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Ernest Hemingway

Mark Twain

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who pioneered the field of media therapy. She teaches at Yale University, where she is a fellow at Calhoun College, and Princeton University, where she is a fellow at Butler College. She is also an adjunct professor at NYU and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medici....[more]

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]

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]

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]

Roald Dahl

Umberto Eco

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Photography, Reference, Religion, Science, Social Science, Travel

First a semiotician at the University of Bologna, and a leading figure in contemporary Italian culture, Eco brought semiotics to fiction in his first novel, The Name of the Rose (1980). This unexpected international best-seller employs the techniques of a detective novel along with sophisticated postmodern narrative an....[more]

Anoop Chandola

About Anoop Chandola Anoop Chandola is a linguist-anthropologist. Before coming to the U.S.A. he was educated at the universities of Allahabad and Lucknow. His last two degrees in linguistics include an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has....[more]

David Crystal

Biography & Autobiography, Computers, Foreign Language Study, History, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Medical, Psychology, Reference

Norman Yoffee

Norman Yoffee, CV-1 page (for full cv, see sitemaker.umich.edu/nyoffee) Education: BA, Northwestern University (1966), PhD, Yale University (1973) (also: University of Chicago (summer 1967), University of Munich (1969-70) Honors: D Lit (honoris causa), La Trobe University (Melbourne), 1998 Major Grants: A....[more]

Franz Kafka

Homer

Graham Campbell - Dunn

Graham Campbell-Dunn was awarded his MA in Classics with First Class Honours by the University of New Zealand and went to Cambridge on a Postgraduate Scholarship. There he studied under the comparativists WS Allen and RG Coleman, and was privileged to be taught by John Chadwick, who worked on Mycenaean Greek. His teach....[more]