Teju Cole
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Teju Cole is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief; a novel, Open City; an essay collection, Known and Strange Things;
Cole in 2013
Gore Vidal
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving Ame
Teju Cole
…art history program at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, then pursued a doctorate in art history at Columbia University. He is the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cole is the author or co-author…
Vidal in 1948
Vidal at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 2008
Vidal's historical novel 1876 (1976)
Vidal (second from right) supporting the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike