Field-Of-Study: General Nonfiction

Bill Hayes

Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "one of those rare authors who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did," Bill Hayes is the author of three books—and is at work on a fourth—each of which deals with facets of the human body; this is the thread

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J. C. Hallman

J.C. Hallman grew up in a master-planned community in Southern California, on a street called Utopia Road.  Nevertheless, he is the author of a number of books, including The Chess Artist, The Devil is a Gentleman, The Hospital for Bad Poets, In Utopia, and Wm & H’ry.  He is the editor of two anthologies of 

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Joshua Foer

Science journalist Joshua Foer was born in Washington, D.C., in 1982, and currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and son. He is the author of the international bestseller Moonwalking with Einstein, about the art and science of memory. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, National Geographic, Slate, and other

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Judith Pascoe

Judith Pascoe, a Professor of English at the University of Iowa, writes about loss and longing. In Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship (Cornell UP, 1997), she wrote about the forgotten career of Mary Robinson, an actor, poet, novelist, and scandal magnet. In The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors (Cornell

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Benjamin Taylor

Benjamin Taylor is the author of a book of essays, Into the Open, and two novels, Tales Out of School, winner of the Harold Ribalow Prize, and The Book of Getting Even, a 2009 Barnes and Noble Discover Award Finalist, a 2008 Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year, and a Ferro-Grumley Prize Finalist.

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Richard Snow

I was born in Manhattan in 1947, grew up in Westchester County where I attended Bronxville High School, and graduated from Columbia College in 1970. I studied English and history at Columbia, but my true training came from my job, which started quite early. Save for a summer of inept yard work, I have held

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Elizabeth D. Samet

Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (FSG & Picador), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2007; and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of

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Joan Richardson

Joan Richardson is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of a two-volume biography of the poet Wallace Stevens, she co-edited, with Frank Kermode, Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America, 1997). Her essays on Stevens, on Ralph Waldo Emerson, on Jonatha

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Lauren Redniss

Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies, and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for nonfiction. Her writing and drawing have appeared in numerous publications,

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Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura is the author of seven collections of essays, poems, and translations—Rough Likeness (essays, Sarabande Books, 2012), King Baby (poems, Alice James Books, 2008), On Looking (essays, Sarabande Books, 2006), Increase (essays, University of Georgia Press, 2000), Stone Sky Lifting (Ohio State UP, 2000), The Brighter the Veil (Orchises Press, 1996) and Poems of

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Eileen Myles

A native of Massachusetts, Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, attended Catholic schools in Arlington, and graduated from U Mass (Boston) in 1971. Since moving to New York in 1974 with the intention of becoming a poet, she has authored more than a dozen volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Sorry, Tree, Chelsea Girls,

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Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso is most recently the author of two book-length essays: The Guardians: An Elegy (2012) and The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir (2008), which was short-listed for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. Her other books include the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (2007) and the poetry collections Siste Viator

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Peter Maass

Peter Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, which chronicled his experiences covering the war in Bosnia, and Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, about the ways oil shapes the world. Maass has also written in-depth stories about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times

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James Kaplan

James Kaplan has been writing about people and ideas in business and popular culture, as well as noted fiction (Best American Short Stories), for over three decades. His essays and reviews, as well as more than a hundred major profiles of figures ranging from Madonna to Nicholson Baker, Ralph Lauren to John Updike, Miles Davis

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Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is an internationally recognized cartoonist. For much of her thirty-year career she skulked on the cultural margins, writing, drawing, and self-syndicating the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. The generational chronicle, “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period,” (Ms.) ran regularly in over fifty LGBT publications in North America

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Tom Wells

Tom Wells earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books: The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam, Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg, and (with Richard A. Leo) The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four. He has also contributed

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