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\"VictoriaVictoria Christopher Murray, 2024<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Victoria Christopher Murray is the New York Times and USA Today best selling author of more than 30 novels, including the New York Times Instant Best Sellers, The Personal Librarian and The First Ladies. Both novels, Victoria co-wrote with Marie Benedict.<\/p>\n

A native New Yorker, Victoria Christopher Murray attended Hampton University where she majored in Communication Disorders. After graduating, Victoria attended New York University\u2019s Stern Business School where she received her MBA in Marketing. Victoria spent ten years in Corporate America before she tested her entrepreneurial spirit. She opened a Financial Services Agency for Aegon, USA where she managed the number one division for nine consecutive years. However, Victoria always dreamed of writing and in 1997, she pursued her dream.<\/p>\n

Victoria originally self-published her first novel, Temptation and in 2000, Time Warner published that novel. Temptation remained on the Essence bestsellers list for nine consecutive months. In 2001, Victoria received her first NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literature with Temptation. Over her career, Victoria has received numerous awards including the Phyllis Wheatley Trailblazer Award, the Delta Sigma Theta Osceola Award for Excellence in the Arts, Go On Girl Book Club Author of the Year, eleven African American Literary Awards and five NAACP Image Award nominations. In 2016, she won the Image Award for Outstanding Literature for her social commentary novel, Stand Your Ground.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grace Cho, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details\u2014language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War<\/em> is a hybrid text about a daughter\u2019s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother\u2019s schizophrenia. In her mother\u2019s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her mother\u2019s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother\u2019s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her\u2014but also the things that kept her alive.<\/p>\n

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David Grann, 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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David Grann, author, Lost City of Z<\/p><\/div>\n

New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>writer and bestselling author of\u00a0Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Lost City of Z,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>David Grann<\/strong>\u00a0doesn\u2019t just produce captivating stories\u2014he lives them. Whether crossing the ocean on a skiff or trekking for months through the Amazon, Grann immerses himself in his reporting to give his stories a pace and intensity unlike any other.<\/p>\n

In his talks, Grann explores his creative process\u2014from what initially inspires him to investigate a story to his painstaking research and then links the (often) forgotten histories to their relevance to today.<\/p>\n

Grann\u2019s latest book,\u00a0Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI<\/em>, \u00a0is\u00a0a true crime tale\u00a0that\u00a0unravels one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. With more than 30 weeks on\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>nonfiction bestseller list, it was a finalist for the National Book Award and ranked #1 on both Shelf Awareness and Amazon\u2019s Single Best Books of the Year.\u00a0The\u00a0PBS NewsHour-New York Times\u00a0Book\u00a0<\/em>club, \u2018Now Read This,\u2019 selected\u00a0Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em>\u00a0for their\u00a0February 2018\u00a0<\/a>read. Following a highly publicized bidding war for the film rights,\u00a0Killers of the Flower Moon\u00a0<\/em>is now in production\u00a0with Martin Scorcese as director and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n

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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, 2021\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is a writer and historian and currently teaches at Rutgers University where she is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History. Her work focuses on the uncomfortable concepts of slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality. She is the author of\u00a0Never Caught: The Washingtons\u2019 Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge<\/em>,\u00a0which was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction and received the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award. A startling and eye-opening look into America\u2019s First Family,\u00a0Never Caught<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington\u2019s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation\u2019s capital and reach freedom. Dunbar gives readers a glimpse into the life of a little-known, but powerful figure in American history and the ensuing manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property.<\/p>\n

An accomplished scholar, Dunbar was named the National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) in 2019, an organization dedicated to continuing the advancement for the study of black women\u2019s history. In 2011, she also became the Inaugural Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, a position she held until 2018. An in-demand speaker on the lecture circuit, Dunbar gives audiences an intimate look at the often-overlooked stories that make our country\u2019s history so richly diverse.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Rebecca Root, 2020\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

A member of the School of Humanities and Global Studies, Professor Rebecca Root joined Ramapo in 2009. She earned her B.A. from Eckerd College and her Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts Amherst. During her tenure with Ramapo, she has directed the College\u2019s Honors Program and taught courses focused on political science, Latin America, and human rights. Her research interests and scholarly activity have focused on transitional justice, Civil-Military Relations, South America, and human rights trials. Click here<\/a> to view her faculty profile.<\/p>\n

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Camron Wright, 2019\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Camron Wright began writing to get out of attending MBA school at the time, and it proved the better decision. His first book,\u00a0Letters for Emily<\/em>, was a\u00a0Readers Choice<\/em>\u00a0Award winner, as well as a selection of the\u00a0Doubleday Book Club<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Literary Guild<\/em>.\u00a0Letters for Emily<\/em> has been published in North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, and China. His next book,\u00a0The Rent Collector<\/em>, won Best Novel of the Year from the Whitney Awards and was a nominee for the prestigious\u00a0International DUBLIN Literary Award<\/em>.\u00a0The Orphan Keeper<\/em>\u00a0won 2016 Book of the Year, Gold accolades in Multicultural Fiction from\u00a0Foreword Reviews<\/em>, and was winner of Best General Fiction from the Whitney Awards.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Ko, 2018\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Lisa Ko\u00a0is the author of The Leavers<\/em>, a novel which won the 2016 PEN\/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2018 PEN\/Hemingway Award, and the 2017 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. Her writing has appeared in\u00a0Best American Short Stories 2016, The<\/em> New York Times,<\/em>\u00a0BuzzFeed<\/em>, <\/em>O. Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the MacDowell Colony, among others.<\/p>\n

