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Ralph L. Rusk
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Newton Arvin
Frederick Newton Arvin (August 23, 1900 – March 21, 1963) was a literary critic, historian and academic.
A native of Valparaiso, Indiana, Frederick Newton Arvin studied English Literature at Harvard and was inspired by Van Wyck Brooks. Leaving...
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Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson started her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of...
Bernard A. De Voto
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Bruce Catton
Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American journalist and notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the...
Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch (pronounced krootch) (November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American writer, critic, and naturalist.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he initially studied at the University of Tennessee and received a masters degree and Ph.D. from...
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Herbert Kubly
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 in Haverford, PA – November 1, 1973 in Haverford) was born as Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College campus on January 1, 1897, to a prominent Quaker family. She was an accomplished violinist who studied...
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Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann (March 15, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Ellmann's James Joyce (1959), for which he won the National Book...
William L. Shirer
William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and historian. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin through the first year of World War II.
Shirer first became famous...
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Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian and philosopher of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a tremendously broad career as a writer that also...
Leon Edel
Joseph Leon Edel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Yorkton, Saskatchewan....
George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard...
Robert V. Remini
Robert Vincent Remini (born July 17, 1921) is a historian and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era.
He received his B.S. from Fordham...
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J. Anthony Lukas
Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas (April 25, 1933–June 5, 1997), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a...
Tina Rosenberg
Tina Rosenberg (born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. She frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine
In 1987 she won a MacArthur Fellowship, which she used to move to South America. Her...
Neil Sheehan
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American journalist.
As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series in the Times...
Richard Rhodes
Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently...
Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist and multi Pulitzer Prize winning author. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly. He has written extensively on foreign...
Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopez (born January 6, 1945) is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.
Lopez was born in Port Chester, New York and raised in Southern California and New York...
Ron Chernow
Ronald Chernow (born 1949) is an American biographer. He is the author of Alexander Hamilton, The House of Morgan, and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., among other works.
Born in Brooklyn, New York Chernow graduated with honors from Yale...
Orlando Patterson
Orlando Patterson (born 1940) is a historical and cultural sociologist at Harvard University known for his work regarding issues of race in America, as well as the sociology of development. Patterson took his B.Sc in Economics from the University of...
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Paul Monette
Paul Monette (October 16, 1945 – February 10, 1995) was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.
Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and went on to graduate from Phillips Academy in 1963...
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Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (pronounced /ˌɡɔər vɪˈdɑːl/ or /vɪˈdæl/) (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal October 3, 1925) is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and political activist. Early in his career he wrote The City and the Pillar (1948), which...
Sherwin B. Nuland
Sherwin Nuland (born December 1930) is an American surgeon and author who teaches bioethics and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winning How We Die, and has...
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James P. Carroll
James Carroll (born 22 January 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is a noted author, novelist, and columnist for the Boston Globe.
Carroll was born in Chicago, the second of five sons of Joseph Carroll and his wife Mary. At the time, his father was a...
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Edward Ball
Edward Ball (born 1958) is an American writer born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of an Episcopal priest from an old Southern family in Charleston. His mother was a bookkeeper raised in New Orleans. When he learned that his ancestors once owned many...
John W. Dower
John W . Dower (born 1938) is an American author, professor, and historian; his primary focus is modern Japan and U.S.-Japan relations. He is perhaps best known for his book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, which won the...
Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick (born in 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his 2001 work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. He is probably the most...
Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph John Ellis (born 1943) is a Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College who has written influential and award-winning histories on the founding generation of American presidents. His book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation ...
Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is a New York born writer on politics, culture, and health who lives in New York and London. He has written for many publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker and Artforum, on topics including...
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Robert Caro
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is a biographer most noted for his studies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working years as a reporter Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York...
Carlos Eire
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Kevin Boyle
Kevin Boyle (7 October 1960) is an American historian, author and professor of history at the Ohio State University. His 2004 book, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, won the National Book Award.
Boyle was born...
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known as a novelist and writer of personalized, journalistic essays. The disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos upon which her essays comment are explored more fully in her...
Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning author who resides in Seattle, Washington. He currently contributes opinion columns to The New York Times as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent.
In addition to his work with The New York Times, he...
Tim Weiner
Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958 in Conroe, Texas) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and law professor. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and is now the Wallace Stevens professor of law at...
