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| 164660789 | Greg Graffin | part of the punk group Bad Religion, UCLA, Cornell, advocates the importance of diversity and creative evolution in biology and music, explains why being punk made him a man | |
| 164660790 | Margaret Atwood | Taught at universities, writer in residence at U of Toronto, novels include Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale, New Oxford book of Canadian Verse in English, attempts to explain clearly why pornography is intolerable and why discussions of banning it have created much confusion | |
| 164660791 | E.L. Doctorow | member of english faculty at Yale, Sarah Lawrence, UC Irvine, received the National Book Critics Circle Award (Ragtime), directer of the Authors Guild, member of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, The book of Daniel, Drinks Before Dinner, Lives of the Poets, essay explaining why fiction occupies a significant place in our lives | |
| 164660792 | Howard Gardner | professor at Harvard and Boston U, co-director of Harvard Project Zero, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Creating Minds, Changing the World, Leading Minds, essay discussing the importance of recognizing and cultivating different kinds of intelligence | |
| 164660793 | Kevin Finneran | editor of Issues in Science and Technology, article lamenting the lack of proper grading standards in the current American education system | |
| 164660794 | Nancy Mairs | Wheaton College, U of Arizona (Ph.D.), editor, professor, writer,- In All the Rooms of the Yellow House, Remembering the Bone House, Carnal Acts, Waist- High in the World, shares the experience of dealing with a chronic, crippling disease in the midst of the demanding richness of personal, family, and professional life | |
| 164660795 | Richard Rodriguez | Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, Warburg Institute, Fulbright fellow, commonwealth Gold medal, Christopher Medal, Anisfield- Wolf Award for Race Relations, editor at Pacific News Service, attempts to come to grips with the meaning of terrorism in our time | |
| 164660796 | Helen Keller | deaf and blind, learned to communicate using sign language and voice lessons, Radcliffe College, wrote Story of My Life, Optimism, The World I Live In, and Out of the Dark, essay movingly describes the delights she would experience were she to be given three days to see | |
| 164660797 | David Sedaris | cleaned houses in NYC, writes about his life and then reads his work aloud, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, essay tells of having a white christmas in NC | |
| 164660798 | Nora Ephron | reporter, columnist, essayist, novelist, movie director, producer, Wellesley College, New York Post, Esquire, wrote/produced Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've God Mail, and Bewitched, one of the most powerful women in Hollywood, selection which appeared in the Huffington Post is a sarcastic, witty piece about terrorist | |
| 164660799 | Rachel Carson | The mother of the modern environmental movement, first woman to take and pass the civil service exam, wrote The Sea Around Us and Silent Spring, raised the alarm about the use of pesticides and chemicals, impressed Kennedy | |
| 164660800 | Dave Berry | columnist for the Miami Herald, funny, Pulitzer Prize, network tv turned his life into a sitcom, writes about the difference between how men and women play | |
| 164660801 | Stephen King | horror fiction, U of Maine, The Shining, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Everything's Eventual, published a work exclusively as an e-book, gives a unique glimpse into why he himself creates horror | |
| 164660802 | James T. Baker | editor of the Creators of the American Mind series published by Wadsworth, contributed books about Nat Turner, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, University Distinguished Professor at Western Kentucky U, writes about student types |
