Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann) was a Hungarian–American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around …
Paul Frederic Bowles grew up in New York, and attended college at the University of Virginia before traveling to Paris, where became a part of Gertrude Stein's literary and artistic circle. Following …
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and…
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. D…
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional d…
Nancy Mitford, styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social sce…
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as S…
Robert McKee began his show business career at age nine playing the title role in a community theatre production of MARTIN THE SHOEMAKER. He continued acting as a teenager in theatre productions in hi…
Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, a…
José Luis Sampedro Sáez fue un escritor, humanista y economista español que abogó por una economía «más humana, más solidaria, capaz de contribuir a desarrollar la dignidad de los pueblos». En 2010 el…
Sally Mann (b. Lexington, VA, 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by maj…
Don McCullin grew up in north London and was evacuated in 1940 to Somerset. He failed the eleven-plus examination and went to Tollington Park Secondary Modern School. He won a trade art scholarship to…
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
Giancarlo De Cataldo è Giudice di Corte d'Assise a Roma, città nella quale vive dal 1973. Scrittore, traduttore, autore di testi teatrali e sceneggiature televisive, ha pubblicato come autore diversi …
Stefano Massini (Firenze, 22 settembre 1975) è uno scrittore, drammaturgo e saggista italiano, consulente artistico del Piccolo Teatro di Milano, firma del quotidiano La Repubblica e noto volto televi…
Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist and the author of Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Tas…
Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Letteratura latina nel 2011 e attualmente è insegnante di lettere per la scuola secondaria. Vive a Pavia, ma si occupa di organizzare eventi culturali legati a…
Cecilia Sala è giornalista di Chora News e inviata di guerra. Autrice e voce del podcast quotidiano Stories, scrive per «Il Foglio». Ha seguito sul campo le crisi e i conflitti in Iran, Afghanistan, U…
