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| Maria first came to the East Carolina University in Greenville, NC from Uruguay with an Exchange Student Fulbright Scholarship. In her first week there, she met Bill – her Gringo, and both their lives change course. They married and had their first child in Uruguay, but returned to the United States to continue their e....[more] |
| 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] |
| From Connecticut and Manhattan to Florida and the Caribbean, Dick Myers has combined a life of traveling, writing, and coaching tennis.
He has coached and taught tennis at every level for over thirty years. He has taught national champions and coached the British Virgin Island's Olympic and Pan Am teams. He has sha....[more] |
| 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] |
| Kathleen M. Adams is Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago and Adjunct Curator of Southeast Asian Ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History. She received her Ph.D. from the Univ. of Washington. Previously, she was Asst. Professor and Mouat Endowed Chair in International Studies at Beloit College....[more] |
| Dr Paula Bartley has been promoting women's history in schools, colleges and universities for many years. She is a member of the Women's History Network and is co-ordinator of the Carol Adam's History prize. She is currently writing a biography of Ellen Wilkinson. |
| 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] |
| TITUS BURCKHARDT, a German Swiss, was born in Florence in 1908 and died in Lausanne in 1984. An eminent member of the perennialist school, he is perhaps best known to the general public as an art historian. He won much acclaim for producing and publishing the first successful full-scale facsimiles of the Book of Kells,....[more] |
| Bob Wolfe was born in Bedford, Ind. He has lived throughout the state, as well as in Michigan and Illinois. After graduating from high school in Marion,Ind., he entered the Army and received specialized training as a construction forman in the combat engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va. He was expecting to serve in the Pa....[more] |
| J.M. Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940, Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in 1974. Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an ....[more] |
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