Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen

male, 82 years old
nature writer, taxresister, novelist, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Paris Review
Peter Matthiessen (born May 221927 in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction. Matthiessen's work...
Lew Welch

Lew Welch

male, deceased (1971)
taxresister, Reed College alumni, poet, Beat Generation, Beat writer, American poet
Lewis Barrett Welch, Jr. is an American poet associated with the Beat generation of poets, artists, and iconoclasts.
Marshall Sahlins

Marshall Sahlins

male, 79 years old
homo economicus, taxresister, Charles F. Grey, Evolution and Culture, Marshall David Sahlins, economically rational man
Marshall David Sahlins (born December 27, 1930) is a prominent American anthropologist. He received both a Bachelors and Masters degree at the...

Philip Levine

male, 81 years old
taxresister, New York University, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, California State University, Fresno, from Detroit, American
Philip Levine (b. January 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. He is the Distinguished Poet in Residence for the...

David Harris

male, 63 years old
anti-war, From Fresno, California, Conscription in the United States, Activism, author, American…taxresister
David Harris (born 1946 in Fresno, California) is an American journalist and author. He is known chiefly for his role as an anti-war activist...
Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw

female, deceased (1919)
Albion College alumni, Boston University School of Theology alumni, Methodism, taxresister, Autobiographer, World War I
Anna Howard Shaw, (February 14, 1847 - July 2, 1919) was a leading United States civil rights leader; a physician; and the first female Methodist...
Andrew Kopkind

Andrew Kopkind

male, deceased (1994)
taxresister, the new republic, black panther party, Cornell University, journalist, Alumni of the London School of Economics
Andrew Kopkind (August 24, 1935-October 23, 1994) was a radical American journalist. He was renowned for his reporting during the tumultuous years...
James Crumley

James Crumley

male, 70 years old
Georgia Institute of Technology alumni, taxresister, hardboiled, Mystery Writer of America, Edgar Award, crime novels
James A. Crumley (born 12 October 1939 in Three Rivers, Texas) is the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short...
Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

male, deceased (1972)
poet, Princeton University alumni, taxresister, Literary critic, literary criticism, American
Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 - June 12 1972) was an American writer, noted chiefly for his literary criticism. Most literary experts considered...
David Meltzer

David Meltzer

male, 72 years old
poet, taxresister, Beat Generation, American, San Francisco Renaissance, The New American Poetry 1945-1960
David Meltzer (born February 17, 1937) is a poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has...