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• Faber and Faber
  Faber and Faber
  
  Faber and Faber, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T....
   Inc. publishes a decorated backlist of drama and books on the arts, entertainment, music, pop culture, cultural criticism, and the media. Its authors include David Auburn
  David Auburn
  
  David Auburn is an American playwright. He was born in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Off-Off Campus, and received a degree in English literature....
  , Margaret Edson
  Margaret Edson
  
  Margaret Edson is an American playwright. Edson graduated with a B.A. in Renaissance History from Smith College, and received a master's in English literature from Georgetown University....
  , Doug Wright
  Doug Wright
  
  Doug Wright is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play, I Am My Own Wife....
  , Richard Greenberg
  Richard Greenberg
  
  Richard Greenberg is a Tony Award winning American playwright. He is the author of over 25 plays including seven South Coast Repertory world premieres: The Injured Party, The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, Hurrah at Last, Three Days of Rain , Night and Her Stars and The Extra Man....
  , Tom Stoppard
  Tom Stoppard
  
  Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
  , David Hare
  David Hare (dramatist)
  
  Sir David Hare is an English people playwright and Theatre director and film director....
  , Neil LaBute
  Neil LaBute
  
  Neil N. LaBute is an United States film director, screenwriter and playwright....
  , Peter Conrad
  Peter Conrad
  
  Peter Conrad may refer to:* Pete Conrad , United States astronaut* Peter Conrad Australian academic long resident in the United Kingdom* Peter B....
  , and Courtney Love
  Courtney Love
  
  Courtney Michelle Love is an United States rock musician and actress. Love is known as lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain....
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• Hill and Wang
  Hill and Wang
  
  Hill and Wang is an American book publishing company focused on American history, world history, and politics. It is a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
  publishes books of academic interest and specializes in history. Its authors include Roland Barthes
  Roland Barthes
  
  Roland Barthes was a France literary theory, philosopher, critic, and Semiotics. Barthes's work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism and post-structuralism....
  , William Cronon
  William Cronon
  
  William Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
  , Langston Hughes
  Langston Hughes
  
  James Mercer Langston Hughes, was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance....
  , and Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  
  Elie Wiesel is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night , a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps....
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• Sarah Crichton Books publishes books with a slightly commercial bent. The imprint launched with Cathleen Falsani
  Cathleen Falsani
  
  Cathleen Falsani is the popular religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.She was the 2005 Religion Writer of the Year, as awarded by the Religion Newswriters Association, a professional society of reporters, editors and producers who cover religion for the secular media in the United States and Canada....
  's The God Factor in 2006. Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was a bestseller and Starbucks book club pick in 2007.
• North Point Press publishes literary nonfiction with an emphasis on natural history, travel, ecology, music, food, and cultural criticism. Its authors include Peter Matthiessen
  Peter Matthiessen
  
  Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning United States novelist and nonfiction writer as well as an environmental activist. He frequently focuses on Native Americans in the United States issues and history, as in his detailed study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse....
  , Beryl Markham
  Beryl Markham
  
  Beryl Markham , was a British-born Kenyan horse trainer and adventurer. She was a record-breaking aviatrix in the pioneer days of aviation, and is primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night....
  , A. J. Liebling
  A. J. Liebling
  
  Abbott Joseph Liebling was an United States journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death....
  , Margaret Visser
  Margaret Visser
  
  Margaret Visser is a writer and broadcaster who lives in Toronto, Barcelona, and South West France. Her subject matter is the history, anthropology, and mythology of everyday life....
  , Wendell Berry
  Wendell Berry
  
  Wendell Berry is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short story, poems, and essays....
  , and M. F. K. Fisher
  M. F. K. Fisher
  
  Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was a prolific and well-respected writer, writing more than 20 books during her lifetime and also publishing two volumes of journals and correspondence shortly before her death in 1992....
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Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....

• Knut Hamsun
  Knut Hamsun
  
  Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen was a Norwegian literature. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by Haakon VII of Norway to be Norway's soul....
   (1920)
• Hermann Hesse
  Hermann Hesse
  
  Hermann Hesse was a German-Switzerland poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf , Siddhartha , and The Glass Bead Game which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society....
   (1946)
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  
  'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
   (1948)
• Pär Lagerkvist
  Pär Lagerkvist
  
  P?r Fabian Lagerkvist was a Sweden author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.Lagerkvist wrote poetry, Play , novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s....
   (1951)
• François Mauriac
  François Mauriac
  
  Fran?ois Mauriac was a France author; member of the Acad?mie fran?aise ; laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature . He was awarded the Grand Cross of the L?gion d'honneur ....
   (1952)
• Juan Ramon Jimenez
  Juan Ramón Jiménez
  
  Juan Ram?n Jim?nez Mantec?n was a Spain List of poets, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. One of Jim?nez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of "pure poetry."...
   (1956)
• Salvatore Quasimodo
  Salvatore Quasimodo
  
  Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italy author. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times." Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century....
   (1959)
• Nelly Sachs
  Nelly Sachs
  
  Nelly Sachs, was a German language poet and dramatist whose Nazism experience transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews....
   (1966)
• Yasunari Kawabata
  Yasunari Kawabata
  
  was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award....
   (1968)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
   (1970)
• Pablo Neruda
  Pablo Neruda
  
  Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftal? Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation....
   (1971)
• Eugenio Montale
  Eugenio Montale
  
  Eugenio Montale was an Italy poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975....
   (1975)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
  Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Poland-born United States author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literature movement....
   (1978)
• Czeslaw Milosz
  Czeslaw Milosz
  
  Czeslaw Milosz ; was a Poles poet, prose and translator. From 1961 to 1978 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley....
   (1980)
• Elias Canetti
  Elias Canetti
  
  Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German language and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981....
   (1981)
• William Golding
  William Golding
  
  Sir William Gerald Golding was a United Kingdom novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies....
   (1983)
• Wole Soyinka
  Wole Soyinka
  
  Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished playwright, as he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African to be so honoured....
   (1986)
• Joseph Brodsky
  Joseph Brodsky
  
  Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1991....
   (1987)
• Camilo José Cela
  Camilo José Cela
  
  Don Camilo Jos? Cela Trulock, Marquis of Iria Flavia was an influential Spain writer and member of the Generation of 1950....
   (1989)
• Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer
  
  Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate.Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa....
   (1991)
• Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  
  Derek Alton Walcott is a West Indies poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English language. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992....
   (1992)
• Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
   (1995)

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...

• Norman Angell
  Norman Angell
  
  Sir Ralph Norman Angell was an England lecturer, writer, and Member of Parliament for the The Labour Party .Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control....
   (1933)
• Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  
  Elie Wiesel is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night , a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps....
   (1986)

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....

• John Berryman
  John Berryman
  
  John Allyn Berryman was an United States poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional poetry school of poetry....
   (1965)
• Bernard Malamud
  Bernard Malamud
  
  Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great United States Jewish authors of the 20th century....
   (1967)
• Jean Stafford
  Jean Stafford
  
  Jean Stafford was an United States short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970....
   (1970)
• Robert Lowell
  Robert Lowell
  
  Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946....
   (1974)
• Paul Horgan
  Paul Horgan
  
  Paul Horgan was an United States author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1903, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1915....
   (1976)
• Lanford Wilson
  Lanford Wilson
  
  Lanford Wilson is an American playwright, considered one of the founders of the Off-off Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
   (1980)
• James Schuyler
  James Schuyler
  
  James Marcus Schuyler was a major United States poet in the late 20th century. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School of poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest....
   (1981)
• Charles Fuller
  Charles Fuller
  
  Charles H. Fuller, Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his play, A Soldier's Play for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama....
   (1982)
• Marsha Norman
  Marsha Norman
  
  Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play night, Mother....
   (1983)
• Thomas L. Friedman (1983, 1988, 2002)
• Oscar Hijuelos
  Oscar Hijuelos
  
  Oscar Hijuelos is an United States novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents....
   (1990)
• Charles Wright
  Charles Wright (poet)
  
  Charles Wright is an United States poet....
   (1998)
• Michael Cunningham
  Michael Cunningham
  
  Michael Cunningham is an award-winning United States writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999....
   (1999)
• John McPhee
  John McPhee
  
  John Angus McPhee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction. Unlike Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, who helped kick-start the "new journalism" which, in the 1960s, revolutionized nonfiction, McPhee produced a gentler style of literary journalism by incorporating techniques from novels a...
   (1999)
• Margaret Edson
  Margaret Edson
  
  Margaret Edson is an American playwright. Edson graduated with a B.A. in Renaissance History from Smith College, and received a master's in English literature from Georgetown University....
   (1999)
• C. K. Williams
  C. K. Williams
  
  Charles Kenneth Williams is an United States poet.He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and received his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania....
   (2000)
• David Auburn
  David Auburn
  
