Stacy Schiff
American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography
American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography
Canadian novelist and short story writer.
French novelist of Polish-Jewish origins
Dutch journalist and resistance fighter in World War II. She is perhaps best known for her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down, about her return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released as a political prisoner at the end of the war
English author and garden designer
American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist.
American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator
American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.
American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor
American novelist and short story writer