Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey

• Birth:    November 4, 1949
  
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American
• Education:  Communication and English from Wheaton and University of Chicago
  
• Author URL: https://philipyancey.com/
• Books Written
• After the Wedding (1976)
• Where Is God When It Hurts? (1977) Gold Medallion Book Award (updated edition published in 1990, special edition in 2001), ISBN 0-310-35411-0
• Secrets of the Christian Life (1979) (co-authored with Tim Stafford and first published as 'Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life'), ISBN 0-310-35481-1
• Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (1980) – co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand; Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-35451-X
• Open Windows (1982), ISBN 0-8407-5960-6
• Insight (1982)
• In His Image (1984) – co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand; Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-35501-X
• NIV Student Bible (1986) – co-edited with Tim Stafford; Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-92664-5
• Disappointment with God (1988); Gold Medallion Book Award; Christianity Today's Book of the Year; ISBN 0-310-51780-X
• I Was Just Wondering (1989) – excerpts from previous books and article ISBN 0-86347-460-8
• A Guided Tour of the Bible: 6 Months of Daily Readings (1989), ISBN 0-310-51650-1
• Praying with the KGB: A Startling Report from a Shattered Empire (1992) – ISBN 0-88070-511-6
• Discovering God: A Devotional Journey Through the Bible (1993)
• Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants (1993) – co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand; reissued in 1997 as The Gift of Pain; Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-06-017020-4
• The Jesus I Never Knew (1995) – Gold Medallion Book Award and ECPA Christian Book of the Year; ISBN 0-310-38570-9
• Finding God in Unexpected Places (1995) (updated 2nd edition published in 2005) – ISBN 0-385-51309-7
• What's So Amazing About Grace? (1997) Gold Medallion Book Award and ECPA Christian Book of the Year; ISBN 0-310-21327-4
• The Bible Jesus Read (1999) – Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-22834-4
• Reaching for the Invisible God (2000) – ISBN 0-310-23531-6
• Meet the Bible: A Panorama of God's Word in 366 Daily Readings and Reflections (2000) – co-authored with Brenda Quinn
• Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church (2001) – ISBN 978-0-385-50274-0
• Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage (2001) – Gold Medallion Book Award; ISBN 0-310-20200-0
• Rumors of Another World (2003) – renamed as A Skeptic's Guide to Faith (2009), ISBN 978-0-310-32502-4
• In the Likeness of God (2004) – The Dr. Paul Brand tribute edition of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image, ISBN 0-310-25742-5
• Designer Sex (2005) – 32-page booklet
• Finding God in Unexpected Places: Revised Edition – Doubleday, 2005^[11]
• When We Hurt : Prayer, Preparation & Hope for Life's Pain (2006)
• Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? (2006) – ISBN 978-0-310-27105-5
• What Good Is God? (2010) – ISBN 978-0-446-55985-0
• The Question That Never Goes Away (2014) – ISBN 978-0310339823
• Vanishing Grace: Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World (2014) – ISBN 978-0310351542
• Biography

an American author who writes primarily about spiritual issues. His books have sold more than fifteen million copies in English and have been translated into forty languages, making him one of the best-selling contemporary Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? in 1998.[2] He is published by Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, and Penguin Random House.  From Wikipedia

Charles Williams

Charles Williams

• Birth:    September 20, 1886, London
• Death:    May 15, 1945
• Nationality:   English
• Education: 
• Web Site:  http://www.charleswilliamssociety.org.uk/ 

 Bibliography:

•  Descent into Hell
• Many Dimensions
• All Hallows Eve
• The Place of the Lion
• Shadows of Ecstasy
• Greater Trumps
• War in Heaven
• The Descent of the Dove (church)
• He Came Down From Heaven

 References: 

Jennifer Worth

 Jennifer Worth

• Birth:    September 25, 1935
  
• Death:   May 31, 2011
  
• Nationality:   Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England
• Education: 
• Author URL:
• Books Written
• Worth, Jennifer (2007). Eczema and Food Allergy: The Hidden Cause? : My Story. ISBN 978-1872560182.
• Call the Midwife (First book in the Midwife trilogy) Worth, Jennifer (September 2012). Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s. ISBN 978-0297868781. (2002)
• Shadows of the Workhouse (Second book in the Midwife trilogy) Worth, Jennifer (2008). Shadows of the Workhouse. ISBN 978-0297853268. (2005)
• Worth, Jennifer (2009). Farewell to the East End. ISBN 978-0753823064. (Third book in the Midwife trilogy)
• Worth, Jennifer (2010). In the Midst of Life. ISBN 978-0297859581.
• Biography

a British memoirist. She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to The East End. A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on BBC One on 15 January 2012.[1] After leaving nursing, she re-trained as a musician. From Wikipedia

