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All About Books offers two biographies- one on the best-known voices of the abolition movement, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom”, last year’s Pulitzer Prize winner in history by David Blight. And one of the least well-known founders of the country, the pioneering physician and thinker, Dr. Benjamin Rush who is featured in a new biography by Stephen Fried.
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Chigozie Obioma is a novelist and professor of English at UNL.
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An introductory list Horror novels and movies compiled by Robert Stock, Professor Emeritus of English Literature at UNL.
An introductory reading list for Graphic Novels compiled by Richard Graham, Associate Professor of Media Services at UNL.
Stephen Buhler is Vice Chair and Aaron Douglas Professor of English at UNL.
Kwame Dawes is a novelist, poet, professor of English at UNL and Editor of the Prairie Schooner.
George Ayoub is a retired journalist in Grand Island.
Aja Martin is the manager of Indigo Bridge Books and Café in Lincoln.
Kwakiutl Dreher is an Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at UNL. She regularly contributes movie reviews for NET Radio’s Friday Live program.
Mandy Gray is Executive Director and author of "Those Bunny Books" in Omaha.
Mary Pipher is a Psychologist and writer in Lincoln.
Sharon Bishop is a retired English teacher from Henderson Nebraska.
Clay Farris Naff is a freelance writer, a science and religion correspondent for the Humanist magazine. He is Executive Director of Lincoln Literacy.
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