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Michael Mason

Michael Mason (1941-2003) taught English at University College London. He wrote on Victorian sexuality and edited Lyrical Ballads and the Penguin Classics Jane Eyre.

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Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is an American civil rights lawyer, legal scholar and author who writes about race, mass incarceration and the criminal legal system.

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Min Jin Lee

Korean American novelist and essayist Min Jin Lee writes about migration, class, family and the Korean diaspora. She is best known for Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko.

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N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is an American writer of speculative fiction whose novels examine power, oppression, environmental catastrophe, family and belonging.

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Nancy MacLean

Nancy MacLean is an American historian of twentieth-century politics, race, labor, and social movements. Her books examine organized struggles over equality, public power, and democracy.

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Natalie Wexler

Natalie Wexler is an American education writer whose nonfiction examines literacy, classroom practice, and the role of knowledge in learning.

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Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk is a Western Shoshone historian whose nonfiction places Native peoples, nations, and sovereignty at the center of United States history.

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Neil Postman

American educator, media theorist, and cultural critic whose nonfiction examines schooling, technology, language, and the ways communication media shape public life.

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Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a Scottish-born historian whose narrative nonfiction examines finance, empire, war, institutions and political power.

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Nichola Smalley

Nichola Smalley is a London-based literary translator working from Swedish and Norwegian into English. Her translation of Andrzej Tichý's Wretchedness won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.

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Norman MacAfee

New York poet, translator and editor who died in 2024. With Lee Fahnestock he translated Victor Hugo's Les Misérables for Signet, and he also translated Pasolini and Sartre and published three books of poems.

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Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler was an American science-fiction writer whose lucid, unsettling novels examine power, race, gender, survival and humanity’s response to change.

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