Author Listings (Cultural)
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| Kyoko Mori’s award-winning first novel, Shizuko's Daughter, was hailed by the New York Times as “a jewel of a book, one of those rarities that shine out only a few times in a generation.” Her many critically acclaimed books include Polite Lies, The Dream of Water, and the novels, Stone Field, True Arrow and One Bird (....[more] |
| Since childhood, Diana has been fascinated with the written word. As an only child of working parents, she spent lots of time alone, which she filled with reading a great deal of books and filling the pages of many journals. That's how she liked to keep busy. She always expressed herself better on the page. Today, Dia....[more] |
| Carol M. Swain’s work on representation and race relations has earned her national and international accolades. Her highly acclaimed book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (1993, 1995 Harvard University Press; reprinted in 2006 by University Press of America) was named o....[more] |
| Lawrence Barkwell is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg (BA Hons.) and Lakehead University (MA). He is an Honourary Life Member of the Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF). He is currently employed as coordinator of Metis Heritage and History Research for the Louis Riel Institute and was previously the Director of the....[more] |
| Born in Massachusetts and educated in Rhode Island, Minnesota, England and California, he was graduated from Hamline University in St. Paul MN with a degree in Government and Theatre. He recieved his MA in film from Columbia College, Los Angeles.
He currently working on a history of the Theatres of Winnipeg Manitoba. |
| 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] |
| Hello! My name is Aam'pah. I grew up in Southernmost Senegal, on the West African Coast. I was born with the gift of writing which I may have inherited from my mother.
I received my basic schooling from my mother on the blackboard of our study area at home and also from home tutering with a school teacher.
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| Dan R. Dick is an ordained United Methodist minister living in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and sometimes co-author, Barbara. Dan has served the church in some capacity for over 30 years -- first as a director of Christian Education in Muncie, Indiana, then as pastor of two thriving churches in Northern New Jers....[more] |
| Helen Fisher, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on the nature of romantic love and attachment, is the chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, a division of Match.com. She is the author of four previous books, two of which-"The First Sex" and "The Anatomy of Love"-were New York Times Notable Books. A research....[more] |
| I am a cultural anthropologist. I earned my BA from Sarah Lawrence College in anthropology and French (1975), and my MA (1978) and PhD (1983) in cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia. Among other works, I am the author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa (2004....[more] |
| John Grenier is a prize-winning author and historian of early America. Dr. Grenier is the author of _The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814_ (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which won the Society of Military History’s Outstanding Book Award in American History in 2007. He is also the ....[more] |
| In 1945, James J. Hankins was the fifth child born to his mother, a teacher and his father, a barber in Wilmington, NC. He was baptized at St. Thomas Catholic Church and attended St. Thomas Catholic School in grades one through eight. He wad graduated from Williston Senior High School in 1964 where he was a starter on ....[more] |
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