"He's a wiseacre, yet there's a part of him that's really sincere and wants a heartfelt conversation," observed the event's moderator, the journalist Steve Oney, comparing Mr. Kaus' campaign to the failed writer-candidates Upton Sinclair and Gore Vidal.
The 16-person committee now consists of eight Hall of Famers, four executives and four writers, and candidates need 12 votes - or 75 percent - to be elected.
A thriller writer, a Tory candidate and a rebel peer?
Michael P. Mulhall Point Lookout The writer was a candidate for the Nassau County Legislature in 2001.
Clint Smith is a writer, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, and the author of "Counting Descent".
This biographical note might please one of his opponents, the country singer, mystery writer, and independent candidate Kinky Friedman.
Career: 1951- journalist and writer; '90 presidential candidate Peru; 2001- professor of Ibero-American literature and culture, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
She is a short-story writer and a candidate for a master's degree in creative writing at Columbia.
John B. Anderson Takoma Park, Md., Dec. 2, 2005 The writer, the independent candidate for president in 1980, is chairman of the Center for Voting and Democracy.
ANDREA CHIOVENDA Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 23, 2012 The writer, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Boston University, is conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Afghanistan.
