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Jessica Anthony

American novelist and Bates College lecturer who writes satirical, formally inventive fiction. Her novella The Most, about a 1957 housewife who climbs into an apartment pool and stays there, was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award.

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John Berger

British writer, art critic and painter John Berger wrote fiction, essays and collaborative works on images, labour and social experience. He is best known for Ways of Seeing and the Booker Prize-winning novel G.

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John Hersey

American journalist and novelist (1914-1993) who wrote Hiroshima, the 1946 account of six survivors of the atomic bomb. He also won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel A Bell for Adano and wrote fiction about the Warsaw ghetto.

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John Irving

American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter known for expansive, darkly comic fiction about family, identity, sexuality, memory and sudden loss.

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John M. Barry

John M. Barry is an American historian and nonfiction writer whose books examine epidemics, environmental disasters, politics and public policy.

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Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist who writes accessible nonfiction about morality, happiness, political division, childhood and technology.

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Joseph Mileck

Joseph Mileck (born 1922) taught German at UC Berkeley for four decades and became a leading Hesse scholar. He compiled the two-volume Hesse bibliography and, with Horst Frenz, revised the English Steppenwolf in 1963.

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Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn is an American author of historical romance, best known for the Bridgerton novels and their witty courtships, close-knit family dynamics and Regency settings.

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Julia Sanches

Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish into English, based in Providence, Rhode Island. She has translated works by Eva Baltasar, Susana Moreira Marques, Mariana Oliver, and others.

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Karen Armstrong

British author Karen Armstrong writes accessible histories of religion, tracing how beliefs, rituals and ethical traditions develop across cultures and centuries.

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Karl Polanyi

Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian economic historian and social theorist whose work examines how market systems reshape society, politics and human relationships.

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