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Michael Szonyi

Michael Szonyi is Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he teaches Chinese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His most recent book is Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line (Cambridge, 2008). His main research interests are the local history of southeast China f....[more]

Norman Yoffee

Norman Yoffee, CV-1 page (for full cv, see sitemaker.umich.edu/nyoffee) Education: BA, Northwestern University (1966), PhD, Yale University (1973) (also: University of Chicago (summer 1967), University of Munich (1969-70) Honors: D Lit (honoris causa), La Trobe University (Melbourne), 1998 Major Grants: A....[more]

Leon Stover

DR. LEON EUGENE STOVER by William F. Drish Dr. Leon Eugene Stover, Ph.D., Litt.D., is the author of 24 books in varied categories, including Anthropology, History, Fiction, and Criticism. His major works include Cultural Ecology of Chinese Civilization, China: An Anthropological Perspective (with Takeko K. Stover), Im....[more]

Diane Zahler

I grew up in Ithaca, New York, where I spent most of my time reading children's books. I loved fantasy, and I especially loved fairy tales. In high school I started working in the children's room of the public library, and I kept reading fairy tales. After college, I came to New York City and got a job in children's bo....[more]

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was German Jewish self-described political theorist. She is considered by many to be one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Arendt’s subject matter revolved around political theory, modernity, and the philosophy of history. She....[more]

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more]

Pearl S. Buck

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]

E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge) (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934) Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England to Mary Ann Budge. His father is unknown. He went to live with his grandmother and aunt in London as a young man. He was interested in languages by the age of ten, but left s....[more]

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Noam Chomsky

Business & Economics, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Science, Technology & Engineering

Noam Avram Chomsky was born December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish int....[more]

Will Durant

Biography & Autobiography, History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Philosophy

American historian and essayist Will Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He earned his undergraduate degree at St. Peter's College in New Jersey and went on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1917 from Columbia University. While teaching at the libertarian Ferrer Modern School in New York, he had as a pupil a ....[more]