- James Frey
James Christopher Frey (born September 12, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio USA) is an American writer. He graduated from Denison University and also attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first memoir, "A Million Little Pieces", was published by Nan Talese/Doubleday in spring 2003. Its follow-up, "My Friend Leonard" (also a memoir) was published by Riverhead in summer 2005. Both books became New York Times #1 bestsellers. - Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president. - Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Xon Burroughs (born Christopher Robison on October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, known for his "New York Times" bestselling memoir "Running with Scissors" (2002), which spawned a feature film of the same name. - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most recognized work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", … - Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which has since been called the Great American Novel, and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty. - Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. A poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the world making appearances, spreading her legendary wisdom. A mesmerizing vision of grace, swaying and stirring when she moves, Dr. Angelou captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and perception. - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born), was the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and the Nobel Peace laureate of 2002. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate, and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter's presidency saw the creation of two cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir "A Moveable Feast." He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt was one of those teachers who fell into the job whilst secretly wishing he could do something else (in his case, a writer - an ambition he has now achieved). As a result this is a curious memoir of a man who has spent many years reluctantly at the chalk face. He conveys something of the workload of a typical classroom teacher: all that lesson planning and marking; and also the difficulties of idealistic teacher battling with technocratic school authorities. - Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the "The City and the Pillar" in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality. - Mary Karr
Mary Karr (1955 -) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. Karr has received acclaim for her literary work from "Time", "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", and "San Francisco Chronicle". Her memoir, "The Liars' Club", published in 1995, was a "New York Times" bestseller for over a year, and was named one of the year's best books. It delves vividly and often humorously into her deeply troubled 1960s childhood, … - Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, … - Truman Garcia Capote
Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on the 30th September 1924. Born as "Truman Streckfus Persons " to a 16yr old beauty queen and a salesman Capote was to become one of America 's most controversial authors, a repuation he gained both for his literary works and for his flamboyant life style . - Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher (born 4 April 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist. Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was only twenty-two. - Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his short stories and his memoirs, although he has written two novels (most recently "Old School"). - Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (born 30 April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative nonfiction. She has also published poetry, essays, literary criticism, autobiography, and fiction. She is married to the historical biographer Robert D. Richardson, Jr. Dillard describes her childhood at length in "An American Childhood". - Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11 1884 - November 7 1962) was an American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. - Anne Lamott
In partnership with Whitworth College and the SCC Hagan Center Foundation for the Humanities, SCC's President's Speakers Series was honored to present Anne Lamott Saturday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. This event was held in the Cowles Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Whitworth College , and is free and open to the public . Anne Lamott is the best-selling author of Bird by Bird , Operating Instructions , and Traveling Mercies . - Orhan Pamuk
The novelist Orhan Pamuk was born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul and carries the distinct honor of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. Pamuk graduated from the Department of Journalism of Istanbul University in 1976, and completed his graduate studies at the same institution in 1979. Even though he was educated in journalism, after the 1970s, Orhan Pamuk made literature his profession. - Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody is the pseudonym of Brook Busey-Hunt, a Minnesota-based writer and blogger best known for her yearlong foray in the stripping and peep show circuits of Minneapolis, candidly chronicled on her "Pussy Ranch" blog and in her 2006 memoir "Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper". Cody has also written the forthcoming movie "Juno" and is in pre-production for development of a sitcom. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer and memoirist. - Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. - Graham Henry Greene
Graham Greene / Graham Greene , who was in the staff of The Times from 1926 to 1940, and served in the Foreign Office during WWII, is the author of many important novels, several of which were made into movies. Critics often refer to a turning point in his writing when he converted to Catholicism, and often wonder as to why he continues to elude the Nobel Committee. His first work, Babbling April , appeared in 1925. - Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (born October 18, 1921) is a former five-term Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina and a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is considered one of the leading figures of the modern "Christian right". On April 2, 2006, Helms's wife of sixty-three years, Dorothy Jane "Dot" Coble Helms, announced that he is afflicted with multi-infarct dementia and had been moved to a convalescent facility near their Raleigh home. - Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984) was a successful American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett (and was the inspiration for his character Nora Charles), … - Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy" and the football memoir "Fever Pitch". In his work he frequently touches upon sports, music, and the aimless and obsessive personalities of his main characters. - Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated American country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. - Mary Gordon
Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8 1949) is an American writer, best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. They constitute an important contribution to Irish-American literature. - James Brown
James Brown is an American novelist and memoirist. - Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. - Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009. - Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel "Bel Canto". Patchett's other novels include "The Patron Saint of Liars", "Taft", and "The Magician's Assistant", which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the "Nashville Banner" Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. - Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold (b. September 6, 1963 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a bestselling American writer. She has published two books, "Lucky" and "The Lovely Bones". A third book, "The Almost Moon," is due to be published in late 2007. - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. - Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who mainly writes about his experiences in the Vietnam War and the impact the war had on the American soldiers who fought there. He regularly teaches in the MFA fiction writing program at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. O'Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota, a town of about 9,000 people (a setting which figures prominently in his novels). - Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn (born 1960) is an American writer and poet. He was born and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother committed suicide when he was 22. He drifted through several jobs before starting work at a homeless shelter in Boston. It was there at age 27 that he met his estranged, homeless father for the first time. Nick Flynn earned an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University. - Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1921) is an American writer, editor, was the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist. Though no longer officially connected to the company, save for the title of "Chairman Emeritus", Stan Lee remains a visible face in the industry. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he introduced complex, …
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