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| Maggie Anton was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los Angeles, California. Raised in a secular, socialist household, she reached adulthood with little knowledge of her Jewish religion. All that changed when David Parkhurst, who was to become her husband, entered her life, and they both discovered Judaism as adults. That was....[more] |
| Janet Berliner is the Bram Stoker award-winning author of six novels, including the Madagascar Manifesto trilogy with George Guthridge, and ARTIFACT, her four-way collaboration with friends Kevin J. Anderson, Matthew J. Costello, and F. Paul Wilson. She has sold over 100 short stories to magazines and anthologies. She ....[more] |
| Lily Brett is the critically acclaimed author of the hilarious and moving novel You Gotta Have Balls, published in July 2006 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Lily Brett has won many awards for her writing, which consists of four novels, a short story collection, three works of non-fiction and six volu....[more] |
| Andrew R. Brown is the Research Manager for the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), teaches music and sound at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His expertise is in technologies that support creativity and learning, computational music and art, and the philosophy of technology. His current rese....[more] |
| The author has lived in and written about Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Haiti and Shanghai. He currently lives in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. His novels are: The Missionary Position, about Angela Benedetto’s adventures in Irian Jaya; My Enemy, My Friend, about a love affair during the Iranian Revolution; Shanghai’d, about a Chinese ....[more] |
| Jennifer Gilmore’s first novel, Golden Country (Scribner) was published in September ’06 and in paperback (Harcourt) in ’07. The novel was a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, an Amazon.com Top Ten Debut Fiction of 2006, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her wor....[more] |
| I write fantasy and paranormal novels with a strong romantic element. Werewolf Sanctuary is Book 1 in my epic Wolf Maiden Chronicles, a paranormal romance series involving male alpha lycans and their human mates known as wolf maidens. Werewolf Sanctuary is a contemporary that will lead to all the other historical paran....[more] |
| Writer, professor, and photographer Julius Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 27, 1939. He received a B.A. in English from Fisk University in 1960. Lester's photographs from the civil rights movement era have been exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution and are part of Howard University's permanent coll....[more] |
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Mary Heléne Pottker Rosenbaum
• President of the Dovetail Institute for Interfaith Family Resources and former editor of Dovetail: A Journal by and for Jewish/Christian Families
• Editor of Shalom, the newspaper of the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation
• Author of Jezebel's Daughter [Blue Gra....[more] |
| Charles S. Weinblatt was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1952. He is a retired University of Toledo administrator. Weinblatt is the author of "Jacob's Courage" and "Job Seeking Skills for Students." His biography appears in the Marquis Who's Who in America.
Weinblatt writes novels, short stories and published articles. ....[more] |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) is an important figure in modern Hebrew fiction. He is best known for his novels about the experience of Eastern European Jews. Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Agnon is often referred to as Shai Agnon. In English, Agnon’s works are publ....[more] |
| Jerzy Andrzejewski (August 19, 1909 – April 19, 1983) was a Polish novelist and short story writer. His long life and career as an author spanned several decades and produced many novels and short works. He is perhaps best known for his novel Popiol i diament (English Translation: Ashes and Diamonds).
Andrzejewsk....[more] |
| Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century. He is the only author to have won the National Book Award three times, and in 1976 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Bellow was born in Canada to Russian immigrants in 1915. When he was eight, illness co....[more] |
| Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker) (June 26, 1892 — March 6, 1973) Pearl was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Absolom Sydenstricker and Caroline Stulting. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China. They returned to the United States for her birth and returned when she was a f....[more] |
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