Leon Botstein

Leon Botstein

male, 63 years old (Annandale, New York, United States)
Musicologist, Conductor, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, bardcollege, University of Chicago…American university and college president, Franconia College, early college entrance program, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Bard High School Early College
Leon Botstein is hailed as a prophetic and innovative voice in American higher education and has been the President of Bard College since 1975. The...
Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma

male, 57 years old
dutch, St Antony's College, Oxford, New York Review of Books, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar, Washington, D.C, Anglo…Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, bardcollege, Professor, Bard College
Ian Buruma is a Dutch-born historian and journalist. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard...
Mark Danner

Mark Danner

male, 50 years old
Harvard University alumni, New York Review of Books, New York Times, from Utica, New York, war correspondent, El Mozote massacre…Harvard College, bardcollege
Mark Danner has written about international affairs, human rights and foreign wars for more than 20 years. He has covered Central America, Haiti,...
John Ashbery

John Ashbery

male, 82 years old
New York School poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, poet, LGBT writer, from the United States, gay…bardcollege
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet who has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of...
Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly

male
bardcollege, poet, Yale University, Los Angeles Times, American Book Award, Black Sparrow Press…wagner college, Dickinson College
Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group. Kelly was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Samuel...
Norman Manea

Norman Manea

male, 73 years old
Jewish, transnistria, memoirist, Communist Romania, Romania during World War II, West Berlin…bardcollege
Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936) is a Romanian writer and intellectual. Born in Burdujeni, currently a neighborhood of Suceava. Because he was...
Luc Sante

Luc Sante

male (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States)
The Factory of Facts, Novels in Three Lines, O. K. You Mugs Writers on Movie Actor, Kill All Your Darlings Pieces 1990-2005, Regis High School, evidence…bardcollege
Luc Sante is a writer and critic. He was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. His books...
Harold Farberman

Harold Farberman

male, 80 years old
Conductor, Juilliard School of Music alumni, Denver Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, The Great American Cowboy, Bournemouth Sinfonietta…bardcollege
Harold Farberman (b. November 2, 1929) is an American conductor, composer, and percussionist. Farberman studied percussion at Juilliard and...
James Chace

James Chace

male, deceased (2004)
death by myocardial infarction, new england, statecraft, historian, What We Had, central intelligence agency…bardcollege
James Clark Chace (October 16, 1931 - October 8, 2004) was an eminent historian, writing on American diplomacy and statecraft. His 12 books include...
Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn

male
new york magazine, Barnes and Noble, American Library Association, salon, The Paris Review, National Jewish Book Award…bardcollege
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960 in Long Island) is a critic and author. Mendelsohn graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia,...