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Eugene “Gene” Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is an American film and book critic. He filled those roles on NBC’s The Today Show from January 15, 1973, after starting part-time in 1970, until his retirement on November 11, 2010. He is known for his freq
Gregory Paul Martin (born 21 January 1957) is a British writer/producer and actor of stage, film and television. He is the eldest son of Beatles producer Sir George Martin and the half-brother of the music producer Giles Martin.
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry’s short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.
Mark Bramble (born December 7, 1950) is an American theatre director, author, and producer. He has been nominated for the Tony Award three times, for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Barnum and 42nd Street (1981) and Tony Award for Best
John Ray Grisham, Jr. (/ˈɡrɪʃəm/; born February 8, 1955) is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages.
Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob (23 August 1867 – 26 February 1905), was a Jewish French Symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Bolaño. He ha
Carol Emshwiller (born April 12, 1921) is an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her “a major fabulist, a marvelou
Ahlam (or Ahlem) Mosteghanemi (Arabic: أحلام مستغانمي), is an Algerian writer who has been called “the world’s best-known arabophone woman novelist”.
Irmtraud Morgner, (22 August 1933 – 6 May 1990), was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.
Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, sometime novelist and actor. As a filmmaker, Davies is noted for his recurring themes of emotional (and sometimes physical) endurance, the influence of memory on everyd