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Seth Godin: - writes the most popular marketing blog in the world; - is the author of the bestselling marketing books of the last decade; - speaks to large groups on marketing, new media and what's next; - and is the founder of Squidoo.com, a fast-growing recommendation website. Godin is author of ten book....[more]

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]

Jane Austen

It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[more]

James Agee

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American author, poet, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic. Agee is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957). Agee was working on the novel at the time of his death. After his death, the n....[more]

J. R. R. Tolkien

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more]

The author of seven novels and two collections of essays on wine, Jay McInerney is a regular contributor to New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Independent, and Corriere della Sera. His short fiction has apeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy and Granta. In 2006, Time magazine cited his 1984 deb....[more]

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George Ames Plimpton was born March 18, 1927. He was educated first at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then spent four years at Harvard majoring in English and editing the Harvard Lampoon, followed by two at King's College, Cambridge. Before he left for Cambridge, he served as a tank driver in Italy for t....[more]

Glenn Kay

Glenn Kay studied film at Ryerson University has reviewed films in print and on TV in Canada. He has also worked in the entertainment industry in a series of strange and unusual jobs (most notably as a voice-over artist). His first book, Disaster Movies: A Loud, Long, Explosive, Star-Studded Guide to Avalanches, Earthq....[more]