Pseudonym: Dan Kavanagh. Nationality: British. Born: Leicester, 1946. Education: City of London School, 1957-64; Magdalen College, Oxford, 1964-68, B.A. (honours) in modern languages 1968; also studied law. Family: Married Pat Kavanagh in 1979. Career: Editorial assistant, Oxford English Dictionary supplement, 1969-72; contributing editor, New Review, London, 1977-78; assistant literary editor, 19…
Nationality: American. Born: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1960. Education: Michigan State University, B.A. 1982; Oxford University, M. Phil. 1989. Agent: Henry Durlow, Harold Ober and Associates, 425 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10017, U.S.A. Wilton Barnhardt is an epochal novelist, targeting phases, periods, decades. In his first novel, Emma Who Saved My Life, Gil narrates his twenties-l…
Nationality: American. Born: 16 November 1954. Education: Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1974, B.S. in Biology. Career: Faculty, Northlight Writers' Conference, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1988-89, and Mount Holyoke Writers' Conference, 1991-93; senior fiction fellow, New York State Summer Writers' Institute, Skidmore College, 1993; faculty, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writ…
Nationality: British. Born: Horbury, Yorkshire, 1928. Education: Ossett Grammar School. Career: Draftsman and sales executive in the engineering industry, 1944-62. Lives in Hawath, West Yorkshire. Awards: Writers Guild award, 1974; Royal Television Society award, 1975. M.A.: Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, 1982. Honorary Fellow, Bretton Hall College, Wakefield Yorkshire, 1985. Age…
Nationality: American. Born: Cambridge, Maryland, 1930. Education: The Juilliard School of Music, New York; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, A.B. 1951, M.A. 1952. Career: Junior instructor in English, Johns Hopkins University, 1951-53; instructor, 1953-56, assistant professor, 1957-60, and associate professor of English, 1960-65, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; professor of Eng…
Nationality: American. Born: Houston, Texas, 1943; brother of the writer Donald Barthelme. Education: Tulane University, New Orleans, 1961-62; University of Houston, 1962-65, 1966-67; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (teaching fellow; Coleman Prose award, 1977), 1976-77, M.A. 1977. Career: Architectural draftsman, Jerome Oddo and Associates, and Kenneth E. Bentsen Associates, both Houston, 1965…
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1933. Education: Brooklyn College, New York, 1951-55, A.B. 1955; Columbia University, New York, 1955-56, M.F.A. 1956; Stanford University, California, 1958-61, Ph.D. 1961. Military Service: Served in the United States Army, 1956-58. Career: Instructor, Stanford University, 1958-60; instructor, 1961-62, and assistant professor, 1962-64, Ohio State Univers…
Nationality: American. Born: Fort Benning, Georgia, 1945. Education: George Mason University, B.A. 1973; University of Iowa, M.F.A. 1975; also attended Northern Virginia Community College. Military Service: U.S. Air Force, survival instructor, 1966-69. Career: Worked as singer-songwriter and comedian; professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 1980—. Awards: National Endowment f…
Nationality: British. Born: Nina Mabey in London, 1925. Education: Ilford County High School; Somerville College, Oxford, B.A. 1946, M.A. 1951; Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, 1960. Career: Assistant, Town and Country Planning Association, 1946-47; Justice of the Peace for Surrey, 1968-76. Regular reviewer, Daily Telegraph, London. Awards: Guardian award, for children's book, 1976; Yo…
Nationality: American. Born: San Diego, California, 1951. Education: San Diego State College (now University), A.B. 1969. Career: Worked in bookstores, a planetarium, and as a freelance teacher in San Diego, California. Awards: Nebula Award (Science Fiction Writers of America), best novelette and best novella, 1984, best short story, 1987, best novel, 1994; Hugo Award, best novelette, 1986, best s…
Nationality: American. Born: Washington, D.C., 1947. Education: American University, Washington, D.C., B.A. 1969; University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1970-72, M.A. 1970. Career: Visiting assistant professor, 1976-77, visiting writer, 1980, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Briggs Copeland Lecturer in English, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-78. Awards: Guggenheim fellowshi…
Also writes as Steve Dodge. Nationality: American. Born: Mount Vernon, New York, 1927. Education: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1943-47, B.A. 1947; Yenching University, Peking, 1947-48. Military Service: Served in the United States Marine Corps, 1945. Career: Instructor, Tsing Hua University, Peking, 1947-48; teaching fellow, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1951-52; le…
