LIT LISTS

Tim Butcher's first book, Blood River - A Journey To Africa's Broken Heart , uses his expedition across the Congo to tell the region...

Ha Jin was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Waiting and War Trash; Waiting also won the National Book Award. His other books include...

Christina Koning is a novelist and short story writer. Her novels include A Mild Suicide , Undiscovered Country , and Fabulous Time . She r...

Laura Landro, an assistant managing editor at the Wall Street Journal and its Informed Patient columnist, is the author of Survivor: Takin...

David Rakoff is an essayist, journalist, and actor. He has written for the New York Times Magazine , Outside , GQ , Vogue and Salon . He h...

Alan Charles Kors , a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and editor in chief of the recent Encyclopedia of the Enlighten...

J effrey N. Wasserstrom is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine and author, most recently, of China's Brave Ne...

Jon Scieszka was recently named the inaugural "National Ambassador for Young People's Literature" by the Library of Congress....

Thomas W. Evans, author of The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism...

Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, novelist and president of English PEN. Her new book, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors...

Khaled Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner , in March of 2001. In 2003, The Kite Runner was published and has since be...

Edward Mendelson, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and author of books including Early Auden and Th...