Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Living

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Alan Lightman, American Physicist and Writer
(1948 - )

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Name: Alan Lightman
Birth: November 28, 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American physicist and writer whose Einstein's Dreams combines these two interests. He has written numerous other short fiction pieces, books (nonfiction and novels), and articles.
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Thomas Keneally, Australian Writer
(1935 - )

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Name: Thomas Keneally
Birth: October 7, 1935, New South Wales, Australia
Language: English
Who he is: Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist known for novels Schindler's Ark (which became the film Schindler's List) and The Playmaker
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Tony Kushner, American Playwright
(1956 - )

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Name: Tony Kushner
Birth: July 16, 1956, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American playwright and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer-Prize winning play (1993) Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He also co-authored the screenplay for Munich (2005) and wrote the screenplay for Lincoln (2012).
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Amy Yamada, Japanese Writer
(1959 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Yamada Eimi
Also known as: Amy Yamada
Birth: February 8, 1959, Nakamarucho, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who she is: Japanese novelist and short story writer; Trash; Bedtime Eyes; The Piano Player's Fingers; 120% cool; Jesse

Spike Lee, American Filmmaker
(1957 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Shelton Jackson Lee
Known as: Spike Lee
Birth: March 20, 1957, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; She's Gotta Have It; Do the Right Thing; Mo' Better Blues; Jungle Fever; Malcolm X; Girl 6; Academy Honorary Award (2015)

Jhumpa Lahiri, Indian-American Writer
(1967 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri
Known as: Jhumpa Lahiri
Birth: July 11, 1967, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who she is: Indian American novelist and short story writer; Interpreter of Maladies; The Namesake; Unaccustomed Earth; The Lowland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2000)

Natasha Trethewey, American Poet
(1966 - )

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Name: Natasha Trethewey
Birth: April 26, 1966, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American poet; Domestic Work; Native Guard; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2006); Poet Laureate of the US (2012–2014)

Yoshimoto Banana, Japanese Novelist
(1964 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Yoshimoto Mahoko
Known as: Yoshimoto Banana
Birth: July 24, 1964, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who she is: Japanese novelist; Moonlight Shadow; Kitchen; Goodbye Tsugumi; The Lake

Quentin Tarantino, American Filmmaker
(1963 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Quentin Tarantino
Birth: March 27, 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction; Kill Bill: Volume 1 & 2; Inglourious Basterds; Django Unchained; two Academy Awards

Shimada Masahiko, Japanese Novelist
(1961 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Shimada Masahiko
Birth: March 13, 1961, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist; Music for the Kingdom of Somnambulism; The Dream Messenger

Barbara Kingsolver, American Writer
(1955 - )

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Name: Barbara Kingsolver
Birth: April 8, 1955, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American novelist, essayist, and poet; The Poisonwood Bible; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; Pulitzer Finalist for Fiction (1999)

Mo Yan, Chinese Writer
(1955 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Guan Moye
Known as: Mo Yan
Birth: February 17, 1955, Gaomi, China
Language: Chinese
Who he is: Chinese novelist and short story writer; Red Sorghum Clan; The Republic of Wine; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Nobel Prize in Literature (2012)

Murakami Ryu, Japanese Writer
(1952 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Murakami Ryūnosuke
Known as: Murakami Ryu
Birth: February 19, 1952, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, and filmmaker; Almost Transparent Blue; Coin Locker Babies; In the Miso Soup

James Wilcox, American Novelist
(1949 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: James Wilcox
Birth: April 4, 1949, Hammond, Louisiana, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American novelist; Modern Baptists
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Murakami Haruki, Japanese Writer
(1949 - )

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Name: Murakami Haruki
Birth: January 12, 1949, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he is: Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist; A Wild Sheep Chase; Norwegian Wood; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Kafka on the Shore; 1Q84

Annie Dillard, American Writer
(1945 - )

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Name: Annie Dillard
Birth: April 30, 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American writer; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; Holy the Firm; For the Time Being; An American Childhood; The Maytrees; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1975)

Tobias Wolff, American Writer
(1945 - )

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Name: Tobias Wolff
Birth: June 19, 1945, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist; memoirs This Boy's Life; In Pharaoh's Army; novels Ugly Rumours; The Barracks Thief; Old School

Alice Walker, American Writer and Activist
(1944 - )

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Name: Alice Walker
Birth: February 9, 1944, Putnam County, Georgia, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist; The Color Purple; Meridian; The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983)

Elaine Pagels, American Religious Historian
(1943 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Elaine Pagels
Birth: February 13, 1943, Palo Alto, California, USA
Language: English
Who she is: American religious historian; The Gnostic Gospels; Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity; Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

Billy Collins, American Poet
(1941 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Billy Collins
Birth: March 22, 1941, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American poet; The Art of Drowning; Picnic, Lightning; Poet Laureate of the USA (2001-2003)

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