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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was born in 1885 in a small town in Michigan. Shortly before World War I, after working in several small newspapers as a sports reporter, he began writing for the Chicago Tribune. Lardner continued to write on sports, but also served as political correspondent in the war front in France. Lardner also […]
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Maxim Loskutoff is an American writer. He was raised in western Montana. His stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Fiction, Narrative, and The Chicago Tribune. A graduate of NYU’s MFA program, he was the recipient of a Global Writing Fellowship in Abu Dhabi and the M Literary Fellowship in Bangalore. Other […]
Benjamin Rosenbaum bounces between Basel, Switzerland and Washington, DC. His stories have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, World Fantasy, Locus, and Sturgeon Awards, and translated into 25 languages. One of them was animated and won Best Animated Short at SXSW in 2010. He has two children, and while they are not quite the […]
Breece D’J Pancake was an American author. He was born in 1952 in West Virginia. Pancake died in the age of 26, apparently of suicide, publishing only six short stories, mostly in Atlantic magazine. His first and only collected stories were published after his death in 1983, and won great acclaim. Pancake’s style and power […]
Daniel Mason is an American novelist. He was born in 1976 and grew up in Palo Alto, California. He received a BA in biology from Harvard University and later graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. He wrote his first novel, The Piano Tuner (2002), while still a medical student. The book […]
Author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest American writers. Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born in Missouri (1835). A fifth child, out of six children, to his parents, he fell ill at a young age and risked his life. During […]
American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, notorious for the “witch hunt” trials held there. His father, John Hawthorne, served as one of the judges at Salem. Hawthorne was raised by his mother after his father died when Hawthorne was only four years old. After years of writing and publishing anonymously […]
Claire Vaye Watkins is an American author. She was born in Bishop, California in 1984. She was raised in the Mojave Desert – first in Tecopa, California and then across the state line in Pahrump, Nevada. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, Claire earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she […]
Elizabeth McCracken is an American author of six books: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant’s House, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, Niagara Falls All Over Again, and Thunderstruck & Other Stories. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1966 and holds degrees in English from Boston University, an MFA from […]
Ambrose Bierce was born in 1842 in Horse Crave Creek, Ohio. During the Civil War, he was recruited to the Union Army and fought in battles in West Virginia. He was discharged after suffering a head injury but later returned to the army, as the battles advanced west. As a journalist, an author, and a […]
Jonathan Lethem, an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, is one of America’s top literary voices. He was born in New York in 1964 and attended Bennington College. He is the author of ten novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National […]
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in Camden, Ohio, to a farming family, and grew up with his six siblings. The stories of Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life – his most familiar work – was published in 1919. It influenced an entire generation of writers, including Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Ernest […]
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