- Steven Heller
Steven Heller, (b. 1950), American art director, journalist, critic, author and editor who specializes on graphic design. Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography and many subjects related to graphic design. Over 80 titles and a vast number of magazine articles attest to his productive and thoughtful output. He has written articles for "Affiche, Baseline, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D., … - Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of the few female painters of her era to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings can be seen in major museums and collections across America and Europe. Mitchell was born in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942 she enrolled at Smith College, later transferring to The Art Institute of Chicago in 1944. - Brice Marden
Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938), American, generally described as a Minimalist artist, although his work defies specific categorization. He was born in Bronxville, New York and grew up in nearby Briarcliff Manor. He attended Florida Southern College, Lakeland (1957 to 1958) and received his BFA at Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts (1961). He earned his MFA at Yale University School of Art and Architecture (1963) where he studied with Esteban Vicente, … - Deborah Wiles
Deborah Wiles (born 1953) is an award-winning children's book author. She received a National Book Award nomination for "Each Little Bird That Sings". Her first novel, "Love, Ruby Lavender", is about a nine year old girl, who lives in Hallelujah, Mississippi. The novel was an ALA Notable Children's Book, a BookSense 76 Pick, an NCTE Notable Children's Trade Book in the Language Arts, a New York Public Library 100 Titles For Reading and Sharing title, … - Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, … - Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters. A close friend of Alice Sebold (both graduated from the distinguished creative writing MFA program at UC Irvine), she also teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California. A native of Los Angeles, Bender is influenced by the French Surrealists and the Italian writer Italo Calvino. - Kara Walker
Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary American artist who is best known for her exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and identity in her artworks. Walker was born in Stockton, California. Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an administrator. Her mother worked as an administrative assistant and was inspired by her family to reveal her own artistic talents. - Duane Hanson
Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 - January 6, 1996) was an artist based in South Florida, a sculptor known for his life-sized realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, "Bondo" and bronze. He was born in Alexandria, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College in 1946 and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1951. - John August
John August (born August 4, 1970 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American screenwriter and film director. Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, August earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and an MFA in film from the The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. August's debut film was 1999's critically-acclaimed "Go", which he also co-produced and was second unit director in. - Rick Moody
Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for "The Ice Storm" (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, and became a bestseller; it was later made into a feature film. His first novel "Garden State" (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. - Ander Monson
Ander Monson (born 1975) is an American novelist and poet. He was raised in Houghton, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula and received his Bachelor of Arts from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He went on to earn a MA from Iowa State University and a MFA] from the University of Alabama. Monson's first two books, the novel "Other Electricities" and the poetry collection "Vacationland", were published in 2005. - Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel is an American installation artist. In the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel began making art in response to her own surroundings and daily routines, creating functional objects that fulfilled the artist’s needs relating to shelter, food, furniture, and clothing. She produced her first “Living Unit”--an experimental structure intended to reduce everything necessary for living into a simple, … - Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister Graphic designer, founder, Sagmeister Inc. - Joe Haldeman
Joe (not Joseph) William Haldeman is an American science fiction author. Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter in 1965. He received a bachelor of science degree in astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1967. That same year he was drafted into the army and served as a combat engineer in Vietnam. - Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. She also is a faculty member in Pacific University's MFA in Writing program. "Facts About the Moon" was the winner of the 2006 Oregon Book Award. The title poem, "Facts about the Moon," begins humorously: "The moon is backing away from us / an inch and a half each year... What's a person supposed to do?" - Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-Rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a first-generation Korean American novelist. Lee was born in Korea in 1965. He emigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. He was raised in Westchester, New York but attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and from the University of Oregon with a MFA in writing. - Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations, textile art, and sculptures, but is also known to work with video and video installation. She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas and later received an MFA from Yale University in sculpture. She taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1991 and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1993. - Joshua Ferris
