Nationality: American. Born: Grace Goodside in New York City, 1922. Education: Evander Childs High School, New York; Hunter College, New York, 1938-39. Career: Has taught at Columbia University, New York, and Syracuse University, New York. Since 1966 has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and since 1983 at City College, New York. New York State Author, 1986-88. Awards: Guggenh…
Nationality: American and Irish. Born: the United States in December 1947. Education: Exeter College, Oxford, 1967-70, B.A. (honors) in English 1970; Wolfson College, Oxford, 1971-75, B. Litt. 1975. Career: Lecturer, Huddersfield Polytechnic, Yorkshire, 1972-74, and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1974-90; visiting teacher in creative writing, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 198…
Nationality: English. Born: Manchester, England, 1954. Education: Cambridge University, B.A. 1977; Harvard University, M.A. 1979. Career: Writer, WGBH-Radio, Boston, 1978-79; telephone salesperson in London, England, 1979-81; language teacher in Verona, Italy, 1981; freelance translator in Verona, 1985; lector at University of Verona. Awards: Betty Trask award and Somerset Maugham award, both Soci…
Nationality: British. Born: London, 1938. Education: Privately educated. Career: Has had a variety of jobs, including airline stewardess, 1962-64; assistant buyer, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1964-66; property underwriter, Muldoon and Adams, Los Angeles. Since 1972 full-time writer. Lived in California, 1967-72. Agent: Meg Davis, MBA Literary Agency Ltd., 45 Fitzroy Street, London W1P 5HR, England. (200…
Pseudonym: Johanna Kingsley. Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1939. Education: Barnard College, New York, B.A. 1960; New York University, M.A. 1966. Career: Lived in London, 1960-64. (1972) The only general theme (or background) of my books is America. Mother Is a Country is a direct parody of certain American dreams (the acquisition of power and the desire to become a commodity); A Ho…
Nationality: British. Born: Fabianki, Poland, 1916; emigrated to England in 1940. Education: Dlugosz School, Wloclawek; University of Warsaw; University of St. Andrews, Scotland, M.A. in English and German 1944; King's College, London, Ph.D. 1947. Career: Lecturer, 1950-64, reader, 1964-72, and professor of Polish language and literature, 1972-79, School of Slavonic and East European Studie…
Nationality: American. Born: St. Louis, Missouri, 1923. Education: The University of Illinois, Urbana, 1940-41. Career: Has worked in steelmills, and as a real estate salesman, truck driver, and sales correspondent. Since 1960 freelance writer and lecturer. Taught at the Indiana University Writers Conference, Bloomington, 1964-65, 1970, 1974; McGuffey Visiting Lecturer, Ohio University, Athens, 19…
Nationality: British. Born: St. Kitts, West Indies, 1958; brought to England in 1958. Education: Schools in Leeds to 1974, and in Birmingham, 1974-76; Queen's College, Oxford, 1976-79, B.A. (honors) 1979. Career: Founding chairman, 1978, and artistic director, 1979, Observer Festival of Theatre, Oxford; resident dramatist, The Factory Arts Centre, London 1981-82; writer-in-residence, Mysore…
Nationality: American. Born: Buckhannon, West Virginia, 1952. Education: West Virginia University, Morgantown, B.A. 1974; University of Iowa, Iowa City, M.F.A. 1978. Career: Teaching fellow, M.F.A. Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1977-78; lecturer, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, 1978-79; fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1979-80; assistant professo…
Nationality: Guyanese-British. Born: Guyana (immigrated to Britain in 1956). Education: Attended school in Islington; studied for a degree, and later for a postgraduate degree, at other schools. Career: Worked variously in factories, garages, and at a post office; established a hostel for homeless black youths, Notting Hill, London; community activist, Manchester and Birmingham, England; journalis…
Nationality: American. Born: Detroit, Michigan, 1936. Education: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Hopwood award, 1956, 1957), A.B. 1957; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, M.A. 1958. Career: Instructor, Indiana University, Gary, 1960-62; poet-in-residence, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1971; visiting lecturer, Thomas Jefferson College, Grand Valley State Colleges, Allendale, Mich…
Nationality: American. Born: Providence, Rhode Island, 1940. Education: Boston College, 1957-59, 1960-61, B.A. in French 1961; University of Louvain, Belgium, 1959-60. Career: Teacher, English School, Rome, 1961-62; guidebook writer, New York, 1962-64; teacher, Boston School of Modern Languages, 1964-65, and St. John's Preparatory School, Massachusetts, 1965-66; moved to England in 1966. He…