Guardian Obituary

Fandom biography

Working Nurse biography

East Anglican Times - background on Worth

Ted Widmer

Ted Widmer

• Birth:    1963
• Death:    
• Nationality:  American
• Education:   Phd in American History from Harvard
• Books Written
• Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City (1999) (winner of the 2001 Washington Irving Prize)
• Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races (2001) (co-author with Alan Brinkley)
• Martin Van Buren (2004)
• Ark of the Liberties: America and the World (2008) (a history of U.S. foreign policy)
• Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy (2012) (co-author with Caroline Kennedy)
• Brown: The History of an Idea (2015)
• New York Times: Disunion: A History of the Civil War (2016) (co-editor with Clay Risen and George Kalogerakis)
• Biography

Edward (Ted) Ladd Widmer (born 1963) is a historian, writer, librarian and musician who served as a speechwriter in the Clinton White House. From Wikipedia

CSPAN2 talk on Listening In
 Biography at the Center for American Progress

Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson

• Birth:    1961
• Death:    
• Nationality:  Washington, DC
  
• Education: Howard University, Journalism
  
• Author URL:  https://www.isabelwilkerson.com/
• Books Written
•     The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random House, 2010). ISBN 978-0-679-44432-9
•     Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Random House, 2020). ISBN 978-0-593-23025-1
• Biography

an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. She was the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Wilkerson was the editor-in-chief of the Howard University college newspaper, interned at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, and became the Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. She also taught at Emory, Princeton, Northwestern, and Boston University.

Wilkerson interviewed over a thousand people for The Warmth of Other Suns, which documents the stories of African Americans who migrated to northern and western cities during the 20th century. Her book Caste identifies the racial hierarchy in the United States as a caste system. Both books were best-sellers

One other note is that her father was one of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.

                                              From Wikipedia

A Finalist in the National Book Critics Award for Caste-APNews

 

• Video: PBS News Hour on Caste
• 2017 TED Talk on The Great Migration and the power of a single decision
• C-SPAN August 14, 2020- virtual event hosted by the Atlanta History Center.
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Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr.

Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr.

• Birth:    1819
• Death:    1896
• Nationality:  American, Massachusetts
• Education:  Yale, with honary docorate from Yale as well.
• Author URL:
• Books Written
• Geographical and Geological Surveys
• The United States 
• Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Mountain-Building 
• The Yosemite guide-book 
• Geographical and Geological Surveys. from the North American Review for July and October, 1875 
• Geology, Volume 1 and Geology, Volume 2
• Biography

Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr. was born 1819 in Massachusetts. He graduated at Yale and surveyed several areas in America and Europe as a geologist. In 1865, he was appointed professor of geology by Harvard in 1865 and received an honorary doctorate from Yale in 1870. In 1860 Whitney was appointed state geologist of California in 1860. Whitney, along with William H. Brewer, Clarence King, Lorenzo Yates, and others, made an extensive survey of California, including the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite region. Some California legislators though his job was just discovering gold and mineral wealth in the state. Whitney would have none of that and conducted a thorough scientific survey of the state. He published a well-regarded six-volume series Geological Survey of California (1864 - 1870), and this excellent volume, The Yosemite Book, among others. It was “among the first American books devoted entirely to photographs of landscape” (Naef and Wood, Era of Exploration, 1975). In The Yosemite Book Whitney was an early voice for conservation. He was the first known person to use the term “national park” and urged the state not to deed some land in Yosemite Valley to early settlers, but to keep the entire valley as a national park. Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the continuous United States was named after him.

When John Muir arrived in Yosemite in 1869, and when The Yosemite Book was first published, the conventional thinking was that of Whitney’s. That is, there were no active glaciers in the Sierra Nevada—the weather was too warm. Whitney thought Yosemite Valley was formed not by glaciers but “the bottom of the Valley sank down...” Muir discovered the first known active glacier in 1871 in the High Sierra. He also found glacier scaring and glacier moraines in Yosemite Valley. Muir published his findings and was made famous from his writings and lectures. Whitney was obstinant. He derided Muir as a “mere sheepherder” and  “ignoramus.” Whitney suppressed evidence found by King and Gardiner of glaciers in Yosemite Valley. But Muir’s view eventually prevailed in the scientific community. Whitney died in 1896 in New Hampshire. He maintained, to his death, that not only there never glaciers in Yosemite Valley, but that no glaciers currently exist in the Sierra Nevada (even though several live glaciers have been discovered by Muir).
From Dan Anderson's introduction in The Yosemite Book found at yosemite.ca.us

I am wondering if the best asset which Whitney had was to bring together good people to conduct surveys.

