Archives: Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has published 58 novels as well as many volumes of plays, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Emile Habibi

Emile Habibi (1922–1996) was a Palestinian-Israeli writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the communist parties Maki and Rakah.

Roger Hardy

Roger Hardy was a Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service for more than twenty years. His latest book is The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East.

Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazard (1931–2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2004.

Robert Jay Lifton

Robert Jay Lifton is Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at the City University of New York. He won the National Book Award for Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima.

Jacobo Timerman

Jacobo Timerman (1923–1999) was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author. He was widely known for reporting atrocities of the Argentine military regime’s Dirty War. His books included Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number and The Longest War.

Estelle Jussim

Estelle Jussim (1927–2004) was an American historian of photography.

Alexander Coleman

Alexander Coleman (1935–2003) was a professor in the Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature departments at New York University.

Clyde N. Wilson

Clyde N. Wilson is professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina.

Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox is an American theologian who served as the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School until 2009.

Noel Ignatiev

Noel Ignatiev (1940–2019) was an American activist and historian and author of How the Irish Became White.

Eric Foner

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. He has won the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Frank Michelman

Frank Michelman is Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard Law School.

Allan Forbes

Allan Forbes was National Director and then Vice President of the Council for a Livable World, 1962-75. He is a retired anthropologist, and was last a research associate at Brown.

Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) was a Soviet-born poet, translator, essayist, and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991.

Richard Flacks

Richard Flacks, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Beyond the Barricades: The ​’60s Generation Grows Up, Making History: The American Left and the American Mind, and many articles on social movements, left culture, and strategy.

Michael Montgomery

Michael Montgomery is a former correspondent for American RadioWorks, where he covered war in Yugoslavia.