Nationality: Irish. Born: James Plunkett Kelly in Dublin, 1920. Education: Synge Street Christian Brothers School, Dublin; Dublin College of Music. Career: Branch secretary, Workers Union of Ireland, 1946-55; assistant head of drama, Radio Eireann, Dublin, 1955-60; producer-director, 1961-68, head of features, 1969-71, and senior producer, 1974-85, Radio Telefis Eireann (Irish Television), Dublin.…
Nationality: American. Born: 1957. Career: Has been a computer professional. Currently a full-time writer. Awards: MacArthur grant, 1990-94; Lannan Literary award, 1999. Recipient of a MacArthur "genius grant" in his mid-thirties, Richard Powers published five widely praised novels before the age of forty. Because of his historical subjects, including twentieth-century wars, and his…
Nationality: British. Born: Liverpool, 1938. Education: Lord Wandsworth College, Long Sutton, Hampshire, 1949-56; University of Keele, Staffordshire, 1956-60, B.A. (honors) 1960. Career: Personnel officer, Ford Motor Co., Dagenham, Essex, 1960-63; personnel manager, Anglo-American, Zambia, 1963-69; resident writer, Century Theatre touring group, 1970-72, and Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster, 197…
Nationality: British. Born: 1948. Education: Wycombe Technical High School. Career: Journalist in Buckinghamshire, Bristol, and Bath, then press officer, Central Electricity Board Western Region, until 1987. Awards: British Science Fiction award, 1990. Honorary degree, University of Warwick, 1999. Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.), 1998. Agent: Colin Smythe Ltd., P.O. Box 6, Gerrards Cross, Buc…
Nationality: American. Born: Macon, North Carolina, 1933. Education: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1951-55 (Angier Duke scholar), A.B. (summa cum laude) 1955 (Phi Beta Kappa); Merton College, Oxford, 1955-58 (Rhodes scholar), B. Litt. 1958. Career: Member of the faculty since 1958, assistant professor, 1961-68, associate professor, 1968-72, professor of English, 1972-77, and since 1977,…
Nationality: American. Born: New York, 1949. Education: Cornell University, B.S. 1971; Columbia University, graduate study, 1972-74, M.F.A. 1976; Stanford University, further graduate study, 1973. Career: Lecturer in English as a second language, Hostos Community College, 1973; lecturer in urban affairs, New York University, 1973; lecturer in creative writing, State University of New York at Ston…
Nationality: British. Born: London, 1955. Education: Eton College, 1968-73; Magdalen College, Oxford, B.A. and M.A. (with honors), both 1977. Career: Assistant master of English, Eton College, Windsor, 1978, and The Royal School, Shrewsbury, 1978-79; part-time lecturer of English, King's College, London, 1981-83. Deputy editor, The Fiction Magazine, 1982-84. Awards: Geoffrey Faber Memorial …
Nationality: American. Born: Norwich, Connecticut, 1935. Education: University of Vermont, Burlington, B.A. (cum laude), 1969 (Phi Beta Kappa); Sir George Williams University, Montreal, M.A., 1973. Awards: Kress Fellow, Harvard University, Boston, 1974; Vermont Council of the Arts fellowship, 1989, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1991, Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, 1992; PEN/Faulkn…
Nationality: American. Born: near Fremont, Ohio, 1923. Education: The University of Chicago, 1941, 1946; University of Pueblo, Mexico. Career: Worked as an interpreter in Latin America, France, and Spain; taught at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1949-53. Since 1953 full-time writer. Visiting professor, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1977. Awards: American Academy award, 1958, 1993; Guggenh…
Nationality: American. Born: Glen Cove, New York, 1937. Education: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1954-58, B.A. 1958. Military Service: Served in the United States Naval Reserve. Career: Former editorial writer, Boeing Aircraft, Seattle. Awards: Faulkner award, 1964; Rosenthal Memorial award, 1967; National Book award, 1974; American Academy Howells medal, 1975. Agent: Candida Donadio and A…
Nationality: American. Born: Chicago, Illinois, 1931. Education: Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey; St. John's College, Cambridge, 1950-54 (Major Classics Scholar, 1950; Harper Wood Studentship, 1954), M.A. (honours) 1954. Career: Since 1962 contributor, and fiction critic, 1962-65, Sunday Times, London. Awards: British Screen Writers award, 1965, 1966, 1967; British Academy award, 196…
