: advisory board :
Daniel Bell
earned his B.S.S. from C.C.N.Y. in 1939 and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1960. From 1948-1958, he served as the labor editor for Fortune magazine, and from 1959-1969, he was a professor of sociology at Columbia. Bell then accepted a professorship at Harvard, where he became the Henry Ford II Professor of Sociology in 1980. He retired in 1990.
In addition to his teaching career, Bell has been involved with a number of social and academic organizations. From 1957-1961, he served on the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Sociological Association. Bell was the president of the Caribbean Studies Association in 1979, and the vice-president of the Pacific Sociological Association from 1960-1961 and the International Studies Association from 1970-1971.
Bell’s works include Work and Its Discontent (1956), The Reforming of Education: The Columbia College Experience in Its National Setting (1966), Marxian Socialism in the United States (1967), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976). He has edited The New American Right (1955, revised edition published in 1963 as The Radical Right), Towards the Year 2000: Work in Progress (1967), and Confrontation: The Student Rebellion and the Universities (1969, editor and contributor with Irving Kristol). Bell has also served on the editorial board of American Scholar, edited Daedalus, and co-edited Public Interest.
Bell published “Crime as an American Way of Life” (1953), “Socialism: The Dream and the Reality” (1952), and “Japanese Notebook” (1958) in the Antioch Review.
Warren Bennis
received his B.A. at Antioch College in 1951 and earned a Ph.D. in economics and social science from MIT. He has held positions at MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard University, Boston University, and was president of University of Cincinnati. Since 1979 Bennis has served as University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business and Adminstration at the University of Southern California, in Santa Monica. Bennis is also the founding chairman of USC Marshall School’s distinguished Leadership Institute.
Bennis has been a keen observer of organization and leadership for more than four decades. He has authored more than 25 books including Leaders and On Becoming a Leader which were national bestsellers. Two of his books earned the McKinsey Award for the best book of management. An Invented Life, a collection of essays, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, Psychology Today, and the Harvard Business Review.
Bennis has received many awards throughout his academic career including the Distinguished Service Award of the American Board of Professional Psychologists and the Perry L. Rohrer Consulting Practicing Award of the American Psychology Association. Warren Bennis is known internationally as an expert on the subject of leadership.
T(homas) Coraghessan Boyle
received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1970, and his Ph.D. from Iowa University in 1977. He began teaching that year at the University of Southern California, where he is now a professor of fiction writing. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977, the Faulkner Award for World’s End in 1989, and the PEN Award for Short Story for his collection If the River was Whiskey in 1990.
Esquire published Boyle’s first well-known short story, “Heart of a Champion,” in 1975. A collection of short stories, The Descent of Man, appeared in 1979 and his first novel, Water Music, was published in 1982. Boyle also published Budding Prospects (1984), World’s End (1987), East is East (1991), The Road to Wellville (1993), Without a Hero (1995), and Tortilla Curtain (1995). His latest novel, Riven Rock, was published in 1998.
Boyle’s short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Times Book Review, Playboy, the Georgia Review , and the Paris Review. Recent short fiction includes “Achates McNeil” in the New Yorker, July 1995; “She Wasn’t Soft” in the New Yorker, September 1995; “Killing Babies,” also in the New Yorker, March 1997, and “After the Plague” in Playboy, 1998.
The Antioch Review first published Boyle’s “Hostages” in 1978. This was followed by “A Bird in Hand” (1983), “Rupert Beersley and the Beggar Master of Sivani-Hoota” (1985), “The Devil and Irv Cherniske” (1988), “Little Fur People” (1997), and “Fondue” (1999).
Gerald Early
received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1980 and 1982. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and Director of the African and Afro-American Studies Program.
Early’s publications include Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture (1990), My Soul’s High Song (editor, 1991), The Selected Writings of Countee Cullen (editor, 1991), The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Literature, Prizefighting, and Modern American Culture (1991), Speech and Power: The African-American Essay and its Cultural Content from Polemics to Pulpit (V. 1 and 2) (1993), Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and Ambivalence of Assimilation (1993), Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood (1994), and One Nation Under Groove: Motown and American Culture (1996).
