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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]
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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]
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Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland and grew up in Eastern Kentucky. As a child, Kingsolver used to beg her mother to tell her bedtime stories. She soon started to write stories and essays of her own, and at the age of nine, she began to keep a journal. After graduating with a degree in ....[more]
Jon Gordon is a speaker, consultant and author of the international best seller "The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work and Team with Positive Energy," "The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work," and "Training Camp: What the Best do Better than Everyone Else." Jon's latest book, ....[more]
Marie Coady is a columnist and freelance writer. Her columns appear weekly in the Daily Times Chronicle,located in Woburn, MA which publishes five dailies and five weeklies that serve ten communities. Before joining the Times she was a columnist for the Woburn Advocate and the Burlington Union, weekly newspapers among ....[more]
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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]
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John Michael Crichton, known as Michael Crichton, was born on October 28, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He earned his way through Harvard University and Harvard Medical School by writing novels. One of these, The Andromeda Strain (1969), became a bestseller. After graduating summa cum laude, Crichton was a postdoctoral fe....[more]
Born in Banff, Scotland, once the county town of Banffshire, but now relegated to just another town in Aberdeenshire, David M. Addison was schooled at the academies of Fordyce and Banff. Having enjoyed his education there so much, he took a teaching degree from Aberdeen University and subsequently taught English in v....[more]
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Randy Wayne White is an outdoorsman, journalist, and novelist. He is from Florida. White worked as a light-tackle fishing guide at Tarpon Bay Marina in Sanibel Island, Florida. His first articles on travel, natural history, archaeology, anthropology, and politics were published in Outside Magazine. White also writes a ....[more]
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Deepak Chopra was educated as a medical doctor, specializing in endocrinology. He became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and he has taught at Tufts and Boston University Medical Schools. He is widely regarded as the man who has done more than any other to bring traditiona....[more]
Pamela Acheson fast-tracked her way up to Vice-President/Director of Marketing for a Fortune-500 publishing company in New York City and then she and her husband headed south to warmer climates. Since their successful escape she has lived in, explored, and written extensively about Florida and the Caribbean. She is ....[more]
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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. In 1973, Bryson went backpacking in England, where he eventually decided to settle. He wrote for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent, as well as supplementing his income by writing travel articles. Bryson moved back to the States in 1995. His first tra....[more]
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Christopher Moore was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1957. He studied at The Ohio State University and at the Brooks Institute of Photography. Moore's books include Demon Keeping: A Comedy of Horrors, a story about a demon-promised eternal youth, Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story, and Island of the Sequined Nun.
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Mary Higgins Clark was born and raised in New York. Her father died when she was ten. After graduating from high school, her first jobs were as a secretary and an airline stewardess. She flew to Europe, Asia, and Africa for a year, then married Warren Clark, a neighbor of her family nine years older than herself. Warre....[more]
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