Doris Lessing was born into a colonial family. both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nur…
History based known novels of American writer Edgar Lawrence Doctorow. His works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Har…
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…
Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, political economist, historical sociologist and social philosopher. He is known for his opp…
Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد إسماعيل خالدي; born 18 November 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columb…
Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and a…
Adam Przeworski is the Carroll and Milton Professor of Politics and (by courtesy) Economics at New York University. Previously he taught at the University of Chicago, where he was the Martin A. Ryerso…
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two si…
Helena Rosenblatt serves as executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in History. Her specialty is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history. She is the author of Rousseau and Gene…
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. …
Thomas Piketty (French: [tɔma pikɛti]; born May 7, 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences socia…
Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. He wrote three books, Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life an…
Docente e ricercatore all'Università Statale di Bergamo, coordina il Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza. Sempre presso l'Università Statale di Bergamo insegna Teorie e tecniche d…
Ο Κωνσταντίνος Πουλής γεννήθηκε το 1973 στην Αθήνα. Σπούδασε κοινωνιολογία και αρχαίο δράμα στην Ελλάδα και την Αγγλία. Έχει δημοσιεύσει λογοτεχνικά κείμενα, βιβλιοκρισίες και δοκίμια στα περιοδικά Πλ…
Ο Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1977 και είναι απόφοιτος του Τμήματος Πολιτικών Επιστημών και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. Εργάστηκε ως ραδιοφωνικός παραγωγός της Ελληνική…
Γεννήθηκε στην Καβάλα το 1975. Σπούδασε Νομικά στο Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης και Επικοινωνία στο London Guildhall University. Τα τελευταία χρόνια ζει στην Ξάνθη, όπου εργάζεται ως συμβολα…
Ο Βασίλης Κωστάκης είναι καθηγητής πανεπιστημίου. Αλλά πάνω από όλα παίζει ποδόσφαιρο από μικρός, κυρίως σε αλάνες. Πιστεύει ότι το ομορφότερο γκολ μπορεί να είναι μια πάσα. Και ότι το παιχνίδι δεν τε…
O Γιάννης Μπαλαμπανίδης γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 1980. Σπούδασε νομικά και πολιτική επιστήμη στην Ελλάδα και τη Γαλλία. Είναι διδάκτωρ Συγκριτικής Πολιτικής του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου και απόφοιτο…
Amanda Montell is a writer, linguist, and podcast host living in Los Angeles. She is the author of three nonfiction books, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Bac…
