Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco

male, 49 years old
Comics artist, journalist, malta, bosnian war, Maltese, AmericanBookAward
Joe Sacco is a Maltese comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning "Palestine", and...
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca

male, 57 years old
Short story writer, Santa Fe, Bound by Honor, AmericanBookAward, From New Mexico, From Santa Fe, New Mexico…American, Native American, Mexican American
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American writer. Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1952. His parents abandoned him at the age of seven, leaving...

Martín Espada

male, 52 years old
northeastern university, University of Wisconsin, The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero, Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands, Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction, Northeastern University, Boston…AmericanBookAward, American
Martín Espada is a poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and Latino poetry. Puerto Rico h...
Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due

female, 43 years old
Northwestern University, My Soul to Keep, The Living Blood, Patricia Stephens Due, Freedom in the Family, Naked Came the Manatee…NAACP Image Award, Bram Stoker Award, AmericanBookAward, American, African American
Tananarive Due (born 1966) is an American author. Due is originally from Florida. Her mother is civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due. Due...
Emil Guillermo

Emil Guillermo

male
Harvard University, Amok Essays from an Asian American Perspective, Filipinas Magazine, All Things Considered, AmericanBookAward, filipinas…American, Filipino American, Asian American, American Book Award recipient
Emil Guillermo is a print and broadcast journalist, commentator and humorist. He writes a column, "Emil Amok," for <i>AsianWeek</i>. Born in San...

Denise Chavez

female, 61 years old
Trinity University, Denise Elia Chavez, Loving Pedro Infante, Dallas Theater Center, The Last of the Menu Girl, AmericanBookAward…American fiction writer, American
Denise Elia Chavez (born August 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, and stage director. She was born to an Hispano family in Las Cruces,...
Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris

male, 69 years old
Beethoven The Universal Composer, Theodore Rex, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Dutch A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, AmericanBookAward, Harper's Magazine…American
Edmund Morris (born May 27, 1940 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a writer best known for his biographies of United States presidents Theodore Roosevelt and...
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

female, 65 years old
professor, university of malaya, Critic, memoir, English, scholarship…AmericanBookAward, American, Asian American, Chinese American, american literature
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) is an award-winning Malaysian-born American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism, and one of Hong Kong's...
Al Young

Al Young

male, 70 years old
from the San Francisco Bay Area, poet, English-language poet, from Mississippi, poet laureate, American…AmericanBookAward
Al Young (May 31, 1939, Ocean Springs, Mississippi) is an American poet, novelist and writer of musical memoirs. He was named poet laureate of...
Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Hagedorn

female, 60 years old
Ulster-Scot, PeRFoRMaNCe, AmericanBookAward, National Book Award, Macdowell Colony Fellowships, Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn…Asian American, american conservatory theater, Filipino American writer, American
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born (and raised) in Manila, Philippines in 1949. With her background, a Scots-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a...