His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Hungry Mind Review, the New Republic, and Harper’s. He was a consultant to the Ken Burns baseball documentary on PBS and has been a frequent commentator for National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air.” He is currently at work on a book about Fisk College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Early was awarded a grant from the Missouri Commitee for the Humanities in 1983, and received a Council of the Creative and Performing Arts Creative Writing Award in 1978. In 1988, he won the Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award for Tuxedo Junction, and in 1994, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for The Culture of Bruising. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Early’s “Waiting for Miss America,” first published in the Antioch Review, was included in Tuxedo Junction. The Antioch Review also published his “The Romance of Toughness” (1987), “The Unique Kingdom of Providence: The Patterson-Liston Fight” (1990) and “The Color Purple as Everybody’s Protest Art” (1986). Most recently he contributed to our special jazz issue with an essay entitled “Ode to John Coltrane: A Jazz Musician’s Influence on African American Culture” (1999).
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
earned her B.A. in political science from Antioch College in 1955. After graduate work at both the University of Chicago Law School and the New School for Social Research, she earned her M.A. from the latter institution in 1960, and received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 1968.
Epstein has taught at Finch College, Barnard College, Queens College, and Columbia University, and has also been a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Her work has been advanced through grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Eastern Sociological Society, and has also served, between 1974 and 1975, on an advisory committee on the economic role of women of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. From 1984-1995, she was a trustee of Antioch University.
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s writings focus on the study of women in the working world. Her work considers issues such as child rearing, role conflict, professions, women’s status in radical movements, women in the legal profession, and other gender informed topics. Her writings include Woman’s Place: Options and Limits in Professional Careers (edited with William J. Good, 1970), The Other Half: Roads to Women’s Equality (edited with Rose Laub Coser, 1971), Access to Power: Cross National Studies of Women and Elites (1981), and Women in Law (edited with Rose Laub Coser, 1981). Her most recent work is The Part-time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Lives, Family, and Gender, which appeared in 1999.
Epstein published “The Times as Cornerstone” in 1977, and “On the Non-Work Aspects of Work” in 1991, in the Antioch Review.
Fred I. Greenstein
earned his undergraduate degree from Antioch College in 1953 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1960. He also completed post-doctoral study at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute from 1961-62. Since then, he has taught political science at Yale, Wesleyan University, Princeton University, the University of Essex, and the University of Virginia. In addition to these professorships, Greenstein has also served as the director of the Political Science Research Library at Yale, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a member of the political science advisory panel for the National Science Foundation.
Greenstein’s publications include An Introduction to Political Analysis, 1962; The American Party System and the American People , 1963; Children and Politics , 1965; Personality and Politics: Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization, 1969; The Dynamics of American Politics , 1976; and The Evolution of the Modern Presidency , 1977. He has also contributed to the following compilations: Politics and Social Life, ed. Nelson Polsby et. al, 1963; The Kennedy Assassination and the American Public, ed. Bradley Greenberg and Edwin Parker, 1965; The American Party Process , ed. Norman L. Zucker, 1968; and Political Power and the Urban Crisis , ed. Alan Shank, 1969. His writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Political Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and New Society.
In 1968, Greenstein was honored with a senior post-doctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He also received a fellowship in political science from the Ford Foundation in 1972 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976.
Greenstein’s essay, “The President Who Led by Seeming Not To: A Centennial View of Dwight Eisenhower,” appeared in the Antioch Review in 1991.
Amy Hempel
is a short story writer, journalist and university professor.
Hempel is one of America’s premier short story writers. In 2006 Scribner’s published The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel to critical acclaim. Her first story collection, Reason to Live, published in 1985 won the Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal. Hempel is also the author of The Dog of the Marriage (2005), Tumble Home (1997), and At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990). Her stories, articles, and essays have appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s, and Playboy, and in several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.
Hempel has won several prestigious literary awards, including the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has served as a judge for the National Book Award, The PEN/Revson Award, The PEN/ Hemingway Award, and the Mary McCarthy Prize among others.
A native of Chicago and a graduate of Whittier College, Hempel teaches in the graduate writing programs at Sarah Lawrence and the New School.
Gordon Lish
received his B.A. from the University of Arizona, and after a year of graduate work at San Franciso State College, became a broadcaster and instructor of English, and by 1963, the editor-in-chief and director of linguistic studies at the Behavioral Research Laboratories in Menlo Park, California. In 1969, he became the fiction editor for Esquire magazine, and for the next eight years, published the work of well-established writers such as Paley and Cheever, and introduced the magazine’s readership to new talents such as Barry Hannah and T. Coraghessan Boyle. In 1977 he accepted an editorship with Alfred A. Knopf and since 1974 has also been editor of GordonLish/McGraw Hill Books. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and New York University.
