David S. Landes was a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Promet…
Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamon…
Michael Monroe Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known f…
Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria…
Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English Literature, he began a prolific career as a freelanc…
Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the best econom…
Adam Smith FRSA FRS FRSE was a Scottish philosopher and economist who was a pioneer in thinking on political economy and a key figure during the Scottish…
Amy Bloom is the New York Times bestselling author of White Houses; Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; …
Marc Levinson is an independent historian, economist, and author. He spent many years as a journalist, including a stint as finance and economics editor of The Economist. He later worked as an economi…
A specialist in the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Egypt, Khaled Fahmy teaches modern Middle eastern and North African history at Tufts University.
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias…
أحد أهم شعراء العامية في مصر، وأحد أشهر اليساريين بها، وأحد ثوار الكلمة، واسم بارز في الفن والشعر العربي الملتزم بقضايا الشعب والجماهير الكادحة ضد الطبقات الحاكمة الفاسدة، وبسبب ذلك سُجن ثمانية عشر عا…
كاتب وصحفى ومؤرخ ولد فى 4 اكتوبر عام 1939 فى قرية " بشلا " بمحافظة الدقهلية حصل على بكالوريوس فى الخدمة الاجتماعية عام 1961 ورأس لمدة خمس سنوات عددا من الوحدات الاجتماعية بالريف المصرى بدأ حياته كاتبا…
German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he coll…
Andrew Ross Sorkin is The New York Timess chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist. Mr. Sorkin, a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America, is also the editor of DealBook (…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
Mary Laura Philpott, author of the national bestseller I Miss You When I Blink (2019) and Bomb Shelter (forthcoming in 2022), writes essays that examine the overlap of the absurd and the profound in e…
David Rooney is a historian and curator specializing in transport, technology, and engineering, and the author of About Time and The Big Hop. For almost twenty years he worked at the London Science Mu…
Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of Tiny, a Canadian holding company that owns over 40 businesses ranging from Dribbble, a social network for designers, to the AeroPress coffee maker. Tiny buys wonderf…