Nationality: British. Born: Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 1941; son of the writer Herbert Read. Education: Gilling Castle, York, 1949-52; Ampleforth College, York, 1953-57; St. John's College, Cambridge, 1959-62, B.A. in history 1962, M.A. 1966. Career: sub-editor, Times Literary Supplement, London, 1964-65. Artist-in-residence, Ford Foundation, Berlin, 1963-64; adjunct professor of writin…
Nationality: American. Born: El Paso, Texas, 1934. Education: Texas Western College, El Paso, B.A.; New School for Social Research, New York. Military Service: Served in the United States Army. Career: Has taught creative writing at University of California, Occidental College, and University of Southern California, all Los Angeles. Lives in Los Angeles. Awards: Longview Foundation prize, 1961; Na…
Nationality: American. Born: Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1938. Education: Buffalo Technical High School; East High School, Buffalo, graduated 1956; University of Buffalo, 1956-60. Career: Staff writer, Empire Star Weekly, Buffalo, 1960-62; freelance writer, New York, 1962-67; co-founder, East Village Other, New York, and Advance, Newark, New Jersey, 1965; teacher, St. Mark's in the Bowery prose…
Pseudonym: Barbara Vine. Nationality: British. Born: Ruth Barbara Grasemann, London, 1930. Education: Loughton High School, Essex. Career: Reporter and sub-editor, Express and Independent newspapers, West Essex, 1948-52. Awards: Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award, for short story, 1975, 1984; Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger award, 1984, and Gold Dagger award, 1976, 1986, 1987…
Pseudonyms: Anne Rampling; A.N. Roquelaure. Nationality: American. Born: Howard Allen O'Brien, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1941; name changed to Anne c.1947. Education: Texas Women's University, Denton, Texas, 1959-60; San Francisco State College (now University), California, B.A. 1964, M.A. 1971; graduate study at University of California, Berkeley, 1969-70. Career: Has held a variety o…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Newcastle, New Brunswick, 1950. Education: Attended St. Thomas University. Awards: Norma Epstein First Prize for Undergraduate Creative Writing, 1974; silver medal (Atlantic chapter of the Royal Society of the Arts), 1986-87; Governor General's award for fiction, 1988; Canadian Authors' Association award, 1991; Canada-Australia Writer's prize, 1993…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Montreal, 1931. Education: Attended Sir George Williams University, 1949-51. Career: Freelance writer in Paris, France, 1952-53, London, England, 1954-72, and Montreal, 1972—; writer-in-residence, Sir George Williams University, 1968-69; visiting professor of English, Carleton University, 1972-74; member of editorial board, Book-of-the-Month Club, 1972—. …
Nationality: American. Born: Thomas Eugene Robbins in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, 1936. Education: High school in Warsaw, Virginia; Hargarve Military Academy; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia; Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University), graduated 1960. Military Service: Served in the United States Air Force in Korea. Career: Copy editor, Richmond Tim…
Nationality: British. Born: Bushey, Hertfordshire, 1949. Education: Oxford University, B.A. (with honors) 1970; University of London Library Associate, 1972. Career: Has worked as a librarian, cook, teacher, cleaner, pregnancy counselor, and researcher; writer-in-residence, Lambeth Borough, London, 1981-82, and Bromley Borough, London, 1983-84. Poetry editor, Spare Rib, 1975-77, and City Limits, …
Nationality: American. Born: Waukegan, Illinois, 1952. Education: University of California, San Diego, B.A. in literature, 1974, Ph.D. 1982; Boston University, M.A. in English 1975. Career: Visiting lecturer, University of California, in Davis, 1982-84, 1985, and in San Diego, 1982, 1985. Awards: World Fantasy award, 1983; SF Chronicle award, 1984, 1992; Locus award, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1997; Nebula…
Nationality: American. Born: Sandpoint, Idaho, in 1943. Education: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, B.A. in American literature; University of Washington, Seattle, M.A. and Ph.D. in English. Awards: American Academy Rosenthal Foundation award, 1982; Hemingway Foundation award, 1982; PEN Essay Prize, 1999. Housekeeping is, for most people, a basic requirement, if only on the simplest le…
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Castleford, Yorkshire, 1950. Education: University of Ledds, B.A. 1974; University of Windsor, M.A. 1975; York University, Ph.D. 1983. Awards: Arthur Ellis award for Canadian crime novel of the year, 1992. Peter Robinson, who emigrated to Canada in 1974, is best known for his novels featuring Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Eastvale Criminal Investigation…