The Top Right in Culture
Slate selects five American cultural leaders who are both wildly inventive and incredibly practical.
Posted July 26, 2011, 9:12 a.m.
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Suzanne Collins, Author of the Hunger Games Trilogy
With her dark, bloodthirsty books, Suzanne Collins has upended our notions of what young-adult fiction should be—and converted waves of skeptical adults in the process. Read More »
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Lauren Dolgen, Creator of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom
As an MTV development executive, Dolgen has made entertaining advocacy television that has real results. Read More »
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Tina Fey, 30 Rock Creator, Sarah Palin Impersonator, and Movie Star
Tina Fey solved comedy’s “woman problem” by fighting chauvinism with funny. Read More »
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Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, Archeophone Records
By unearthing lost classics, this husband-and-wife team is helping us rethink the origins of popular music. Read More »
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Creators of the Musical The Book of Mormon
Matt Stone and Trey Parker showed us how to reinvigorate Broadway: by taking musicals back to their roots (while also making them more like South Park). Read More »
