Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

male, 75 years old
Civil rights activist, African American, American Poet Laureate, writer, communist, Beat Generation…B.A. inEnglish
Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934) is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism.
Michiko Kakutani

Michiko Kakutani

female, 54 years old
Japanese women writer, American women writer, Yale University alumni, from New Haven, Connecticut, Christian, Carrie Bradshaw…B.A. inEnglish
Michiko Kakutani (born 9 January, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the "New York Times."
Annette Curtis Klause

Annette Curtis Klause

female, 56 years old
librarian, Master of Library and Information Science, Master of Library Science, Bristol, England, Freaks Alive on the Inside, Margaret K. McElderry…B.A. inEnglish, Bachelor of Arts degree in English
Annette Curtis Klause (b. 1953) is an American author and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. Annette is currently the head of...

Nick Gillespie

male
reason magazine, Political writer, Magazine editor, reason, American, Rutgers University…M.A. in English, B.A. inEnglish, Ph.D. in English, editor in chief
Dr. Nick Gillespie is editor-in-chief of Reason, a libertarian monthly named one of "The 50 Best Magazines" for two straight years by The Chicago...
Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

male, deceased (2002) (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
Polish-American, Camp Ramah, Poconos, Anti-semitism, polish, Jewish person…B.A. inEnglish, Ph.D. in Philosophy
Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish...
Joan Acocella

Joan Acocella

female (New York, United States)
Joan B. Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saint, American dance critic, Rutgers University, New York Review of Books, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Unexpurgated Edition…Dance in New York City, B.A. inEnglish
Joan B. Acocella (nee Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is a dance critic for "The New Yorker". She has written several books on...
John Gurda

John Gurda

male
Boston College, Milwaukee Central Library, Wisconsin Historical Society, English studies, Milwaukee Public Television, Cultural geography…English, M.A. in Cultural Geography, B.A. inEnglish, Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian. He is one of the most distinguished and prolific historian of the city. He has written 18...
Mick Lasalle

Mick Lasalle

male, 50 years old
Stanford University, Turner Classic Movies, University of California, Berkeley, Production Code, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, As of August 2006…B.A. inEnglish, M.A. in English, born in Brooklyn, New York, New York
Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is the film critic for the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the author of two books on pre-code Hollywood. As of...
Timothy Steele

Timothy Steele

male, 61 years old
West Chester University Poetry Conference, enjambment, Missing Measures, Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing, Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems…Ph.D. in English, B.A. inEnglish, born in 1948 in Burlington, Vermont
Timothy Steele (born 1948) is a United States poet and academic. Timothy Steele was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1948 and is a professor of...
Nina Burleigh

Nina Burleigh

female
assyrian, from Elgin, Illinois, Huffington Post, journalist, American, Time Magazine…B.A. inEnglish, Master's degree in English Literature, born and educated in the Midwest
Nina Burleigh is an American author and journalist born in Chicago. She has published two books and written for numerous magazines and newspapers,...