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Barbara D. Sussman

Barbara D. Sussman (BA, University of Rochester, MS, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor, Senior at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida. She currently teaches all levels of developmental reading at the Wolfson Campus and has taught at the college for more than twenty years. Previously, she taught in the public school systems in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a reading specialist. She was chosen by the Florida State Department of Education to create The Florida College Basic Skills Reading Exit Test in collaboration with other reading professors from across the state.

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Matthew Avery Sutton

Matthew Avery Sutton (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is associate professor of history at Washington State University. He is the author of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America, which later served as the basis for the PBS American Experience documentary on this subject. His articles have appeared in several historical journals including the Journal of American History as well as the New York Times and he has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation.

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Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin on November 20, 1667. He was best known for his political satire in pieces such as A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels. After spending his youth in London, he returned to Dublin to serve as the Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He died on October 19, 1745.

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Geoffrey Symcox

Geoffrey Symcox is professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles and general editor of the Repertorium Columbianum, a multivolume series of original sources dealing with different aspects of the Columbian voyages. Professor Symcox received his PhD from UCLA in 1967 and works in early modern European history, up to and including the French Revolution. His books include The Crisis of French Sea Power 1688–1697 (1974) and Victor Amadeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State 1675–1730 (1983).

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Wladyslaw Szpilman

Wladyslaw Szpilman was born in 1911. He studied the piano at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1945 to 1963, he was Director of Music at Polish Radio, and he also pursued a career as a concert pianist and composer for many years. He died in Warsaw in 2000. The film version of his memoir, The Pianist, was the winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

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Alan M. Taylor

Alan M. Taylor is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.A. in 1987 from King’s College, Cambridge, U.K and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1992. Taylor has been teaching international macroeconomics, growth, and economic history at UC Davis since 1999, where he directs the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and coauthor (with Maurice Obstfeld) of Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Taylor was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 and was a visiting professor at the American University in Paris and London Business School in 2005–06. He lives in Davis, with his wife Claire, and has two young children, Olivia and Sebastian.

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The New York Times

The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won 104 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. Its website receives 30 million unique visitors per month.

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Philippe Thoby-Marcellin

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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Brook Thomas

Brook Thomas is Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. After a book on James Joyce's Ulysses (1982), he turned his attention to the intersections of law, literature, and cultural history in the United States. He is author of Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (1987); The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics (1991); American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract (1997); and Civic Myths: A Law and Literature Approach to Citizenship (2007). He has lectured on Plessy v. Ferguson to more than five thousand undergraduates over the course of several years.

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David Thomson

Joan Didion is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as several screenplays written with her late husband, John Gregory Dunne. She lives in New York City.

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Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite edited Collected Poems from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Cecelia Tichi

Cecelia Tichi’s scholarship concerns US environmentalism, the social history of technology, and more recently the Progressive Era, notably in Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (And What They Teach Us). She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and is also Professor of American Studies. In 2009 she was awarded the Jay B. Hubbell medal for lifetime achievement in American Literature.

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