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Rick Frishman

RICK FRISHMAN, the founder of Planned Television Arts, has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 30 years. Working with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America, including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Wiley, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Penguin Putnam, and Hy....[more]

Joyce Lain Kennedy

Jurgen Habermas

Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists....[more]

Paul Krassner

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]

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, Cooking, Family & Relationships, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Criticism, Medical, Psychology, Social Science

As niece of fallen Chilean president Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende attracted immediate interest when she appeared on the U.S. literary scene in the mid-1980s. On its own merits, though, The House of the Spirits (1982; English translation 1985) is a superb novel. Four generations of Chilean women-female descendants o....[more]

Margaret Atwood

Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Political Science, Social Science

Born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada, Margaret Atwood spent her early years in the northern Quebec wilderness. Settling in Toronto in 1946, she continued to spend summers in the northern woods. This experience provided much of the thematic material for her verse. Atwood began her writing career as a poet, short st....[more]

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]

Pete Hamill

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Photography, Political Science, Religion, Self-help, Social Science, Sports & Recreation

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Irish immigrant parents in 1935, Pete Hamill attended Mexico City College, Pratt Institute, and The School of Visual Arts before starting a career in journalism. In 1960, Hamill accepted an entry-level job at the New York Post, becoming a columnist five years later. Hamill subsequently worked ....[more]