Rory MacLean is an author, broadcaster, blogger and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His nine books, including UK best-sellers ‘Stalin’s Nose’, ‘Under the Dragon’ and ‘Magic Bus’, have challenged and invigorated travel writing, and – according to the late John Fowles – are among works that ‘marvellously explain why literature still lives’. Born… Read more »
Rosemary’s Baby still courtesy of Paramount. Kim Wood is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer who grew up in Hollywood and lived in San Francisco and New York before making Berlin her home. Her films, based upon the histories of relatively unknown adventurers and eccentrics, have screened internationally in festivals and museums, including the Sundance Film… Read more »
Photograph by the author. Aura Rosenberg lives and works in New York City and Berlin with her husband John Miller and their daughter Carmen. Hatje Cantz published her book Who Am I? What Am I? Where Am I? last year. Other publications include Berliner Kindheit (Berlin Childhood) published by Steidl Verlag and Head Shots published… Read more »
Photograph by Carlos Barria/Reuters. Rose-Anne Clermont, a Haitian-American writer and journalist first came to Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1998. Her writing has appeared in International Herald Tribune, Die Zeit, Spiegel Online, The Root and The Women’s International Perspective and on her blog, Currents Between Shores. Her memoir, Buschgirl, will be published in… Read more »
Image courtesy of wikipedia Lawrence Douglas is the author of three books: The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (2001); Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Literature and Learning (with Alex George, 2004); and The Catastrophist, a novel (2006). His second novel, The Vices will appear next year. Last year, he was… Read more »
Clare Wigfall’s debut collection of stories The Loudest Sound and Nothing (Faber and Faber) was published in 2007. In 2008, she was awarded the BBC National Short Story Award for the opening story in the collection. Her work has been published in Prospect, A Public Space, New Writing 10, Tatler, and The Dublin Review, and has also… Read more »
Portrait of Hans Beimler courtesy of Gedenkstätte Deutscher Wilderstand. Robert A. LeVine is an anthropologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University. His most recent book is Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader (2008). He lives in Massachusetts but often visits his granddaughter in Berlin. Please click here to watch a music video of the… Read more »
Ralph Martin is a writer and journalist living in Prenzlauer Berg. He has written for the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, GQ, and other publications; his book Ein Amerikaner in Berlin, a comic ‘gonzo memoir’ in ten chapters of German-American culture shock, will appear on August 24 from Dumont Verlag. Visit his website at… Read more »
Sarah LeVine is a British-born anthropologist and writer who lives in Massachusetts. Her most recent book is The Saint of Kathmandu and Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands (Beacon Press, 2008).
