- Calvin Reid
Calvin Reid is an artist. He is a Lower East Side pioneer whose art has had very little exposure. His early graphic art is impressive, and many wonder why his writing career has overshadowed his graphic arts career. He is also a US journalist, writer and editor based in New York City, NY. He is a contributing editor for "Publishers Weekly" and is also the head of their comics department. He heads the magazine's annual African American issue, … - Douglas Clegg
Douglas Clegg is an American horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and LiveJournal. In May 1999, Clegg’s novel "Naomi" became the Internet’s first publisher-sponsored e-serial, garnering write-ups in "Publishers Weekly" and "Business Week". - Heidi MacDonald
Heidi MacDonald is a US writer and editor in the field of comics based in New York City, NY. Currently the co-editor of "PW Comics Week" for "Publishers Weekly", she also writes a blog about comics called "The Beat" and does the monthly column "Hey Kids! Comics!" for "Comics Buyer's Guide". She is a former editor for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and the Disney Magazine. - John Joseph Adams
John Joseph Adams (born 1976-) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor and critic. As of 2007, he is an assistant editor at "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". He is also the editor of the forthcoming post-apocalyptic reprint anthology Wastelands ("Night Shade Books", Summer 2008). In addition to his work at "F&SF", Adams is a reporter for SCI FI Wire, … - John C. Wright
John C. Wright (John Charles Wright, born 1961) is an acclaimed author of science fiction and fantasy novels. A Nebula award finalist (for the fantasy novel "Orphans of Chaos"), he was called "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" by "Publishers Weekly" (after publication of his debut novel, "The Golden Age"). - Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd (born 1964) is an American author, editor and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers. Born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up in a Philadelphia suburb, strongly influenced by American popular culture. While a design student at Penn State, an art instructor once gave the assignment to design a book cover for "Museums and Women" by John Updike, who is also a Shillington native. The teacher panned Kidds work in front of the class, … - Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of such international political novels as "The Last Spymaster," "The Coil", and "Masquerade." A member of the U.S. Association for Intelligence Officers, she is known for being a bestselling novelist in the male-dominated genre of spy fiction or spy thrillers. Her books are published in some twenty countries around the world. Lynds began her writing career as a reporter for the "Arizona Republic", … - Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton (born 13 July 1957) is an American novelist. Hamilton lives in Rochester, Wisconsin. She grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, the youngest of five children. She graduated from Carleton College in 1979 as an English major.Her first published works were short stories, "My Own Earth" and "Aunt Marj's Happy Ending", both published in "Harper's Magazine" in 1983. "Aunt Marj's Happy Ending" later appeared in "The Best American Short Stories 1984". - Kurt Andersen
Kurt Andersen (born August 22, 1954) is a American novelist who is currently a columnist for "New York Magazine" ("The Imperial City"), and host of the public radio program "Studio 360", which he co-created. In 1986 with E. Graydon Carter he co-founded "Spy" magazine, which they sold in 1991; it continued publishing until 1998. Previously he was a columnist for "The New Yorker" ("The Culture Industry") and "Time" ("Spectator"). - Spencer Johnson
Dr. Spencer Johnson is known for his 1998 motivational book, titled "Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life". It has stayed on the "New York Times" Bestseller list, and has remained on the "Publishers Weekly" Hardcover nonfiction list. Johnson, born in South Dakota, received a B.A. degree in psychology from the University of Southern California in 1963, … - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon (born 1965) is a bestselling and award-winning American author. Under her own name she is known for her paranormal romance and vampire chronicles. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she is also well known for her historical romance novels. Kenyon's novels have an "international cult following," with over ten million copies in print in twenty-six countries. - Karen Marie Moning
Karen Marie Moning graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in Society & Law. Her novels have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today , and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists and have won numerous awards, including the prestigious RITA Award. - Matthew Pearl
Matthew Pearl is an American novelist and educator. His debut, "The Dante Club", became a best-selling novel published in more than 40 countries. Matthew Pearl graduated from University School of Nova Southeastern University (NSU). He was then educated at Harvard College and Yale Law School and has taught writing and literature at Emerson College and Harvard University. - Jennifer McMahon
