Dennis Lehane: Author, Screenwriter, Producer.
DENNIS LEHANE has written 12 international best selling novels. Four of his novels – “Live by Night,” “Mystic River,” “Gone, Baby, Gone,” and “Shutter Island” – have been adapted into films. A fifth, “The Drop,” was adapted by Lehane himself into a film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini in his final role.
Read MoreThe Multi-Talented John Buffalo Mailer
JOHN BUFFALO MAILER is an award winning screenwriter, journalist, playwright, actor, and producer. Mailer was born in Brooklyn, the youngest child of two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Norman Mailer. His mother is author Norris Church Mailer.
Read MoreM.J. Fièvre: Author, Poet, Editor
M.J. FIÈVRE was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She moved to Miami, Florida in 2002. Her first mystery novel, Le Feu de la Vengeance, was self-published at the age of sixteen. At just nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Malefique. As of today, Fièvre has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles.
Read MoreJohn Waters: Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Actor, Stand-up Comedian, & Author
JOHN WATERS a filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist, born and raised in Baltimore. Waters rose to prominence in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972), and Female Trouble (1974)
Read MorePhilip Caputo: Author, Journalist, Vietnam Veteran
PHILIP CAPUTO is an author, journalist, and Vietnam veteran. Caputo has won 10 journalism and literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 (shared for team investigative reporting on voter fraud in Chicago), the Overseas Press Club Award in 1973, the Sidney Hillman Foundation award in 1977 (for A Rumor of War), the Connecticut Book Award in 2006, and the Literary Lights Award in 2007.
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