Poets and Writers

Jimmy Santiago Baca , Poet and writer, and Mark Lyons, Social activist and co-author, Espejos y Ventanas /Mirrors and Windows: Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and Their Families.

John Banville, Novelist and critic, winner of the Man Booker Prize

Andrea Barrett, Novelist

Chuck Barris, Game show producer and author

Cordelia Frances Biddle, Novelist

A. S. Byatt, Novelist, winner of the Man Booker Prize, author of The Children's Book

David Denby, Cultural critic and film critic for The New Yorker

Cory Doctorow, Science fiction writer and technology activist

Nora Ephron, Screenwriter, film director, humorist, author of I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections

Charles Fuller, Playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Paul Fussell, Cultural and literary historian

Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (2003-2009), poet, critic, translator, anthologist

Ellen Goodman, Syndicated columnist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Adam Gopnik, Journalist and cultural critic, staff writer for The New Yorker

Bruce Graham, Playwright

Christopher Hitchens, Author and journalist

Daniel Hoffman, Poet, critic, editor, memoirist, and teacher

Ha Jin, Fiction writer and poet, winner of the National Book Award and PEN Faulkner Award

Beth Kephart, Memoirist and author of novels for young adults

Bharati Mukherjee, Fiction writer, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Paul Muldoon, Poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

Camille Paglia, Literary and cultural critic

Matthew Quick, Novelist

Diane Ravitch, Historian of education, New York University

Willard Spiegelman, Author of Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness

Gerald Stern, Poet, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

Edward Tenner, Historian of technology, author of Our Own Devices

Elaine Terranova, Poet

Eleanor Wilner, Poet and teacher

Frank Wilson, Literary critic; books editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2000-2009; proprietor of the blog Books Inq. since 2005.

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