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Nalo Hopkinson

by Angela Beck
December 20, 1960 - Jamaican-born Canadian novelist, short story writer and editorAuthor of "Brown Girl in the Ring" (for which she won the Locus ...
Canada Canadian Editor Jamaica Jamaican Locus Award Novel Novelist Short Story

Steven Biko

by Angela Beck
December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977South African anti-apartheid activist and writerAuthor of "I Write What I Like" and "The Testimony of Steven ...
Activist Africa African African National Congress ANC Apartheid Civil Rights South Africa South African

Adeline Yen Mah

by Angela Beck
November 30, 1937 - Chinese-American author and physicianAuthor of "Falling Leaves", "Chinese Cinderella" and Watching the Tree"#literarycalendar#b...
Author China Chinese Chinese-American Doctor Medical Medicine Physician

Sue Miller

by Angela Beck
November 29, 1943 - American novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "The Good Mother", "While I Was Gone" and "The Senator's Wife"#literarycalend...
Novel Novelist Short Story

Eric Hill

by Angela Beck
September 7, 1927 - June 6, 2014English author and illustrator of children's booksAuthor of "Where's Spot", "Spot Goes to the Farm" and "Spot Says...
Author British Children"s Books Children's Book Children's Book Author Dog Dogs England English Great Britain Puppy

Gloria Jean Pinkney

by Angela Beck
American author of children's booksAuthor of "Back Home", "Sunday Outing" and "In the Forest of Your Remembrance: Thirty-Three Goodly News Tellings...
Author Children"s Books Children's Book Children's Book Author Jerry Pinkney

Bernard Most

by Angela Beck
September 2, 1937 - American children's book author and illustratorAuthor of "If the Dinosaurs Came Back", "My Very Own Octopus" and "The Littlest ...
Author Children"s Books Children's Book Children's Book Author Dinosaur Dinosaurs

Ed Young

by Angela Beck
November 28, 1931 - September 29, 2023Chinese-born American illustrator and author of children's booksAuthor of "The Emperor and the Kite" (writte...
Caldecott Caldecott Honor Caldecott Medal Children's Book Children's Book Author China Chinese-American Illustrator

Jeremy Siegel

by Angela Beck
November 14, 1945 - American professor of finance and authorAuthor of "Revolution on Wall Street: The Rise and Decline of the New York Stock Exchan...
Academic Business Finance Investor Professor Stock Exchange Teacher Wall Street

Wing Tek Lum

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1946 - American poet and real estate agentAuthor of "Expounding the Doubtful Points" (for which he won an American Book Award in 1988)...
American Book Award Poem Poet Poetry Real Estate

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907American writer, poet, critic and editorAuthor of "The Story of a Bad Boy", "Marjorie Daw" and "An Old Town by th...
critic Editor Poem Poet Poetry

Carlos Fuentes

by Angela Beck
November 11, 1928 - May 15, 2012Mexican novelist and essayistAuthor of "Auro", "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and "The Old Gringo"Won the Mexican Nati...
Essayist Mexican Mexico Novel Novelist