Edward Said

Edward Said

male, deceased (2003)
postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, Princeton University alumni, Academic, Arab American…Prince of Asturias Award winner, ProfessorofEnglish, Esteemed University Professor, man of enormous intellectual distinction
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and C...
Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez

female, 75 years old
From Birmingham, Alabama, Howard University alumni, Alpha Kappa Alpha sister, poet, African American, Wilsonia Benita Driver…City University of New York, Manhattan Community College of CUNY, joined the Nation of Islam, University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, City College of CUNY
Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Sanchez attended public schools in New York City and then Hunter College, where she received a B.A....
Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

female, 65 years old
Irish women writer, Women poet, Trinity College, Dublin, Night Feed, After Every War, from County Dublin…In a Time of Violence, ProfessorofEnglish, Lane Professor, Stanford University Department of English, Mabury Knapp Professor
Eavan Boland explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity in her work. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944 and educated...
Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips

male, 51 years old
Yale University, Dancing in the Dark, A State of Independence, Crossing the River, Queen's College, Oxford, The Final Passage…The Nature of Blood, Royal Society of Literature, ProfessorofEnglish, Director of Initiatives, Luce Professor
Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. He is now professor at Yale...
Alicia Ostriker

Alicia Ostriker

female, 72 years old (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States)
University of Wisconsin, The Imaginary Lover, nonfiction, Writing Like A Woman, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, The Mother-Child Papers…professor, Rutgers English Department, Poetry Society of America, University of Pittsburgh Press, English
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York to David Suskin...
Diane Glancy

Diane Glancy

female, 68 years old
University of Iowa, Master of Fine Arts, macalester college, cherokee, Native American, writer…ProfessorofEnglish, University of Arizona Press, Professor at Macalester College
(Helen) Diane Glancy (born 1941) is a Cherokee poet, author and playwright. Glancy has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. She has...
Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald

male, deceased (1985)
The New York Herald Tribune, Princeton University, The Choate School, World War II, Sarah Lawrence, Boylston Professor…American Academy of Arts and Sciences, library of congress, academy of american poet, ProfessorofEnglish
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of...

Fred D'Aguiar

male, 49 years old
Academic of the University of Cambridge, Virginia Tech faculty, University of Miami faculty, English, teacher, Writing Teacher…Academic of Newcastle University, Master of Fine Arts, Bill of Rights, Academic of Durham University, Alumni of the University of Kent
Fred D'Aguiar (born February 2, 1960) is an author of poetry, novels, and drama. D'Aguiar was born in London of Guyanese parents. He spent his...