Cornel West

• Birth:    June 2, 1953
  
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American, Tulsa, OK
  
• Education: Harvard University (AB), Princeton University (MA, PhD)
• Author URL: http://www.cornelwest.com/
• Books Written
• "Black Theology and Marxist Thought" (1979) – essay
• Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982)
• Post-Analytic Philosophy, edited with John Rajchman (1985)
• Prophetic Fragments (1988)
• The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (1989)
• Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (with bell hooks, 1991)
• The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (1991)
• Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times: Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism (1993)
• Race Matters (1993)
• Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America (1994)
• Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion, and Culture in America (with rabbi Michael Lerner, 1995)
• The Future of the Race (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1996)
• Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America (1997)
• The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads (with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, 1998)
• The Future of American Progressivism (with Roberto Unger, 1998)
• The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2000)
• Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (2004)
• Commentary on The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions; see The Ultimate Matrix Collection (with Ken Wilber, 2004)
• Hope on a Tightrope: Words & Wisdom (2008)
• Brother West: Living & Loving Out Loud (2009)
• The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (with Tavis Smiley, 2012)
• Pro+Agonist: The Art of Opposition (2012)
• Black Prophetic Fire (2014)
• Biography

an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual.^[9][10] The grandson of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness". A radical democrat and socialist,^[11][12] West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the Black church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters (1994) and Democracy Matters (2004). From Wikipedia

 

• June 13, 2021 - West leaves Harvard

Peter Wehner

Peter Wehner

• Birth:    
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American
• Education:   University of Washington
• Author URL:
• Books Written
• (with Michael J. Gerson) City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era Chicago : Moody Publishers, 2010. ISBN 9780802458575, OCLC 505420332
• (with Arthur C. Brooks) Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism Washington, DC AEI Press, 2010. ISBN 9780844743776, OCLC 837668483
• The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump, New York, NY : HarperOne, 2019. ISBN 9780062820792, OCLC 1097366455[20][21][22]
  
• Biography

Speech writer for several Presidents. Worked with William Bennett. He is an American writer and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank. He is also a fellow at the Trinity Forum. Wehner is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times[2] and a contributing editor at the Atlantic. He "writes widely on political, cultural, religious, and national-security issues." From Wikipedia

The Atlantic articles by Peter Wehner

George Washington

George Washington

• Birth:    February 22, 1732
  
• Death:    December 14, 1799
  
• Nationality:   American
• Education: 
• Author URL:
• Books Written
• Washington, George (1799). "Letter to Continental Army, November 2, 1783, Farewell Orders; Letter to Henry Knox, November 2, 1783". George Washington Papers, 1741–1799: Series 3b Varick Transcripts. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on August 21, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
• Washington, George (July 7, 1799b). "George Washington's Last Will and Testament". founders.archive.gov. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
• Washington, George (1783). "Sentiments on a Peace Establishment". National Historical Publications and Records Commission (The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). Retrieved July 20, 2018.
• Washington, George (April 30, 1788a). "George Washington to Samuel Griffin, April 30, 1788". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
• Washington, George (September 7, 1788b). "Letter to Richard Peters, September 7, 1788". National Historical Publications and Records Commission (The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). Retrieved February 11, 2019.
• Washington, George (1789). "April 1789". National Historical Publications and Records Commission (The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). Retrieved February 26, 2020.
• Biography

an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as the president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created the Constitution of the United States and the American federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of the Nation" for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the country. From Wikipedia

John Vaillant

 John Vaillant

• Birth:    1962
• Death:    
• Nationality:  American, Massachusetts, U.S.
  
• Education: 
• Author URL:  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/58679/john-vaillant/
• Books Written
• Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World. Knopf. 2023. ISBN 9781524732851.
• The Jaguar's Children. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2015. ISBN 978-0544315495.
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-0307268938.
• The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0393058871.
• Biography

an American-Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside. He has written both non-fiction and fiction books.  From Wikipedia

Eric Tyson

Eric Tyson

• Birth:    
• Death:    
• Nationality:   
• Education: 
• Author URL: https://www.erictyson.com/
• Books Written
• At least 120 books
• Personal Finance after 50
  
