Literary Library

Marc Lamont Hill

by Angela Beck
December 17, 1978 - African-American academic, author, professor, activist, news commentary and television personalityAuthor of "The Classroom and...
Academic Activist African American Author News News Correspondent Professor Teach Teacher Television Television Commentator University

Edoardo Sanguineti

by Angela Beck
December 9, 1930 - May 18, 2010Genovese poet, writer, academic, translator and member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian ParliamentAuthor o...
Academic Genoa Genoese Government Government Official Italian Italy Parliament Poem Poems Poet Poetry Translator Writer

Bill McKibben

by Angela Beck
December 8, 1960 - American environment, author, journalist and academicAuthor of "The End of Nature", "Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlike...
Academic Author Environment Environmentalist Guggenheim Journalism Journalist Natural World Naturalist Nature Sierra Club

John A. Williams

by Angela Beck
December 5, 1925 - July 3, 2015 African-American author, journalist, academic and poetAuthor of "The Man Who Cried I Am", "!Click Song" (for which...
Academic African American Author Journalism Journalist Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Carl Abbott

by Angela Beck
December 3, 1944 - American historian, urbanist and academicAuthor of "The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West", "How Cities ...
Academic American History American West City Historian Metropolitan Science Fiction Urban Urbanist West

David Hackett Fischer

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1935 - American professor and writerAuthor of "Paul Revere's Ride", "Washington's Crossing" (for which he was a finalist for the Nation...
Academic Author Historian history National Book Award Professor Pulitzer Prize Teach Teacher

William K. Black

by Angela Beck
September 6, 1951 - American lawyer, academic and authorAuthor of "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politici...
Academic Author Bank Banking Corporate Corporations Finance Financial Law Lawyer Money Political Politician Politics Profit Savings & Loan

Jonathan Kozol

by Angela Beck
September 5, 1936 - American writer, academic and activistAuthor of "Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Child...
Academic Activist Author National Book Award School Teacher

Glenn Loury

by Angela Beck
September 3, 1948 - African-American economist, academic and authorAuthor of "One by One From the Inside Out", "The Anatomy of Racial Inequality" ...
Academic African American Author Economics Economist Economy Harvard Money Professor Race Racial Teach Teacher

Gordon S. Wood

by Angela Beck
November 27, 1933 - American historian and professorAuthor of "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for H...
Academic American History American Revolution Benjamin Franklin Historian National Humanities Medal Professor Pulitzer Prize Thomas Jefferson US History

Sharon Olds

by Angela Beck
November 19, 1942 - American poet and professorAuthor of "The Dead and the Living" (for which she won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1983),...
Academic National Book Award Poem Poet Poetry Professor Teacher

Tina McElroy Ansa

by Angela Beck
November 18, 1949 - African-American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, entrepreneur and journalistAuthor of "Baby of the Family", "Ugly Ways" and "You ...
Academic African American Film Filmmaker Novelist Teacher