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November 2007 Featured Authors


Elizabeth Gilbert | Vicente Fox | Adrienne Clarkson | Michael Adams
 

Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares—and a novel, Stern Men. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review.

 

Vicente Fox

Vicente Fox Vicente Fox, born in Mexico in 1942, was the president of Mexico from 2000-2006. Before being elected president he was a rancher, bootmaker, Coca-Cola CEO, and governor.

 

Adrienne Clarkson

Adrienne Clarkson Adrienne Clarkson became Canada's twenty-sixth Governor General in 1999 and served until September 2005. In her multi-faceted career as an accomplished broadcaster and distinguished public servant, she has received numerous prestigious awards and honorary degrees in Canada and abroad. A Privy Councillor and Companion of the Order of Canada, she now lives in Toronto.

 

Michael Adams

Michael Adams Michael Adams is president of the Environics group of marketing research and communications consulting companies with offices in the United States and Canada. He has written three bestselling books, including Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values, which won the prestigious 2004 Donner Prize for the best book on public policy in Canada.