Nationality: British. Born: Bootle, Lancashire, 1930. Education: Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester; Newnham College, Cambridge, B.A. in English 1952, M.A. 1955. Career: Editorial staff member, Cambridge University Press, 1960-62; lecturer in English, Bishop's Stortford Training College, Hertfordshire, 1963-66; assistant lecturer in literature, University of Essex, Colchester, 1967-70. Awa…
Nationality: British. Born: Eva Unger in Berlin, Germany, 1932; came to England in 1939. Education: Kingsbury Grammar School, 1943-50; Queen Mary College, University of London, 1950-53, B.A. (honours) in English 1953. Career: Editor, Longman, 1955-57, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962-63, and Blackie, 1964-67, publishers, London. Since 1987 coeditor, Macmillan Women Writers series. Awards: Guardian Fi…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Toronto, Ontario, 1930. Education: Rosedale Public School, Toronto; St. Andrews College, Aurora, Ontario; Jarvis Collegiate, Toronto; Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, 1950-53; Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Career: Stage, television, and radio actor, 1951-62; charter member, Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Ontario, 1953; contract player with H.M. Te…
Nationality: British. Born: Stockport, 1959. Education: Cambridge University. Career: Works as a freelance journalist. Agent: Nicholas Ellison Inc., 55 Fifth Ave., New York, New York 10003, U.S.A. That Tibor Fischer's first novel was shortlisted for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, may have had something to do with its subject: Hungary from the end of Worl…
Nationality: American. Born: Thomas James Bonner Flanagan in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1923. Education: Amherst College, Massachusetts, B.A. 1945; Columbia University, New York, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. in English 1958. Military Service: Served in the United States Naval Reserve, 1942-44. Career: Instructor, 1949-52, and assistant professor, 1952-59, Columbia University; assistant professor, 1960-67, associ…
Nationality: American. Born: Greenville, Mississippi, 1916. Education: The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1935-37. Military Service: Served in the United States Army, 1940-44: Captain, and Marine Corps, 1944-45. Career: Novelist-in-residence, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, November 1963; playwright-in-residence, Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., 1963-64; writer-in-residence, Hol…
Nationality: American. Born: Jackson, Mississippi, 16 February1944. Education: Public schools in Jackson, 1950-62; Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1962-66, B.A. 1966; Washington University Law School, St. Louis, 1967-68; University of California, Berkeley, 1968-70, M.A. 1970. Career: Assistant professor of English, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1978-79; lecturer, Princeto…
Nationality: British. Born: Carlisle, Cumberland, 1938. Education: Carlisle and County High School for Girls, 1949-56; Somerville College, Oxford (scholar), 1957-60, B.A. in modern history 1960. Career: Teacher, Barnsbury Girls' School, London, 1961-63; chief non-fiction reviewer, London Evening Standard, 1977-80. Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, 1975. Agent: Tessa Sayle Agency, 11 Jubi…
Nationality: British. Born: Ashford, Kent, in 1938. Education: Tonbridge School, Kent. Military Service: Served in the Royal Air Force 1956-58. Career: Journalist, Eastern Daily Press, Norwich, and in King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1958-61; reporter for Reuters, London, Paris, and East Berlin, 1961-65; reporter, BBC Radio and Television, London, 1965-67; assistant diplomatic correspondent, BBC, 1967…
Nationality: Australian. Born: Sydney, New South Wales, 1944. Education: The University of Sydney, B.Sc. in chemistry 1967; Australian National University, Canberra, Ph.D. 1970. Career: Research fellow, U.S. Public Health Service, Philadephia, 1970-71; senior research officer, University of Sydney Medical School, 1971-72. Awards: Australian Literature Board fellowships, 1973-91; The Age award, 197…
Nationality: British. Born: Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, 1926. Education: Bedford School, 1940-44; Edinburgh University, 1944; New College, Oxford, B.A. (honors) in French 1950. Military Service: Served in the Royal Marines, 1945-46. Career: Lecturer in English, University of Poitiers, France, 1950-51; teacher at Anargyrios College, Spetsai, Greece, 1951-52, and in London, 1953-63. Awards: Silver Pen awar…
