Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

male, 72 years old
author, Guns, Germs, and Steel, collapse, Evolutionary biologist, Pulitzer Prize winner, geography…nonfiction
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works...
Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard

female, 64 years old
nature writer, author, INFP, From Pittsburgh, memoirist, on the road…nonfiction
Annie Dillard (born 30 April 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative...
Cordwainer Bird

Cordwainer Bird

male, 75 years old (California)
Hugo Award, Star Trek The Original Series, copyright infringement, Anthology television series, Anthology series, Science Fiction Writer of America…nonfiction
Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. His literary and television...
Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff

male, 64 years old
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, Stanford University alumni, Syracuse University faculty, American military, New York writer, From Syracuse, New York…nonfiction
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...

James Bradley

male
World War II, Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Pacific Theatre, nonfiction, raising the American flag
James Bradley (c. February, 1954-) is an American author, specializing in historical nonfiction chronicling the Pacific theatre of World War II....
Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy

female, 73 years old (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
University of Michigan, Activism, Michigan writer, nonfiction, Social Activist, Arthur C. Clarke Award
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply...
Ian Frazier

Ian Frazier

male, 58 years old
Harvard University, from Hudson, Ohio, Great Plains, nonfiction, fishing, American
Ian Frazier (b.1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American writer and humorist. In his nonfiction books such as "Great Plains", "Family", and "On the...
Robert McKee

Robert McKee

male
University of Southern California, nonfiction, plot, Film theorist, narrative, dialogue
Robert McKee is a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at...
Edward Klein

Edward Klein

male
Columbia University, Colgate University, Columbia University alumni, Colgate University alumni, parade, nonfiction
Edward Klein is a bestselling nonfiction author who has written about the Kennedys and Hillary Clinton. Klein is the former foreign editor of...
Ron Williamson

Ron Williamson

male
The New York Times, cirrhosis of the liver, Minor league baseball player, dna testing, oakland athletics, minor league…nonfiction
Ron Williamson (February 3, 1953, Oklahoma-December 4, 2004) was a minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to...