- Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. Following his retirement as Fed chairman, he accepted an honorary (unpaid) position at HM Treasury in the United Kingdom. First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, … - Eric Foner
Starting October 1, 2001 , Eric Foner will moderate a month-long open discussion on teaching about Reconstruction on the HISTORY MATTERS Web site provided below. From the HISTORY MATTERS home page select "Coming in October: Eric Foner on Reconstruction." To subscribe, choose "Join or leave list." Professor Foner will answer questions and lead a discussion on teaching about Reconstruction. - Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 - December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. The co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945, and received the 8 Republican Party electoral votes for Vice President of the United States in the 1912 presidential race, after that party's VP nominee, … - Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30 1944 - January 31 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas. - George Wald
George Wald(November 18, 1906 - April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. - R. W. Apple Jr.
Raymond Walter Apple, Jr. (November 20 1934 - October 4 2006), known to all as "Johnny", but bylined as R.W. Apple, was an associate editor at "The New York Times", where he wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably politics, travel, and food. Born in Akron, Ohio, Apple graduated from Western Reserve Academy, a private, coeducational boarding school in the small town of Hudson, Ohio, where he first practiced journalism at the school's newspaper, … - Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss is a Los Angeles-based author and journalist who writes for "The New York Times" and "Rolling Stone", where he is a contributing editor. He is well-known for his best-selling book "The Game." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891 - 1968) was the publisher of "The New York Times" from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff more than doubled, reaching 5,200; advertising linage grew from 19 million to 62 million column inches per year; and gross income increased almost sevenfold, reaching 117 million dollars. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909-February 5, 1993) was an American screenwriter, director and producer. - Matthew Cooper
Matthew Cooper was a reporter for "Time" who, along with "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller was held in contempt of court and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to testify before the Grand Jury regarding the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. - Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949 in New York City) is an American feminist writer. - Greg Giraldo
Greg Giraldo (born 1965 in New York City) is an American stand-up comedian, based in New York. Before becoming a comedian, Giraldo, a Regis High School, Columbia University and Harvard Law School graduate, worked as a lawyer. He is known for his distinct delivery and his skills in ranting, never allowing his rhythm to be broken. Giraldo performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan. Giraldo was a regular panelist on "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn". - Hilton Kramer
Hilton Kramer (born 1928, Gloucester, Massachusetts) is a U.S. art critic and cultural commentator. Kramer was educated at Syracuse University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the New School for Social Research. He worked as the editor of "Arts Magazine", art critic for "The Nation", and from 1965 to 1982, as an art critic for "The New York Times". - Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds is the author of eight volumes of poetry. Her poetry, says Michael Ondaatje, is “pure fire in the hands,” and David Leavitt in the Voice Literary Supplement describes her work as “remarkable for its candor, its eroticism, and its power to move.” With sensuality, humor, sprung rhythm, and remarkable imagery, she expresses truths about domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationships, love, and the body. - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger (b. February 5, 1926 New York City) is an American publisher and businessman. He succeeded his father and maternal grandfather as publisher and chairman of the "New York Times" in 1963, passing the positions to his son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. in 1992. Sulzberger served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, from 1944 to 1946, in the Pacific theatre. - Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoît Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for the electronic piece "Time's Encomium". He is also the author of "Simple Composition", ISBN 0-938856-06-5, … - A. J. Liebling
Abbott Joseph Liebling (October 18, 1904 - December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with "The New Yorker" from 1935 until his death. Liebling was born into a well-off family in Manhattan's Upper East Side, where his father worked in New York's fur industry. His mother was from San Francisco. After early schooling in New York, Liebling was admitted to Dartmouth College in the fall of 1920. - Tim Page
Tim Page (born October 11, 1954 in San Diego, California), is a writer, editor, producer and music critic. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic for the "Washington Post" who also played an essential role in the revival of American author Dawn Powell. Page grew up in Storrs, Connecticut, where his father Ellis B. Page was a professor of education at the University of Connecticut. In 1967, he was the subject of a short documentary, … - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. - Max Frankel
Max Frankel (born in 1930 in Gera, Germany) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He was educated at Columbia University, where he wrote for the "Columbia Daily Spectator". Frankel was Executive Editor of "The New York Times" from 1986 to 1994, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for coverage of Richard Nixon's trip to the People's Republic of China. - Robert Lax
Robert Lax (1915-2000) was an American poet, known in particular for his association with famed 20th century Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton. A third friend of his youth, whose work sheds light on both Lax and Merton, was Ad Reinhardt. During the latter period of his life, Lax resided on the island of Patmos, Greece. Considered by some to be a self-exiled hermit, he nonetheless welcomed visitors to his home on the island, … - David Rosenbaum
David E. Rosenbaum (March 1, 1942 - January 8, 2006) was an American journalist. After receiving first a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, Rosenbaum worked for a number of publications including the "St. Petersburg Times" and the "Congressional Quarterly". He worked for the "New York Times" for thirty-five years beginning in 1968. - Edward Klein
