- Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs. - Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show". - Pete Yorn
Peter (Pete) Yorn (b. July 27, 1974) is a successful American singer-songwriter and guitarist who first gained international recognition when his music, including the song "Strange Condition", appeared in the 2000 film "Me, Myself & Irene". Yorn also wrote the film's score. - Zach Braff
Zachary Israel Braff (born April 6, 1975) is an American television and film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. During the 2000s, he became known for his role as J.D. on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs". Braff has also starred in several films as well as writing and directing 2004's "Garden State" and selecting and producing tracks for its soundtrack record for which Braff was awarded a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005. - Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22 1893 - June 7 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. - Alan Alda
Alan Alda (b. January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series "M*A*S*H". During the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image. - Judy Blume
Judy Blume (born February 12, 1938) is a popular American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults. She was born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey and received a B.S. degree in Education in 1961 from New York University (NYU). - Janis Ian
Janis Ian (born April 7, 1951) is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumental musician, columnist, and science fiction author. She had a successful singing career in the 1960s and 1970s, recording into the 21st century. - Michael Showalter
Michael Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is one-third of the sketch comedy trio Stella. Showalter first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's "The State" which aired from 1993 to 1995. He co-wrote (with David Wain) and starred in the cult classic "Wet Hot American Summer" (2001) and he wrote, directed, and starred in "The Baxter" (2005), with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux and Elizabeth Banks. - Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder (born May 5, 1945) is a film critic, author, and television personality. He has served as editor at "Rolling Stone" magazine and presently continues to serve as a contributing editor. Prior to "Rolling Stone", Loder worked for "Circus" magazine, and before that, he served three years in the United States Army. He joined MTV in 1988 as the host of their flagship music news program, "The Week in Rock", … - Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934) is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism. - William Carlos Williams
Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. - Kaavya Viswanathan
Kaavya Viswanathan (born January 16, 1987) is an Indian-American undergraduate student at Harvard College. She came to public attention when her debut novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life", was revealed to have been plagiarized from multiple sources. She was born in Chennai, India, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, and later in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States. - Chelsea Handler
In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. - Megan McCafferty
Megan McCafferty (born February 3, 1973) is a contemporary U.S. author most known for her series of books about Jessica Darling, a witty teenage heroine. These books are often classified as chick lit for young adults. McCafferty hails from New Jersey, and attended the University of Richmond before transferring to Columbia University to earn a bachelor's degree in English. After graduation, McCafferty worked in magazine publishing as an editor for "Cosmopolitan", … - Jon Brion
Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American rock and pop multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. - Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 - June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, the 14th child of a Methodist minister. He died at age 28. - Damon Lindelof
Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24 1973) is an American television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator, executive producer, head writer and show runner for the hit television series "Lost". He has also written and produced "Crossing Jordan", and wrote for "Nash Bridges", "Wasteland", and the MTV anthology series "Undressed". Before these, he worked reviewing scripts at Paramount, Fox, and Alan Ladd studios. - Lexington Steele
Lexington Steele, (born Clifton Todd Britt on November 28, 1969 in New Jersey), is an African-American pornographic actor and director. Best known for his exceptionally large penis, he is the only actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award three times. - James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a three-time Academy Award, nineteen-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winning American producer, writer, and film director. He is best known for producing American television programs such as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Simpsons" (in which he created miscellaneous characters, including the Bouvier family), "Rhoda" and "Taxi". - Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl (born October 9, 1951) is an American comedian turned actor/writer. - Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels. He was known for the series of novels featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer, among other works. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold around the globe. By 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time bestselling fiction titles in America. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, … - Jim Bouton
