Gregory Michael Sarris is the Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, the Graton Rancheria Endowed Chair in Creative Writing and Native American Studies at Sonoma State University, wher…
Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, an…
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Nicholas Peter John Hornby is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films.…
Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of American novelists. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through …
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…
BELOW ARE TWO VERSIONS OF MY BIOGRAPHY: THE SHORT ONE I USE FOR INTRODUCTIONS TO MY BOOK TALKS, AND THE LONGER VERSION, WHICH GOES A BIT DEEPER ON MY BACKGROUND, AND HOW I BECAME A WRITER.
Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, N.Y. and grew up one block from the Baseball Hall of Fame. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …
Anna North is a novelist and journalist. She is the author of the novels Bog Queen (October 2025), Outlawed (a New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick), The Life and Death of Sophie Stark…
Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA…
Pam Webber is the bestselling author of four historical novels—The Wiregrass, Moon Water, Life Dust., and Massawa. The Historical Novel Society, Southern Literary Review, and Readersfavorite.com among…
Michael G. Colburn writes historical mystery fiction and non-fiction about creativity, invention, and the building of meaningful work. He began writing after selling his last business, when a long int…
I fell in love with stories as early as age five, when my minister father had me tested and discovered I was reading over two hundred words per minute. Seeing the need to feed my thirsty young mind, h…
Berthille Metoua is a New York City–based author, educator, and entrepreneur whose work bridges style, service, and personal development. She holds a Master’s degree in Liberal Arts in Communications …
Edward Elon Hatfield's professional writing career began in 2002 penning song lyrics for the Paul Mahern-produced alt rock band Missing Six. Music lost its luster as streaming and social media took ov…