Edward Klein is a bestselling nonfiction author who has written about the Kennedys and Hillary Clinton. Klein is the former foreign editor of "Newsweek" and former editor in chief of "The New York Times Magazine". He frequently contributes to "Vanity Fair" and "Parade"; he has a weekly column in "Parade" called "Personality Parade" under the pseudonym "Walter Scott". Many of his books have been on The New York Times Bestseller list. - Rick Moody
Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for "The Ice Storm" (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, and became a bestseller; it was later made into a feature film. His first novel "Garden State" (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. - Ethan Bronner
Ethan Bronner (born 1954) is deputy foreign editor of "The New York Times", and a frequent essayist on foreign affairs. Bronner previously served as assistant editorial page editor of the "Times", and before that worked in the paper's investigative unit, focusing on the attacks of Sept. 11. A series of articles on al Qaeda that Bronner helped edit during that time was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. - Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz (born 1951 in New York City) is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. Wilentz took his B.A. at Columbia University in 1972, before earning another B.A. at Oxford University on a Kellett Fellowship and his Ph.D. at Yale University. His historical scholarship has focused mainly on the early years of the American republic. - Jerome Groopman
Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for "The New Yorker" since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books. He has published approximately 150 scientific articles and has written several Op-Ed pieces on medicine for the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", … - Mel Gussow
Mel Gussow (December 19, 1933 - April 29, 2005) was an influential American theatre critic who wrote for " The New York Times" for thirty-five years. His writing helped further the careers of: actors, such as Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Matthew Broderick and Sigourney Weaver; playwrights, including Sam Shepard, David Mamet, John Guare, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee and Tom Stoppard; and theatre wunderkinds, such as Robert Wilson, Charles Ludlam, Richard Foreman, … - Stephen J. Solarz
Stephen Joshua Solarz is a former United States Congressional Representative from New York. Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a co-sponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Born in New York City, September 12, 1940, Solarz attended public schools in New York City and later received a B.A. from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. - Lydia Polgreen
Lydia Frances Polgreen (born 1975) is an American journalist who has been the West Africa bureau chief of "The New York Times", based in Dakar, Senegal, since 2005. Polgreen graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2000. One of her professors there was Ari L. Goldman. In 2006, Polgreen was awarded a George Polk Award, awarded annual by Long Island University, in foreign reporting for her coverage of ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region. - C.J. Chivers
Christopher John Chivers is an American journalist who reports for "The New York Times". He is currently assigned to the bureau in Moscow. A 1987 graduate of Cornell University, Chivers served in the U.S. Marine Corps infantry until 1994. He was in the first Gulf War and in peacekeeping operations during the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Following graduation from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, … - Elie Abel
Elie Abel (October 17 1920 - 22 July 2004) was a Canadian-American journalist, author and academic. He lived in Palo Alto, California, United States. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1941 and a Master of Science in journalism degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1942. He worked as a newspaperman in Windsor, Ontario for a year, … - Matt Bai
Matt Bai is an American journalist who covers U.S. politics for the "New York Times Magazine" with a particular focus on the Democratic Party. His book, "The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics", is forthcoming from Penguin Press in August 2007. Bai earned a Masters degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1994. He worked as a "Boston Globe" staffer from 1995-96, … - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault , former NPR correspondent and author, delivered a public lecture as a Halle Distinguished Fellow, in February on her new book, New News Out of Africa . After the lecture, Hunter-Gault signed copies of her book. Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been a journalist for more than 40 years, in various forms of media, including National Public Radio, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and various newspapers. - James T. Shotwell
James Thomson Shotwell was a Canada-born American history professor. He is perhaps best remembered for his instrumental role in the creation of the International Labor Organization in 1919, as well as for his guiding influence promoting inclusion of a declaration of human rights in the UN Charter. Born in Strathroy, Ontario, he was educated at the University of Toronto and then went to New York City where he obtained his doctorate from Columbia University in 1900. - Theodore M. Bernstein
Theodore Menline Bernstein (1904-1979) was an assistant managing editor of "The New York Times" and from 1925 to 1950 a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism. He wrote several books on grammar and usage, including "The Careful Writer" (ISBN 0-684-82632-1) and "Watch Your Language" (ISBN 0-689-70531-X). He was also co-author of "Headlines and Deadlines" (ISBN 0-231-04816-5), a manual for copy editors. - John R. MacArthur
John R. MacArthur is the son of J. Roderick MacArthur and Christiane L’Entendart. He has a sister and a brother. He was a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal" (1977), the "Washington Star" (1978), "The Bergen Record" (1978–1979), "Chicago Sun-Times" (1979–1982), and an assistant foreign editor at United Press International (1982). He is the grandson of billionaire John D. MacArthur, … - Howard Thompson
Howard Thompson (1919-10 March, 2002) was an American journalist, most of whose career of nearly forty years was at "The New York Times". - Michael Riffaterre
Michael or Michel Riffaterre was an influential French literary critic and theorist. He pursued a generally structuralist approach. He is well known in particular for his book "Semiotics of Poetry", and the concepts of hypogram and syllepsis. He was born in Bourganeuf, in the Limousin region of France. After receiving the concours général prize in French literature he went on to study at the University of Lyon. - Max Alexander
Max Alexander is a journalist and editor. He was a senior editor at "People Weekly." Before his job at "People", Alexander served as executive editor of "Variety" and "Daily Variety", where he edited "The 1994 History of Show Business" (Abrams). Alexander grew up in Michigan, and earned a baccalaureate of arts in art history from Columbia University. A Maine resident since 1999, Alexander writes for "Reader’s Digest", …
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