Robert Stone Portrait
Robert Stone has written five novels, including National Book Award winner Dog Soldiers.
Simon Schama Portrait
Columbia University history professor Simon Schama's books include The Embarassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Cultures in the Golden Age (1987); Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989); Dead Certainties (1991); Landscape and Memory (1995); and Rembrandt's Eyes (1999). He has also been an art critic for New Yorker Magazine.
John Sayles Portrait
Film auteur John Sayles has written 26 films, half of which he also directed. His films include Eight Men Out, Passion Fish, and, most recently, Limbo. He has also acted in over 20 movies. For more on Sayles and his films, visit the Internet Movie Database.
Richard Price Portrait
Richard Price is both a novelist and a screenwriter.
Michael Ondaatje Portrait
Micheal Ondaatje wrote The English Patient, which won a Booker Prize and was adapted into an Academy-award-winning film in 1996.
Rigoberta Menchu Portrait
Rigoberta Munchu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. She is a Guatemalan activist for indigenous people. In 1984, she composed her powerful autobiography, I...Rigoberta Menchu.
Carl Hiaasen Portrait
If you want to know the skinny on Florida, ask Carl Hiaasen.
Allen Ginsberg Portrait
Allen Ginsberg was the loudest voice of the Beat Generation. His controversial "Howl" is one of the most influential American poems since World War II. A Jewish, Homosexual, Tibetan Buddhist, Son-of-an-Insane-Communist, Ginsberg spent his later years teaching at Brooklyn College before his death in 1997.
Eduardo Galeano Portrait
Latin-American Eduardo Galeano is the author of Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Read his interview with The Progressive.
Carlos Fuentes Portrait
Carlos Fuentes was something of a pilot light for "El Boom," a 1960's burst of Latin-American literature. His work is best described as "magical realism." Fuentes' most popular novel is La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz), written in 1962.