Nonfiction author bios Flashcards
(American writer, 1941-2012.) The author was a journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, and Oscar-nominated screenwriter. They wrote the screenplays for Julie & Julia and When Harry Met Sally…, as well as two collections of essays: I Remember Nothing and I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Reflections on Being a Woman. Their writing was characterized by its humor and honesty,
Nora Ephron
(contemporary Haitian-American writer.) They are the bestselling author of numerous books, including Bad Feminist, Hunger, and Graceful Burdens. They also authored World of Wakanda for Marvel and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. They edited The Selected Works of Audre Lorde as well as the 2018 Best American Short Stories collection.
Roxane Gay
(contemporary American writer), The author has written three books: The Very Rich Hours, Angela The Upside Down Girl. and Green the Witch Hazel Wood. They have won a number of awards, including The National Magazine Award for Essays, The Pushcart Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are currently the Communications Director for the M.I.T School of Humanities, Art, and Social Sciences.
Emily Hiestand
contemporary Antiguan-American writer.) They are an award winning writer who has published novels, short story collections, nonfiction, and even children’s literature. They are best known for their nonfiction about growing up in Antigua. They also have a distinctive writing style that some have criticized as being angry and others have praised for its wit. Their most famous books are the nonfiction book, A Small Place, and the novel, The Autobiography of My Mother.
Jamaica Kincaid
(contemporary American writer.) They are the author of several short stories and twelve novels, including The Arrest and Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Award-winner. They have also written essay collections More Alive and Less Lonely and The Disappointment Artist. In 2005, they received a MacArthur Fellowship. They teach creative writing at Pomona College.
Jonathan Lethem
(contemporary American writer.) They specialize in memoir and literary nonfiction. They have written numerous books, including The Accidental Buddhist and The Toothpick Men. They are the founder and editor of Brevity, a journal of concise literary nonfiction. They have been published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Harpers, and Crazyhorse.
Dinty W. Moore
(Puerto Rican American writer, 1952-2016). They spent their childhood traveling back and forth between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Much of their creative nonfiction explores the challenges they experienced with having split cultural heritages. Their work The Latin Deli was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Though they were best known for their works of creative nonfiction, they began their career writing poetry and also authored children’s books. They were inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (2010) and awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry.
Judith Oritz Cofer
contemporary Vietnamese-American writer.) A 2010 National Endowment of Arts Creative Writing Fellow, the author now teaches at California College of Arts. Their first book, We Should Never Meet, was a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. Their work has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, and Guernica, among others.
Aimee Phan
contemporary American writer. They are a bestselling author of mainly humorous nonfiction. They are admired by critics as well as general readers. Two of their most famous collections of essays are Me Talk Pretty One Day and Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category.
David Sedaris
contemporary American writer. They are the author of the essay collection entitled If You Knew Then What I Know Now. Their work has been featured in The Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, and Best American Essays Anthology. They were a recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and currently teaches Creative Writing at the Uni of San Francisco.
Ryan Van Meter