• Biography

Nina Totenberg

Nina Totenberg

• Birth:    Jan 14, 1944
  
• Death:    
• Nationality:   New York, New York
  
• Education:    Boston University
  
• Author URL:   https://www.npr.org/people/2101289/nina-totenberg
• Books Written
• Totenberg, Nina (2022). Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781982188085. OCLC 1299301214.
• Rehnquist, William H.; J. Harvie Wilkinson; T. S. Ellis; John C. Jeffries; Nina Totenberg; Christina B. Whitman (January 1999). "In Memoriam: Lewis F. Powell, Jr". Harvard Law Review. 112 (3): 602–606. JSTOR 1342371.
• Totenberg, Nina (1994). "Harry A. Blackmun: The Conscientious Conscience". American University Law Review. 43: 745.
• Marshall, Thurgood; Abner J. Mikva; Richard A. Posner; Norman Dorsen; Frank Michelman; Nina Totenberg (November 1990). "A Tribute to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr". Harvard Law Review. 104 (1): 33–39. JSTOR 1341502.
• Biography

an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. From 1992 to 2013, she was also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show Inside Washington.  From Wikipedia

• NPR-September 2, 2022: NPR's Nina Totenberg discusses her longterm friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  

Amor Towles

Amor Towles

• Birth:    1964
• Death:    
• Nationality:  American
• Education: Yale College, MA-Stanford University
• Author URL:  http://www.amortowles.com/
• Books Written
• Rules of Civility
• Gentleman in Moscow 
• Lincoln Highway
• You Have Arrived at Your Destination
• Eve in Hollywood
• The Didomenico Fragment
• A Whimsy of the World
• The Line
• Great-Great-Grandpa's Hat Box 
• A Glimpse of Stocking 
  
• Biography

an American novelist. He is best known for his bestselling novels Rules of Civility (2011)[1] and A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) From Wikipedia

Jemar Tisby

Jemar Tisby

• Birth:    
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American, around Chicago
  
• Education: Notre Dame,  MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminar, working on his PhD in History at the University of Mississippi
  
• Author URL: http://JemarTisby.com/
• Books Written
• How To Fight Racism
• Color of Compromise
  
• Biography

Jemar Tisby is the bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism. He is the founder of The Witness Inc. and co-host of the Pass The Mic podcast. Tisby speaks nationally about history, religion, and antiracism.

Before the Center, Jemar Tisby joined Teach For America and was assigned to the Mississippi Delta Corps where he taught sixth grade at a public charter school and later went on to be the principal. He received his MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminary and is presently working toward his PhD in History at the University of Mississippi studying race, religion, and social movements in the twentieth century.  From the biography on BU Center for Anti-Racism

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

 Ngugi wa Thiong’o

• Birth:    January 5, 1938
  
• Death:    
• Nationality:   Kamiriithu, Kenya Colony
  
• Education: Makerere University (BA), University of Leeds
• Author URL: https://ngugiwathiongo.com/
• Books Written

Novels

• Weep Not, Child (1964), ISBN 978-0143026242
• The River Between (1965), ISBN 0-435-90548-1
• A Grain of Wheat (1967, 1992), ISBN 0-14-118699-2
• Petals of Blood (1977), ISBN 0-14-118702-6
• Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross, 1980)
• Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986 (Matigari, translated into English by Wangui wa Goro, 1989), ISBN 0-435-90546-5
• Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow, 2004), ISBN 9966-25-162-6
• The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (2020)

Short story collections

• A Meeting in the Dark (1974)^[82]
• Secret Lives, and Other Stories, (1976, 1992), ISBN 0-435-90975-4^{[citation needed]}
• Minutes of Glory and Other Stories (2019)^{[citation needed]}

Plays

• The Black Hermit (1963)^{[citation needed]}
• This Time Tomorrow (three plays, including the title play, "The Rebels", "The Wound in the Heart" and "This Time Tomorrow") (1970)^[83]
• Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics (1972), ISBN 0-435-18580-2^{[citation needed]}
• The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976), ISBN 0-435-90191-5, African Publishing Group, ISBN 0-949932-45-0 (with Micere Githae Mugo and Njaka)^[82]
• Ngaahika Ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano (I Will Marry When I Want) (1977, 1982) (with Ngũgĩ wa Mirii)^{[citation needed]}

Memoirs

• Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981)^{[citation needed]}
• Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir (2010), ISBN 978-1-84655-377-6^{[citation needed]}
• In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir (2012), ISBN 978-0-30790-769-1^{[citation needed]}
• Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Memoir of a Writer's Awakening (2016), ISBN 978-1-62097-240-3^{[citation needed]}
• Wrestling with the devil: A Prison Memoir (2018) ^[84]

