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Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic who writes for The New Yorker magazine.

Als is a former staff writer for The Village Voice and former editor-at-large at Vibe magazine.

His 1996 book The Women focuses on his mother, who raised him in Brooklyn, Dorothy Dean, and Owen Dodson, who was a mentor and lover of Als.^[1][2][3] In the book, Als explores his identification of the confluence of his ethnicity, gender and sexuality, moving from identifying as a "Negress" and then an "Auntie Man", a Barbadian term for homosexuals.^[3]

Als received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000 for creative writing and the 2002–03 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.^[4] In 2004 he won the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin which provided him half a year of free working and studying in Berlin.^[5] He has taught at Smith College, Wesleyan, and Yale university, and his work has also appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and the New York Review of Books.

Bibliography[link]

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• The Women (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998)
• Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (James Allen, editor; Twin Palms Publishers, 2000)

Articles[link]

• Als, Hilton (13 August 2009). "Michael". The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/aug/13/michael/. Retrieved 14 July 2011. 
• Als, Hilton (8 February 2010). "Critic's Notebook: Let the Sunshine In". The New Yorker 85 (48): 13. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2010/02/08/100208gonb_GOAT_notebook_als. Retrieved 28 September 2011.  (Melba Moore)
• Als, Hilton (15 March 2010). "Critic's Notebook: Arcade Fire". The New Yorker 86 (4): 12. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2010/03/15/100315gonb_GOAT_notebook_als. Retrieved 15 January 2011.  (Penny Arcade)
• Als, Hilton (15 March 2010). "The Theatre: Underhanded". The New Yorker 86 (4): 80–81. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2010/03/15/100315crth_theatre_als. Retrieved 16 January 2011.  Reviews Martin McDonagh's "A Behanding in Spokane", directed by John Crowley at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
• Als, Hilton (22 March 2010). "Critic's Notebook: Feminist Fatale". The New Yorker 86 (5): 8. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2010/03/22/100322gonb_GOAT_notebook_als. Retrieved 1 April 2011.  (María Irene Fornés)
• Als, Hilton (7 June 2010). "Critic's Notebook: Stage Directions". The New Yorker 86 (16): 14. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2010/06/07/100607gonb_GOAT_notebook_als. Retrieved 28 October 2011.  (David Mamet)
• Als, Hilton (8 November 2010). "Critic's Notebook: On the Verge". The New Yorker 86 (35): 22.  (Sam Irvin’s Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise)
• Als, Hilton (8 November 2010). "Life and Letters: Color Vision". The New Yorker 86 (35): 42–47.  (Ntozake Shange)

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External links[link]

• Et Als (official site and blog)
• New Yorker page
• New York Review of Books archive

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Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.

Background and education[link]

Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas, Texas) in 1965 and, in 2009, was inducted into Woodrow's Hall of Fame.^[1] He is a graduate of Tulane University, and taught at the American University in Cairo in Egypt for two years.^[when?]

Career[link]

[edit] The Looming Tower

Wright is the author of six books, but is best known for his 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. A quick bestseller, The Looming Tower was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize^[2], the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and is frequently referenced by media pundits as an excellent source of background information on Al Qaeda and the September 11 attacks. The book's title is a phrase from the Quran: "Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower," which Osama bin Laden quoted three times in a videotaped speech seen as directed to the 9/11 hijackers.^[3]

Other Projects[link]

Among Wright's other books is Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory (1994), about the Paul Ingram false memory case. On June 7, 1996, Wright testified at Ingram's pardon hearing.

Wright also co-wrote the screenplay for the film The Siege (1998), which tells the story of a terrorist attack in New York City that leads to curtailed civil liberties and rounding up of Arab-Americans.^[4]

A script that Wright originally wrote for Oliver Stone was turned instead into a well-regarded Showtime movie, Noriega: God's Favorite (2000).

A documentary featuring Wright, "My Trip to Al-Qaeda", premiered on HBO in September 2010. It was based on his journeys and experience in the Middle East during his research for The Looming Tower. "My Trip to Al-Qaeda" covers topics ranging from the current state of the regime in Saudi Arabia to the historic underpinnings of 9/11.

