Canada

1967-02-08

Rachel Cusk is a Canadian novelist and writer who lives and works in England. Cusk has also been a professor of creative writing at Kingston University. Cusk has written 10 novels and 4 works of non-fiction. She published her first novel, Saving Agnes, at the age of 26, and its themes of femininity and social satire remained central to her work over the next decade. In responding to the formal problems of the novel representing female experience, she began to work in non-fiction. She has published two autobiographical accounts of motherhood and divorce: A Life's Work and Aftermath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Cusk

Canada

1967-02-08

Rachel Cusk is a Canadian novelist and writer who lives and works in England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Cusk

United States

1976-08-07

Cathy Park Hong is a Korean American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language and serialized narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Park_Hong

2020

United States

Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions pairs Bill Gates with actress and writer Rashida Jones to tackle some of the biggest questions facing us today: Is it too late to solve climate change? Does everybody lie? Is inequality inevitable? Join them for deep dives into these questions and even a few answers.

China

Ling Ma is a Chinese American novelist and Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Severance, won a 2018 Kirkus Prize and was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and shortlisted for the 2019 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Ma has also published short stories in Granta, Playboy, and the Chicago Reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Ma

United States

1992-06-12

Chanel Miller is an American writer and artist based in San Francisco, CA and NYC, NY. She was known anonymously after she was sexually assaulted on the campus of Stanford University in 2015 by Brock Allen Turner. The following year, her victim impact statement at his sentencing hearing went viral after it was published online by BuzzFeed, being read 11 million times within four days. Miller was referred to as "Emily Doe" in court documents and media reports until September 2019, when she relinquished her anonymity and released her memoir Know My Name. The book won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiographies and was named in several national book lists of the year. She is credited with sparking national discussion in the US about the treatment of sexual assault cases and victims by college campuses and court systems. She is also a public speaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel_Miller

United States

1955-10-28

William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, and is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

United States

1998-03-07

Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015. In 2021, she delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden. Her inauguration poem generated international acclaim, and shortly thereafter, two of her books achieved best-seller status, and she obtained a professional management contract. In February 2021, Gorman was highlighted in Time magazine's "100 Next" list under the category of "Phenoms," with a profile written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Gorman