Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

male, deceased (2007) (Manhattan, New York, United States)
pulitzer prize, film director, journalist, creative nonfiction, NationalBookAward, novelist…National Book Foundation
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman...
David McCullough

David McCullough

male, 76 years old
David Gaub McCullough, public broadcasting service, NationalBookAward, Bonesman, Brave Companions, Skull and Bones
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the...
Ha Jin

Ha Jin

male, 53 years old
Boston University, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, PEN/Hemingway Award, NationalBookAward, Tiananmen Incident…PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Winner
Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a m...
Katherine Paterson

Katherine Paterson

female, 77 years old
The Bridge to Terabithia, Master Puppeteer, Jip, His Story, Hans Christian Andersen Medal, NationalBookAward, National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance…Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award
Katherine Paterson is an award-winning American author of books for children. She was born in China on October 31, 1932 to missionary parents. She...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Cornell University, English, theme, Styles, English studies, from Nassau County, New York…NationalBookAward
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of...
Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones

male, 58 years old
All Aunt Hagar's Child, NationalBookAward, MacArthur Fellowship, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, PEN/Hemingway Award
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...
Julia Glass

Julia Glass

female, 53 years old
Yale University, novelist, American, Yale, greenwich village, NationalBookAward
Julia Glass (born March 23, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer. Her debut novel, "Three Junes", won the National Book Award in...
Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier

male, 59 years old
Appalachian State University Alumni, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Confederate States of America, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni, NationalBookAward
Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an award-winning American historical novelist. Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and...
Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild

male, 67 years old
Finding the Trapdoor, writer, ramparts, King Leopold's Ghost, Ramparts Magazine, Duff Cooper Prize…NationalBookAward, National Book Critics Circle
Adam Hochschild is the author of six books, many of them on human rights issues. His latest, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to...
Francine Prose

Francine Prose

female, 62 years old
Radcliffe College alumni, PEN/Newman's Own, NationalBookAward, From Brooklyn, American, Short story writer
Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a...