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Jon Ronson, 2017\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/em>\u00a0(2004) and The Psychopath Test\u00a0<\/em>(2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist and\u00a0is known for his informal but skeptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in British publications such as The Guardian<\/em>, City Life<\/em>, and Time Out<\/em>.\u00a0He has made several BBC Television documentary films and two documentary series for Channel 4. His book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed<\/em>, served as the College’s 2017 Summer Reading Selection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Claudia Rankine, 2016\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including\u00a0<\/span>Citizen: An American Lyric\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<\/span>Don\u2019t Let Me Be Lonely<\/em>; two plays including\u00a0<\/span>Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue<\/em>; numerous video collaborations, and is the editor of several anthologies including\u00a0<\/span>The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>For\u00a0Citizen<\/i>, Rankine\u00a0<\/span>won\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>Forward Prize for Poetry<\/span>, the\u00a0<\/span>National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (<\/span>Citizen<\/em>\u00a0was also nominated in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award\u2019s history to be a double nominee),\u00a0<\/span>the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the NAACP Image Award<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0A finalist for the National Book Award,\u00a0<\/span>Citizen<\/em>\u00a0also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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H\u00e9ctor Tobar, 2015\"L_main_Tobar_H-125x125\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

H\u00e9ctor Tobar is a Los Angeles born author and journalist. His fourth book entitled Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free <\/em>was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2014. It recounts the collective story of the miners who were trapped for an unprecedented 69 days in 2010. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.<\/p>\n

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Sonia Nazario, 2014\"Sonia<\/h3>\n

Sonia Nazario has spent more than 20 years reporting and writing about social issues. Her stories have tackled some of this country\u2019s most intractable problems including hunger, drug addiction, and immigration. Based on the Los Angeles Times<\/em> newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, Enrique\u2019s Journey<\/em> puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States.<\/p>\n

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\"Keen\"Andrew Keen, 2013<\/h3>\n

Andrew Keen is one of the world’s leading thinkers about our digital future. He is the author of the international hit The Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is Killing our Culture, <\/em>which has been published in 17 different languages and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. Andrew’s latest book about the social media revolution, Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us, <\/em>(Macmillan\/ May 2012) has already been acclaimed around the world as a brilliant critique of Facebook, Twitter, and today’s Web 3.0 revolution.<\/p>\n

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\"Nugent-2\"Benjamin Nugent, 2012<\/h3>\n

“Benjamin Nugent is the author of\u00a0American Nerd<\/a><\/em>, a cultural history of the nerd mixed with memoir (Scribner, 2008), and\u00a0Good Kids<\/em><\/a>, a novel (Scribner, coming in January, 2013). Born in Massachusetts in 1977, he was educated at Reed College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Op\/Ed page, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. Director of Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, he teaches in its MFA and undergraduate programs.”<\/p>\n

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\"James-Loewen3\"James Loewen, 2011<\/h3>\n

James “Jim” Loewen taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont. Previously he taught at predominantly black Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research on how Americans remember their past. Lies across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong came out in 1999. The Gustavus Myers Foundation named his book, Sundown Towns, a “Distinguished Book of 2005.” In 2010, Teachers College Press brought out Teaching What Really Happened, intended to give K-12 teachers (and prospective teachers) solutions to the problems pointed out in Loewen\u2019s earlier works.<\/p>\n

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David Walton, 2010<\/h3>\n

Dr. David Walton earned his BA from Augustana College in 1998 and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2003. Dr. Walton is currently an associate physician and hospitalist in the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He divides his time between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the H\u00f4pital de Lascahobas in Haiti, where he serves as the associate director of the hospital. In Haiti, he works extensively with Dr. Paul Farmer and Partners in Health, whose mission is \u201cto provide a preferential option for the poor in healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Zaslow, 2009<\/h3>\n

Jeffrey Zaslow is a columnist for\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0and co-author of the current international bestseller\u00a0The Last Lecture<\/em>. His column, \u201cMoving On,\u201d focuses on life transitions and often attracts wide media interest. That was certainly the case in September 2007, after Zaslow attended the final lecture of the late Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch. Zaslow\u2019s column about the talk sparked a worldwide phenomenon. Tens of millions of people have since viewed footage of the lecture on the Internet and on television.<\/p>\n

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Natalie Angier, 2008<\/h3>\n

Natalia Angier was born in New York in 1958. She attended the University of Michigan for two years and then transferred to Barnard College in New York. In\u00a0The Canon<\/em>, Angier draws on conversations with hundreds of the world\u2019s top scientists, and her own work as a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, to create a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. It is vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time\u2014 from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming.<\/p>\n

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Ishamel Beah, 2007<\/h3>\n

In\u00a0A Long Way Gone<\/em>, Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he had been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.<\/p>\n

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Eric Schlosser, 2006<\/h3>\n

Eric Schlosser has been investigating the fast food industry for years. In 1998, his two-part article on the subject in\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0generated more mail than any other item the magazine had run in years. In addition to writing for\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>, Schlosser has contributed to\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0and has been a correspondent for the\u00a0Atlantic Monthly<\/em>\u00a0since 1996. He won a National Magazine Award for \u201cReefer Madness\u201d and \u201cMarijuana and the Law\u201d and has received a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Reporting. His
\nwork has been nominated for several other National Magazine Awards and for the Loeb Award for business journalism.<\/p>\n

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Azar Nafisi, 2005<\/h3>\n

Azar Nafisi is best-known as the author of the national bestseller\u00a0Reading Lolita in<\/em>\u00a0Tehran: A Memoir in Books<\/em>, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. Earning high acclaim and an enthusiastic readership,\u00a0Reading Lolita in Tehran<\/em>\u00a0is an insightful exploration of the persuasive and transformative powers of fiction in a world of tyranny. The book has spent over 70 weeks on the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller list to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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