About the Authors
Meera Nair was born and raised in India. She came to the United States in 1977 to study creative writing. Her collection of short stories, Video, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction in 2003. Other of her works have been heard on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and published in The Threepenny Review, The New York Times, and the anthology, Charlie Chan is Dead 2.
Benjamin M. Friedman is the William Joseph Maiser Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1972. He has written numerous scholarly books and articles on monetary economics, macroeconomics, and monetary and fiscal policy. His articles also appear in a wide range of popular and news publications including The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist and activist. He has written a dozen books and numerous essays and articles. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for various publications including Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review of Books. In 2007 he organized one of the largest demonstrations against global warming, the Step It Up national day of rallies. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.
Muhammad Yunus is the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, a micro-lending bank he started thirty years ago to lend small amounts of money to the rural poor in Bangladeshi villages. The bank now distributes over $1.5 million in micro-loans every day and is the model for banks in more than 100 countries worldwide. He is the recipient of numerous international awards for his ideas and endeavors, including the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
D.H. Lawrence, 1885 - 1930, was a writer and poet who produced works in his forty-four years of life that provoked controversy in his day and that have endured to ours for their insight into relationships found in families, between the sexes, and between man and nature. His best known works are the novels, Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1921), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).