Joshua Ferris (born 1974) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel, "Then We Came to the End". The book is a satire of the American workplace, similar in tone to Don DeLillo's "Americana". It takes places in a Chicago ad agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom. Joshua Ferris graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in 1996. He then moved to Chicago, which he regards as home, … - Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek is the author of two collections of stories, The Coast of Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods , and a collection of poems, Brass Knuckles . His numerous award and honors include a 1998 Lannan Award, the 1995 PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize, an Academy Institute Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994, and four O. Henry Prizes. - Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky </ref> He resigned from the Knesset on November 20, 2006. As of June 18, 2007, Sharansky is the president of Beit Hatefutsot, the Jewish diaspora museum. - Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California in 1960. A graduate of San Jose State University, he later earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation "berorgan" a stadium-size, fully automated bagpipe, was pieced together from bits of electrical hardware and several miles of inflated plastic sheeting. - Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (b.1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000). She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on Mylar, then adding detail with photographic fragments of idealised women collected from print magazines. - Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author. Elizabeth Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and is a graduate of Yale University. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress. Her first novel, "The Historian", was published in 2005, and it has become a best-seller. - Alexander Payne
Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an Academy Award winning American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark sense of humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. His films also revolve around adultery in marriage and relationships. He also tends to set his films in Omaha, Nebraska. He has scenes of historical landmarks and museums in his films, … - David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham has thus far built his reputation as an historical novelist. His first novel, "Gabriel's Story", centered on African American settlers in the American West. "Walk Through Darkness" followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War. "Pride of Carthage" focussed on Hannibal Barca of Ancient Carthage and his war with the Roman Republic. His novels have twice been "New York Times" Notable Books, … - Leon Golub
Leon Golub (January 23, 1922 - August 8, 2004) was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively. He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero. - William Logan
William Logan (born 1950) is an American poet, critic and scholar. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his life-partner, the poet and artist, Debora Greger. Educated at Yale (BA, 1972) and the University of Iowa (MFA, 1975), he has authored seven books of poetry as well as four books of criticism. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. - Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer whose collection of short stories featured in the book "Drown" became an overnight literary sensation. The stories in "Drown" are: "Ysrael", "Fiesta, 1980", "Aurora", "Drown", "Boyfriend", "Edison, New Jersey", "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie", "No Face", "Negocios". Diaz is the first Dominican-born man to become a major writer in the United States. - Anselm Berrigan
Anselm Berrigan is a poet and teacher born in Chicago, Illinois in 1972. He grew up in New York City where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser and a parrot named Pig. He currently is artistic director at the St. Mark's Poetry Project. He is the brother of poet/musician Edmund Berrigan, half brother of Kate Berrigan and scientist David Berrigan, son of poets Alice Notley and the late Ted Berrigan, … - Ezer Weizman
"'"' ((June 15,1924-April 24, 2005) was the seventh President of the State of Israel. He served a seven-year term, 1993–2000. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli air force and Minister of Defense. - Salvador Plascencia
Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Plascencia family eventually settled near Los Angeles in the city of El Monte when he was eight years old. Plascencia holds a B.A. in English from Whittier College and an MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. The recipient of a National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts Award in Fiction in 1996 and the Peter Nagoe Prize for Fiction in 2000. - Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze (born 1969) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York and Cambridge. She received her high school diploma from the Milton Academy, her bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1991 and her MFA from New York's School of Visual... - Abba Eban
Abba Eban (born February 2, 1915, died November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. Born with the name Aubrey Solomon Meir in Cape Town, South Africa, Eban moved to England at an early age. He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School before studying Classics and Oriental languages at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating with a "Triple-Starred First", he researched Arabic and Hebrew as a Fellow of Pembroke College from 1938-1939. - Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York to David Suskin and Beatrice Linnick Suskin. Her mother read her Shakespeare, and Alicia began writing poems at an early age. Ostriker holds a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University (1959), and an M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1964) from the University of Wisconsin. Her doctoral dissertation, on the work of William Blake, became her first book, … - Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen (born October 24, 1939) is a Native American poet, literary critic, activist, and novelist. Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Of mixed Laguna, Sioux, Scottish, and Lebanese-American descent, Allen has always most closely identified with the people among whom she spent her childhood and upbringing. - Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino (born 1947) is a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets. She is a longtime resident of California's Bay Area, and earned her M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. - Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which bounded the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Born as Panagiotis Harry Voulkopoulos, the third of five children to Greek immigrant parents Aristovoulos I. Voulkopoulos, anglicized and shorten as Harry (Aris) John Voulkos and Effrosyni (Efrosine) Peter Voulalas, … - Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of "Colors" magazine. Kalman was born in Budapest and became a U.S. resident in 1956, after he and his family fled Hungary to escape the Soviet invasion. He later attended NYU, dropping out after one year of Journalism classes. In the 1970s Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. - Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. - Robbie Conal
Robbie Conal is an American guerilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for his use of snipes to distribute his poster art throughout a city overnight. Conal's parents were both union organizers, and he grew up in Manhattan. He received his bachelor's degree in fine arts from San Francisco State University in 1968 and his MFA from Stanford University in 1978.
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