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David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer... Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois . He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes. The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis's field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Spain. Lewis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father, John Henry Lewis, Sr., graduated from Yale University School of Divinity and received an M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and was principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. His mother taught high school math. Lewis attended parochial school in Little Rock, then Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School in Ohio. When the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis attended Booker T.
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Jeffrey Carl Simpson, OC , is a Canadian journalist. He has been The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist for almost three decades. He has won... all three of Canada's leading literary prizes — the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. In January, 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. Simpson was born in New York and moved to Canada when he was 10 years old. He was educated at the University of Toronto Schools. He graduated from Queen's University in 1971 in History and Political Science. While at Queen's he worked for the campus radio station CFRC. He won the University's Tricolour Award in his graduating year. He then went on to the London School of Economics. In 1972–1973, he worked as a Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa where he worked for Ed Broadbent. A year later, he joined The Globe and Mail newspaper. His ongoing career with the Globe began at City Hall in Toronto and with coverage of Quebec politics.
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Arnon Milchan is one of the most prolific independent film producers in Hollywood history, having produced over 120 full-length motion pictures .... Mr. Milchan is also a former key Israeli intelligence operative from mid 1960's to the mid 1980's. Milchan produced many films such as The War of the Roses, Once Upon a Time in America, Pretty Woman, Natural Born Killers, Under Siege, The Devil's Advocate, The Fountain, Unfaithful, L.A. Confidential and many others. He is an Israeli citizen, and a resident of Israel. Milchan was born in Rehovot, British Mandate for Palestine, today's Israel, in 1944, to a father who owned a fertilizer company, which Milchan turned into a successful chemical business. He also earned a degree from the London School of Economics, before being recruited to LAKAM, a top secret Israeli intelligence organization responsible for obtaining technology and material for Israel's nuclear program, and other highly secretive programs. Milchan became involved in the American movie business in 1977, after an introduction to American producer Elliot Kastner.
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David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer... Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois . He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes. The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis's field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Spain. Lewis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father, John Henry Lewis, Sr., graduated from Yale University School of Divinity and received an M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and was principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. His mother taught high school math. Lewis attended parochial school in Little Rock, then Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School in Ohio. When the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis attended Booker T.
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Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and... International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. According to the Nobel Prize Committee, the prize was given for Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic concentration of wealth, by examining the impact of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services. Krugman is known in academia for his work on international economics , liquidity traps and currency crises. He is the 17th most widely cited economist in the world today and is ranked among the most influential academic thinkers in the US.
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Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academyand of... Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the elder brother of Anatol Lieven, and a brother of Elena Lieven. Dominic Lieven graduated first in the class of 1973 in history from Cambridge University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard in 1973/4. Lieven is seen as a world-authority on Russian history and post-Soviet politics; and on empire and European history. Notably in the areas of comparative imperial history; problems of political stability on the European periphery 1860-1939, and Russia's confrontation with Napoleon 1807-14.
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