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Horton Foote
Horton Foote’s distinguished career in American theater, film, and television spans more than fifty years. Born in Wharton, Texas, he moved to New York to study acting, but he soon…
Daniel de Visé
Daniel de Visé is the author of King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King, The Comeback: Greg LeMond, The True King of American Cycling, and a…
Donald M. Allen
Donald Allen has edited many books, among them The Postmoderns, The New American Poetry, The Poetics of the New American Poetry, and the collected poems of Edward Dorn, Frank O’Hara,…
Book of the Little Axe
by Lauren Francis-SharmaAmbitious and masterfully wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Book of the Little Axe is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of…
Returning to Earth
by Jim Harrison“[Harrison’s] books glisten with love of the world, and are as grounded as Thoreau’s in the particulars of American place—its rivers and thickets, its highways and taverns. Bawdily and with…
The Middleman and Other Stories
by Bharati Mukherjee…that no one has looked at with quite so clear an eye since approximately World War II, the queasy crucible in which the American identity itself is alloyed.” –Chicago Tribune…
Guitar
by Tim Brookes“Brookes takes us on a riveting autobiographical odyssey through a charged, emotional world atremble with soulful yearnings, suspense and evolving American musical styles. . . . Makes you want to…
Glengarry Glen Ross
by David Mamet“One of his best plays. Crackling tension . . . ferocious comedy and drama. A top American playwright in bristling form.” –Frank Rich, The New York Times…
John L’Heureux
…Jesuit and upon leaving the Jesuits taught American literature and fiction writing at Tufts, Harvard, and for the past thirty years at Stanford University. I am married to Joan Polston,…
Jonathan Coleman
…Book Review (“Fascinating”) and The Los Angeles Times Book Review (“A fascinating symbolic statement of the American psyche”). In addition, he wrote a profile of Maya Lin, designer of the…
