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As a poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer, and anthologist, Hughes captured the moods and rhythms of the black communities he knew and loved—and translated those rhythms to the printed page.

I write as an Asian, with all the pent-up emotions of my people. What I say will annoy many people who prefer the more conventional myths brought back by writers on the Orient. All I can say is that I try to tell the truth. Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Mowat refers to himself as a “saga man,” or one who earns his living as a roving bard, retelling ancient tales in the Norse tradition.

An Orphic voyage into memory and mirage, through passages between death and life, darkness and light, oppression and flight, sense and the sensed.

Instead, his venture to the interior is more existential, and he isn’t afraid to muse in the manner of St. Exupery—a refreshing break from much of today’s vapid extreme outdoor culture. [….] The book has a resonance beyond its clean, quiet prose—a kind of melancholic self-reflection.

John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage.

Alcina Franch developed an interest in archaeology, initially with a historical bias, soon to be transformed into a consideration of anthropology as a science.

He is not afraid to take action when necessary; he is never merely a commentator from the sidelines, and never untrue to the demands of his craft, whether his work is in the form of a poem, an essay, or a play.

It is his coming-of-age story, he notes, ‘the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer to discover the bewildering silence, facing his parents. This is my story. An American story.’

‘In quick succession I knew the glory of motherhood and the pain of deep sorrow,’ she wrote later. ‘For the years immediately following, everything I did […] was motivated by my passionate desire to make a good life for my sons.’

Fineberg was a pioneer in Jewish community relations and at developing techniques for combating anti-Semitism and was known among professional colleagues as ‘The Dean of Jewish Community Relations.’

Field has made a contribution to the discussion among historians of Germany whether German society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was an exception in Europe, or whether racialism, anti-Semitism, and all the excesses of ultra-nationalism were endemic in the whole of European society in the age of imperialism.

Both an insider and an outsider, Highwater enjoyed what he considered to be a distinctive Native American sensibility that expected individuals to be transformed rather than retain a fixed identity.

When his first novel, “Cry, the Beloved Country,” was published in 1948, the reviews hailed it as ‘beautiful and profoundly moving […] steeped in sadness and grief but radiant with hope and compassion.’