Nationality: Northern Irish. Born: Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1926. Education: Attended St. Mary's Training College. Career: Teacher at primary schools in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1945-56. Awards: Arts Award (Ireland Sunday Tribune), 1987. Agent: Nat Sobel, Nat Sobel Associates, Inc., 146 East 19th Street, New York, New York 10003, U.S.A. Mary Beckett's two collections of short st…
Nationality: British. Born: Sybille von Schoenebeck in Charlottenburg, Germany, 1911. Education: Privately in Italy, England, and France. Career: Worked as a law reporter: covered the Auschwitz trial at Frankfurt for the Observer, London, and the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, 1963-65, and the trial of Jack Ruby at Dallas for Life, New York, 1964. Vice-president, PEN, 1979. Awards: Society o…
Nationality: American. Born: Williamson County, Tennessee, 1957. Education: Princeton University, New Jersey, A.B. (summa cum laude) in English 1979; Hollins College, Virginia, M.A. 1981. Career: Writer-in-residence, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1984-86, 1988-89; lecturer, YMHA Poetry Center, New York, 1984-86; visiting lecturer, University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Iowa City, 1987-88; lectu…
Nationality: American. Born: Lachine, Quebec, Canada, 1915; grew up in Montreal; moved with his family to Chicago, 1924. Education: Tuley High School, Chicago, graduated 1933; University of Chicago, 1933-35; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1935-37, B.S. (honors) in sociology and anthropology 1937; did graduate work in anthropology at University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1937. Military Se…
Also writes as Sterling Blake. Nationality: American. Born: Mobile, Alabama, 1941. Education: University of Oklahoma, B.S. 1963; University of California, San Diego, M.S. 1965, Ph.D. 1967. Career: Fellow, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California, 1967-69, research physicist, 1969-71, consultant; assistant professor, University of California, Irvine, 1971-73, associate professor, 1973-7…
Nationality: British. Born: Stoke Newington, London, 1926. Education: Central School of Art and the Chelsea School of Art, London. Military Service: Served in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Infantry, 1944-46. Career: Painter and drawing teacher, 1948-55; contributor, Tribune and New Statesman, both London, 1951-60; television narrator, About Time, 1985, and Another Way of Telling, 1989. Artist: ex…
Nationality: American. Born: Cincinnati, Ohio, 1924. Education: The University of Cincinnati, B.A. 1948; Columbia University, New York, 1950-51. Military Service: Served in the United States Army, 1943-46. Career: Librarian, Rand School of Social Science, New York, 1948-51; staff member, New York Times Index, 1951-52; associate editor, Popular Science Monthly, New York, 1952-54; film critic, Esqui…
Nationality: American. Born: Statesville, North Carolina, 1932. Education: Woman's College, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1950-53; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1954. Career: Journalist, Statesville Daily Record, 1950-51; Chapel Hill Weekly and News Leader, 1953-54; Sanford Daily Herald, 1956-57. Editorial staff, N.C. Democrat, 1961; editor, Sanford News Leader, 1962. Lecturer of…
Nationality: British. Born: Rachel Mary Pakenham, Oxford, 1942; daughter of the writers Lord Longford and Elizabeth Longford; sister of the writer Antonia Fraser. Education: University of London, B.A. (honors) in English 1963. Career: Freelance writer; reviewer for Financial Times and Evening Standard, both London, and New York Times; columnist, Sunday Telegraph, London. Agent: David Higham Associ…
Nationality: Irish. Born: Dublin, 1940. Education: Holy Child Convent, Killiney, County Dublin; University College, Dublin, B.A. in education. Career: History and French teacher, Pembroke School, Dublin, 1961-68. Since 1968 columnist, Irish Times, Dublin. Agent: Christine Green, 2 Barbon Close, London WC1N 3JX, England. I write novels and stories set within my own experience of time and place, but…
Nationality: Canadian (emigrated from Trinidad in 1973). Born: Devindra Bissoondath, Trinidad, West Indies, 1955. Education: York University, Toronto, B.A. in French 1977. Career: Teacher of English and French, Inlingua School of Languages, Toronto, 1977-80; teacher of English and French, Language Workshop, Toronto, 1980-85. Awards: McClelland and Stewart award for fiction, 1986, and National Maga…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 1940; became Canadian citizen, 1973. Education: Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1957-61, A.B. 1961; University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1962-64, M.F.A. 1964. Career: Acting instructor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1964-65; teaching fellow, University of Iowa, 1965-66; lecturer, 1966-67, assistant professor, 1967-69, associate …
