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Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His New York Times-bestselling debut novel Shuggie Bain won prizes including the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy…

Robert Coover

Robert Coover (1932–2024) is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of postwar American fiction. He was the author of more than twenty groundbreaking books, including Pricksongs &…

Shere Hite

…degrees in history and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Historical Association, the Society for Women in Philosophy, the International Sociological Association,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Paul Dickson

Paul Dickson is the author of more than sixty nonfiction books, including Sputnik: The Shock of the Century and The Bonus Army: An American Epic (with Thomas B. Allen), and…

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,…