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John Berger
John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a...
Gilbert Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and editor.
In over twenty-five works of fiction and poetry, Sorrentino explored the comic and formal possibilities of language...
Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) to Leland Howard Marmon (a photographer) and Mary Virginia Leslie, is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second...
John Hawkes
John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr. (August 17, 1925 – May 15, 1998), was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended the traditional constraints of the narrative.
Born in Stamford,...
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Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux (born 1939) is a novelist, poet, and essayist.
He was born in Medford, Massachusetts. His brother is Paul Theroux. He studied at Harvard University and Yale University. On publishing his first novel, Three Wogs aged 32, the New...
Frank Chin
Frank Chin (趙健秀; pinyin: Zhào Jiànxiù) (born February 25, 1940) is an American author and playwright.
Frank Chin was born in Berkeley, California, but was raised to the age of six by a retired Vaudeville couple in Placerville, California. At six his...
Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott (born 1960) is an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the...
Carole Maso
Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often called postmodern. She received a B.A. in English from Vassar College in 1977. She is the recipient of a Lannan...
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Paul West
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John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, DC) is an American writer.
Wideman was born on June 14, 1941. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and much of his writing is set there, especially in the Homewood neighborhood of the...
Stephen Wright
Stephen John Wright (born 8 February 1980 in Bootle, Liverpool) is an English football defender who currently plays for Coventry City.
Wright joined Liverpool on a youth contract in June 1996, choosing to join Liverpool over rivals Everton, the club...
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Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. He is now professor at Yale University and a visiting professor at Barnard College of Columbia University.
He was born on St. Kitts. At...
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Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières (born London, UK on 8 December 1954) is a British novelist most famous for his book Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta...
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Mary Morrissy
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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20,1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments...
Tim Pears
Tim Pears (born November 11, 1956) is an English novelist. His novels explore social issues as they are processed through the dynamics of family relationships.
Although born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, Tim Pears grew up in mid-Devon. He left school...
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Howard Norman
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Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1958. Michaels attended Vaughan Road Academy and then later the University of Toronto, where she is an adjunct faculty in the...
Grace Paley
Grace Paley (December 11 1922 – August 22 2007) was an American short story writer, poet, and political activist.
Grace Paley was born as Grace Goodside in the Bronx; her Jewish parents, Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, had anglicized the family...
Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauser (born 3 August 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books back into print.
Millhauser was born in New...
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, essays and short-stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time...
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Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Generally...
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born September 7, 1961 in Hoʻolehua, Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi) is a Japanese-American poet and novelist from Hawaiʻi. Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with...
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Gish Jen
Gish Jen (Chinese: 任碧蓮; pinyin: Rèn Bìlián) (born Lillian Jen, named for the actress Lillian Gish, in 1956 in Long Island, New York) is a contemporary American writer.
Several of her short stories have been reprinted in The Best American Short...
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Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family in North Bennington, Vermont.
Elaine Richardson lived with her...
Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended...
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, and his 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ...
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A....
Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod, OC (born July 20, 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.
When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on...
John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee (English pronunciation: /kʊtˈsiː/) (born 9 February 1940) is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in South Australia. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee...
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John McGahern
John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006) was an Irish author.
Born in Dublin, McGahern spent his childhood in the parish of Aughawillan near Ballinamore, County Leitrim until his mother, who was the local primary school teacher, died. The...
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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French.
She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is...
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Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia.
He won both the Pen...
Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet born Erica DeGre, (born April 19, 1949) in Canton, New York is an American postmodernist, writer, poet, and artist. Her father was a professor of sociology, and her mother hosted community-interest programs on radio and television....
John Banville
John Banville (born 1945) is an Irish novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence (1989), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in...
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Richard Powers
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.
Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and his family later moved a few miles south to Lincolnwood, where his father was...
Kathryn Davis
Kathryn Davis is an award-winning American novelist.
Davis has taught at Skidmore College, and is now senior fiction writer in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
She is a recipient of the Kafka Prize, the...
A. L. Kennedy
Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965 in Dundee) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work. She...
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Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson (born 1949 in Munich, West Germany) is an American author who is best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award.
Johnson holds a masters (MFA) degree...
Susan Straight
Susan Straight (born October 19, 1960 in Riverside, California) is an American author and National Book Award finalist.
Susan Straight has published six novels, a novel for young readers and a children's book. She has also written essays and...
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek (born 1942) is an American writer.
Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959. He writes...