Other nonfiction

• Education for a National Culture (1981)^[82]
• Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (1983)^[82]
• Mother, Sing For Me (1986)^{[citation needed]}
• Writing against Neo-Colonialism (1986)^[82]
• Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986), ISBN 978-0852555019
• Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (1993), ISBN 978-0852555309
• Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa (The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1996), Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-818390-9^[85]
• Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009), ISBN 978-0-465-00946-6^[86]
• Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012), ISBN 978-0231159517 Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing on JSTOR
• Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe (2016), ISBN 978-0857423139

Children's books

• Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (translated by Wangui wa Goro) (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu, 1986)^{[citation needed]}
• Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (translated by Wangui wa Goro) (Njamba Nene na Chibu King'ang'i, 1988)^{[citation needed]}
• Njamba Nene's Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene, 1990), ISBN 0-86543-081-0^{[citation needed]}
• The Upright Revolution, Or Why Humans Walk Upright, Seagull Press, 2019, ISBN 9780857426475^{[citation needed]}

• Biography

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o was born in British-controlled Kenya under the Christian name James Ngugi. His family are members of the Gikuyu (or Agikuyu; or Kikuyu) people, Kenya’s largest ethnic tribe. Ngũgĩ’s early life was dominated by ethnic Kenya’s struggle against British colonialism. His family was integral to the Mau Mau freedom movement, which struggled to release Kenya from British control. As a result, British soldiers tortured his mother and murdered his deaf brother. A writer all his life, Ngũgĩ played a primary role in the development of English-language African literature. At 24 years old, he premiered a play that he authored for the African Writers Conference. At 26, he published his debut novel, Weep Not Child, which was the first English-language novel produced by an East African author. One year later, he published The River Between, in 1965. During this period, Ngũgĩ finished his Bachelor of Arts at Makerere University in Uganda and moved to England to earn his master’s degree at Leeds. However, his studies were waylaid as he put all his energy into writing and publishing his seminal work, A Grain of Wheat, in 1967. At this time, Ngũgĩ’s work and life became decidedly more political. He renounced the Christian religion as well as his Christian name, James, in favor of the Gikuyu name Wa Thiong’o. He left his graduate studies in England and returned to Kenya, where he worked as a university professor in Nairobi. Due to his political writing and Marxist views, the independent Kenyan government imprisoned him in 1977. After releasing him from prison, the government exiled Ngũgĩ and his family from Kenya. He spent the next decades writing novels and essays and teaching at various elite universities in Europe and America. Ngũgĩ briefly revisited East Africa in 2004, but he never moved back to his homeland.   From LitCharts

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

• Birth:    May 7, 1861
  
• Death:    August 7, 1941
  
• Nationality:   Indian
• Education: 
  
• Author URL:
• Books Written
• See the Wikipedia article on his works
  
• Biography

an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal". He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.  From Wikipedia

Pubilius Syrus

Pubilius Syrus

• Birth:    85BC
• Death:   43BC
• Nationality:   Syrian, brought to Rome as a slave
• Education:  None
• Author URL:
• Books Written
• The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
• Biography

a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy. By his wit and talent, Syrus won the favour of his master, who granted him manumission and educated him. He became a member of the Publilia gens. Publilius' name, due to the palatalization of 'l' between two 'i's in the Early Middle Ages, is often presented by manuscripts (and some printed editions) in corrupt form as 'Publius'. Publius being a very common Roman praenomen. From Wikipedia

Paul Swearengin

Paul Swearengin

• Birth:    September 26, 1965
  
• Death:    
• Nationality:   American
• Education: CSU, Fresno
  
• Author URL: https://nonpartisanevangelical.com/
• Podcast with Craig Sharton: https://twoguysfresno.blubrry.net/
  
• Books Written
• Joseph Comes to Town
  
• Biography

Sportscaster, talk show host, former pastor of an evangelican church. Does podcasts and teaches leadership.

Julia Stuart

Julia Stuart

• Birth:    
• Death:    
• Nationality:   British
• Education:  
• Author URL:  https://juliastuart.com/about-me
• Books Written
• The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
• The Pigeon Pie Mystery 
• The Matchmaker of Périgord 
• The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland 
• Paracord Projects: 10 Most Popular Projects with Paracord Bracelet Instructions:
• Biography

an English novelist and journalist. She grew up in the West Midlands, England, and studied French and Spanish. She lived for a period in France and Spain teaching English.

After studying journalism, she worked on regional newspapers for six years. In 1999, Stuart won the periodicals category of the Amnesty International UK Media Awards. She was a feature writer for The Independent, and later The Independent on Sunday, for eight years. In 2007 she relocated to Bahrain and Egypt for three years.^[1] She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2013 and lives in London.  From Wikipedia

John Steinbeck

John Stenbeck

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In Pandemic 1918, Catherine Arnold notes that Steinbecks outlook was forever changed by catching the Spanish flu.

