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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsSheryl Lee Ralph is a veteran stage and screen performer as well as an author and AIDS activist. She grew up in Jamaica and on New York's Long Island, then entered Rutgers University at age sixteen and became its...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsIn his book Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness, Elliot S. Valenstein examines the histories of several questionable procedures aimed at curing...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsDisc Jockey Jerry Blavat got his start as a performer on the Bandstand television show (a precursor to the famed American Bandstand series). Broadcasting on the radio as “The Geator with the Heater,” Blavat was best...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsEileen Yin-Fei Lo once told CA: “I was born in a suburb of Canton, China, called Sun Tak. I began to cook at the age of five, encouraged by both my parents—a mother who believed that children should know how to do...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsVeteran folk rock artist David Crosby made music for several decades, many of them with the classic rock groups Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (often known by the acronym CSNY). However, at many...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsHarold H. Brown was a writer, college administrator, and educator. He was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brown served as an administrator at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio for more twenty...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsPaul La Farge was an American writer, translator, and academic. Born in New York City, he graduated from Yale University and began to pursue a career as a writer. He held several writing colony residencies and served as...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsVillage Voice veteran investigative reporter Graham A. Rayman is a journalist and freelance writer. He first worked as a reporter for Newsday and covered Ground Zero after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsDavid Graeber was an anthropologist, anarchist, and writer who played a major role in the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011. His interest in anarchy took root during his childhood in New York City, where his...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsJean Anderson's cookbooks have “sensible comments on just about everything gastronomic,” reports Time reviewer Michael Demarest. For instance, The Food of Portugal, Anderson's examination of a relatively unknown cuisine,...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsOne of the prevailing themes of Linda Pastan's poetry is the complexity of domestic life. In what she termed “the war between desire and dailiness,” Pastan “dissects the tension that divides womanly rituals of motherhood...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsBorn in 1932, in Austria; died February 5, 2023, in Boulder, CO; daughter of Franz and Elfriede Eberhard; married Sao Kya Seng (prince of Hsipaw, Burma), 1953 (died, March, 1962); married Howard H. Sargent, December,...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsBrenda Almond once told CA: “I studied philosophy under A. J. Ayer. I was strongly influenced by, and continue to work within, the analytic tradition in philosophy. When I recognized the limitations of this tradition in...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsHenrik Nordbrandt was a major Danish poet who spent much of his life outside Denmark, particularly in Asia Minor. Although he dropped out of college and never earned a degree, he independently studied Chinese language...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsTerence Dickinson's long-time passion for the night sky made him a star. His enthusiasm for astronomy and his exceptional ability to present scientific concepts in terms that general audiences can understand earned him...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsPurple Hibiscus, the debut novel of Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, was greeted with enthusiasm by many critics. This coming-of-age story, focusing on a Nigerian family torn between the orderly Western...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsLawyer, educator, and writer Adam Benforado studies and writes about the intersection between cognitive processes and bias in the legal system. He wrote the 2015 book Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice to...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsSocial worker Julia Bartz's first novel is The Writing Retreat, a gothic horror-mystery novel. Alex, the protagonist, is stuck in a dead-end position she no longer enjoys. In addition, she is still mourning the end of...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsColin Winnette's novels often depict characters dealing with harrowing situations. The prize-winning Coyote, for instance, is about the consequences of a child's disappearance, while Haints Stay depicts two brothers...
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From:Gale Literature: Contemporary AuthorsAnthony C. Thiselton once told CA: “Although my academic career began at the University of Bristol in New Testament studies, I was influenced by oral conversation with Professor G. B. Caird of Oxford concerning the...