Beverly & Anders Gyllenhaal: For the Birds
Retired from long careers in journalism, BEVERLY & ANDERS GYLLENHAAL have been documenting vanishing populations of birds since 2010, producing the website https://flyinglessons.us/ and authoring the book “A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds.”
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Judy Rakowsky: Journalist, Author
JUDY RAKOWSKY is the author of the critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction book “Jews in the Garden.” A career journalist, she spent decades on deadline as an award-winning reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, People Magazine, the Providence Journal, and other outlets.
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Bill Littlefield: It’s Not Just a Game
BILL LITTLEFIELD (b.1948) served as the host of National Public Radio and WBUR’s Only A Game program from its inception in 1993 until July 2018. He covered a wide range of mainstream as well as offbeat sports events from the United States and around the world. Since 2018 he has been working with the Emerson Prison Initiative, teaching incarcerated men at MCI-Concord.
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Lawrence Wright: Master Storyteller
LAWRENCE WRIGHT is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1992.
He is the author of 15 books. His book “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” (Knopf, 2006), has been translated into 25 languages and won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. It was made into a series for Hulu in 2018, starring Jeff Daniels, Alec Baldwin, and Tahar Rahim. He also wrote the screenplay for the film “The Siege,” starring Denzel Washington, Annette Benning, and Bruce Willis.
