Field-Of-Study: General Nonfiction

Mary Anne Weaver, a Writer in Residence at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York (2008-09), is the author of Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002, 2003) and A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam (1999, 2000).

Alexander Stille is currently the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University.  Born in New York, Mr. Stille attended Yale University and received his M.S. from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1983.  After graduating from Yale, Mr. Stille moved to Italy for two years, a transformative experience that rendered