Marvin Bell
Stewart O'Nan
Eric Kraft
Dava Sobel
Gary Reiswig
Marvin Bell
Marvin Bell is the author of thirteen books of poetry and essays,
including The Book of the Dead
Man (poems),
A Marvin Bell Reader (selected poems, journals, memoirs, essays),
and two books of poetry
written as correspondence with William Stafford. Commissioned works include
long poems about the
photography of Robert Heinecken and the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe. Mr.
Bell was born in New York
City and grew up on eastern Long Island -- to which he returns for a while each
winter. Now he lives
mainly in Iowa City, Iowa, where he is a member of the faculty of the Writers'
Workshop at the University
of Iowa, and in Port Townsend, Washington. His honors include the Academy of
American Poets Lamont
Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, Guggenheim
and NEA fellowships,
and Senior Fulbright Appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He has taught
at Goddard College and the
Universities of Hawaii and Washington, and has done brief stints elsewhere as a
Lila Wallace-Reader's
Digest Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. In demand for writers'
conferences and readings,
he has been called in print "an insider who thinks like an outsider."
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Stewart O'Nan
In 1987, while living in nearby Mastic Beach, Stewart O'Nan attended
the Southampton Writers'
Conference. He later quit his job as an engineer to pursue an MFA at Cornell
University. His story
collection, In a Walled City, received the 1993 Drue Heinz Prize for
Literature, and Granta recently named
him one of America's Best Young Novelists for Snow Angels, released in
paperback last December by
Penguin. In March, Doubleday published his second novel,
The Names of the Dead.
Mr. O'Nan teaches
creative writing at Trinity College in Hartford.
Eric Kraft
Eric Kraft is the author of a large (and growing) work of fiction called The
Personal History, Adventures,
Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, which Newsweek called "The literary
equivalent of Fred
Astaire dancing: great art that looks fun." It consists, so far, of six
novels:
- Herb een' Lorna (Crown, 1988; Picador 1995)
- "A classic." --Andrei Codrescu, National Public Radio
- Reservations Recommended (Crown, 1990; Picador 1995)
- "Wonderfully readable ... touching and intelligent." --Village Voice
- Little Follies (Crown, 1992; Picador 1995)
- "A masterpiece of American humor." --Los Angeles Times
- Where Do You Stop? (Crown, 1993; Picador 1995)
- "Luminously intelligent fun." --Time
- What a Piece of Work I Am (Crown, 1993; Picador 1995)
- "Poignant, dizzying ... a weird wonder." --New York Times Book Review
- At Home with the Glynns (Crown, 1995; Picador 1996)
- "A daring tour de force." --New York Times Book Review
Kraft grew up in Babylon New York, graduated from Harvard College, and holds a
master's degree in
teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has taught school
and written textbooks, and
he was for a time part-owner and co-captain of a clam boat which sank. He has
been the recipient of a
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he was for a time
chairman of PEN New
England. He is a father of two sons and lives with his wife, Madeline, in East
Hampton, New York. On the
World Wide Wed, he can be found at
Forever
Babbingtonian Magazine
(http://members.aol.com/elkraft).
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel writes the stargazers' columns for the East Hampton Independent
("Night Sky") and the
Discovery Channel OnLine ("Star Shack"). An award-winning science reporter,
she formerly served on the
staff of The New York Times, and now contributes articles to several magazines,
including Astronomy,
Audubon, Harvard Magazine, and The New Yorker.
Her latest book,
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved
the Greatest Scientific
Problem of His Time
(Walker 1995) spent sixteen weeks on The New York Times
Best Seller List. Now in
its fifteenth hardcover printing, it has been translated into eleven foreign
languages. A paperback edition is
due out from Penguin in October.
Gary Reiswig
Gary Reiswig was born in the Texas Panhandle on December 12, 1939. His parents
were farmers, and
soon after Gary's birth, they purchased a large farm in Oklahoma where he
attended school, first a one-room
country school through grade eight, then a Consolidated High School.
While serving as a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Pittsburgh, PA, he
earned an M.Ed. degree in
Religious Education and a Ph.D. in Foundations of Education with a minor in
Child Development.
On September 15, 1993, Simon & Schuster published his first novel,
Water Boy,
based on his experiences
as a boy and youth in the Oklahoma Panhandle. He is at work on two additional
novels, one set in
Oklahoma and the other in Pittsburgh.
Mr. Reiswig is currently the owner, along with his wife Rita Mallet, of a small
luxury hotel in East
Hampton, New York.
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