AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

The Norton Reader

• Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
• Philip Alcabes (b. 1954)
• Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
• Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
• Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
• Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
• Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
• James Baldwin (1924-1987)
• Randall Balmer (b. 1954)
• Dennis Baron (b. 1944)
• Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
• Caroline Bird (b. 1915)
• William Blake (1757-1827)
• Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)
• David Brooks (b. 1961)
• Kenneth A. Bruffee (b. 1934)
• Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
• Colby Buzzell (b. 1976)
• Nicholas Carr (b. 1959)
• Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
• Stephen L. Carter (b. 1954)
• Michael Chabon (b. 1963)
• Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
• Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
• William Cronon (b. 1954)
• Amy Cunningham (b. 1955)
• Debra Dickerson (b. 1960)
• Joan Didion (b. 1934)
• Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
• Michael Dirda (b. 1948)
• John Donne (1572-1631)
• Mark Doty (b. 1953)
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
• Rita Dove (b. 1952)
• Brian Doyle (b. 1956)
• Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
• Lars Eighner (b. 1948)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
• Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
• Anne Fadiman (b. 1953)
• William Faulkner (1897-1962)
• M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992)
• Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• H. Bruce Franklin (b. 1934)
• Joey Franklin (b. 1980)
• Ian Frazier (b. 1951)
• Thomas Friedman (b. 1953)
• Northrop Frye (1912-1991)
• Paul Fussell (b. 1924)
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950)
• Atul Gawande (b. 1965)
• Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963)
• Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (b. 1955)
• J. J. Goode (b.1981)
• Adam Goodheart (b. 1970)
• Allegra Goodman (b. 1967)
• Al Gore (b. 1948)
• Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
• Philip Gourevitch (b. 1961)
• David Guterson (b. 1956)
• Stephen Hawking (b. 1942)
• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• Jack Hitt (b. 1957)
• John Holt (1923-1985)
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
• Molly Ivins (1944-2007)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• Jesus (c. 4 b.c.e.-c. 30 c.e.)
• Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
• Garrison Keillor (b. 1942)
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
• Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
• Stephen King (b. 1947)
• Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
• Melvin Konner (b. 1946)
• Jonathan Kozol (b. 1936)
• Nicholas D. Kristof (b. 1959)
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)
• Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-1996)
• Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)
• Charles Lamb (1775-1835)
• Chang-Rae Lee (b. 1965)
• Michael Levin (b. 1943)
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
• Nancy Mairs (b. 1943)
• Alberto Manguel (b. 1948)
• Peter Matthiessen (b. 1927)
• Scott McCloud (b. 1960)
• Bill McKibben (b. 1960)
• John McPhee (b. 1931)
• James M. McPherson (b. 1936)
• John Hamilton McWhorter (b. 1965)
• Jessica Mitford (1917-1996)
• N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
• Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
• John Muir (1838-1914)
• Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
• Gloria Naylor (b. 1950)
• Ngügï wa Thiong'o (b. 1938)
• Barack Obama (b. 1961)
• Mary Oliver (b. 1935)y
• George Orwell (1903-1950)
• Henry Petroski (b. 1942)
• Jo-Ann Pilardi (b. 1941)
• Steven Pinker (b. 1954)
• Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
• Plato (c. 428-c. 348 b.c.e.)
• Michael Pollan (b. 1955)
• Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
• Jonathan Rauch (b. 1960)
• Tom Regan (b. 1938)
• Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
• Alberto Alvaro Ríos (b. 1952)
• Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)
• Betty Rollin (b. 1936)
• Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
• Mike Rose (b. 1944)
• Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945)
• Reg Saner (b. 1931)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
• Chief Seattle (c. 1780-1866)
• Peter Singer (b. 1946)
• Jennifer Sinor (b. 1969)
• Jane Smiley (b. 1949)
• Rebecca Solnit (b. 1961)
• Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
• Brent Staples (b. 1951)
• Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
• Sandra Steingraber (b. 1959)
• Fred Strebeigh (b. 1951)
• Andrew Sullivan (b. 1963)
• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• Paul Theroux (b. 1941)
• Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)
• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
• Sallie Tisdale (b. 1957)
• Susan Allen Toth (b. 1940)
• Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989)
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (b. 1938)
• James Van Tholen (1964-2001)
• Alice Walker (b. 1944)
• David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
• Henry Wechsler (b. 1932)
• Steven Weinberg (b. 1933)
• Gene Weingarten (b. 1951)
• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
• E. B. White (1899-1985)
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
• Patricia Williams (b. 1951)
• Terry Tempest Williams (b. 1955)
• Edward O. Wilson (b. 1929)
• Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
• William Zinsser (b. 1922)

Back To The Lake

• David Barboza
• Dan Barry (b. 1958)
• Dave Barry (b. 1947)
• Lynda Barry (b. 1956)
• Anne Bernays (b. 1930)
• John Branch (b. 1968)
• David Brooks (b. 1961)
• Bruce Catton (1899-1978)
• Roger Cohen (b. 1955)
• Billy Collins (b. 1941)
• Robert Connors (1951-2000)
• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
• Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
• Michael Dirda (b. 1948)
• Rita Dove (b. 1952)
• Ruth Clifford Engs
• Stephanie Ericsson (b. 1953)
• Trip Gabriel (b. 1955)
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950)
• Atul Gawande (b. 1965)
• Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963)
• Amy Goldwasser
• Ellen Goodman (b. 1941)
• Melissa Hicks (b. 1979)
• Jack Hitt (b. 1957)
• Phil Holland
• Jack Horner (b. 1946)
• Alex Horton (b. 1985)
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
• Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
• Nicholas D. Kristof (b. 1959)
• Lawrence Lessig (b. 1961)
• Michael Lewis (b. 1960)
• Joe Lindsey
• Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)
• Erin McKean (b. 1971)
• Fatema Mernissi (b. 1940)
• William Moller (b. 1983)
• Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
• Michael C. Munger (b. 1958)
• Geoffrey Nunberg (b. 1945)
• Barack Obama (b. 1961)
• Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
• The Onion
• Peggy Orenstein (b. 1961)
• Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
• Steven Pinker (b. 1954)
• Joshua Piven (b. 1971) and David Borgenicht
• Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
• Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
• Mary Roach
• Henry L. Roediger III (b. 1947)
• Richard Russo (b. 1949)
• Zainab Salbi (b. 1969)
• Gitangeli Sapra (b. 1979)
• Chief Seattle (c. 1780-1866)
• Eric Schlosser (b. 1959)
• David Sedaris (b. 1956)
• Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
• Saira Shah (b. 1964)
• William Shakespeare (1554-1616)
• Mark Sisson
• Amy Tan (b. 1952)
• Deborah Tannen (b. 1945)
• Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (b. 1938)
• Hal R. Varian (b. 1947)
• Robert Voas
• Joanna Weiss (b. 1972)
• E. B. White (1899-1985)
• Sarah Wilensky