ThumbsUp for the Inspirational Kerry Gruson
KERRY GRUSON is an inspiration to all. Though permanently paralyzed at the age of 26, after being strangled and left for dead by a hallucinating Green Beret in Hawaii, the Harvard graduate worked for the New York Times for 27 years, and participates in competitive sports.. She is the co-founder of ThumbsUp International.
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The Multi-Faceted Aurin Squire, Playwright for “A Wonderful World”
AURIN SQUIRE is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and reporter. He is a recipient of the 2014 Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center and the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellowship at The Juilliard School. His new play, “A WONDERFUL WORLD,” premiered at the Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach in December, 2021.
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Charles Blow: NYT, BNC, and “The Devil You Know”
CHARLES M. BLOW has been a New York Times Opinion columnist since 2008. His column appears on Monday and Thursday. Mr. Blow joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director, a position he held for nine years. He is the author of “The Devil You Know” and “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” In May, 2021, “Prime with Charles Blow” premiered on the Black News Channel (BNC).
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Sandy Sheehy: “Imperiled Reef”
Author and journalist SANDY SHEEHY has written frequently on human relationships and the natural environment. She is the author of Texas Big Rich, a group portrait of the state’s financially fortunate, and Connecting: The Enduring Power of Female Friendship. Her first novel, Deserts of the Heart, is a multicultural historical romance set in 1798 near Santa Fe. Her third nonfiction book, Imperiled Reef: The Fascinating, Fragile Life of a Caribbean Wonder. “Drifting weightless above a coral head is the closest those of us alive today will ever come to visiting another planet,” she explains.
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Larissa MacFarquhar: Journalist, Author
LARISSA MACFARQUHAR has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her Profile subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Mantel, Derek Parfit, David Chang, and Aaron Swartz, among many others.
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