Mark Stein

Mark Stein

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Mark Stein

Mark Stein

• Birth:    1951
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• Nationality:  American
• Education:  University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Author URL: http://www.marksteinauthor.com/index.htm
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Published plays

• The Groves of Academe and The Plumber's Apprentice (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 1983
• At Long Last Leo (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 1987
• Ghost Dance (New York: Playscripts Ltd., 2003)
• Direct from Death Row the Scottsboro Boys, (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 2006

Film and television

• A Quiet Little Neighborhood, A Perfect Little Murder, NBC Movie of the Week, (dir. Anson Williams; starring Teri Garr, Robert Urich), October 14, 1990
• Housesitter, Imagine Films/Universal Studios, (dir. Frank Oz; starring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn), 1992
• Chance of a Lifetime, CBS Movie of the Week, (dir. Deborah Reinish; starring John Ritter, Jean Stapleton), March 29, 1998
• Help Wanted, Male, Episode of Nero Wolfe (dir. Timothy Hutton; starring Timothy Hutton, Maury Chakin, Bill Smitrovich, Larry Drake), 2002

Non-fiction

• How the States Got Their Shapes (New York: Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2008) ISBN 9780061431395, OCLC 503109709
• How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2011)
• American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) ISBN 9781137279026, OCLC 869919504
• Vice capades : sex, drugs, and bowling from the pilgrims to the present, Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2017, ISBN 9781612348940, OCLC 962232609

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Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson

• Birth:    November 14, 1959
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• Nationality:   American
• Education: Eastern University (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), Harvard Kennedy School (M.P.P.)
• Author URL: https://eji.org/bryan-stevenson
• Books Written
• Stevenson, Bryan (Summer 2006). "Confronting Mass Imprisonment and Restoring Fairness to Collateral Review of Criminal Cases" (PDF). Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 41 (2): 339–367. OCLC 1002849873. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-18. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
• "Stevenson, Bryan (Summer 2003). "The Ultimate Authority on the Ultimate Punishment: The Requisite Role of the Jury in Capital Sentencing" (PDF). Alabama Law Review. 54 (4): 1091–1155. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
• Stevenson, Bryan (June 2002). "The Politics of Fear and Death: Successive Problems in Capital Federal Habeas Corpus Cases" (PDF). NYU Law Review. 77 (3): 699–795.
• Stevenson, Bryan (2014). Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (print) (First ed.). New York: Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 9780812994520. LCCN 2014430900. OCLC 978357094.
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an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, Stevenson has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system, especially children. He has helped achieve United States Supreme Court decisions that prohibit sentencing children under 18 to death or to life imprisonment without parole.[1] Stevenson has assisted in cases that have saved dozens of prisoners from the death penalty, advocated for poor people, and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice.  From Wikipedia

Melissa Sevigny

Melissa Sevigny

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• Author URL: https://melissasevigny.com/
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• Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
•      Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest  
• Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets
  
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Melissa L. Sevigny grew up in Tucson, Arizona where she fell in love with the Sonoran Desert’s ecology, geology and dark desert skies. Her lyrical nonfiction explores the intersections of science, nature, and history, with a focus on the American Southwest. Sevigny has worked as a science communicator in the fields of planetary science, western water policy, and sustainable agriculture. She has degrees in environmental science and creative writing, and volunteers as the interviews editor for Terrain.org. She’s currently a full time journalist in Flagstaff, Arizona.  From Goodreads

Stories posted on radio KNAU, an NPR station

H Spees

H Spees

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• .Out of Nazareth, Christ-Centered Civic Transformation in Unlikely Places, February 7, 2017 (Editor)
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James W. Sire

