Rick Moody

Rick Moody

male, 48 years old
the atlantic monthly, Master of Fine Arts, MFA, esquire magazine, Columbia University, State University of New York at Purchase…ParisReview
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...
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

female, 62 years old
University of Washington alumni, The Death of Adam Essays on Modern Thought, The New York Times Book Review, From Idaho, Iowa writer, PEN/Hemingway Award…The Paris Review, ParisReview
Marilynne Robinson (born 1947) is an American author. She was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke...
Charles Simic

Charles Simic

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

Peter Matthiessen

male, 82 years old
nature writer, tax resister, novelist, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, ParisReview
Peter Matthiessen (born May 221927 in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction. Matthiessen's work...
Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll

male, 59 years old
Bisexual writer, Roman Catholic, Irish-American, Drug culture, autobiography, from the United States…ParisReview
Jim Carroll (born August 1, 1950 in New York City) is an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978...
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

male, 57 years old
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Stanford University alumni, PEN/Faulkner Award, From Pasadena, CALIFORNIA, Stonewall Book Award winner, LGBT writer…ParisReview
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer...
Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon

male, 45 years old
from Chicago, novelist, English, macarthur foundation, From Sarajevo, University of Sarajevo…The Paris Review, ParisReview
Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964) is a Bosnian fiction writer living in the United States. Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, to a father of...

John Barlow

male, 42 years old
PhD, Eating Mammals, black humour, Corunna, ParisReview, University of A Coruña
John Barlow is an English writer. He was born in Gomersal, near Leeds in Yorkshire and educated at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in...
Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid

male, 38 years old
harcourt, Harcourt Trade Publisher, Princeton University alumni, Harvard Law School alumni, Princeton University, McKinsey…ParisReview
Mohsin Hamid (born 1971) is a Pakistani author. He grew up in Lahore, graduated from Princeton University "summa cum laude" in 1993 and from...
Peter Orner

Peter Orner

male
The Best American Short Stories 2001, Jason Roberts, Esther Stories, Best American Stories, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, ParisReview
Peter Orner is an American writer of fiction. He is the author of a novel, "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" (2006) and the short story...