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Alma Flor Ada

Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more]

Nicholas Birns

Margarita Zamora

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. Two of his most famous novels include El Señor Presidente (1946) and Hombres de maiz (English translation: Men of Maize) (1949). Asturias was born in Guatemala City into a relatively privileged family. ....[more]

Samuel Beckett

and short stories, was born in Dublin in 1906. Graduating from Trinity College, Beckett found work as a teacher. He soon befriended James Joyce, even taking dictation for parts of “Finnegans Wake”. Beckett began writing, starting as a poet but then moving on to essays and finally publishing his first novel, “More Prick....[more]

Biography & Autobiography, Body, Mind & Spirit, Crafts & Hobbies, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Music, Nature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Reference, Religion, Science, Social Science, True Crime

Colin Wilson was born on 26 June 1931, in Leicester, England. He considered himself a genius, a born writer, and an outsider, and left school at the age of sixteen. During the next few years he drifted and traveled around England and Continental Europe. After a six-month period in the Royal Air Force, he held a success....[more]

Frank Frost Abbott

History

Roger D. Abrahams

Fiction, Social Science

Rolena Adorno

Art, Literary Criticism, Political Science

Niyi Afolabi

Literary Criticism, Social Science

Marjorie Agosφn

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism

Marjorie Agosin was born in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1955. She has written many books of poetry and fiction. Her childhood and early adolescence were spent with her Jewish family in Chile, where her family also participated in the dominant Catholic culture. The young Agosin became keenly aware of her dual identity in her....[more]