John McPhee

John McPhee

male, 78 years old
New Journalism, Pine Barrens of New Jersey, creativenonfiction, Hunter Thompson, dirigibles, Annals of the Former World
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a writer widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. Like Tom Wolfe and Hunter...
Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler

male, 57 years old
National Book Critics Circle Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, omnivore, University of California, Santa Cruz alumni, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, New York writer…creativenonfiction
Lawrence Weschler is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974),...
Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

male, deceased (2007) (Manhattan, New York, United States)
pulitzer prize, film director, journalist, creativenonfiction, National Book Award, novelist…nonfiction novel
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman...
Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore

male
Ohio University, Clear, English, helpful, popular, Penn State - Altoona…creativenonfiction
Dinty W. Moore (August 11, 1955-) is an American essayist, and author of both fiction and non fiction books, including his most widely known, "The...
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer

female, 57 years old
augusta state university, Peregrina, Augusta College, B.A, The Latin Deli, short stories…creativenonfiction
Judith Ortiz Cofer (born Judith Ortiz in 1952 in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico), is an acclaimed Puerto Rican author. Her works span a range of literary...
Leah Price

Leah Price

female, 39 years old
Harvard University, Post-structuralist narrative theory, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture, literary journalism, narrative theory…creativenonfiction
Leah Price is a professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, where her specialties are in the novel, literary...
Jacinta Escudos

Jacinta Escudos

female, 48 years old
san salvador, la nacion, short stories, Salvadoran, La Prensa Gráfica, Décimos Juegos Florales de Ahuachapán…creativenonfiction
Jacinta Escudos, born in San Salvador in 1961, is a writer whose body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and...

Ron Grant

previously board-certified pediatrician
Ron Grant is a previously board-certified pediatrician who, twenty years after receiving his medical degree at the University of Wisconsin, earned...
Education: …MFA Creative Nonfiction at University of Arizona