Author Listings (American)
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| Eileen Goudge was born July 4, 1950 and grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She began writing at the age of eight. At eighteen, she ran off with a man dodging the draft, and a year later, returned home from British Columbia with a baby and broke. She began writing non-stop and managed to sell a few articles. In the ....[more] |
| An engineer and program manager, Mueller is the author of four novels that speak to basic aspects of the American experience. Of Immortalized Warriors, his fourth, advances ideas about freedom and the will of man to move the world. He attended the University at Buffalo and American University in Washington, D.C., and....[more] |
| PHYLLIS TICKLE, founding editor of the Religion Department of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, the international journal of the book industry, is frequently quoted in print sources like USA TODAY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NY TIMES as well as in electronic media like PBS, NPR, THE HALLMARK CHANNEL, etc., Tickle is an authority on r....[more] |
| I was always reading, always writing. I learned to edit what I'd written early on: Whenever I'd say to my parents, "Listen to what I wrote," they'd ask, "How long will it take?" This was much more valuable than taking Creative Writing courses. (Though my own Creative Writing teacher, J. R. Salamanca, was wonderful. He ....[more] |
| all sorts of links about me at http://christiancrumlish.com |
| Please see www.dewitthenry.com |
| Paul Krassner had two collections published in 2009: "Who's to Say What's Obscene: Politics, Culture & Comedy in America Today" (City Lights Books) and "In Praise of Indecency" (Cleis Press). To see his recent C-Span event, here's the link:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/289187-1
His 1993 autobiography, Con....[more] |
| Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, which celebrated its 31st anniversary on April 13, 2010. He was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years. Mr. Penzler was the founder ....[more] |
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James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American author, poet, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic. Agee is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957). Agee was working on the novel at the time of his death. After his death, the n....[more] |
| Referred to as an eccentric and ground-breaking writer, Djuna Barnes’ upbringing seems to have left her no choice but be unique. Her grandmother had been an important writer in the Women’s Suffrage movement and her father had tried his hand at almost every art form available to him and failed at each one. Barnes’ educa....[more] |
| Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – assumed January 1914 in Mexico) Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio to Marcus Aurelius Bierce and Laura Sherwood Bierce, the 10th of 13 children. He was never close with his parents and left home at age 15 to become a printer’s apprentice on The Northern Indian, an anti slaver....[more] |
| Henry Charles Bukowski (Heinrich Karl Bukowski) (August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994) Bukowski was born and Andernach, Germany, the only child of US soldier Heinrich Bukowski and Katherina Fett. The family emigrated to the United States in 1922 and eventually settled in Los Angeles, where Bukowski spent most of his life. ....[more] |
| William S. Burroughs was born to a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 5th, 1914. He began writing at a young age, completing his first story at age 8. At 13, after reading Jack Black’s You Can’t Win, he became intrigued by outlaw, underground lifestyle, which would influence him for the rest of his li....[more] |
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