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Dan Gutman

Children's author Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of bus....[more]

Leslie Heywood

Roland Barthes

Born in France in 1915, Roland Barthes would go on to become one of the most revered critics of his generation. Growing up in a single parent home, Barthes learned a work ethic that would serve him well for the rest of his life. He attended the Sorbonne where he received degrees in classical literature and grammar and ....[more]

James A. Michener

Xenophon

Bruce Adelson

Juvenile Nonfiction, Sports & Recreation

Cara Aitchison

Business & Economics, Social Science

Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Staff American Alliance for Health

Education, Health & Fitness, Medical, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Science, Sports & Recreation

Eric Anderson

Social Science

Harvey Araton

Fiction, Sports & Recreation

Shirley Ardener

Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Sports & Recreation

Richard Bailey

Business & Economics, Education, Health & Fitness, Social Science

John Bale

Biography & Autobiography, Drama

The life of John Bale embodied the turbulent contradictions of the early Reformation. Reared from age twelve as a Carmelite friar, he converted to Protestantism as an adult and soon became one of its most ardent polemicists. Much of Bale's work consists of vituperative prose attacks on the institutional corruption of t....[more]

E. Digby Baltzell

Religion, Social Science, Sports & Recreation

Harold M. Barrow

Education, Sports & Recreation

John M. Barry

History, Sports & Recreation

John M. Barry was born in 1947. He is a widely respected journalist who has covered national politics extensively. He has used this background to write two highly acclaimed books of nonfiction. The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington (1989 is an examination of use and abuse of power. In Rising Tide: The ....[more]