Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and youngest child of sharecropper parents. Her childhood in the rural American South during the era of Jim Crow segregation profoundly shaped her worldview and her art. A childhood accident left her blind in one eye, and the resulting self-consciousness drove her…
Tara Westover was born on September 27, 1986, in Clifton, Idaho, the youngest of seven children in a survivalist family that operated largely outside mainstream American society. Her father, a fervent believer in government conspiracies and the imminent end of the world, kept his children away from public schools and hospitals. Westover grew up working…
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist born in Nagasaki, Japan. Author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and Klara and the Sun, his work explores memory, loss, and self-deception through some of the most precisely controlled prose in contemporary fiction.