  David Auburn is an American playwright. He was born in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Off-Off Campus, and received a degree in English literature....
   (2001)
• Louis Menand
  Louis Menand
  
  Louis Menand is a prominent United States writer and academic, best known for his book The Metaphysical Club , an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America....
   (2002)
• Jeffrey Eugenides
  Jeffrey Eugenides
  
  Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. He is of Greek and Irish descent....
   (2003)
• Paul Muldoon
  Paul Muldoon
  
  Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
   (2003)
• Doug Wright
  Doug Wright
  
  Doug Wright is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play, I Am My Own Wife....
   (2004)
• Marilynne Robinson
  Marilynne Robinson
  
  Marilynne Robinson is an United States author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
   (2005)

Winners of the National Book Award

National Book Award

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award"....

• Bernard Malamud
  Bernard Malamud
  
  Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great United States Jewish authors of the 20th century....
   (1959, 1967)
• Robert Lowell
  Robert Lowell
  
  Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946....
   (1960)
• John Berryman
  John Berryman
  
  John Allyn Berryman was an United States poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional poetry school of poetry....
   (1969)
• Elizabeth Bishop
  Elizabeth Bishop
  
  Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956....
   (1970)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
  Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Poland-born United States author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literature movement....
   (1970, 1974)
• Donald Barthelme
  Donald Barthelme
  
  Donald Barthelme was an American Literature of short story and novels. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas , co-founder of Fiction Magazine , and a professor at various universities....
   (1972)
• Flannery O'Connor
  Flannery O'Connor
  
  Mary Flannery O'Connor was an United States novelist, short-story writer and essayist....
   (1972)
• Richard B. Sewall
  Richard B. Sewall
  
  Richard B. Sewall was a professor of English at Yale University, and author of the influential works The Life of Emily Dickinson and The Vision of Tragedy....
   (1975)
• Michael J. Arlen (1976)
• Tom Wolfe
  Tom Wolfe
  
  Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. , known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling United States author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s....
   (1980)
• Paula Fox
  Paula Fox
  
  Paula Fox is an United States author of novels for adults and children's literature and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal....
   (1983)
• Larry Heinemann
  Larry Heinemann
  
  This article is about the American novelist, not the composer/musician known for his collaborations with Blue Man Group.Larry Heinemann is an United States novelist born and raised in Chicago, Illinois....
   (1987)
• Thomas L. Friedman (1989)
• Alice McDermott
  Alice McDermott
  
  Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St....
   (1998)
• Edward Ball
  Edward Ball (American author)
  
  Edward Ball is an United States writer born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of an Episcopal priest from an old Southern family in Charleston. His mother was a bookkeeper raised in New Orleans....
   (1998)
• Susan Sontag
  Susan Sontag
  
  Susan Sontag was an United States author, filmmaker, philosopher, literary theorist, and activism....
   (2000)
• Jonathan Franzen
  Jonathan Franzen
  
  Jonathan Franzen is an award-winning United States novelist and essayist....
   (2001)
• Shirley Hazzard
  Shirley Hazzard
  
  Shirley Hazzard is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and in the United States....
   (2003)
• C. K. Williams
  C. K. Williams
  
  Charles Kenneth Williams is an United States poet.He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and received his higher education at the University of Pennsylvania....
   (2003)
• Richard Powers
  Richard Powers
  
  Richard Powers is an United States novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology....
   (2006)
• Denis Johnson
  Denis Johnson
  
  Denis Johnson is an United States author who is best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son and his novel Tree of Smoke , which won the National Book Award....
   (2007)

Other authors published by FSG

• Stephen Amidon
  Stephen Amidon
  
  Stephen Amidon was born in Chicago. He grew up on the East Coast of the United States of America and then moved to London, UK, where he lived from 1987 to 1999 before returning to the US....
  
• Emily Barton
  Emily Barton
  
  Emily Barton is an United States author.She was raised in New Jersey, and attended Harvard University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop....
  
• Alan Bennett
  Alan Bennett
  
  Alan Bennett is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright....
  
• Maurice Berger
  Maurice Berger
  
  Maurice Bergercultural historian, curator, and art critic.Born: New York City, 1956...
  
• Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño
  
  Roberto Bola?o ?valos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the R?mulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes ....
  
• Robert S. Corrington
  Robert S. Corrington
  
  Robert S. Corrington is an American theologist and author of several books exploring human interpretation of the universe as well as biographies on C.S....
  
