Abdi Nor Iftin

Growing up in Somalia, Abdi Nor Iftin was known as Abdi American. He fell in love with the United States from afar, teaching himself English by watching movies like The Terminator...

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of sixteen books and the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her column Men & Women appears on the...

Richard Russo

Richard Russo is widely beloved and respected in the literary world and every new work is a cause for celebration. A masterful novelist, Russo has an uncanny sense of the...