WRichard Grenier was a neoconservative cultural columnist for The Washington Times and a film critic for Commentary and The New York Times. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated:Grenier's maniac, often barbed style is an acquired taste, not recommended to those who prefer polite commentary. He scores against both the administration and Hollywood, two of his preferred topics... He takes no prisoners.
WNeil Rolde was an American historian, author, philanthropist, and politician. Rolde grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, and attended Phillips Academy in Andover. He earned a BA in English Literature at Yale University and a masters in journalism at Columbia University. He worked as a film scriptwriter before moving to Maine with his wife, Carlotta Florsheim, to raise their family.
WTaiye Selasi is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome.
WRachel Frances Shaw is an American actress, writer, director and producer. She is best known for playing Bridgette Bird on the Showtime series SMILF, based on the 2015 short film of the same title, which she wrote, directed and starred in. Shaw is also known for playing Mary Jo Cacciatore on the 2010–2011 Spike TV series Blue Mountain State, and her recurring role as Shayla Nico in the first season of the USA Network television series Mr. Robot.
WWilliam John Simmons III is an American sports analyst, author, podcaster, and former sports writer who is the founder and CEO of the sports and pop culture website The Ringer. Simmons first gained attention with his website as "The Boston Sports Guy" and was recruited by ESPN in 2001, where he eventually operated the website Grantland and worked until 2015. At ESPN, he wrote for ESPN.com, hosted his own podcast on ESPN.com titled The B.S. Report, and was an analyst for two years on NBA Countdown.
WJean Ann Smith was an American diplomat, activist, humanitarian, and author who served as United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1998. She was a member of the Kennedy family, the eighth of nine children and youngest daughter born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald. Her siblings included President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She was also the sister-in-law of Jacqueline Kennedy.
WJohn Lawson Stoddard was an American writer, hymn writer and lecturer who gained popularity through his travelogues.
WTheodore Lothrop Stoddard was an American white supremacist and nazist historian, journalist, and political scientist.
WGeorge Makepeace Towle was an American lawyer, politician, and author. He is best known for his translations of Jules Verne' s works, in particular his 1873 translation of Around the World in Eighty Days.