Role: Author

D.M. THOMAS was born in Cornwall in 1935 and now lives in Hereford, England. He is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Selected Poems, published in 1983; four translations (of works by Akhmatova, Pushkin, and Yevtushenko); and three novels—the most recent of which. The White Hotel, was an inter- national best-seller and winner of the Cheltenham Prize and the Los Angeles Times and P.E.N. fiction prizes.

Chris Bohjalian won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly "Best Book," and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into over 25 languages and twice become movies ("Midwives" and "Past the Bleachers").\