Nationality: New Zealander. Born: Dunedin, 1924. Education: Oamaru North School; Waitaki Girls' High School; University of Otago Teachers Training College, Dunedin. Awards: Hubert Church Prose award, 1952, 1964, 1974; New Zealand Literary Fund award, 1960; New Zealand Scholarship in Letters, 1964, and Award for Achievement, 1969; University of Otago Robert Burns fellowship, 1965; Buckland L…
Nationality: British. Born: Glasgow, 1953. Education: High School of Glasgow, 1962-71; University of Glasgow, 1971-75, M.A. 1975; Jesus College, Oxford, 1975-79, B. Litt. 1979. Awards: Betty Trask award, for first novel, 1984; Samuel Beckett award, 1986; Television Industries award, 1986; Scottish Arts Council award, 1987. My characters are caught between an imagined freedom to determine their li…
Nationality: British. Born: Richard Stanley Francis in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, 1920. Education: Maidenhead County Boys' School, Berkshire. Military Service: Served as a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force, 1940-45. Career: Amateur National Hunt (steeplechase) jockey, 1946-48; professional, 1948-57: National Hunt champion, 1953-54. Racing correspondent Sunday Express, London, 1957-73. Chairm…
Nationality: British. Born: Mill Hill, London, 1933. Education: Sutton High School for Boys; Kingston Grammar School, Surrey; Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1957. Military Service: Served in the Royal Artillery and Intelligence Corps, 1952-54. Career: Reporter, 1957-59, and columnist, 1959-62, the Guardian, Manchester and London; columnist, the Observer, London, 1962-68. Lives in London. Awards…
Nationality: British. Born: London, 1929. Education: The University of Reading, Berkshire, 1949-51, B.A. (honors) in English literature and philosophy, 1951. Career: Copywriter, C.J. Lytle Ltd., London, 1951-52; schoolteacher in London, 1952-53; reporter, North London Observer, 1953; literary secretary to Louis Golding, 1953-55. Lives in London. Agent: Richard Scott Simon, Anthony Sheil Associates…
Nationality: American. Born: Marilyn Edwards in New York City, 1929. Education: Hofstra College (now University), Hempstead, Long Island, B.A. 1951, M.A. 1964; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ph.D. 1972. Career: Instructor, Hofstra University, 1964-68; assistant professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1972-76; artist-in-residence, Aspen Institute fo…
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1930. Education: De Witt Clinton High School, Bronx, New York; University of Missouri, Columbia, 1947-51, B.A. in journalism 1951. Military Service: United States Air Force, 1951-53: Lieutenant. Career: Editorial director, Magazine Management Company, publishers, New York, 1953-64. Visiting professor of literature, York College, City University, New York…
Nationality: American. Born: Richard Friedman, near Kerrville, Texas, 1944. Education: University of Texas, B.A. Career: Peace Corps, Borneo, 1966-68; leader of the country-western band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys; actor. Agent: Esther Newburg, International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90211, U.S.A. Kinky Friedman is the author of a dozen mystery …
Nationality: American. Born: Huntington, New York, 1957. Education: Washington University, A.B. 1979. Career: Writer in residence, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1988. Awards: Ohio Aid to Individual Artists fellowship, 1985; National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1987; short fiction award (University of Iowa Press), 1988. Agent: Tom Hart, 20 Kenwood Street, Boston, Massachusetts…
Nationality: American. Born: Oscar, Louisiana, 1933. Education: Vallejo Junior College; San Francisco State College, 1955-57, B.A. 1957; Stanford University, California (Stegner fellow, 1958), 1958-59. Military Service: Served in the United States Army, 1953-55. Career: Writer-in-residence, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1971, Stanford University, Spring 1981, and Whittier College, Californi…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Mavis de Trafford Young in Montreal, Quebec, 1922. Education: Schools in Montreal and New York. Career: Worked in Montreal, early 1940s; reporter, Montreal Standard, 1944-50; has lived in Europe since 1950, and in Paris from early 1960s. Writer-in-residence, University of Toronto, 1983-84. Awards: Canadian Fiction prize, 1978; Governor-General's award, 1982; Can…
Nationality: Scottish. Born: Kilwinning, Scotland, 1956. Education: Glasgow University, M.A. 1978. Career: Welfare rights worker, 1976-77; teacher of English, Strathclyde Regional Council, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1980-89. Awards: Scottish Arts Council book award, 1990, and MIND book of the year/Allan Lane award, 1991, both for The Trick Is to Keep Breathing; Cosmopolitan /Perrier award, 1991, for shor…
Nationality: American. Born: Bronxville, New York, 1937. Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, B. Mgt.E. 1959; San Francisco State College (now University), California. Military Service: Served in the United States Navy, 1960-61. Awards: Stegner fellowship, 1968; PEN grant, 1975; Creative Artists Public Service fellowship, 1976. A literary innovator whose works have often h…
Nationality: Cuban-American. Born: Havana, Cuba (immigrated to United States in 1960), 1958. Education: Barnard College, B.A. 1979. Career: Reporter and researcher, Time magazine, 1983-85, correspondent, 1985-90, bureau chief in Miami, 1987-88. Awards: Hodder fellowship (Princeton University), 1992-93; Cintas fellowship, 1992-93; Whiting Writers Award, 1996. Agent: Ellen Levine, 15 East 26th Stree…
Nationality: English. Born: London, England, 1970. Education: Attended Manchester University. Awards: Betty Trask prize, 1998. Alex Garland creates exotic entertainments that have inspired comparisons to the work of Graham Greene and even Joseph Conrad with their mix of psychological exploration, moral conundrum, and suspenseful plotting. If these comparisons seem a bit generous, they can be seen…
Nationality: Australian. Born: Helen Ford in Geelong, Victoria, 1942. Education: Manifold Heights State School; Ocean Grove State School; The Hermitage, Geelong; Melbourne University, 1961-65, B.A. (honors) 1965. Career: Writer-in-residence, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, 1983, and University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 1984. Melbourne theater critic, National Times, Sydney, 1982-83.…
Nationality: American. Born: Orlando, Florida, 1929. Education: Sewanee Military Academy; The Hill School, graduated 1947; Princeton University, New Jersey, 1947-48, 1949-52, B.A. 1952, M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1985; Columbia University, New York, 1948-49. Military Service: Served in the United States Army Field Artillery, 1952-55. Career: Assistant professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut,…
Nationality: American. Born: Fargo, North Dakota, 1924. Education: Schools in Warren, Ohio; Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1942-43, 1946-47, A.B. 1947; Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, 1943; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1947-50, Ph.D. 1954. Military Service: Served in the United States Navy, 1943-46: Ensign. Career: Instructor in Philosophy, College of Wooster, Ohio, 1950-54; assistant…
Nationality: American. Born: Hohenwald, Tennessee, 1944 Military Service: U.S. Navy, 1960s. Career: Worked variously as television tube assembly line worker, post-hole digger, roofer, painter, bricklayer, drywall hanger, and carpenter. Lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Awards: William Peden prize (Missouri Review). Agent: Amy Williams, New York, New York, U.S.A. After two novels and a handful of shor…
Nationality: British. Born: Poole, Dorset, 1948. Education: Horsham High School for Girls; Somerville College, Oxford (open scholarship), B.A. 1969, M. Litt. 1972, Ph.D. in English 1980. Career: Editor, Elsevier International Press, Oxford, 1972-74; research assistant, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, 1975-79; Eastern Arts writing fellow, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1982; since 1987 honorary vis…
Nationality: New Zealander. Born: Whakatane, 1931. Education: Avondale College, Auckland, 1945-49; University of Auckland, 1950-53, M.A. in English 1953; Auckland Teachers College, 1954. Career: School-teacher, 1955-57; held various jobs, 1958-66; assistant librarian, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, 1967-69; city librarian, Napier Public Library, 1970-72; deputy librarian, Teachers College…
Nationality: British. Born: Sialkot, Pakistan, 1935. Education: Keele University, England, B.A. in English and philosophy 1959. Career: Cricket correspondent, the Observer, London, 1960-65; teacher in London, 1963-69. Since 1969 professor of English, University of Texas, Austin. Awards: Arts Council of Great Britain bursary, 1967. Agent: Aitken, Stone and Wylie, 29 Fernshaw Road, London SW10 0TG, …
Nationality: Indian. Born: 11 July 1956. Education: Delhi University, India, B.A. in history, M.A. in sociology; Oxford University, diploma in social anthropology, Ph.D.; Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivants Tunis, diploma in Arabic. Career: Since 1986 lecturer in sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Contibutor to Indian Express (New Dehli), Granta (Cambridge), and The New Rep…
Nationality: American. Born: Nash County, North Carolina, 1960. Education: Attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Awards: Sue Kaufman prize for First Fiction (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters); National Endowment for the Arts fellowship; Nelson Algren Heartland award for Fiction (Chicago Tribune), 1991; PEN/Revson Foundation …