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Arna Bontemps

Arna Bontemps

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a prolific writer and legendary civil rights activist who produced several novels, a pioneering work of cultural history, the first major anthology of black poetry, and numerous treatises on race relations. He served as U.S. consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua and as secretary of the NAACP.

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Daniel H. Borus

Daniel H. Borus

Daniel H. Borus is assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester. His scholarly work has concentrated on the cultural history of the United States between 1877 and 1930. He is author of Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market (1989) and editor of These United States: Portraits of America from the 1920's (1992). He is currently at work on a general study of the relationship between culture and politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Hunter Boylan

Hunter Boylan

Hunter R. Boylan is the Director of the National Center for Developmental Education and a Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Developmental Education, the International Journal of Education and Development, and the Journal of Teaching and Learning and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Carnegie Foundation Statway Project, the National Center for Postsecondary Research, the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE), and is a Technical Assistant for the Gates Foundation Developmental Education Initiative. He the former Chair of the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations, a Past President of NADE, and the founding Director of the nation's first Doctoral Program in Developmental Education at Grambling State University. He has received the NADE award for "Outstanding Leadership" and the association's "Outstanding Research" Award is named after him as are the research scholarships of the Association for the Tutoring Profession and the National College Learning Center Association. He is the author or co-author of five books and over 100 research articles, book chapters, and monographs.

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Kevin Boyle

Kevin Boyle

Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, is the author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age and The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968. A former associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, he is also the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

He lives in Bexley, Ohio.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was one of science fiction’s greatest luminaries. The author of such classic, important works as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury was honored in 2007 with a Pulitzer citation “for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.” Other distinctions include a 1954 honor from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation in 2000, and the National Medal of Arts, awarded by President George W. Bush and Laura Bush in 2004. He was also an Emmy Award-winning screenwriter. Born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1920, Bradbury spent most of his life in Los Angeles, where he passed away in 2012.

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William Bradley

William Bradley

William Bradley's nonfiction and commentaries on nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals, including The Missouri Review, The Normal School, Brevity, College English, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the Assistant Editor of the magazine River Teeth, and he teaches at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, NC. 

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Becky Bradway

Becky Bradway

Becky Bradway (PhD Illinois State University) teaches in the MFA programs at Wilkes University, Northwestern University, and the University of Denver. She is author of Pink Houses and Family Taverns (2002), a collection of creative nonfiction essays, and editor of In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Non-Fiction From the Heartland (2003).  Her fiction and creative nonfiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, DoubleTake, Post Road, Antioch Review, and Hotel Amerika, among other places.

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Amy Braziller

Amy Braziller

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T. H. Breen

T. H. Breen

T. H. Breen is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. The author of several works of history, Breen has also written for The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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Elise Broach

Elise Broach

Elise Broach is the New York Times bestselling author of Masterpiece, Shakespeare’s Secret and Desert Crossing, Missing on Superstition Mountain, the first book in the Superstition Mountain Trilogy, as well as several picture books. Her books have been selected as ALA notable books, Junior Library Guild selections, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book, a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenage, an IRA Teacher’s Choice, an E.B. White Read Aloud Award, and nominated for an Edgar Award, among other distinctions. Ms. Broach holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Yale University. She was born in Georgia and lives in the woods of rural Connecticut, walking distance from three farms, a library, a post office and two country stores.

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Geoffrey Brock

Geoffrey Brock

Geoffrey Brock is the author of Weighing Light and the translator of numerous volumes from the Italian, including Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York Public Library's Cullman Center. He teaches in the MFA Program in creative writing and translation at the University of Arkansas.

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David Brody

David Brody

David Brody is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Steelworkers in America; Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle; and In Labor’s Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker. His current research is on labor law and workplace regimes during the Great Depression.

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Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte was the author of Wuthering Heights.

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Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in 1816. She published Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell and wrote three other novels, Shirley, Villette and The Professor (published posthumously).

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Timothy Brook

Timothy Brook

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