Authors

Curtis Wilkie Curtis Wilkie

Curtis Wilkie, author of Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South, lives in New Orleans and Oxford, Mississippi, where he holds the Cook Chair in Journ…

Apr 2, 2010

Christine Smallwood Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood, a writer in New York, is former associate literary editor of The Nation.

Apr 2, 2010

Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator, is the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage).

Apr 2, 2010

Corey Robin Corey Robin

Corey Robin, who teaches at Brooklyn College, is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea, and The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, which has just come out in paperback.

Apr 2, 2010

Laila Lalami Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami, the author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is an associate professor of creative writing at the university of California, Riverside. Her new novel, The Moor’s Account, will be published next year.

Apr 2, 2010

Milton Viorst Milton Viorst

Milton Viorst, who has covered the Middle East as a journalist for more than three decades, is the author of six books on the subject. His latest, to be published by Random House n…

Apr 2, 2010

Brenda Marie Osbey Brenda Marie Osbey

Brenda Marie Osbey is poet laureate of the state of Louisiana.

Apr 2, 2010

Michael Tisserand Michael Tisserand

Michael Tisserand, the author of Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember (Harvest), is currently working on a biogra…

Apr 2, 2010

Leah Caldwell Leah Caldwell

Leah Caldwell is a summer 2005 Nation intern.

Apr 2, 2010

Alyssa Katz Alyssa Katz

Alyssa Katz is editor of The New York World, a news project at Columbia Journalism School focused on city and state government, and author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us (Bloomsbury).

Apr 2, 2010

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