Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

female, 41 years old
librarian, freedom of speech, MetaFilter, from Vermont, Hampshire College alumni, American Library Association…LibraryJournal, Vermont Library Association
Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom...

Calvin Reid

male
journalist, Publishers Weekly, LibraryJournal, Comanche Moon, David Chelsea in Love, Heidi MacDonald
Calvin Reid is an artist. He is a Lower East Side pioneer whose art has had very little exposure. His early graphic art is impressive, and many...
Melvil Dewey

Melvil Dewey

male, deceased (1931)
from New York, Louis Kossuth, From Boston, Magazine editor, American Library Association, American…library, library classification, Library and information science, New York State Library, LibraryJournal
Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851-December 26, 1931) was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey...
Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan

male, 43 years old
University of Virginia, the nation, Movement against intellectual property, MSNBC, New York Times Magazine, the chronicle of higher education…LibraryJournal, library
Siva Vaidhyanathan , a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How...

Kathleen de la Peña McCook

female (Ruskin, Florida, United States)
University of Chicago, Marquette University, Louisiana State University, librarian, public library, University of Wisconsin-Madison…library, LibraryJournal
Kathleen de la Peña McCook is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. She has also been on the faculties of the S...
Kent Haruf

Kent Haruf

male, 66 years old
Nebraska Wesleyan University alumni, From Pueblo, Colorado, Bestseller, Master of Fine Arts, Iowa Writers' Workshop, National Book Award…LibraryJournal
Kent Haruf (born February 24, 1943) is an award winning American novelist. Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. He...
Jack Dann

Jack Dann

male, 64 years old
Starhiker, Ursula Le Guin, LibraryJournal, Bad Medicine, total recall, blade runner
Jack Dann is an American science fiction writer living in Australia. Dann began publishing science fiction in 1970 with the stories "Dark, Dark the...
Joe Meno

Joe Meno

male
Iceberg Town, Tender as Hellfire, Punk Planet, Ninth Letter, LibraryJournal, Other Voices
Joe Meno (born 1974) is a novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago. After attending Columbia College...
Ken St. Andre

Ken St. Andre

male, 62 years old
Golden Hero, Shadowrun, Shadowrun Into the Shadows, Fiery Dragon Productions, Kenneth Eugene St. Andre, Flying Buffalo, Inc.…LibraryJournal
Kenneth Eugene St. Andre (born on April 28th, 1947) is the original designer of the role-playing game "Tunnels and Trolls" which was first released...

Eric Moon

male, 86 years old
Kensington, Loughborough College, Alumni of Loughborough University, Finchley, Brentford and Chiswick, LibraryJournal…American Library Association
Eric Edward Moon (born 1923) is a librarian and editor who had a shaping influence on American librarianship in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, as...