Jennifer McMahon (born 1968) is a fiction writer living in Barre (city), Vermont. Her debut novel, "Promise Not to Tell", was published by Harper Paperbacks (an imprint of HarperCollins) in April 2007. "Promise Not to Tell" was described by Publishers Weekly as "Part mystery-thriller and part ghost story". It will be released in Germany by Rowohlt Verlag, under the title "Das Madchen Im Wald" (The Girl in the Woods), in October 2007. - Zz Packer
ZZ Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. Her given name is Zuwena (Swahili for "good"), but "After a while of teachers mispronouncing my name and everyone else in the world, I began introducing myself as ZZ, and it just kind of stuck" Recognized as a talented writer at an early age, … - Kij Johnson
Kij Johnson (born January 1960 in Iowa) is an American writer of fantasy. She has worked extensively in publishing: managing editor for Tor Books and Wizards of the Coast/TSR, collections editor for Dark Horse Comics, and project manager working on the Microsoft Reader. She is an associate director for the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, and serves as a final judge for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. - Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet (b. 1972) is an American journalist and author best known for writing about religious subcultures in the United States. He is a contributing editor for "Harper's" and "Rolling Stone", a former senior writer for "The Chronicle of Higher Education", and the former editor in chief of Pakn Treger, a magazine of Jewish culture published by the National Yiddish Book Center. His work has also appeared in "The Washington Post", … - Mort Gerberg
Mort Gerberg is an American cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Publishers Weekly, among other magazines. He is married to Judith Gerberg. - Ralph Cosham
Ralph Cosham is a film and stage actor, film voice actor, and book narrator. Cosham also records under the name Geoffrey Howard. He lives in Washington, D.C. where he also performs at the Arena Stage and The Shakespeare Theater. Cosham changed careers from British journalist to actor in the 1970s. Several of his works were awarded "Audio Best of the Year" by "Publishers Weekly". - Mark Lynas
Mark Lynas (b. 1973) is a British author, journalist and environmental activist focussed on climate change. He is a contributor to New Statesman, Ecologist, Granta and Geographical magazines, and "The Guardian" and "The Observer" newspapers in the UK. He holds a degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh. - Chris Staros
Chris Staros is the publisher of Top Shelf Productions, one of the critically-acclaimed independent press publishers of graphic novels and comics. He is also the President of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), the non-profit organization founded in 1986 whose charter is to protect the First Amendment rights of the comics community. - Patricia Bosworth
Patricia Bosworth, B.A., (b. April 24, 1933) is an American journalist and biographer. A former faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, she has also been an editor, actress and model. - Anya Kamenetz
Anya Kamenetz, born September 15, 1980 in Baltimore, MD, is a freelance writer living in New York City. She is also a columnist for Yahoo Finance. She writes a column for "The Village Voice" called "Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young." Her first book, "Generation Debt" (ISBN 978-1594489075), about the economic obstacles facing young adults, was published by Riverhead Books in February 2006. - Sean McDonald
Sean McDonald is Executive Editor and Vice President of Riverhead Books. Authors he has edited include Nuruddin Farah, James Frey, Gorillaz, Aleksandar Hemon, John Hodgman, Steven Berlin Johnson, Tyler Perry, Erik Reece, David Rees, the RZA, George Saunders, and Hector Tobar. Prior to Riverhead, he worked as an editor at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, most notably as editor of James Frey's controversial bestselling memoir "A Million Little Pieces". - Miles Harvey
Miles Harvey is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his 2000 book, "The Island of Lost Maps", which recounted the strange story of a Floridian named Gilbert Bland, who stole many old and precious maps from various libraries across America. Harvey graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 with a B.S. degree in journalism and earned an M.F.A. degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1991. - Linh Dinh
Linh Dinh (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer and translator. He was born in Saigon, Vietnam, came to the US in 1975, and is living in Philadelphia. In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. He spent 2002-2003 in Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and the town of Certaldo. He is the author of two collections of stories, "Fake House" (Seven Stories Press, … - Stephen Manes
Stephen Manes (born 1949) wrote the "Digital Tools" column that appeared in every issue of "Forbes" untile recently when he took a break. He is expected to return in the future. He also writes the long-running "Full Disclosure" column that anchors the back page of "PC World." He is also co-host and co-executive editor of the public television series "PC World's Digital Duo," a program he helped create. - Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is an author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues and drug politics. Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University and the American University in Paris. - Jonathan Sarna
Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and the director of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership. He is regarded as one of the most prominent historians of American Judaism. Sarna is a prolific author, including the seminal work on the 350th anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish community, … - Leonie Frieda
Leonie Frieda is a Swedish-born former model, translator, and writer, working and living in the United Kingdom. Educated in the UK, France and Germany, Ms. Frieda speaks five languages. Her first book was a biography of Catherine de' Medici for which her exhaustive research led her to Paris and the châteaux of the Loire Valley to examine extensive original sources plus read and document facts and information from thousands of letters there as well as in Florence and Rome. - Christian de la Huerta
"Christian de la Huerta" is author of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed Coming Out Spiritually. Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best religion books of 1999, the book was also nominated for a Lambda Award. Christian's writing has appeared in the Advocate, Genre, OUT and other publications. Christian is co-founder and president of Revolutionary Wisdom, and President of Mastery of Breath, a school, … - Herbert F. Solow
Herbert F. Solow has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, studio executive, talent agent, and writer. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1953 Solow was hired by the William Morris Agency in New York City to work in the mailroom. In 1954 he was promoted to talent agent. Later he was hired by NBC and transferred to Los Angeles in 1960 and was subsequently hired by CBS as Director of Daytime Programs, West Coast. - Robert H. Justman
Robert H. Justman (born 1926) has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, production manager, assistant director, and production assistant since the early 1950s. He has worked on many television series including "Lassie", "The Life of Riley", "Adventures of Superman", "The Outer Limits", "Then Came Bronson", "Mission: Impossible" and many others. He was one of the pioneers behind "Star Trek", … - Charles Gidley Wheeler
Charles Gidley Wheeler (born 1938) (also known as Charles Gidley) is a television scriptwriter and historical novelist whose work has been acclaimed in "Publishers Weekly", "The Washington Post", "Kirkus Reviews", and "The New York Times". Wheeler was educated at University College School, London and Durham University, where he read Philosophy. He served in the Royal Navy from 1954 to 1979. His best known work is "The Raging of the Sea". - Andrew R. Heinze
Andrew R. Heinze (born January 21, 1955) is a scholar of American history. Currently residing in New York City, he was on the faculty of the University of San Francisco from 1993 until 2006, where he was Professor of U. S. History and Director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program. He received his B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College (1977) and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. (1987) in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. - Heidi Neumark
Heidi Neumark (born March, 9 1954) is the author of the book "Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx" (Beacon Press). She grew up in Summit, NJ and now lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Gregorio Orellano and their two children: Ana Orellano, who attends Wheelock College, and Hans Orellano, who attends Fordham Preparatory School. - Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born 1953) is an award-winning American poet. She was born to Lutheran parents of Norwegian descent in Tacoma, Washington. As a child, Gjertrud was particularly close with her father, and her close relationship with him during her early years had a profound impact on her. Not long after beginning college, she was devastated by his premature death, but her father's effect on her continued to be reflected in Schnackenberg's poetry for years to come. - Ian Penman
Ian Penman (born in 1959) is a British writer and, latterly, blogger. He began writing for the "NME" in the autumn of 1977, later contributing to various publications including "Uncut", "Arena", "The Wire", "The Face", "The Guardian", "The Times", "The Sunday Times", "The Independent", "Screen" and "German Vogue". - Ala Bashir
Ala Bashir is an Iraqi plastic surgeon, sculptor, and painter. After gaining attention for his work treating soldiers during the Iraq-Iran War, Bashir became a medical counselor to Saddam Hussein. For more than 15 years, Bashir served the former dictator closely, a time period that is chronicled by the History Channel DVD "Saddam's Doctor: An Insider's Story." Bashir, who was born in 1939 and now lives in the United Kingdom, … - Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa (b. September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. Her work has been praised by a number of prominent writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as "Publishers Weekly".
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