Jan 30, 2022
Terry O'Reilly is a
Canadian broadcast producer and personality best known for hosting
the CBC radio/podcast programs O'Reilly on Advertising, The Age
of Persuasion, and Under the Influence, which
together have been downloaded more than 40 million times. His
programs examine the cultural and sociological impact...
Jan 23, 2022
Margaret Atwood is a
Canadian novelist, essayist, poet, teacher, environmental activist,
and inventor. She has written plenty of books, many of them
prize-winners. For example, she's won "two Booker Prizes (latest in
2019, co-winner, for The Testaments), the Arthur C. Clarke
Award, the Governor General's Award, the...
Jan 17, 2022
Hermione Lee was
President of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is Emeritus
Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford
University. She is a biographer and critic whose work includes
biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006) and
Penelope Fitzgerald (2013, winner of the 2014...
Jan 10, 2022
"After working in computer systems analysis for a decade, John Burnside became a full-time writer in 1994. John has published 14 books of poetry, and has won the Geoffrey Faber Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Petrarca Preis and, most recently, the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes for his poetry. He has also...
Jan 1, 2022
Jaleen Grove is a Canadian artist and art historian whose area of focus is the history of illustration in the US and Canada. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design, has written monographs on illustrators Oscar Cahén and Walter Haskell Hinton and has served as associate editor for the Journal of...