While at Esquire, Lish edited two anthologies of short fiction, The Secret Life of Our Times: New Fiction from Esquire (1973) and All of Our Secrets are the Same: New Fiction from Esquire (1977). In 1983, he published his first novel, Dear Mr. Capote , to much acclaim: it is the story of a murderer who offers the novelist Truman Capote a chance to write his biography. Since then, Lish has also published What I Know so Far , a collection of short stories, in 1984; Peru , a novel, in 1985; Epigraph, a novel, in 1996; Arcade: Or How to Write a Novel, in 1998; and Krupp’s Lulu, forthcoming in 2000. He edited The Quaterly between 1987 and 1996.
Lish was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984. He has also received three awards for his editing work, one from the American Society of Magazine editors in 1971, for distinguished editing in fiction, and two more from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1971 and 1975, for distinguished editing in fiction and nonfiction, respectively.
Lish has published several short stories in the Antioch Review. “For Jerome–with Love and Kisses,” published in the summer 1983 issue, won an O. Henry Award. “The Merry Chase,” published in the winter 1985 issue, was selected for the 1986-87 Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Jay W. Lorsch
is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of over a dozen books, the most recent of which are Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Boards for a Complex World (with Colin B. Carter, 2003), Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (with Thomas J. Tierney, 2002), and Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America’s Corporate Boards (1989). Organization and Environment (with Paul R. Lawrence) won the Academy of Management’s Best Management Book of the Year Award and the James A. Hamilton Book Award of the College of Hospital Administrators in 1969.
Lorsch has taught in all of Harvard Business School’s educational programs, and is currently Chairman of the Harvard Business School Global Corporate Governance Initiative and Faculty Chairman of the Executive Education Corporate Governance Series. As a consultant, he has had as clients such diverse companies as Ameritech, Applied Materials, the Bank of Montreal, Citicorp, Chubb and Sons, Coopers & Lybrand, Corning Glass, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Merck Sharp and Dohme and Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. He is a Director of Computer Associates International, Inc. and a member of the Advisory Board of U.S. Foodservice.
A 1955 graduate of Antioch College, he earned a M.S. degree in Business from Columbia University in 1956, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1964. From 1956-59, he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Finance Corp.
Lorsch is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
A. G. (Ann Grace) Mojtabai
earned her B.A. in philosophy from Antioch College in 1958, and earned an M.A., also in philosophy, and an M.S., in library science, from Columbia University in 1968 and 1970. She has lived abroad in Iran and Pakistan for several years. Currently she teaches at the University of Tulsa.
Mojtabai’s first novel, Mundome , received excellent reviews when it was published in 1974. It is the story of a brother, his institutionalized sister, and the brother’s misplaced sexual attraction for her; toward the end, “the book erupts with dramatic clues that flare backward and forward through the narrative like thin, ignited trains of gunpowder…” says reviewer Timothy Foote in an article for Time.
Mojtabai’s subsequent publications have also been favorably received. In 1976 she published The 400 Eels of Sigmund Freud , followed by A Stopping Place in 1979, Autumn in 1982, Ordinary Time in 1989, and Called Out in 1994. She has also published a non-fiction work called Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas in 1997 and a collection of short stories called Soon: Tales from the Hospice in 1998.
Her work has been reviewed in the New York Book Review, the New Republic, Time, New Yorker, Saturday Review, Nation and many other journals and magazines. Her story, “Isolation” (1997), appeared in the Antioch Review and is included in Soon: Tales from Hospice.
Sylvia Nasar
is a journalist, economist and author of A Beautiful Mind. She is the Knight Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. Prior to that she conducted research at the Institute for Economic Analysis with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontif, was an economics reporter at The New York Times, a writer at Fortune and a columnist at U.S. News & World Report. Among her other credits, she has been a Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation; a DeWitt Wallace Fellow, MacDowell Colony; a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; and a visiting fellow, Kings and Churchill Colleges, Cambridge University.
A Beautiful Mind won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Helen Bernstein Journalism Award, and the Rhone Poulenc Prize for Science Writing. Translated into more than a half dozen foreign languages, A Beautiful Mind inspired the movie of the same name.
