- Brian Wansink
Brian Wansink (born 1960, Sioux City, Iowa) is an American professor in the fields of marketing and nutritional science. He is best known for his work on consumer behavior and specifically on food psychology and behavior, which focuses on how micro environments (supermarkets, packaging, homes, pantries, and tablescapes) influence what and how much people eat and how much they enjoy it. - Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture. He edited "The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture" (1907-09), … - John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda". - Richard Price
Richard Price (born October 12, 1949 in the Bronx, New York) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His books explore the urban world in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. A self-described "middle class Jewish kid", Price grew up in a housing project in the northeast Bronx. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, has a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and an MFA from Columbia. - Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: "V." (1963), "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966), … - Ken Blanchard
Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard . A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. - Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture. Eisenman's fragmented forms are identified with an eclectic group of architects that have been, at times unwillingly, labelled deconstructivists. Although Eisenman shuns the label, he has had a history of controversy aimed at keeping him in the public (academic) eye. - Steven Stucky
Steven Stucky (born November 7, 1949 Hutchinson, Kansas) is an American composer. He has written commissioned works for many of the major American orchestras, including Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. He is Professor of music composition at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Consulting Composer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where he has been the resident composer since 1988, … - Rod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, most famous for his science fiction anthology television series, "The Twilight Zone". - Philip Gourevitch
Philip Gourevitch is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work has appeared since 1995. His first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda -published in 1998-won a number of major prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in England, the Guardian First Book Award. - Jennifer Lee
Sonia Pressman Fuentes , who was born in Berlin, Germany, came to the US as a child with her immediate family to escape the Holocaust. - Bassam Tibi
Bassam Tibi, born 1944 in Damascus, is a German political scientist of Syrian origin. He is a Muslim, and is known for his analysis of international relations concerning Islamic countries and civilization. He studied in Frankfurt am Main and habilitated in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1973, he teaches international politics at Göttingen University. In 1982, he was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and is currently an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. - Livingston Farrand
Livingston Farrand, M.D., LL.D. (June 14, 1867 - November 8, 1939) was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and academic administrator. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received in undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he earned his M.D.. He attended the universities of Cambridge and Berlin. - Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father. - Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman (born October 7 1948) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work "A Natural History of the Senses." Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals. - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London (where his Ghanaian father was a law student) but moved as an infant to Ghana, where he grew up. He was educated at Cambridge University in England, where he took both BA and PhD degrees in philosophy. His dissertation explored the foundations of probabilistic semantics; once revised, these arguments were published by Cambridge University Press as Assertion and Conditionals . - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - 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. - Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. An active research scientist in astronomy and physics for two decades, he has also taught both subjects on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. international best seller; Good Benito ; The Diagnosis , which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Reunion . - Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. - Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch (born on July 14, 1960, in Dolton, Illinois) is an American writer, actress and comedian. Raised in Illinois, she received her bachelor's degree in theater from Illinois State University and her MFA from Cornell University, also in theater. Her extensive theater background involved touring with The Second City comedy troupe and playing Carol Brady in "The Real Live Brady Bunch". She also wrote and starred in the award-winning play "Oh Sister, … - Farhad Manjoo
Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is a staff writer for Salon.com. Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. While there, he wrote for and then served as Editor in Chief of the "Cornell Daily Sun" student newspaper. Before taking a staff position at Salon.com, he wrote for "Wired News". Manjoo frequently writes on new media, politics, and controversies in journalism. - Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton (born January 25, 1952 in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet, author, and feminist. She received her undergraduate degree in creative writing in 1976 from Empire State College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry. Defying convention, not easily categorized, and employing a postmodern poetics that admits artifice, … - Joyce Brothers
Joyce Brothers, PhD (maiden name Joyce Diane Bauer, born October 20, 1928) is a psychologist and advice columnist, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. She gained fame in 1955 by winning "The $64,000 Question" game show, on which she appeared as an expert in the subject area of boxing. It should be noted that the game was rigged against her favor, and her win was part of a major court case of the 50s. Dr. - Laura Riding
Laura (Riding) Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer. - Peter Yarrow
Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938) is an American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow cowrote (With Leonard Lipton) the group's most famous song, "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Yarrow's parents were Jewish, born in the Ukraine; the family name was changed from Yaroshevitz to Yarrow after immigrating to Providence, Rhode Island. Yarrow received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Cornell University in 1959. - James Welch
James Welch (1940-August 4 2003), born in Browning, Montana, was an award-winning U.S. author and poet. His father was a member of the Blackfeet tribe and his mother a member of the Gros Ventre tribe. Welch was given the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and full knighthood, by France in recognition of his contributions to French culture. - Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross is an American author, and writes for "Slate's" "Moneybox" column. He has written several books, including "Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time", "Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance", and "Generations of Corning: 150 Years in the Life of a Global Corporation, 1851-2001". He attended Cornell University and studied American history at Harvard University. - Matt Ruff
Matthew Theron Ruff (b. September 8, 1965 in Queens, New York) is an American author. His first novel, "Fool on the Hill", was a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell University. Published shortly after Ruff graduated from Cornell, it gained an early cult following which continues to this day. - Julie Hilden
From 1996-99, Hilden was a litigation associate at the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly, where she focused on First Amendment issues. Since then, in addition to being a FindLaw columnist, Julie has made occasional appearances to provide legal commentary on Good Morning America, Court TV, CNN, NPR, and Slate.com. Hilden's most recent book is the novel 3 (also available in French and Czech). - Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born July 13 1950), is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist. By many, he is considered the Richard Dawkins of Italian science writing. Born in Cuneo (Piedmont), he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in Turin in 1973. From 1983 to 2002, he taught in both Italy (Turin, Alessandria, Siena, Milan) and in the United States (Cornell University). - Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel (born November 16 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and university professor. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned To Drive", which deals with child sexual abuse and incest. "The Baltimore Waltz", a tribute to her brother, won the Obie award for Best Play in 1992. Other plays include Hot 'N Throbbing, "Desdemona", "And Baby Makes Seven", … - John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto (born John Gatto) is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions. - Mollie Katzen
Mollie Katzen (born 1950 in Rochester, New York, USA) is an American chef, cookbook author and artist. She is best known for her seminal vegetarian cookbook, the Moosewood Cookbook (1977), inspired by the Moosewood Restaurant collective she helped create near Cornell University and Ithaca College. She has authored and illustrated several other best-selling vegetarian cookbooks, including "The Enchanted Broccoli Forest" (1982), "Still Life with Menu" (1988), … - Clifford Irving
Clifford Michael Irving (born November 5, 1930) is an American writer, best known for an "authorized autobiography" of Howard Hughes that turned out to be a hoax. - Dick Schaap
Richard J. Schaap (September 27, 1934 - December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and the author or co-author of 33 books. He was known for his elegant prose and had a reputation as something of an intellectual; many columns consisted of broad sports essays, or "thought pieces." His autobiography, "Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines" not only recounted some of his adventures, … - Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. - Adam C. Engst
Brief Bio Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and most-respected Internet-based newsletters, distributed weekly to tens of thousands of readers. He has written numerous technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles - thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld. - Peter Ludlow
Peter Ludlow (January 16, 1957), who also writes under the name Urizenus Sklar, is a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before moving to Michigan, Ludlow taught for several years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and Cornell University. His research areas include the conceptual issues in cyberspace, …
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