Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley

female, 60 years old
The Age of Grief, Homicide Life on the Street, the tale of genji, The Secret Lives of Dentist, A Thousand Acres, Doctor of Philosophy…Master of Fine Arts, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, film of the same title, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, Aspects of the Novel
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster...
Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

male, 66 years old
Illinois actor, American West, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner, Frances, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, Samuel Shepard Rogers…A Lie of the Mind, American, curse of the starving class, theatre of the absurd
Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an award-winning American playwright, writer and actor. His many written works are known for being frank and...
Bernard Rands

Bernard Rands

male, 75 years old
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University, juilliard school, Contemporary classical music, Chanticleer, From sheffield…University of California, San Diego, University of Wales, Bangor, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, American, University of Illinois
Bernard Rands (b. Sheffield, England, 2 March 1934) is a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in England in 1934, he studied music and...
Allan Gurganus

Allan Gurganus

male, 62 years old
Duke University faculty, Stanford University faculty, American military, Southern United States, from the United States, U.S. NAVY…Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, American South, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, University of Pennsylvania, American
Allan Gurganus (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work is often influenced by and set in his native North...
Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner

male, 80 years old
Harvard University, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, European classical music, University of California, Berkeley, American, Classical musician…American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jewish American, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters
Leon Kirchner (born January 24, 1919 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American composer of classical music. Member of The American Academy of Arts and...
Robert Underwood Johnson

Robert Underwood Johnson

male, deceased (1937)
Katharine Johnson, from Washington, D.C., French, Italian, journalist, staff…American, American Academy of Arts and Letters, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, staff of office, American Copyright League
Robert Underwood Johnson (January 12, 1853 - October 14, 1937) was a U.S. writer and diplomat. His wife was Katharine Johnson.
Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon

male, 45 years old (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Best American Short Stories, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, American Library Association, O. Henry Award, National Book Award, Among the Missing…American, The New York Times, You Remind Me of Me
Dan Chaon (born 1964) is an American author. His best-selling first novel was "You Remind Me of Me" (2004). His short-story collections "Fitting...

Robin Robertson

male
E.M. Forster Award, the new yorker, Forward Prize, Slow Air, Swithering, A Painted Field…TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, Scone, Perth and Kinross, London Review of Books
Robin Robertson is a Scottish poet. Robertson's poetry collection, "A Painted Field" won the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the...
Steven Holl

Steven Holl

male, 61 years old
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, A+U, Alvar Aalto Medal, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters…American, University of Washington
Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington) is an American academic architect best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum...
Josephine Jacobsen

Josephine Jacobsen

female, deceased (2003)
American Poet Laureate, towson state university, Johns Hopkins University, academy of american poet, Folger Library, American Poets Laureate…library of congress, American, The Animal Inside, TheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters, The Human Climate New Poems
Josephine Jacobsen was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. Born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, she moved with her family to New York at...