Jim Bouton MLB All-Star, Big League Chew Gum, Author: Ball Four Jim Bouton was an all-star pitcher and World Series hero with the NY Yankees, a TV sportscaster, an actor, and author of Ball Four the funny, controversial, all-time bestseller. During his baseball comeback with the Atlanta Braves, Bouton helped create Big League Chew, shredded bubble gum in a pouch. Today, Jim owns a product development company and contributes articles to magazines and newspapers. - Kevin Patrick Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film director and the founder of View Askew Productions. He has also enjoyed some success as a comic book writer and actor. Smith's films are often set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, do feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon, the View Askewniverse. - James Blish
James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. - Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, "The Rape of Nanking". She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, after a depressive episode resulting from a nervous breakdown. - David X. Cohen
David X. Cohen (born 1966), born David Samuel Cohen, is an American television writer. He has written for "The Simpsons", and he is the head writer and executive producer of "Futurama". - Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is a composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television and theatre. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", … - Lincoln Child
Lincoln Child (born 1957) is an author of techno-thriller and horror novels. Often paired with writing partner Douglas Preston, many of their novels have become bestsellers and one, "Relic", was adapted into a feature film. Child and Preston's books are known for their thorough research, making their stories credible and believable. Born in Westport, Connecticut, but now a New Jersey resident, Child graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, … - Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. He is known for his self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He was a columnist for the "New York Press" for several years, during which time he wrote about his childhood neuroses and his unusual experiences in the gritty tradition of Charles Bukowski. These columns were collected in three nonfiction books, … - James Yee
James J. Yee (born c. 1968) is an American, former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain. He is best known for being subject to an intense investigation by the United States, but all charges were later dropped. Yee, a Chinese American, was born in New Jersey and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1990. Shortly afterward, he converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991, undergoing religious training in Syria and meeting his wife, … - Hutton Gibson
Hutton Peter Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is a writer on religion and a Holocaust denier most notable for being the father of actor Mel Gibson. He was born in Montclair, New Jersey and raised in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson and Australian opera star Eva Mylott. He currently resides in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, after living many years in Texas and for a time in Summersville, West Virginia. - Edward Stratemeyer
Edward Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862-May 10, 1930). Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he was an American publisher and writer of books for children. He wrote 150 books himself, and created the most famous of the series books for juveniles, including the "Rover Boys" (1899 and after), "Bobbsey Twins" (1904), "Tom Swift" (1910), "Hardy Boys" (1927), and "Nancy Drew" (1930) series, among others. - Hayden Schlossberg
Hayden Schlossberg (born June 9, 1978) is a screenwriter from Randolph, New Jersey whose credits include "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", "Scary Movie 3" (Rewrite), and "Filthy". He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Chicago as well as a graduate of Randolph High School. - Jim Nantz
Serving as lead play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' college basketball coverage for 12th consecutive season, Jim has called play-by-play on more network broadcasts of Final Four and championship game than any other announcer in history of Tournament. Jim also co-hosted Tournament and hosted Final Four for five years (1986-90) Jim earned 1998's National Sportscaster of the Year Award. - Tom Desanto
Tom DeSanto (born in Edison, New Jersey, 1968) is an American film producer and screenwriter. DeSanto is best known for his work with long time friend Bryan Singer, especially with his contributions to the first two "X-Men" movies. - Armin Shimerman
Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949) is an American actor who was born and raised in Lakewood, New Jersey. He is married to actress Kitty Swink. When he was 16 his family moved to Los Angeles, where his mother enrolled him in a drama group in an effort to expand his social circle. He later graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, then was selected to apprentice at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. - Leo Rossi
Leo Rossi (b. 1947 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA) is an American actor and writer. He is best known for his role as Budd in the 1981 horror film "Halloween II". His other films include "Heart Like a Wheel" (1983), "River's Edge" (1986), "The Accused" (1988), "Relentless" (1989), "Maniac Cop 2" (1990), and the 3 sequels and "Analyze This" (1999). - Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 - January 23, 1943) was a critic and commentator for "The New Yorker magazine", and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in the play "The Man Who Came to Dinner" by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, … - Olivia Goldsmith
Olivia Goldsmith (1949 - January 15, 2004) was an American author, best known for her first novel "The First Wives Club" (1992), which was adapted into the movie The First Wives Club (1996). She was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey, but changed her name to Justine Goldfield and later to Justine Rendal.
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