bisexual writer, new england, falconer…AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, The Stories of John Cheever, American
John Cheever (May 27, 1912-June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His...
Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick

female, 81 years old
Georgetown University, Rea Award for the Short Story, New York University, AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, T.S. Eliot, Guardian of Zion Award…National Endowment for the Arts, Jewish American, American
In a quiet and perhaps inscrutable way, Cynthia Ozick has achieved acclaim and adulation that most certainly places her in the front ranks of the...

Anthony Doerr

male
Cleveland, O. Henry Award, AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, American, Short story writer, washington post
Anthony Doerr (born Cleveland, Ohio) is an American fiction writer. His 2002 collection of short stories "The Shell Collector" won the Barnes &...
Donald Justice

Donald Justice

male, deceased (2004)
Tad Richards, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, Syracuse University, from Florida, poet, academy of american poet…American, National Endowment for the Arts, AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, New and Selected Poems, Oblivion On Writers and Writing
Donald Justice (born in Miami, Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He...
Edmund White

Edmund White

male, 69 years old
Princeton University, LGBT writer, HIV-positive, AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, Lambda Literary Award winner, l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres…University of Michigan, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, short-story writer and critic. He is a member of the faculty of...
Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price

male, 76 years old
James B. Duke Professor, biblical scholarship, Merton College, Oxford, Alumni of Merton College, Oxford, AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, A Long and Happy Life…The Tongues of Angels, American
Reynolds Price (born February_1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is a American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of...
Claire Messud

Claire Messud

female, 43 years old
The Emperor’s Child, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Milton Academy, Yale University alumni, Syracuse University, Algerian…AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, Milton Academy alumni, American
Claire Messud is an American novelist. Her debut novel, "When The World Was Steady" (1995), was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1999, she...