Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries. In 2006 he was named a goodwill envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California. (Source: click to view) He is one of my favorite authors. His novels are extremely powerful and rewarding to read.
2. Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is another one of my favorite authors. Her novels are usually about pretty controversial subjects, which make them even more interesting to me. My favorite one is called Change of Heart. It is about a death row prisoner who makes a request to donate his heart post-execution, but with lethal injection, this is medically impossible. Source: http://www.jodipicoult.com/change-of-heart.html
3. Stephen Glass ( <-- click)
4. Harry Potter
Harry Potter is hands down my favorite book series. I reread them every summer and never get sick of them. There are so many fine details that even though I have read each of them at least ten times, I still am surprised at some parts. I am also very interested in the background of Harry Potter: how JK Rowling was inspired to write it and what not. For information on that, click here.
5. The Brothers Grimm
When I was a junior in high school, we spent a few weeks in my English class studying the Brothers Grimm and their stories. Disney adapted many of their stories and turned them in to animated films, all of which I am a huge fan of, so I loved reading the original stories. A lot of them are pretty gruesome. The first collection of their fairy tales was published in 1812 and contained over 200 stories. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm#Grimms_Tales)
6. Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
7. Al Gore: Did he invent the Internet?
The answer is "no," although he did help promote it. "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication."[52]
Souce: "Wikipedia." Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. <http://www.wikipedia.org>.
8. Paul Zak - Ted Talks
9. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992,[1] followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, sevenTony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and theKennedy Center Honors in 2006.[2][3]
Source: "Home | Andrew Lloyd Webber."Home | Andrew Lloyd Webber. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. <http://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/
10. Thomas Edison
11. Harry Potter series
The Harry Potter series set a new standard for fantasy books. They are incredible and reinvented the population's ideas of wizardry. For more information, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter
12. Meg Cabot
13. Barack Obama
14. Al Franken
15. Chelsea Handler
16. Christopher Paolini
17. Suzanne Collins
18. Richard Herrstein
Author of Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. For more information, click here.
19. Ken Kesey
20. Oprah
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