Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew; The Marriage of Opposites; The Red Garden; The Museum of Extraordinary Things; The Dovekeepers; Here…
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Pari…
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada, and spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, before her family returned to England, in 1974, when Cusk was 8 years old. She read English at New College, Oxford.
PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has…
Brenda Irene Chamberlain was a Welsh artist, poet and novelist. She also wrote a memoir of 15 years spent living on Bardsey Island. She won the first two Gold Medals awarded by the National Eisteddfod…
Næss was a Norwegian philosopher, known foremost as the founder of the concept Deep Ecology Næss combined his ecological vision with Gandhian nonviolence and on several occasions participated in direct…
