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William Willis, Yale College ’18, is an English major with special interests in Modernism and Elizabethan drama. He is an editor at Genius.com. He is also an editor of the forthcoming American Literature in the World anthology, contributing annotations to the … Continue reading →

Biography Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. Born in London to parents from West Bengal, Lahiri’s family moved to the US when she was just two years old. After spending … Continue reading →

Biography Dave Eggers is an American author, journalist, and editor who is also known for his work in philanthropy. Born in 1970, Eggers was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois before attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied … Continue reading →

Biography Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to a Catholic French-Canadian family. French was his first language, and his given name was Jean-Louis. He attended Lowell High School, and then … Continue reading →

Born on April 26, 1966 in Gulfport, Mississippi, Natasha Trethewey was appointed the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in 2012. She is currently serving her second term in this position in Washington, DC. Trethewey is also the Robert … Continue reading →

Native Son by Richard Wright is a heart-rending exposé of the racial oppression that permeated Chicago (and the rest of America) during the 1930s. Through the experiences of his black protagonist Bigger Thomas, Wright provides invaluable insights into the origins … Continue reading →

Corthay Schock, Yale College ’16, is an English major intending to double major in English and Film.

Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi.  He was an American playwright and author with famous works including Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.  Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for each … Continue reading →

Jordan Brower is a fourth year Ph.D. student in English and Film at Yale University, where he is writing a dissertation on the critical literatures (both in print and on film) of the Hollywood Studio Era.   His Wiki contribution: Ruth Ozeki

Biography Novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1956 to an American father and a Japanese mother. She received a BA with a double major in English Literature and Asian Studies from Smith College in … Continue reading →