Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents' divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.
Ilan Pappé (born 1954) is an Israeli historian and activist. He is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies
Thomas Burton Bottomore, usually known as Tom Bottomore and published as T.B. Bottomore, was a British Marxist sociologist. Bottomore was Secretary of the International Sociological Association from 1
JOYA MITRA is a full-time writer, and author of several novels and collections of poems in Bengali. Her involvement with politics began while she was a college student in the late '60s. Her poetry
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bell hooks (1952-2021), is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was a Distinguished Prof
