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Ernest Hemingway

Mark Twain

David Sedaris

Art, Drama, Fiction, Humor, Literary Collections, Travel

David Sedaris, born in Raleigh, N.C. in 1957, is a popular radio commentator, essayist, and short story writer. He is the partner of the painter Hugh Hamrick. Sedaris held many part-time and odd jobs before he moved to New York and got a job reading excerpts from his diaries on National Public Radio in 1991. In 1994, L....[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]

Cormac McCarthy

Drama, Fiction, Nature, Performing Arts

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. He attended the University of Tennessee, but interrupted his studies for four years to join the U.S. Air Force. Although he has been publishing novels and receiving fellowships since 1965, his first best selling novel, "All the Pretty Horses" (winner of the Nat....[more]

Edgar Allan Poe

Terry Pratchett

Art, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Fiction, Games, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Music, Performing Arts, Psychology, Science

Terry Pratchett, April 28, 1948 - Terry Pratchett was born April 28 1948 in Beaconsfield, Bucks County. In 1959, he attended High Wycombe Technical High School rather than the local school because he felt 'woodwork would be more fun than Latin.'His short story "The Hades Business" was published in the school magazine w....[more]

William Shakespeare

J. R. R. Tolkien

Joyce Carol Oates

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Pets, Poetry, Psychology, Sports & Recreation

Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938 in Upstate, New York. She attended Syracuse University and graduated as Valedictorian. She then attended University of Wisconsin where she earned an M. A. By the time she was 47 years old, she had published at least that many separate books, including 16 full-length novels and more th....[more]

PHYLLIS TICKLE, founding editor of the Religion Department of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, the international journal of the book industry, is frequently quoted in print sources like USA TODAY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NY TIMES as well as in electronic media like PBS, NPR, THE HALLMARK CHANNEL, etc., Tickle is an authority on r....[more]

Ray Bradbury

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Education, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Transportation, Travel

Ray Bradbury, author of more than 500 stories, poems, essays, plays, films, television plays, radio, music, and comic books, was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. Twice during his childhood, Bradbury moved with his family to Arizona, returning to the midwest both times before settling permanently in Los A....[more]