Wright also plays the keyboard.

Bibliography[link]

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Books[link]

• City Children, Country Summer: A Story of Ghetto Children Among the Amish. Scribner. 1979. ISBN 978-0-684-16144-0. 
• In the New World: Growing up in America, 1964-1984. Alfred A. Knopf. 1987. ISBN 978-0-394-75964-7. 
• Saints and Sinners. Alfred A. Knopf. 1993. ISBN 978-0-679-76163-1. 
• Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory. Vintage Books. 1994. ISBN 978-0-679-75582-1. 
• Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are. John Wiley & Sons. 1999. ISBN 978-0-471-29644-7. 
• God's Favorite: A Novel. Simon and Schuster. 2000. ISBN 978-0-684-86810-3. 
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Alfred A. Knopf. 2006. ISBN 978-0-375-41486-2. 

Articles[link]

• Wright, Lawrence (September 20, 2010). "The Talk of the Town: Comment: Intolerance". The New Yorker 86 (28): 47–48. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/09/20/100920taco_talk_wright. Retrieved 21 December 2011. 

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External links[link]

• Wright on NPR
• The Looming Tower Reviews at Metacritic
• AuthorViews video interview about The Looming Tower
• Audio of Paul Ingram Pardon Hearing
• Biography at lawrencewright.com
• Lawrence Wright articles at Byliner
• Lawrence Wright Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• Reporting The Bin Laden Beat, Journalist Lawrence Wright Knows More About Al Qaeda's Leader Than Many CIA Operatives AUSTIN Sept. 9, 2007

Maria Hinojosa (b. 1961, Mexico City) is a Mexican American broadcast journalist. She was (2005–2010) Senior Correspondent for the PBS news magazine, NOW on PBS.^[1]

She is currently also the host of her own show on PBS, Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One, an interview talk show that features one-on-one interviews with a diverse group of guests, including actors, writers, activists, and politicians.^[2]

Hinojosa's first journalism experience was as host of a Latino radio show while she was a student at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Latin American studies.

In 1995, Hinojosa began hosting the National Public Radio show Latino USA; she also hosted the WNBC-TV public affairs show, Visiones. From 1997 to 2005, she worked for CNN's New York City bureau, where she gained recognition for her reporting on urban issues.

She can currently be seen on PBS, where she hosts Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One, and on V-me, the Spanish-language TV network, where she hosts La Plaza: Conversaciones con María Hinojosa.

Honors and awards[link]

Hinojosa has won many honors and awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Radio Award, the New York Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Award, the National Council of La Raza's Rubén Salazar Communications Award (named for Mexican American journalist Rubén Salazar), and an Associated Press award. In addition, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine for her work as a reporter for CBS, NPR, and CNN.

Books[link]

• Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son (ISBN 0-670-88445-6)
• Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

• Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One (official website)
• NPR bio
• Powerful Latinas profile
• 2007 Feature Interview with Maria Hinojosa on The Alcove with Mark Molaro
• "Telling the Truth — The Best in Broadcast Journalism", PBS, Maria Hinojosa, host. Documentary on the 2010 Dupont award winners.

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Farhad Manjoo in 2008

Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer for Slate magazine since 2008 and a regular on-air contributor for National Public Radio since 2009.^[1]

Life and career[link]

Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. While there, he wrote for and then served as editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper. He wrote for Wired News before taking a staff position at Salon.com. In July 2008, Manjoo announced he had accepted a job at Slate magazine, writing a twice-weekly technology column.

Manjoo frequently writes on technology and new media,^[2] politics,^[3] and controversies in journalism.^[4] He is the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-fact Society.^[5][6][7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Farhad Manjoo articles via Slate.com
• Farhad Manjoo articles via Salon.com
• Farhad Manjoo articles via byliner.com
• Farhad Manjoo pieces on NPR
• Farhad Manjoo blog
• Helen Bailey and Farhad Manjoo via NYTIMES.com

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