Tim Newby is a writer and educator. He is the author of two books 2015's Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound & its Legacy (McFarland), and 2019's Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival (…
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Kevin Baker is the author of the New York, City of Fire trilogy: Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and Strivers Row. Most recently, he's been writing about politics for Harper's Magazine and the New York Obs…
COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad…
Novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South.
Dan Barry is a longtime columnist and reporter for The New York Times and the author of four books, including the forthcoming “The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland.” Set…
Eric Vickrey is the author of three nonfiction baseball books: Runnin' Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals (McFarland, 2023), Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokan…
