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June 22, 1995 • Volume 42, Number 11

LETTERS

Contributors

April Bernard’s most recent collection of poems is Romanticism. A novel, Miss Fuller, will be coming out in the spring.
 (December 2011)

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. Over the course of his long and prolific career he published works in many genres, including criticism (The Captive Mind), fiction (The Issa Valley), memoir (Native Realm), and poetry (New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001). He was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. He died in 2004.

Rosemary Dinnage’s books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art.
 (December 2011)

Václav Havel, one of the six signers of the statement “Tibet: The Peace of the Graveyard,” is former president of the Czech Republic. (May 2008)

Pico Iyer’s most recent book is The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. His next book, The Man Within My Head, on hauntedness, Graham Greene, and fathers, will be out next March.
 (May 2011)

Alfred Kazin’s most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Peter Partner’s books include Arab Voices and The Pope’s Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. He is the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, the National Book Award–winning Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. He has also written short stories, essays, and screenplays, and published a short story collection, Bear and His Daughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City and in Key West, Florida.

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut’s Civil War and The Old World’s New World. (February 1998)

Patricia Storace is the author of Heredity, a book of poems, Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece, and Sugar Cane, a children’s book. She lives in New York.

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the author of numerous novels and collections of essays, including The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and most recently, Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism.

David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, England. His novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, and Author, Author. His most recent works of criticism are Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

Jonathan Mirsky is a journalist and historian of China. Until 1998 he was East Asia editor of The Times of London. (October 2011)