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Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 - September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic from Kansas City, Missouri. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist , a...
John Clive
John Clive (born 6 January 1933 in London) is an English actor. He has appeared in scores of films and TV shows and is also a best selling author.
John has appeared on the stage since the age of fifteen and has appeared in the West End, his stage...
Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell, Ph.D. (born March 22, 1924) is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, the world wars, and...
Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born American child psychologist and writer. He gained an international reputation for his views on autism and for his claimed success in treating emotionally disturbed children....
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (pronounced /ˈhɔr.heɪ luˈiːs ˈbɔr.hɛz/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes]), was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet born in...
Helen Vendler
Helen Hennessy Vendler (born 1933) is a leading American critic of poetry.
Vendler has written books on W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats and Seamus Heaney. She is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she...
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Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, (born February 13, 1943), is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels. Her...
Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth-century France.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. ...
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский) (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Soviet-Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the...
Edwin Denby
Edwin Orr Denby (February 4, 1903 – July 12, 1983) was one of the most important and influential American dance critics of the 20th century, as well as a poet and novelist. His dance reviews and essays were collected in Looking at the Dance (1949,...
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Meyer Schapiro
Meyer Schapiro (September 23, 1904 – March 3, 1996) was an American 20th century art historian. Schapiro was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania.
In 1907 his family immigrated to the United States, where he received his bachelors' and doctorate degrees from...
Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926, San Francisco – October 30, 2006, Philadelphia) was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
Clifford Geertz was...
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Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto (born 1924) is an American art critic, and professor of philosophy.
Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1924, and grew up in Detroit. After spending two years in the Army, Danto studied art and history at Wayne University ...
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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American author, literary theorist, and political activist.
Sontag, born Susan Rosenblatt, was born in New York City to Jack Rosenblatt and Mildred Jacobsen, both Jewish Americans. Her...
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
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...
Garry Wills
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a prolific author, journalist, and historian specializing in American politics, American political history and ideology and the Roman Catholic Church. Classically trained at Jesuit schools, he...
John Dizikes
John Dizikes Ph.D. (born 1932) is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who served as Cowell College provost and who is a recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award....
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβarɣas ˈʎosa]) (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one...
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Gerald Early
Gerald L. Early (born April 21, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American essayist and American culture critic. He is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African American studies , American...
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William H. Gass
William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of...
Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.
A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981 - 2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his...
Gary Giddins
Gary Giddins (born March 21, 1948) jazz critic, author, director, is best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice. Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1970. After some freelance...
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
Ozick was born in New York City. She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she...
Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is an English novelist, literary critic, professor, and short story writer. He is the son of Sir Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as Money (1984), London Fields (1989) and The Information (1995)....
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Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is a writer/essayist from San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art. Solnit has received many awards for her writing: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA...
Patrick Neate
Patrick Neate (born 1970) is a British novelist, journalist, playwright, and award-winning podcaster.
Born and raised as a Roman Catholic in South London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge University. He spent a Gap year in Zimbabwe...
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William Logan
William Logan (born 1950 Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, critic and scholar.
He was born to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his life-partner, the poet and artist,...
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Robert Hass
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941 San Francisco) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and...
Seth Lerer
Professor Seth Lerer (1956 -) is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, specialising in historical analyses of the English language, in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, including in...
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Alex Ross
Alex Ross (born 1968) is an American music critic. He has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1996 and published a critically acclaimed book on 20th-century classical music in 2007, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth...