• Jim Crace
  Jim Crace
  
  Jim Crace is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife....
  
• Arthur C. Danto
• Deborah Eisenberg
  Deborah Eisenberg
  
  Deborah Eisenberg is an Untied States short-story writer, actor and teacher....
  
• Anne Fadiman
  Anne Fadiman
  
  Anne Fadiman in is an United States author, editor and teacher. She is the daughter of the renowned literary, radio and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman....
  
• Carlos Fuentes
  Carlos Fuentes
  
  Carlos Fuentes Mac?as is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages....
  
• Rivka Galchen
  Rivka Galchen
  
  Rivka Galchen is a Canada-United States writer and physician. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University....
  
• Amy Gerstler
  Amy Gerstler
  
  Amy Gerstler is an United States poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Society; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award and The True Bride ....
  
• Philip Gourevitch
  Philip Gourevitch
  
  Philip Gourevitch , an United States-Jewish author and journalist, is the editor of "The Paris Review" and a longtime staff writer of The New Yorker....
  
• Sheila Heti
  Sheila Heti
  
  Sheila Heti is a Canada writer.Heti, who was born in Toronto, Ontario, studied art history and philosophy at the University of Toronto and playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada....
  
• Ted Hughes
  Ted Hughes
  
  Edward James Hughes Order of Merit was an England poet and Children's literature, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation....
  
• Jamaica Kincaid
  Jamaica Kincaid
  
  Jamaica Kincaid is an United States novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family in North Bennington, VT, Vermont....
  
• Bill Knott
  Bill Knott (poet)
  
  William Kilborn Knott is an United States poet. Knott received his MFA from Norwich University and studied with John Logan in Chicago.His first collection of poems, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans was published in 1968 and under the name Saint Geraud, whose backstory included a suicide two years prior to the publishing....
  
• Fiona Maazel
  Fiona Maazel
  
  Fiona Maazel is a writer and freelance editor. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Tin House, Bomb, The Mississippi Review, The Village Voice, The Boston Book Review and on salon.com....
  
• Doug Marlette
  Doug Marlette
  
  Douglas Nigel Marlette was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States editorial cartoonist who, at the time of his death, had also published two novels and was "finding his voice in writing long-length fiction."...
  
• Edward Mendelson
  Edward Mendelson
  
  Edward Mendelson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University....
  
• Sigrid Nunez
  Sigrid Nunez
  
  Sigrid Nunez is American novelist....
  
• Jenny Offill
  Jenny Offill
  
  Jenny Offill is an United States author born in Massachusetts and raised in California and North Carolina. Her stories have appeared in Story, Gettysburg Review, The Black Warrior Review, and Boulevard....
  
• George Packer
  George Packer
  
  George Packer is a liberal United States journalist, novelist and playwright....
  
• Walker Percy
  Walker Percy
  
  Walker Percy was an American Southern literature whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962....
  
• Richard Powers
  Richard Powers
  
  Richard Powers is an United States novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology....
  
• Wilhelm Reich
  Wilhelm Reich
  
  Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual Neurosis symptoms....
  
• Philip Roth
  Philip Roth
  
  Philip Milton Roth is an United States novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman....
  
• Alex Ross
  Alex Ross (New Yorker critic)
  
  Alex Ross is an American music critic. He has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1996 and published a critically acclaimed book on 20th-century classical music in 2007....
  
• Frederick Seidel
  Frederick Seidel
  
  Frederick Seidel is an United States poet....
  
• Adam Sisman
• Scott Turow
  Scott Turow
  
  Scott Turow is an American author as well as a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies....
  
• Mario Vargas Llosa
  Mario Vargas Llosa
  
  Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation....
  
• Katharine Weber
  Katharine Weber
  
  Katharine Weber is an United States novelist.Weber was born in New York City. She grew up in the Forest Hills Gardens section of Queens. She attended The Kew-Forest School and Forest Hills High School before attending the Freshman Year Program at The New School for Social Research in 1972....
  
• Elie Wiesel
  Elie Wiesel
  
  Elie Wiesel is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night , a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps....
  
• A. N. Wilson
  A. N. Wilson
  
  Andrew Norman Wilson , is an English writer, known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. After ten years as a teacher he became a journalist and writer....
  
• Charles Wright
  Charles Wright (poet)
  
  Charles Wright is an United States poet....
  
• Lois-Ann Yamanaka
  Lois-Ann Yamanaka
  
  Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese-American poet and novelist from Hawaii. Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues....
  

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