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Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of Composing a Life, is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is Clarence Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia….
Belinda Bauer
Belinda Bauer is the award-winning author of eight novels that have been translated into twenty-one languages. She won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year for…
Isabel Bayley
For many years a close personal friend, Katherine Anne Porter appointed Isabel Bayley, the editor of Letters of Katherine Anne Porter, as her Literary Trustee in 1974. Isabel Bayley lives…
Charles Beauclerk
Charles Beauclerk is a writer, lecturer, and historian. A direct descendant of Edward de Vere, he is the founder and president of the De Vere Society, and serves as a trustee…
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), one of the leading literary and dramatic figures of the twentieth century, was born in Foxrock, Ireland and attended Trinity University in Dublin. In 1928, he visited…
Louis Begley
Born in Poland in 1933, Louise Begley is the author of many novels, including Wartime Lies, About Schmidt, and Shipwreck. His wife of thirty years, biographer Anka Muhlstein is the…
Christopher Beha
Christopher R. Beha is an assistant editor at Harper’s magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Tin House, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He lives…
Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan was born in Dublin in 1923. Behan left school at fourteen but spent two years in Borstal and a further four (1942-46) in prison for political activities. Out…
