Bestselling Author/Her stories have been awarded prizes by P.E.N.,
The Texas Institute of Letters,
Selected for the O. Henry Awards.
In 2003 she was given the Antioch Review?s Distinguished Prose Award
English author of young adult fiction. She wrote and illustrated the webcomic Heartstopper, which has been published as multiple graphic novels and adapted into a TV series
American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry. She won a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain
Children's book author, illustrator, painter and production designer, best known for The Angry Birds Movie film series and ParaNorman. Served as visual artist on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania & The Lego Ninjago Movie
Author/When the Emperor was Divine & The Buddha in the Attic/Otsuka's historical fiction novels deal with Japanese Americans. Her books call attention to the plight of Japanese Americans during World War II
American writer of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo, Newton, Bohr, and stories about physicist Richard Feynman
Moroccan Berber writer, daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir, cousin of writer Leila Shenna/Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, with Tunisian author MichÃ?le Fitoussi, first in French, titled 'La Prisonniere' with Michele Fitoussi
Staff writer for The New Yorker and author of more than a dozen books including The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament
Award -winning journalist and CEO of Ernest Media Empire, LLC. He is the Editor at Large for Philadelphia Magazine and President of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists
Author/'The Schooling of Claybird Catts' 'Cracker Kitchen: In Celebration of Food, Family, and a Great American Tradition' 'My Brother Michael, Myra Sims'
(1905-1990) folklorist, author, & professor/Author; 'This Stubborn Soil' 'A Season of Weathering' 'Walking on Borrowed Land'/In 1942 joined the United States Army as a buck private & was assigned to the intelligence branch
Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas/Writer 'The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti'