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Bob Coen is the co-author of Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail, as well as a filmmaker and award-winning journalist. His films have been broadcast on CNN International, National Geographic, and PBS.
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July Oskar Cole learned to swim in the TVA lakes of Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and to identify wild plants in the forests of the Cumberland Plateau. He learned most of the rest in the deserts of the U.S. Southwest: philosophy and astronomy in the Sangre de Cristo foothills, alternative building and “charco” style greywater practices in the Rio Grande bosque, and in the Basin and Range territory more things than can be listed. He is the co-editor of Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he keeps bees, designs and installs greywater treatment wetlands, and sells books. |
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Evan S. Connell is the author of eighteen books, including Francisco Goya, Deus Lo Volt?, Mrs. Bridge, and Lost in Uttar Pradesh. He has received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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Alex Cox’s best-known films, Sid and Nancy and Repo Man, are often credited as the first truly independent movies. His autobiography, published by Soft Skull Press, is titled X Films. He lives in Oregon.
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Ordained practitioner of Zen Buddhism, activist, actor, and author of Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle, Peter Coyote began his work in street theater and political organizing in San Francisco. In addition to acting in 120 films, Coyote has won an Emmy for narrating the award-winning documentary Pacific Century, and he has co-written, directed, and performed in the play Olive Pits, which won The Mime Troupe an Obie Award. He lives in Mill Valley, California.
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Rosalind Creasy is a landscape designer, garden writer and photographer, and leading authority on edible landscaping. She is the author of eighteen books, including the groundbreaking original edition of Edible Landscaping and Cooking from the Garden, both Garden Writers Association award winners. She lives in Los Altos, California. |
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Peter Cunningham, who apprenticed with Henry Cartier-Bresson, has been a professional photographer based in New York City since 1973, but his energy has chiefly been engaged in documenting the cultural evolution of his time. |
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Author of nine books including The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature, John Daniel has won two Oregon Book Awards for Literary Nonfiction, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Stanford University Wallace Stegner Fellow and Ohio State James Thurber Writer-in-Residence, he lives with his wife Marilyn in the foothills west of Eugene, Oregon.
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Jaime de Angulo was a cowboy, cattle rancher, horse tamer, medical doctor, psychologist, and linguist. A friend and colleague of Carl Jung, Henry Miller, and D.H. Lawrence, de Angulo was the author of several books. The Lariat and Other Stories collects some of his stories, many previously unavailable. |
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Marshall De Bruhl is the author of Firestorm: Allied Air Power and the Destruction of Dresden; Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston; and coeditor of The International Thesaurus of Quotations. He was a book editor and publisher for many years, most notably of The Dictionary of American History and The Dictionary of American Biography. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Camille de Toledo studied history in London and photography and film in New York. Also a filmmaker, screenwriter, and novelist, he lives in Paris. He is the author of Coming of Age at the End of History.
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Dorothea Dieckmann was born in Freiburg, Germany. She studied literature and philosophy and now works as an essayist and literary critic. In 1990 she was awarded the Hamburg Prize for Literature. She wrote the novella Die Schwere und die leichte Liebe (Heavy Love, Light Love), for which she received the Marburg Prize for Literature in 1996, and the novel Guantanamo. In 1997 she was awarded the Stipend of the German Culture Foundation in Wiepersdorf Castle, and in 2004 she was a fellow in the Ledig House in Ghent, New York. |
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Michael Downing is the author of Spring Forward and the Book Sense pick Shoes Outside the Door, as well as four novels, including Perfect Agreement and Breakfast with Scot. He teaches creative writing at Tufts University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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Susan Dunlap is the author of nineteen novels, including the Darcy Lott mystery series (A Single Eye and Hungry Ghosts), a collection of short stories, and editor of an anthology. She has won Anthony and Macavity Awards and has been president of Sisters in Crime. Her day jobs have ranged from teaching Hatha yoga to working on a death penalty defense team. She and her husband live near San Francisco.
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A native New Yorker, Benita Eisler has worked as an art editor, reporter, on-camera correspondent, and producer of arts programming for pubic television. Her interest in the varieties of artistic expression is reflected in her teaching and writing: She has taught the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel at Princeton and is the author of biographies of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Lord Byron, and George Sand (Naked in the Marketplace). She lives in Manhattan. |
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Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768), whose work has been edited and translated by Norman Waddell in Hakuin’s Precious Mirror Cave: A Zen Miscellany, was one of the most prominent Zen teachers of his time, as well as a celebrated calligrapher, painter, and writer. |
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Travis Elborough, author of The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again, has been a freelance writer, author, and cultural commentator for the last seven years. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian and has written for The Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Oldie, Zembla, and BBC History magazine. He lives in London, England. |
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Iain Ellis is the author of Rebels Wit Attitude. He teaches English and youth culture studies at the University of Kansas and writes for PopMatters. Ellis lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Charlie English is an associate editor at the Guardian. He has been a skier and snowboarder for most of his life. He lives in London with his family, and The Snow Tourist is his first book. |
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Kate Evans is an active environmental campaigner who has been marrying words and images for political effect for ten years. Her books include The Food of Love: The Easier Way to Breastfeed Your Baby, Funny Weather, and Copse. She lives in London.
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Mari-Lynn Evans, co–executive producer of the Coal Country documentary and an editor for the book, has produced many television programs and films, including the top-rated PBS documentary The Appalachians. Originally from West Virginia, she now lives in Akron, Ohio.
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Jonathan Evison has worked a wide array of jobs, from syndicated talk radio host to rotten tomato sorter—in the former role, his comedy show “Shaken Not Stirred” was nominated for two Peabody Awards. He has received two Silver Microphones, and two Communicators, and was frequently nominated for the Soundie Award. His lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and is the author of the novel All About Lulu.
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