Lawrence Weschler
Author of works of creative nonfiction
jewish american writers
Leon Wieseltier
American critic and magazine editor
Kay Thompson
American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer
Art Spiegelman
American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus
William Steig
American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children’s books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel’s Island, and Doctor De Soto
Ron Rosenbaum
American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist.
Ruth Reichl
American chef, food writer, co-producer of PBS’s Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS’s Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, and the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine
David Remnick
American journalist and writer
Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles
Janet Malcolm
American writer, journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist