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John Gunther
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John Horton Conway
British mathematician who invented the Game of Life. -- Photo Attribution: "Thane Plambeck", CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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John H. Walton
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John J. Mearsheimer
John Joseph Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. In accordance with his theory, Mearsheimer believes that China's growing power will likely bring it into conflict with the United States. In his 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Mearsheimer argues that the Israeli lobby wields disproportionate influence over US foreign policy. Source: John Mearsheimer on Wikipedia.
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John J. Wild
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John L. Esposito
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John Markoff
American journalist
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John McWhorter
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John Preston
John Preston, born in Medfield, Massachusetts, was an author of gay erotica and an editor of gay nonfiction anthologies. Preston was among the first writers to popularize the genre of safe sex stories, editing a safe sex anthology entitled Hot Living in 1985. He helped to found the AIDS Project of Southern Maine. In the late 1980s, he discovered that he himself was HIV positive. Some of his last essays, found in his nonfiction anthologies and in his posthumous collection Winter's Light, describe his struggle to come emotionally to terms with a disease that had already killed many of his friends and fellow writers.
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John Rechy
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John Reid Muir
A Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
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John R. Little
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John Rocco
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John Rothchild
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John Saxon
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John Sazaklis
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John Shelby Spong
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John Smith
English soldier, explorer, writer
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John Speirs
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John Steptoe
John Lewis Steptoe, creator of award-winning picture books for children, was born in Brooklyn on September 14, 1950 and was raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of that borough. He began drawing as a young child and received his formal art training at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan. He was a student in the HARYOU-ACT Art Program and instructed by the highly recognized African American oil painter, Norman Lewis. He continued his studies at the Vermont Academy, where he was instructed by sculptor John Torres, and by William Majors, a painter acclaimed by the Museum of Modem Art for his etchings and printmaking. His work first came to national attention in 1969 when his first book, STEVIE, appeared in its entirety in Life magazine, hailed as "a new kind of book for black children." Mr. Steptoe, who had begun work on Stevie at the age of 16, was then 18 years old. In his twenty-year career, Mr. Steptoe illustrated sixteen picture books, twelve of which he also wrote. The American Library Association named two of his books Caldecott Honor Books, a prestigious award for children's book illustration: THE STORY OF JUMPING MOUSE in 1985 and MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS in 1988. Mr. Steptoe twice received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, for MOTHER CROCODILE (text by Rosa Guy) in 1982, and for MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS in 1988. While all of Mr. Steptoe's work deals with aspects of the African American experience, MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS was acknowledged by reviewers and critics as a breakthrough. Based on an African tale recorded in the 19th century, it required Mr. Steptoe for the first time to research African history and culture, awakening his pride in his African ancestry. Mr. Steptoe hoped that his books would lead children, especially African American children, to feel pride in their origins and in who they are. "I am not an exception to the rule among my race of people," he said, accepting the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Illustration, "I am the rule. By that I mean there are a great many others like me where I come from." Mr. Steptoe frequently spoke to audiences of children and adults about his work. He was the 1989 winner of the Milner Award, voted by Atlanta schoolchildren for their favorite author. John Steptoe died on August 28, 1989 at Saint Luke's Hospital in Manhattan, following a long illness. He was 38 years old and lived in Brooklyn. Mr. Steptoe was among the handful of African American artists who have made a career in children's books. Biography from official John Steptoe site at http://www.johnsteptoe.com. Used with permission.
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John Townsend
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John Verdon
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John Waters
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. As an actor, Waters has appeared in films such as Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Seed of Chucky (2004), Excision (2012), and Suburban Gothic (2014). More recently, he performs in his touring one-man show This Filthy World. In addition to filmmaking and acting, Waters also works as an artist and across different mediums such as installations, photography, and sculpture. He has published multiple collections of his journalistic exploits, screenplays, ruminations, and artwork which exhibits regularly in galleries and museums around the world. In 2015, Waters was nominated for a Grammy Award for the spoken word version of his book Carsick, and again in 2020 for his book Mr. Know-It-All. In 2018, the government of France made him a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
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John Williams
American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), which won a U.S. National Book Award-Wikipedia
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John Wooden
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Jonah Berger
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Jonah Lehrer
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Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan David Haidt (/haɪt/; born October 19, 1963) is an American social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business,[1] and author. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions. Haidt's main scientific contributions come from the psychological field of moral foundations theory,[2] which attempts to explain the evolutionary origins of human moral reasoning on the basis of innate, gut feelings rather than logical reason.[3] The theory was later extended to explain the different moral reasoning and how they relate to political ideology, with different political orientations prioritizing different sets of morals.[4] The research served as a foundation for future books on various topics. Haidt has written three books for general audiences, including: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006) explores the relationship between ancient philosophies and modern science;[5] The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012) examines how morality is shaped by emotion and intuition more than by reasoning, and why differing political groups have different notions of right and wrong;[6] and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018), co-written with Greg Lukianoff, explores the rising political polarization and changing culture on college campuses, and its effects on mental health. Haidt has attracted both support and criticism for his critique of the current state of universities and his interpretation of progressive values.[7] He has been named one of the "top global thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the "top world thinkers" by Prospect magazine.[8][9] He is among the most cited researchers in political and moral psychology, and is considered among the top 25 most influential living psychologists
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Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen CM (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 picture book This Is Not My Hat, which he also wrote. He is the first person to win both awards for the same work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Klassen
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Jon L. Breen
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Jordan B. Peterson
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Jordan Horowitz
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Joseph A. DeVito
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Joseph Finder
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Joseph Gies
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Joseph H. Peterson
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Joseph Smith Fletcher
J. S. Fletcher (full name Joseph Smith Fletcher) was a British journalist, writer, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He studied law before turning to journalism. He was known as one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the early days of the Golden Age of Detection.
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Joseph S. Nye
American political scientist
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José Rodrigues dos Santos
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Joshua Harris
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Joyce A. Tyldesley
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Joyce Carol Thomas
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Joy Williams
Joy Williams (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her notable works of fiction include State of Grace, The Changeling, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. -Wikipedia
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J. P. Delaney
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J. R. Hale
Author of England and the Italian Renaissance
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J. T. Geissinger
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Juan Rulfo
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno (Apulco, Jalisco, 16 de mayo de 1917 - Ciudad de México, 7 de enero de 1986) fue un escritor, guionista y fotógrafo mexicano, perteneciente a la Generación del 52. Es considerado uno de los escritores latinoamericanos más importantes del siglo XX. Su reputación se asienta en dos de sus tres obras narrativas: el libro de cuentos El llano en llamas, publicado en 1953, y la novela Pedro Páramo, publicada en 1955. Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno (Apulco, Jalisco, May 16, 1917 - Mexico City, January 7, 1986) was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer, belonging to the Generation of '52. He is considered one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. His reputation is based on two of his three narrative works: the book of stories El llano en llamas, published in 1953, and the novel Pedro Páramo, published in 1955.
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Jude Morgan
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Judith James
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