Author Biographies
This glossary contains short biographical sketches about the authors of the novels and selections read in Mr. Anderson's classes.
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Geist, William E. | |||
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Born in 1945 in Champaign, Illinois, Bill Geist attended the
University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. There he met his wife,
Jody. They were married in 1970. In 1971, he graduated from the
University of Missouri with a masters degree in communications.
From 1972 to 1980 Geist was a reporter and columnist for the
Chicago Tribune. In 1980
Geist joined the New York
Times, where his “About New York” column appeared twice a
week. Geist has been a correspondent for the CBS news program
Sunday Morning since 1987,
where his work was honored with an Emmy Award in 1992 for his
report on the sixty-sixth anniversary of America’s famed Route 66.
Geist also contributes to 60
Minutes II and is the bestselling author of six books,
including The Big Five-Oh: Facing,
Fearing and Fighting 50 and the New York Times bestseller Little League Confidential, an account
of his experience as a coach of his son and daughter’s Little
League teams. His biggest accomplishment, he says, comes from
taking third in the Illinois State Fair Bake-Off. | |||
Giovanni, Nikki | |||
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Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.. was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Called Nikki from an early age, she is considered a leader in the
black poetry movement. After graduating from Fisk University with a
history degree, Giovanni went on to attend the University of
Pennsylvania School of Social Work and the Columbia University
School of Fine Arts. Believing that change is necessary for growth,
Nikki’s poetry is renowned for its urgent call for black people to
embrace their own identity and to fully understand white-controlled
culture. Her poetry collection, Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black
]udgment, captures the militant attitude of the civil rights
and black arts movements of that time. Her work has been honored
with an NAACP Image Award as well as the Langston Hughes Medal
for Outstanding Poetry Giovanni prides herself on being "a Black
American, a daughter, a mother, and a professor of English." | |||
Gold, Michael | |||
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Named ltzok Isaac Granich at birth, Michael Gold was born in 1894
in New York of Jewish immigrant parents. Deeply opposed to US
involvement in World War I, Gold moved to Mexico in 1917 to avoid
the draft. Gold returned to New York in 1920 and pursued a life in
publishing, writing, and editing numerous books about social issues
before his death in 1967. | |||
Greenberg, Paul | |||
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Paul Greenberg is a nationally syndicated conservative columnist
for the Arkansas Democratic
Gazette in Little Rock, Arkansas. His editorials have won
the Pulitzer Prize, the Walker Stone Award,
and the H, L. Mencken Award. | |||