• Birth:    October 17, 1933
• Death:    February 06, 2018
• Nationality:   American
• Education: Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri
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•     Rim of the Sandhills (eBook on Kindle, 2012) ISBN 978-0-9858929-0-6 Memoir beginning with the author's growing up on a ranch in Nebraska and tracing his education, career as editor and international lecturer/apologist for the Christian faith.
• Deepest Differences (IVP 2009), with Carl Peraino. ISBN 978-0-8308-3358-0.
• The Universe Next Door ISBN 978-0-8308-2780-0. Over 350,000 in print [4] now in its fifth edition and translated into 20 languages.
• Scripture Twisting (IVP, 1980)
• Discipleship of the Mind, (IVP, 1990) "How do we love God with all our minds? A serious look at the academic enterprise from a Christian perspective. Very helpful and thought-provoking"[5]
• Chris Chrisman Goes to College (IVP, 1993)
• Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All? (IVP, 1994)
• Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian (IVP, 2001)
• Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept (IVP, 2004)
• Learning to Pray Through the Psalms(IVP, 2005)
• Why Good Arguments Often Fail (IVP, 2006)
• Václav Havel (IVP, 2001)(a biography of the Czech Republic's former philosopher-president)
• Praying the Psalms of Jesus (IVP, 2007)
• A Little Primer on Humble Apologetics (IVP, 2006)
• How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension (Wheaton Literary, 2000)
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Born on a ranch on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills, Sire was an officer in the Army, a college professor of English literature, philosophy and theology, the chief editor of InterVarsity Press (a Christian books publisher), a lecturer at over two hundred universities in the U.S., Canada, Eastern and Western Europe and Asia, and the author of twenty books on literature, philosophy and the Christian faith. His book The Universe Next Door, published in 1976 and now in its fifth edition, has sold over 400,000 copies and has been translated into 19 foreign languages. He held a B.A. in chemistry and English from the University of Nebraska, an M.A. in English from Washington State College (now University) and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri. His most recent publication was Rim of the Sandhills[1] an eBook memoir of life on the ranch, in the military in Korea, at the university, in publishing and lecturing on three continents. It traces his early coming to faith and his gradual development of a mature apologetic for the Christian faith.   From Wikipedia

Colleen J. Shogan

Colleen J. Shogan

• Birth:    September 30, 1975
  
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• Nationality:   Pittsburgh, PA
• Education: Boston College (BA), Yale University (MA, PhD)
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•  Stabbing in the Senate (Washington Whodunit, #1)
• Homicide in the House (Washington Whodunit, #2)
• Calamity at the Continental Club (Washington Whodunit, #3)
• K Street Killing (Washington Whodunit, #4)
• Larceny at the Library (Washington Whodunit, #6)
• Gore in the Garden (Washington Whodunit, #5)
• Dead as a Duck (Washington Whodunit, #7)
• Lethal Legacies (Washington Whodunit, #8)
• The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents (Volume 17) (Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication)
  
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an American author and academic serving as Archivist of the United States since May 17, 2023, succeeding Acting Archivist Debra Wall. Shogan is the first woman appointed as Archivist of the United States. Shogan is also the director of the David M. Rubenstein Center for White House History at the White House Historical Association. From Wikipedia  She also has worked as a professor and a congressional staffer. IN her spare time, she has written several mystery stories.

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Related to hearings on her appointment as the National Archivist

NPR articles on Shogan From July 4th and 5th, 2023 

Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick

• Birth:    July 14, 1965
  
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• Nationality:   East Brunswick Township, New Jersey
• Education:  Rhode Island School of Design
  
• Author URL: https://www.thebrianselznick.com/
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• As writer
• "A Buried History of Paleontology", by Selznick and David Serlin, Cabinet 28: Bones (Winter 2007/08)
  The Hugo Movie Companion: A Behind the Scenes Look at How a Beloved Book Became a Major Motion Picture; with additional material by Martin Scorsese and David Serlin (Scholastic, 2011)[17]
  
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      The Houdini Box (1991)
      The Robot King (1995)
      Boy of a Thousand Faces (2000)
      The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), historical steampunk novel
      Wonderstruck (2011), a historical novel
      The Marvels (2015)
      Baby Monkey, Private Eye (2018), early reader by Brian Selznick and David Serlin
      Kaleidoscope (2021)
  As illustrator
      Doll Face Has a Party (1994), picture book by Pam Conrad
      Our House: stories of Levittown (1995), by Pam Conrad — about Levittown
      Frindle (1996), novella by Andrew Clements
      The Boy Who Longed for a Lift (1997), picture book by Norma Farber
      Riding Freedom (1998), by Pam Muñoz Ryan — about Charley Parkhurst, fictionalized
      Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride: based on a true story (1999), by Pam Muñoz Ryan — about Amelia Earhart fictionalized
      Barnyard Prayers (2000), picture book by Laura Godwin
      The Doll People (2000), novel by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin
      The Landry News (2000, paperback), novella by Andrew Clements (1999)
      The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (2001), by Barbara Kerley — about Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
      The School Story (2001), by Andrew Clements
      When Marian Sang (2002), by Pam Muñoz Ryan — about Marian Anderson
      Wingwalker (2002), by Rosemary Wells
      The Dulcimer Boy (2003), novel by Tor Seidler
      The Meanest Doll in the World (2003), by Martin and Godwin, book 2
      Walt Whitman: words for America (2004), by Barbara Kerley — about Walt Whitman
      Lunch Money (2005), novel by Andrew Clements
      Marly's Ghost: a remix of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (2006), by David Levithan
      The Runaway Dolls (2008), by Martin and Godwin, book 3
      12: a novel (2009, Feiwel and Friends; ISBN 9780312370213; also Twelve)[18]
      The Harry Potter series (2018)
      Live Oak, with Moss; (2019) [19][circular reference] [20][circular reference]
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an American illustrator and author best known as the writer of The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007), Wonderstruck (2011), The Marvels (2015) and Kaleidoscope (2021). He won the 2008 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration recognizing The Invention of Hugo Cabret.[2] He is also known for illustrating children's books such as the covers of Scholastic's 20th-anniversary editions of the Harry Potter series. from Wikipedia