Nasar was born in Germany, grew up in New York, Washington, D.C., and Ankara. A 1970 graduate of Antioch College, she earned her M.A. in Economics at New York University. In addition to teaching, Nasar is working on a book about twentieth-century economic thinkers.
David St. John
earned his bachelor’s degree from California State University in 1972, and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1974. He began his teaching career at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he taught from 1975 to 1977, before moving to Baltimore to teach in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, from 1977 to 1987. Since 1987, he has taught at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
St. John is the author of seven books of poetry. His most recent collection, The Red Leaves of Night, was published in 1999. His first book, Hush , appeared in 1976, followed by The Shore in 1980, The Man in the Yellow Gloves: A Poem in 1984, No Heaven in 1985, Terraces of Rain (illustrated by Antoine Predock) in 1991, and Study for the World’s Body: New and Selected Poems in 1994. He is also a contributor to a number of periodicals, including The New Yorker, Antaeus, Georgia Review, Partisan Review, and Poetry.
St. John has been honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1975, 1984, and 1993, and earned a Guggenheim fellowship in 1977. He has also received grants from the San Francisco Foundation, the Maryland Arts Council, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. In 1984-85, he was awarded a Prix de Rome fellowship.
From 1981-1995, St. John was the poetry editor for the Antioch Review. He has had several poetry review essays, as well as his own poems, published in the Review.
Richard Stern
earned his B. A. from the University of North Carolina in 1947, his M.A. from Harvard University in 1949, and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1954. He has taught abroad at Jules Ferry College in France, the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and the Universities of Venice and Nice in Italy. In the U.S., he has taught at Connecticut Collge, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Harvard. Since 1990, he has been the Helen Regenstein Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Stern’s writing is concerned with a man’s relationship to death and himself; his style is compressed and concise, which may discourage those interested in effortless reading–”This is regretable,” writes New Republic contributor Mark Harris, “since…the reward of reading him is proportionately greater….” Stern published his first novel, Golk , in 1960. Other novels are Europe; or Up and Down with Baggish and Schreiber , 1961; In Any Case, 1963; Stitch, 1965; Other Men’s Daughters , 1973; and A Father’s Words , 1986. He has also published several collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and a play.
His novel Stitch was selected as one of the books of the year in 1965 by the American Library Association. He received a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in 1968, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1973-74, and the Carl Sandburg Award in 1979. He also received an Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1986, the Chicago Sun-Times book of the year award for Noble Rot in 1989, and the Heartland Award for best work of non-fiction in 1995 for A Sistermony.
Eight of his essays and short stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, including “Ralph Ellison” (1995), “Studs Terkel” (1995), “Down Under” (1996) and “Downsized” (1997).
Mark Strand
earned his B.A. from Antioch College in 1957, a B.F.A. from Yale University in 1959, and an M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1962. He has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, Yale, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Princeton University, Brandies University, Wesleyan University, the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, and Johns Hopkins University. He is currently teaching in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Strand’s career has enjoyed a long string of honors, from his Fulbright fellowship in 1960-61 for study in Florence, Italy, to his 1999 Pulitzer Prize for his collection of poetry, Blizzard of One. His work has been furthered by three National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1967-68, 1978-79, and 1986-87. He was awarded an Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship in 1966, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1968-69, and a Guggenheim fellowship in 1975-76. In 1974, he received the Edgar Allen Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets, and in 1975 was honored with awards in Literature from the National Institute of Arts and the American Academy. He received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1987, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1993, and in 1991 was named the fourth U.S. Poet Laureate.
He has published several collections of poetry, including Sleeping with One Eye Open, 1964; Reasons for Moving, 1968; Darker: Poems, 1970; The Story of Our Lives, 1973; The Sergeantville Notebook, 1974; Elegy for My Father, 1978; The Late Hour , 1978; and Selected Poems ,1980, which was named one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books for that year. Other collections of poetry are The Continuous Life, 1990 and Dark Harbor: A Poem, 1993.
Strand is also the author of a collection of short stories, three children’s books, and has written or edited three books on art criticism, including a study of the paintings of Edward Hopper. He has edited several collections of poetry and translated work by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti.
Several of Strand’s poems have appeared in the Antioch Review since 1961, and an interview between Strand and Nolan Miller, “The Education of a Poet” was published in the Review in two parts, in the winter and spring 1981 issues.
