Vasili Grossman (12 December 1905 – 14 September 1964, http://grossmanweb.eu/en/home.asp/) was a Soviet Russian writer and journalist. A Ukrainian Jew, he was trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed his career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he became

Margaret Atwood (http://margaretatwood.ca/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood) is a hugely respected and loved writer, having been shortlisted for The Booker Prize five times. Her novel of 2003, Oryx and Crake displays her accomplished style, and profound meditations, to good effect. The summary is as follows. Snowman may be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Once he

Pat Conroy (born October 26, 1945, http://www.patconroy.com/) is an American bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_literature). In The Prince of Tides

Jeffrey Eugenides (born March 8, 1960, http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jeffrey-eugenides#/) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National