• APNews article, June 9, 2022 - Brian Selznick’s ‘Big Tree’ to be published next spring
   

 

Jessica Seinfeld

 Jessica Seinfeld

• Birth:    September 12, 1971
  
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• Nationality:   Oyster Bay, New York
• Education:   University of Vermont
  
• Author URL:  http://jessicaseinfeld.com 
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• Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food
• The Can't Cook Book: Recipes for the Absolutely Terrified!
• Vegan At Times: 120+ Recipes for Every Day or Every So Often
• Double Delicious!: Good, Simple Food for Busy, Complicated Lives
• Seinfeld #2 Spa
• Keto Vegetarian Cookbook: Simple & Delicious Vegetarian Keto Recipes And Improve Health on a Plant-Based Ketogenic Diet!
• Not Too Sweet: 100 Dessert Recipes for Those Who Want More with Just a Little Less 
  
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See Wikipedia

Lisa See

Lisa See

• Birth:    February 15, 1955
  
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• Nationality:   American of Chinese-American descent. Born in Paris France, lived in Los Angeles
  
• Education: Loyola Marymount University (BA)
  
• Author URL: https://www.lisasee.com/
• Books Written
• On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese American Family. St. Martins Press, 1995. ISBN 9781101910085
• Flower Net. HarperCollins, 1997.
• The Interior. HarperCollins, 1999
• Dragon Bones. Random House, Inc., 2003. ISBN 9781588362704
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Random House, Inc., 2005. ISBN 9781408821626
• Peony in Love. Random House, Inc., 2007. ISBN 9781408811795
• Shanghai Girls. Random House, Inc., 2009. ISBN 9781408811801
• Chinatown (guidebook), Angels Walk LA, 2003.
• Dreams of Joy. Random House, Inc., 2011. ISBN 9781408826119
• China Dolls. Random House, Inc., 2014.
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. Scribner, 2017.
• The Island of Sea Women. Scribner, 2019. ISBN 9781501154850
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From Lisa See's web site: Ms. See was born in Paris but grew up in Los Angeles. She lived with her mother but spent a lot of time with her father’s family in Chinatown. Her first book, On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family(1995), was a national bestseller and a New York TimesNotable Book. The book traces the journey of Lisa’s great-grandfather, Fong See, who overcame obstacles at every step to become the 100-year-old godfather of Los Angeles’s Chinatown and the patriarch of a sprawling family.

Christopher Skaife

Christopher Skaife

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• Author URL: https://www.facebook.com/chrisskaife1/
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• The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
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Skaife is a retired Staff Sergeant, and a former Drum Major with the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. He then went on to become a yeoman at the Tower of London. He eventually had his responsibilities being part of the team which takes care of the ravens of the Tower of London. When the old Ravenmaster retired, Skaife took over.

Scott Pelley

Scott Pelley

• Birth:    July 28, 1957
  
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• Nationality:   San Antonio, Texas
• Education: Texas Tech University
• Author URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/team/scott-pelley/
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• Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times
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an American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years. Pelley is the author of the 2019 book, Truth Worth Telling, and a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes. Pelley served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 2017, a period in which the broadcast added more than a million and a half viewers, achieving its highest ratings in more than a decade.Pelley served as CBS News’s chief White House correspondent from 1997 to 1999.  From Wikipedia

Jordan Scott

Jordan Scott

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• Dawn
• 10 K Right Away 
• Talia's First Love (True Christian Love #3) 
• A Call to Compel: The Simplicity, Urgency, and Joy of Making Disciples 
• The Nocturne (Nocturne Trilogy, #1)  
• Silt 
• Night & Ox 
• Blert 
• I Talk Like a River 
• Adult Coloring Book: Make Coloring Great Again: The Political Coloring Book to Piss Everyone Off 
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