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Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of four books. The Catcher Was A Spy was a national bestseller; In the Country of Country was named one of the 86 all-time greatest works of travel literature by Conde Nast Traveler; The Fly…

Born in 1971, Michael Hersch began composing at the age of 19. His works have been commissioned and performed by Carnegie Hall, the Dallas Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Colorado Symphony and…

Derek Chollet served on the National Security Council Staff at the White House, where he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning. From 2009-2011, he served as the Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary of State…

George Tsontakis' is Composer-in-Residence with the Oxford (England) Philomusica and the Aspen Music Festival. Recent CDs include the acclaimed Four Symphonic Quartets, with James DePreist and Orchestra Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and pianist Stephen Hough's monumental recording of Ghost Variations was…

Katie Trumpener is Emily Sanford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale. She is the author of The Divided Screen, about German cinema. She was working on another book on modernist memories of early childhood, and an edited volume on the…

Martin Bresnick is completed his education at the University of Hartford, Stanford University, and the Akademie für Musik in Vienna. Among his teachers of composition have been György Ligeti, John Chowning and Gottfried von Einem. His compositions, which range from…

Aris Fioretos is the author of several works of fiction and scholarship, including English are Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan (1994), The Solid Letter: Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1999), as well as the literary essay The Gray Book (Stanford,…

Christopher Middleton was born in Truro, Cornwall, England, and had lived in Austin, Texas, since 1966. He published various books of poems and short prose since 1962. Middleton was also known for his translations, notably from German, including works by…

Richard Maxwell (1948-2010) was a poet, novelist, essayist, and a senior lecturer in comparative literature at Yale University. His scholarly career, spanning 30 years of teaching and writing, focused on the history of the novel and on the intersections between literature…

Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, received his PhD in 1975 from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has been an NEH Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute…