Field-Of-Study: General Nonfiction

Rosemary Mahoney was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1961. She is the author of five books of nonfiction: The Early Arrival of Dreams; A Year in China (1990), which was a New York Times Notable Book, Whoredom in Kimmage (1993), The World of Irish Women, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and

Profile photograph taken at the reception for Guggenheim Fellows, May 4, 2011, by Joyce Brooks, Black Tie International.

Richard A. Leo, Ph.D., J.D., is a professor of law at University of San Francisco, a Fellow in the Institute of Legal Research at U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, and formerly a professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine, and a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr.

Ann Jones is a writer, journalist, photographer, activist, and humanitarian. She grew up in Wisconsin, studied there and in Vienna, Austria, and received a Ph.D. in literature and history from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1970. She taught at the City College of New York, the University of Massachusetts (where she initiated the Women’s

Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood (Steerforth Press and Broadway Books) and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century (Yale UP). A biography of Taha Muhammad Ali, My Happiness won the UK’s 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize and was named one

Wil Haygood has been described as a cultural historian. He has indeed traveled down the wide passageways of America as a writer, especially considering the trio of iconic biographical figures he has explored. His King of the Cats: the Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., told the story of the enigmatic New York

Mary Cappello was trained in SUNY/Buffalo’s poetics program and in its Center for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Arts where she took her Ph.D. in the late 1980s with a specialization in nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies, and the then-burgeoning field of Medical Humanities. In the mid-1990s, she began creating experimental prose pieces which

Noted for his thorough research, highly readable prose, and ability to make the esoteric accessible to the general reader while adding to even experts’ knowledge of his subjects, Stephen Budiansky has written on topics ranging from cryptology, to the domestication of animals, military history, espionage, and environmental issues and from the Elizabethan era to the

With The Balloonists (Hanging Loose Press, 2002), then 25-year-old Eula Biss established herself as a unique voice in American letters and a talent to be reckoned with. Started while she was still an undergraduate at Hampshire College (B.A., 1999), The Balloonists, which Ms. Biss describes as “an essay on marriage in prose poetry,” was completed

For most of my career I was a science writer and editor. In addition to magazine articles, mainly for Discover, I wrote two books, Degrees of Disaster, about the Exxon Valdez oil spill (1994), and The Irritable Heart, about the Persian Gulf War illnesses (2001). Lately the st

Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch.com. He is the author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008) and his articles have appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,  Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune,  Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Nation,

Andrew X. Pham is an independent writer, journalist, and engineer.  He received his B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1990, and worked as an aircraft engineer before becoming a freelance technical writer and journalist.  From 1994 to 2000, he was a book reviewer, food writer, and restaurant critic for

I am drawn to synthesis. Over the last four decades, I have combined disciplines and genres in my work, philosophy with literary form, poetry with prose, using storytelling and autobiography in extended essays. In several books I unite disparate narratives. Early in my work, I began to make unconventional connections between attitudes in European culture

I am a professor of physics at the University of Illinois, engaged in elementary particle physics research and the teaching of undergraduate physics students. My third axis of obligation, faculty public service, focuses on higher education policy and regulation, particularly as it relates to university accreditation. My bachelor’s and doctoral degrees are from Harvard and

John A. Glusman is Vice President and Executive Editor of Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House, Inc. A publishing veteran of more than twenty-five years, he has worked with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz; National Book Award winner Richard Powers; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Jim Crace and finalists

Frances FitzGerald began her more than four-decades-long career as a freelance journalist a couple of years after her graduation from Radcliffe College. She wrote largely for the Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine until she travelled to Vietnam in 1966 and began covering the war for the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, and the Daily Telegraph.

Paul Collins is a writer specializing in science history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His six books have been translated into ten languages, and include Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey Into the Lost History of Autism (2004), and The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World (2009). A frequent contributor to