MacArthur Foundation. As in years past, the list of winners was a mix of those distinguished among their peers and those who have found a bigger stage. They include David Simon, 50, a writer and ...

In 2000, David Plotz told aspiring geniuses the seven rules to live by to win the hearts and minds of the MacArthur Foundation. The article is reprinted below. When Peter Hayes learned that he had ...

David Simon, producer of HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme," is among the 2010 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants" class announced Tuesday. The $500,000 grants handed out by the John D. and Catherine T.

The list of MacArthur Foundation grant recipients is out ... Sicha at The Awl he points to Ada Louise Huxtable (1981), and David Foster Wallace (1997), among others. What One Winner May Do ...