John Kenneth Galbraith
(1908-2006) Author. John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada, in 1908 and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2006.
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Oriana Fallaci
(1929-2006) Journalist. Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy in 1929, and died in Florence, Italy in 2006. She lived the later years of her life in New York City. She lectured at Columbia University.
Dame Muriel Spark
(1918-2006) Poet, writer. Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1918, and died in Florence, Italy in 2006. She lived in New York City for many years.
Heidi W Durrow
Heidi W. Durrow, a graduate of Stanford University, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and Yale Law School, is a fiction writer and public speaker. Heidi’s writing focuses on issues of multiracial and multicultural identity. She is the recipient of a Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Creative … Continued
Elena Alexander
ELENA ALEXANDER is a writer and poet. Ms. Alexander’s book, Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page, published by Gordon + Breach, will have a reading/performance at The Kitchen on Tuesday, October 20, 1998, at 8 PM. Her work has appeared in the following anthologies: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (Henry Holt & Co.), … Continued
Joseph Stefano
(1922-2006) Screenwriter. Joseph Stefano was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922 and moved in the 1940s to New York where he was an entertainer and later was the screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960). His other works include “Eye of the Cat” (1969). Stefano died in Thousand Oaks, California in 2006.
Wendy Mnookin
Wendy Mnookin’s most recent book of poems is The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, published by BOA Editions in 2008. Her other books are What He Took, To Get Here, and Guenever Speaks. The recipient of an NEA fellowship, Mnookin lives in Newton, Massachusetts, and teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a … Continued
Dick Lourie
Dick Lourie’s most recent collection (2009), If the Delta Was the Sea, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Lourie is a blues musician as well as a poet, and this book of poems about the Mississippi Delta is the result of his experiences playing music, interviewing local people, and researching history in the small Mississippi … Continued
Larnette Phillips
Larnette Phillips has been self-employed as a full-time author and novelist since 1991. She is also a screenwriter and the owner of her own entertainment company. Larnette has published the novel ‘Seasons’ (love story/romance; published in print and audio); ‘Faces–The Sacred Journey’ (spiritual; print); ‘Sully and Me’ (print) – ‘Sully and Me’ was the winner … Continued
Gail Radley
Gail Radley writes for children from preschool age through young adult. Mainly fiction, her work includes several novels, picture books, short stories and a poetry anthology. Several have received recognition: Odd Man Out, a novel, (Macmillan, 1995): Junior Library Guild selection, Young Hoosier Award nominee. The Golden Days, a novel,(Macmillan 1991, Penguin 1992): Highest Honor … Continued