Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope

female, 65 years old
romance novel, Order of the British Empire, St Hugh's College, Oxford, Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford, Reigate, novelist…amazon
Joanna Trollope OBE (born December 9, 1943, in Gloucestershire), is an English novelist. Joanna Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for...
Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray

male, 74 years old
Writer-illustrator, Literary realism, painter, fantasy, Whitbread Award Winner, illustration…amazon
Alasdair Gray (born December 28, 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel "Lanark", published in 1981 and...
William Trevor

William Trevor

male, 81 years old
St Columba's College, county cork, Short story writer, A Standard of Behaviour, Mitchelstown, Irish Free State…amazon
William Trevor was born in 1928, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker...
Martin Strel

Martin Strel

male, 55 years old
athletic, Guinness World Record holder, Guinness World Records, amazon, danube, yangtze…Amazon River
Martin Strel (born October 1 1954 is a Slovenian ultra marathon swimmer, best known for swimming the entire length of various rivers, including the...
Jeremy Narby

Jeremy Narby

male
Stanford University, Ashaninca, rainforest, indigenous peoples, Amazon Rainforest, Ayahuasca…amazon
Jeremy Narby is a an anthropologist and writer. Narby grew up in Canada and Switzerland, studied history at the University of Canterbury, and...
William Stafford

William Stafford

male, deceased (1993)
University of Kansas alumni, American Poet Laureate, Essayist, poet, William Edgar Stafford, Pacifist…amazon
William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 - August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He...
Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin

male (New York, New York, United States)
Dissent, tax resister, Harvard University, academia, journalism, tactic…amazon
Todd Gitlin (New York) is a professor of Journalism and Sociology at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A contributor to Mother...
Dan Rhodes

Dan Rhodes

male, 37 years old
novelist, Lassie Come Home, Timoleon Vieta Come Home, Don't Tell Me The Truth About Love, Alumni of the University of Glamorgan, British…amazon
Dan Rhodes is a British author who was born in 1972. He is probably best known for the novel "Timoleon Vieta Come Home", a subversion of the...
Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann

male, 52 years old
University of Florida faculty, poet, Translator, translation, Griffin Poetry Prize, Ashes for Breakfast…amazon
Michael Hofmann (born 1957, Freiburg, West Germany) is a German poet and award-winning translator.
Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

female, 57 years old
Giving Up The Ghost, Vacant Possession, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, Every Day is Mother’s Day, A Place of Greater Safety, Cheltenham Festival Prize…amazon
Hilary Mary Mantel CBE (born 6 July 1952) is an English novelist. She is the author of nine acclaimed novels, a short story collection and a...