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Port Burwell, Ontario, 1918. Education: Port Burwell public and high schools. Career: Reporter, St. Thomas Times-Journal, Ontario, 1940-43; reporter and editor, Toronto Daily Star and Weekly Star, 1943-46; staff writer and editor, Maclean's Magazine, Toronto, 1947-55. Since 1955 freelance writer. Director and former president (1965-67), Federation of Ontario Nat…
Nationality: Irish. Born: Finglas, Ireland, 1959. Education: Attended Beneavin College Secondary School. Career: Founder and editor, Raven Arts Press, Finglas, Ireland, 1979-92; executive editor, New Island Books, 1992—. Awards: A. E. Memorial Prize, 1986; Macaulay Fellowship, 1987; Samuel Beckett Award; Stewart Parker BBC Award; Edinburgh Fringe First Award; A. Z. Whitehead Prize. Agent: A…
Nationality: American. Born: Cleveland, Ohio, 1922. Education: Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, B.A. 1947. Military Service: Served in the American Field Service, 1942-44, and in the United States Army, 1944-46. Career: Instructor at the Writers Workshop, 1957-58, and associate professor, 1960-64, 1966-67, 1971-72, University of Iowa, Iowa City; visiting professor, 1977-78, and professor, 1980-8…
Nationality: British. Born: Calcutta, India, 1924. Education: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Crediton, Devon; Pembroke College, Oxford (editor, Isis), 1948-51; St. Antony's College, Oxford (Frere Exhibitioner in Indian Studies), 1951-53, M.A. in modern history 1953; Ohio State University, Columbus, 1952-53. Military Service: Served in the Mahratha Light Infantry, 1943-47: Captain.…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Keremeos, British Columbia, 1935. Education: University of British Columbia, B.A. 1960, M.A. 1963; also studied at University of Western Ontario. Military Service: Aerial photographer, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1954-57. Career: Instructor and later assistant professor, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 1963-66; instructor and writer-in-residence, Sir George Will…
Nationality: British. Born: William Andrew Murray Boyd, Accra, Ghana, 1952. Education: Gordonstoun School, Elgin, Morayshire; University of Nice, France, diploma 1971; University of Glasgow, M.A. (honours) in English and philosophy 1975; Jesus College, Oxford, 1975-80. Family: Married Susan Anne Wilson in 1975. Career: Lecturer in English, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, 1980-83. Television c…
Nationality: Irish. Born: Dublin, 1948. Education: Convent schools in Dublin. Career: editor, Young Woman, Dublin, 1969-71; staff feature writer, Dublin Evening Press, 1973-78; editor, Image, Dublin, 1981-84. Regular book reviewer and feature writer for Sunday Times, London, Irish Times, Dublin, Evening Standard, London, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, London, Cosmopolitan, Vogue,…
Nationality: American. Born: 2 December 1948. Education: State University of New York, Potsdam, B.A. in English and history 1968; University of Iowa, Iowa City, M.F.A. in fiction 1974, Ph.D. in British literature 1977. Career: Assistant professor, 1978-82, associate professor, 1982-86, and since 1986 professor of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Awards: Coordinating Council…
Nationality: British. Born: Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1932. Education: West Bridgford Grammar School, Nottingham, 1943-50; University College, Leicester, 1950-53, B.A. in English (1st class honours) 1953; Queen Mary College, University of London (research scholar), 1953-55, M.A. in English 1955; Indiana University, Bloomington (English-Speaking Union fellow), 1955-56; University of Manchester, 1956-58…
Nationality: American. Born: Waukegan, Illinois, 1920. Education: Los Angeles High School, graduated 1938. Career: Since 1943 full-time writer. President, Science-Fantasy Writers of America, 1951-53. Member of the Board of Directors, Screen Writers Guild of America, 1957-61. Lives in Los Angeles. Awards: O. Henry prize, 1947, 1948; Benjamin Franklin award, 1954; American Academy award, 1954; Boys&…
Nationality: American. Born: Bedford, Pennsylvania, 1950. Education: Bedford Area High School, graduated 1968; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Franklin scholar, Presidential scholar), 1968-72, B.A. (summa cum laude) in creative writing 1972; King's College, University of London (Thouron scholar), 1972-74, M.A. in area studies 1974. Career: Reader and assistant editor, J.B. Lippinc…