Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn is the author of, most notably, A People's History of the United States, a National-Book-Award-nominated text that investigates US history from the standpoint of the oppressed. Other books by Zinn include Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology and his 1995 autobiography, You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train.

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Amy Bloom
Andre Dubus III
Manil Suri
Alan Lightman
Susan Orlean
Adam Gopnik
Julian Barnes
Alan Furst
Howard Zinn
Anthony Giardina
Nicholson Baker
James Ellroy
Jim Crace
David Champagne
Natatcha Estebanez
Elizabeth Cox
David Hadju
Barry Crimmins
Richard Russo
Barbara Ehrenreich
Christopher Hitchens
Ethan Canin
W.D. Wetherell
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