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Contemporary Authors is a reference work that has been published by Gale since 1962. The work provides short biographies and bibliographies of contemporary and near-contemporary writers and is a major source of information on over 116,000 living and deceased authors from around the world. [ 1 ]
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes very short stories.
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Kaveh Akbar (b. 15 January 1989; Persian: کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian American poet, novelist, and editor. [1] [2] He is the author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the novel Martyr!, a New York Times bestseller, [3] National Book Award finalist, [4] and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year.
"Cancel All Plans for the Book You Can't Put Down Award" - Dead Good Books at the Harrogate Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in 2019 [12] Our Little Cruelties [13] Nominated for 'Crime Novel of the Year' at the 2020 An Post Irish Book Awards [14] Listed by the New York Times as one of 7 recommended thrillers of 2020 [15]
Emre speaks to the British Library in 2022. Merve Emre is a Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic. She is the author of nonfiction books Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017) and The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (2018), and has published essays and articles in The Atlantic, Harper's ...
Klay grew up in Westchester, New York, the son of Marie-Therese F. Klay and William D. Klay. [2] His family background included several examples of public service. His maternal grandfather was a career diplomat and his father a Peace Corps volunteer; for years his mother worked in international medical assistance. [3]
Timothy P. Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author, journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Egan has written nine books. Egan, a third-generation Westerner, lives in Seattle. His first book, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991. [3]