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Eugene R. Kintgen

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James Kirkup

Camara Laye was born in 1928 in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. He was still in his twenties and studying engineering in France when he wrote The Dark Child. He died in Senegal in 1980.

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Gesa E. Kirsch

Gesa E. Kirsch is professor of English at Bentley University and cofounder of the Women’s Leadership Institute. Her research and teaching interests include feminism and composition, ethics, qualitative research methodology, archival research, and women’s rhetorical education. She has written and edited a number of books, among them Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process; Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook; Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research: The Politics of Locations, Interpretation, and Publication; Women Writing the Academy: Audience, Authority, and Transformation; Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy; Methods and Methodology in Composition Research; and A Sense of Audience in Written Communication. Currently she is working on a book with Dr. Jacqueline Jones Royster thatexamines new directions in feminist rhetorical inquiry. Formerly Associate Executive Director for Higher Education with the National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL, and faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Director of Women's Studies at University of Oregon, Eugene, and Wayne State University, Detroit.

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Laurie G. Kirszner

During their long collaboration, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell have written a number of best-selling college texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Patterns for College Writing, Foundations First, Writing First, Focus on Writing, and, most recently, Practical Argument. Laurie Kirszner is a Professor of English at the University of the Sciences, where she has taught composition, literature, creative writing, and scientific writing, and served as coordinator of the first-year writing program. Stephen Mandell is a Professor of English at Drexel University, where he founded and directed the basic writing program and has taught composition, literature, speech, and technical and business writing.

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Carl H. Klaus

Carl H. Klaus, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa and founding director of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, currently serves as coeditor (with Patricia Hampl) of Sightline Books: the University of Iowa Press Series in Literary Nonfiction. He is coauthor or coeditor of several college textbooks, most recently Fields of Reading, Ninth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010), and Stages of Drama (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003). Essayist, diarist, and memoirist, Klaus is the author of My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season (Houghton Mifflin); Weathering Winter: A Gardener’s Daybook (University Of Iowa Press); and Letters to Kate: Life after Life (University of Iowa Press).

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Gerda Weissmann Klein

Gerda Weissmann Klein and Kurt Klein lecture frequently and have written extensively about their experiences during the Holocaust. They have been married for over 50 years and reside in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of the acclaimed international bestsellers No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, both of which have been translated into more than 25 languages with over a million copies in print. The Shock Doctrine was a New York Times Critics’ Pick of the year, and The Literary Review of Canada named No Logo one of the hundred most important Canadian books ever published. She is also the author of the essay collection Fences and Windows. With Avi Lewis, she co-created the documentary film The Take, which was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles.

She is a contributing editor for Harper’s, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular, internationally syndicated column. She has won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia. Born in Montreal, she now lives in Toronto.

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Elizabeth Kleinfeld

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E. D. Klemke

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A. David Kline

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Marvin Klotz

Marvin Klotz (PhD, New York University) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for thirty-three years and won Northridge's distinguished teaching award in 1983. He is also the winner of two Fulbright professorships (in Vietnam and Iran) and was a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Fellow twice. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and several other textbooks, he coauthored a guide and index to the characters in Faulkner's fiction.

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1999. Prior to that, she was a reporter for the New York Times. She lives with her husband and three sons in Williamstown, MA.

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Peter Kolchin

Peter Kolchin, the Henry Clay Reed Professor of History at the University of Delaware, is the author of numerous books, most recently A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth Century South in Comparative Perspective (2003).

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Mike Konopacki

Mike Konopacki has collaborated on five collections of cartoons, and his work is regularly syndicated. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Gary J. Kornblith

Gary J. Kornblith is a Professor at History at Oberlin College where he has taught since 1981. He was the editor of the anthology The Industrial Revolution in America (1998). He has published numerous articles and is currently working a book entitled Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early Republic and Elusive Utopia: A Historical of Race in Oberlin, Ohio (with Carol Lasser). He was coeditor of the “Textbooks and Teaching” section of the Journal of American History from 2001 to 2007.

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