Writer and critic Susan Sontag was born in New York and grew up in Arizona and California. Sontag entered University of California Berkeley when she was fifteen, and subsequently studied at University of Chicago, Harvard, and the University of Paris....

Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, American author and journalist Tom Wolfe obtained fame for his experimental writing style known as New Journalism, introduced in his 1968 novel The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Wolfe worked for...

David Halberstam [1934-] is one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define our era. In 1960, after having covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean, Ha...

John Updike (1932- ), a remarkably prolific American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania and graduated from Harvard in 1954. His considerable talent is evident from his writings, which reveal a well-controll...