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• Amy Waldman
  on Apr 28, 2012 in Book The Submission: A Novel
  Amy Waldman (born 1969) is an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with the New York Times for a total of eight years. For three years she was co-chief of the South-Asia bureau. Prior to this she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and...
• Anne Enright
  on Apr 25, 2012 in Book The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel
  Anne Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish female author. A graduate of University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing Course, she resides in Bray, County Wicklow, with her husband and children. She has published essays, short stories, a non...
• Julian Barnes
  on Apr 24, 2012 in Book The Sense of an Ending (Borzoi Books)
  Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is a contemporary English writer. Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending, three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert’s Parrot (19...
• Jonathan Evison
  on Apr 23, 2012 in Book West of Here
  Jonathan Evison (born 1968), is an American writer best known for his novel All About Lulu. His work, often distinguished by its emotional resonance and offbeat humor, has been compared to a variety of authors, most notably J.D. Salinger, Charles Dic...
• Robert K. Massie
  on Apr 22, 2012 in Book Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
  Robert Kinloch Massie III (born 1929) is an American historian, author and Pulitzer Prize recipient. He has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia’s royal family from 1613-1917. Robert Kinloch Massie III was born in...
• Horst Dornbusch
  on Apr 21, 2012 in Book The Oxford Companion to Beer
  Horst Dornbusch is a well-known consultant in the international brewing industry as well as a leading author and speaker about beer. He writes in English and German and has contributed hundreds of articles to North American and European periodicals f...
• Andre Dubus III
  on Apr 20, 2012 in Book Townie: A Memoir
  Andre Dubus III (born 1959) is an American novelist and writer of short stories. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Son of the Louisiana-born writer Andre Dubus, Andre Dubus III grew up in mill towns in the Merri...
• Kyung-Sook Shin
  on Apr 19, 2012 in Book Please Look After Mom
  Shin Kyung-sook (born 12 January 1963) (Hangul: 신경숙) is a South Korean writer. She is the first Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for Please Look After Mom. Shin Kyung-sook was born in 1963 in a village near Jeo...
• Michael Ondaatje
  on Apr 18, 2012 in Book The Cat's Table
  Philip Michael Ondaatje ( born September 12, 1943), OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist. The Ondaatjes are a prominent family of multi-ethnic origins. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was...
• Manning Marable
  on Apr 17, 2012 in Book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
  William Manning Marable (May 13, 1950 – April 1, 2011) was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University.Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Mar...
• Craig Thompson
  on Apr 16, 2012 in Book Habibi
  Craig Matthew Thompson (born September 21, 1975) is a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004) and Habibi (2011). Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and...
• Neil MacGregor
  on Apr 15, 2012 in Book A History of the World in 100 Objects Robert Neil MacGregor
  Robert Neil MacGregor, OM, FSA (born 16 June 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland) is an art historian and museum director. He was the Editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, the Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, and was...
• Ernest Cline
  on Apr 14, 2012 in Book Ready Player One
  Ernest Cline (born 1972) is an American novelist, spoken word artist and screenwriter. From 1997-2001, Cline performed his original work at the Austin Poetry Slam venues. He was the Austin Poetry Slam Champ in 1998 and 2001, and competed on the Austi...
• Patrick deWitt
  on Apr 13, 2012 in Book The Sisters Brothers
  Patrick deWitt (born 1975) is a Canadian novelist. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and later lived in California and Washington. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His first book, Ablutions (2009), was named a New York Times Ed...
• Ken Jennings
  on Apr 10, 2012 in Book Maphead: Charting the Wide Weird World of Geography Wonks
  Kenneth Wayne “Ken” Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant and author. Jennings is noted for holding the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and as being the all-t...
• Russell Banks
  on Apr 9, 2012 in Book Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel
  Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has bee...
• David Levithan
  on Apr 8, 2012 in Book The Lover' Dictionary: A Novel The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
  David Levithan (born September 7, 1972; Short Hills, New Jersey) is an American young-adult fiction editor and award-winning author. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published in 2003. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay charact...
• David G. McCullough
  on Apr 8, 2012 in Book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
  David Gaub McCullough (pronounced /məˈkʌlə/; born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freed...
• Joshua Foer
  on Apr 3, 2012 in Book Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
  Joshua Foer (born Sept. 23, 1982) is a freelance journalist living in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, with a primary focus on science. He was the 2006 U.S.A. Memory Champion, which was described in his 2011 book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and S...
• Justin Torres
  on Apr 2, 2012 in Book We the Animals: A novel
  Justin Torres grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellows...

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