Sunday, January 25, 1970

Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey

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

Saturday, January 24, 1970

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: 

Friday, January 23, 1970

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

 

 

Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr.

Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr.
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

 


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

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

Thursday, January 22, 1970

John Vaillant

 John Vaillant

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

Tuesday, January 20, 1970

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

Short story collections

Plays

Memoirs

Other nonfiction

Children's books

  • 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
  • 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

Monday, January 19, 1970

Pubilius Syrus

Pubilius Syrus
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
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

  • Birth:    
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   
  • Education: 
  • Author URL:
  • Books Written
    • ddd
  • Biography

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



Mark Stein

Mark Stein
  • Birth:    
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   
  • Education: 
  • Author URL:
  • Books Written
    • ddd
  • Biography

Mark Stein

Mark Stein
  • Birth:    1951
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:  American
  • Education:  University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Author URL: http://www.marksteinauthor.com/index.htm
  • Books Written
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
  • Biography

Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson
  • Birth:    November 14, 1959
  • Death:    
  • 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.
    • Also has written the Introduction/Forward to several books
  • Biography
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

  • Birth:    
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   American, Tucson, AZ
  • Education: 
  • Author URL: https://melissasevigny.com/
  • Books Written
    • 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
  • Biography

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


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James W. Sire

James W. Sire

  • Birth:    October 17, 1933
  • Death:    February 06, 2018
  • Nationality:   American
  • Education: Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri
  • Author URL:
  • Books Written
    •     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)
  • Biography
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
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   Pittsburgh, PA
  • Education: Boston College (BA), Yale University (MA, PhD)
  • Author URL:
  • Books Written
    •  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)
  • Biography 

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.

National Archive biography

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
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   East Brunswick Township, New Jersey
  • Education:  Rhode Island School of Design
  • Author URL: https://www.thebrianselznick.com/
  • Books Written
    • 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]
    • As writer and illustrator
          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]
  • Biography

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
     

 

Lisa See

Lisa See

  • Birth:    February 15, 1955
  • Death:    
  • 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
  • Biography
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
  • Birth:    
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   English
  • Education: 
  • Author URL: https://www.facebook.com/chrisskaife1/
  • Books Written
    • The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
  • Biography
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.

Jordan Scott

Jordan Scott

Stutterer

Larry J. Sabato

Larry J. Sabato

  • Birth:    August 7, 1952
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
  • Education:   University of Virginia (BA), Princeton University, Queen's College, Oxford (MA, PhD)
  • Author URL: Sabato's Crystal Ball
  • Books Written
    •  The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
    • A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country
    • Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism and American Politics
    • The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House
    • Pendulum Swing
    • Overtime!: The Election 2000 Thriller
    • Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics
    • The Surge: 2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election by Larry J. Sabato (Editor), Kyle Kondik (Editor), Geoffrey Skelley (Editor)
    • Trumped: The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules by Larry J. Sabato (Editor),
      Kyle Kondik (Editor), Geoffrey Skelley (Editor)
    • The Blue Wave: The 2018 Midterms and What They Mean for the 2020 Elections by Larry J. Sabato (Editor), Kyle Kondik (Editor), Geoffrey Skelley (Editor)


  • Biography

an American political scientist and political analyst. He is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he is also the founder and director of the Center for Politics, which works to promote civic engagement and participation. From Wikipedia