Terence Tao

Terence Tao

male, 34 years old
Chinese American, Fellow of the Royal Society, From Adelaide, Chinese Australian, child prodigy, University of California, Los Angeles…MacArthurFellowship, MacArthur Fellow
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic...
Charles Simic

Charles Simic

male, 71 years old
alma mater, Oak Park and River Forest High School, philosophy, MacArthurFellowship, serb, Oak Park High School…macarthur foundation
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic...
Amory Lovins

Amory Lovins

male
energy, Bates College alumni, Winning the Oil Endgame, Non-fiction writer, Harvard University alumni, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford…MacArthurFellowship, MacArthur Fellow
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky...

Mike Davis

male, 63 years old
Planet of Slums, University of California, Irvine, Student for a Democratic Society, social class, MacArthurFellowship, Getty Center…MacArthur Fellowship Award, MacArthur Fellow
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his...
Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones

male
African-American, Tony Award, African American, Arnie Zane, LGBT African American, Wexner Prize…MacArthurFellowship, MacArthur Fellow, awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer based in New York City. He is the recipient of the 2007 Tony Award, the...
Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones

male, 58 years old
All Aunt Hagar's Child, National Book Award, MacArthurFellowship, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…MacArthur Fellow
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and...
Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl

female, 35 years old
Mark Tardi, One Factorial, The Clean House, Sawako Nakayasu, Late A Cowboy Song, Demeter in the City…MacArthurFellowship, MacArthur Fellow
Sarah Ruhl (born 1974) is an American playwright. She studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University and currently lives in New York. Ruhl gained...
Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

male, 40 years old
salon.com, The New York Times, the village voice, MacArthurFellowship, macarthur foundation, village voice…MacArthur Fellow
Colson Whitehead (full name Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead) is a New York-based novelist. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred...
Mary Zimmerman

Mary Zimmerman

female
Northwestern University, Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights, MacArthurFellowship, Performance Studies, Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All…MacArthur Fellow
Mary Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She...
Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton

female, 53 years old
Yale University, MacArthurFellowship, Master of Fine Arts, University of Kansas alumni, Installation artist, MFA…MacArthur Fellow
Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but...