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Warren Leight
…it received an American Theater Critics Association Nomination for Best New Play. In January 2001, Evan Yionoulis directed a Los Angeles production of Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine at the Mark…
Edie
by Jean Stein“Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fragmented voices, patterns form, giving brilliant definition to the very American tragedy of Edie Sedgwick, a woman not likely to be forgotten after this haunting…
Frank Deford
…times, he was also cited by The American Journalism Review as the nation’s finest sportswriter and was twice voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review. He…
David Ives
…songs of Comden and Green. He has adapted nine classic American musicals for the celebrated Encores! series at City Center, he adapted Cole Porter and Moss Hart’s Jubilee for Carnegie…
Howard Sounes
…Crazy Life (Grove, 1998), about the iconoclastic American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) who wrote vividly and wittily about the underbelly of American society, followed by Bukowski in Pictures…
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was a poet, activist, and one of the Beat Generation’s most renowned writers. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and cofounder…
Mary Brave Bird
Richard Erdoes (1912-2008) was one of America’s leading writers on Native American affairs. A prominent illustrator and photographer, Erdoes was the author of more than thirty books, including Lame Deer,…
Larry Kramer
…in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the first creative artist and the first openly gay person to be honored by a Public Service Award from…
Mary Jo Bang
…Washington University in St. Louis. Individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, The Paris Review, Fence, Best American Poetry (2001, 2004),…
