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Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) was raised on a Georgia plantation. He never knew his father. He began his working life as a printer and became a journalist. After working for papers in Macon, Monroe, and Savannah, in 1876 he joined the staff of the Atlanta Constitution, which, that same year, published his Uncle Remus stories for the […]
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Herman Melville (1819-1891) is considered one of the greatest American authors of all time. Melville was Born in New York City to a family of merchants of English and Dutch descent. The family business flourished at first, but later went bankrupt. Melville’s father died soon after, and the young son was sent to work to […]
Tillie Lerner Olsen (1912-2007) was an American author, essayist, college teacher, social activist, and a formative voice of second-wave feminism. She is internationally known and honored for her powerful, poetic writing depicting the lives of working-class people, women, and people of color. She was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the second of six children of Samuel […]
L. Frank Baum, born in 1856 in Chittenango, New York, was an author for children, screenwriter, and journalist, best known for writing the American classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), which was followed by thirteen novel sequels. He has written nine other novels, countless scripts, short stories, and poems. Baum was married Maud Gage, daughter of the noted […]
Phil Klay is an American writer. He was born in 1983 in Westchester, New York. Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer. After being discharged he went to Hunter College […]
William Sydney Porter was born in North Carolina in 1862. Widely known by the pen name of O. Henry, he began writing his first short stories, of all places, while serving time in prison (for embezzlement). After he was released from prison, he began publishing, and was mostly recognized for his short stories, which shaped […]
Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1920. He was a direct descendent of Mary Bradbury, who was sentenced to death as a witch in the 1692 Salem Trials. Fortunately, the sentence was not carried out. In many of Bradbury’s books, Waukegan appears as a “green village,” a sanctuary of warmth and security that serves […]
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Chicago in 1962 and raised in San Francisco. Her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, […]
Kate Chopin (1850-1904) is an American writer of Irish-Creole descent. Chopin, a mother of six, started writing for a living after her husband passed away, leaving her destitute. She first received public recognition for her novella The Awakening, which was published in 1899. The piece is considered a pinnacle of American Literature for its unique focus on […]
Rachel B. Glaser is the author of the new poetry book Moods (2013) and the story collection Pee on Water (2010). She paints portraits and teaches creative writing in Massachusetts.
Jamaica Kincaid, one of the most prominent contemporary African-American writers, was born in 1949 on the island of Antigua in the Caribbeans as Elaine Potter Richardson. In 1966 she moved to the US and worked as a nanny and desk clerk while completing her high school education, learning photography and earning her bachelor’s degree. In […]
Ramona Ausubel is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, Best American Fantasy, and elsewhere, and has received special mentions in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She was a finalist for the Pushcart Prize. […]
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