David Aaronovitch is an internationally bestselling author and award-winning journalist whose first book, Paddling to Jerusalem, won the Madoc Award for Travel Literature in 2001.

Edwin A. Abbott (1838–1926) has been ranked as one of the leading scholars and theologians of the Victorian era and is perhaps best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland.

Karen Abbott is a journalist who has been a staff member of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly.

Megan Abbott has taught literature, writing, and film at New York University and at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is recognized by Sports Illustrated and Time magazine as history’s greatest basketball player.

Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer best known for his acclaimed First Law Trilogy: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings.

Laurie Abraham is a freelance writer, senior editor of Elle magazine, and the author of Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America.

Chinua Achebe is a prominent Nigerian writer whose satire and keen ear for spoken language have made him one of the most highly esteemed African writers in English. He is the author of Things Fall Apart and a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

André Aciman is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Call Me by Your Name, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the memoir Out of Egypt; and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory.

Diane Ackerman is a bestselling author and poet whose many books include A Natural History of the Senses, A Natural History of Love, and The Zookeeper's Wife, winner of the 2008 Orion Book Award.

Novelist, biographer, and poet Peter Ackroyd is the chief book reviewer for The Times (London) and a regular broadcaster on radio.

Amir D. Aczel is the author of fourteen books, including the international bestseller Fermat's Last Theorem and The Mystery of the Aleph.

Scott Adams launched Dilbert in 1989, and it now appears daily in more than 2,000 newspapers in sixty-five countries, making it one of the most successful comic strips in history.

Will Adams, a full-time writer, is the author of The Lost Labyrinth.

Aravind Adiga is a former correspondent for Time magazine and has also been published in the Financial Times.

Lesley Adkins, a historian and an archaeologist, is the author of Empires of the Plain.

Roy Adkins, a historian and an archaeologist, is the author of the bestselling Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World.

Trace Adkins learned to play guitar at an early age and, after signing with Capitol Records, released seven solo albums.

Lara Adrian is the author of the New York Times bestselling Midnight Breed series of vampire romance novels.

Aesop (620–560 BC) was a slave in ancient Greece who is known only for the genre of fables that are ascribed to him.

Liaquat Ahamed has been a professional investment manager for twenty-five years and is currently an adviser to several hedge fund groups, including the Rock Creek Group and the Rohatyn Group.

Laila Al-Arian is a freelance journalist who has written for the Dupont Current newspaper and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) published over thirty books and collections of stories, most notably the groundbreaking coming-of-age novel Little Women.

Larry Alexander is a journalist and columnist for the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the author of the national bestseller Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers.

Robert Alexander is the author of the bestselling novel The Kitchen Boy.

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) was an Italian poet whose masterpiece The Divine Comedy has exerted a profound influence on Western thought.

Daniel Altman has written for The Economist and the New York Times and is now a columnist for the International Herald Tribune.

Daniel G. Amen, M.D., is a clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and brain-imaging expert who heads the world-renowned Amen Clinics.

Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-five books, which have been translated into twenty-six languages worldwide.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish writer who gained fame with his fairy tales, such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Mermaid," which were cleverly written to disguise the tales' sophisticated moral teachings.

Carl Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author and the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the Knights of Columbus.

Douglas A. Anderson, a leading American Tolkien scholar, is acknowledged as the worldwide expert on the textual history of The Hobbit.

Fred Anderson is a professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of Crucible of War.

Joan Anderson is the New York Times bestselling author of A Year by the Sea, A Walk on the Beach, and The Second Journey.

John Anderson is the author of Burning Down the House and Art Held Hostage.

Kevin J. Anderson, one of the most popular writers currently working in the science fiction genre, is the author of more than ninety novels, forty-one of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists.

Taylor Anderson teaches at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, and is the author of The Life and Tools of the Rocky Mountain Free Trapper.

Edmund L. Andrews has been a reporter for the New York Times for sixteen years.

Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team who live in Georgia, where they are currently working on Kate Daniels's next adventure.

As the webmistress of the Leaky Cauldron (leakynews.com), former New York City features writer Melissa Anelli has been reporting on the Harry Potter phenomenon since 2001.

Frank Antenori, a member of the Special Forces since 1988, has participated in numerous peacetime and wartime operations in support of American interests throughout the world.

Journalist Gustavo Arellano is the creator and writer of the popular Ask a Mexican! column for the OC Weekly in Orange County, California.

Kelley Armstrong is the bestselling author of a growing series of novels and novellas in the Women of the Otherworld series, the first two of which are Bitten and Stolen.

Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religious affairs, including Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions and The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism.

Lou Aronica is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, and he has collaborated on a number of books, including the national bestseller The Culture Code.

Raymond Arroyo is the news director and lead anchor at the Eternal Word Television Network and the author of the New York Times bestselling biography Mother Angelica.

Keri Arthur is the prize-winning author of twenty novels, including the Ripple Creek Werewolf series, the Spook Squad series, the Damask Circle series, and the Riley Jenson Guardian series.

Erin Arvedlund is an investigative journalist who has written for Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, TheStreet.com, and Portfolio.com.

Robert Asahina, a former editor at George, Harper's, the New York Times Book Review, and the Public Interest, is currently a visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program at New York University.

Isaac Asimov, who was named "Grand Master of Science Fiction" by the Science Fiction Writers of America, entertained and educated readers of all ages for close to five decades.

Ace Atkins is the author of four Nick Travers novels: Crossroad Blues, Leavin' Trunk Blues, Dark End of the Street, and Dirty South.

Oliver August was the youngest-ever New York correspondent for the Times of London.

Sandi Ault, a former musician, composer, journalist, and newspaper editor, is the author of the Wild mystery series, including Wild Inferno, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008.

Marcus Aurelius (April 121–March 180), Roman emperor from 161 until his death, was the last of the "Five Good Emperors," and his Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty.

Jane Austen's delightful, carefully wrought novels of manners---Pride and Prejudice and Emma among them---are those rare books that offer us a glimpse at the mores of a specific period while addressing the complexities of love, honor, and responsibility that still intrigue us today.

Paul Auster is the author of numerous novels, screenplays, and works of nonfiction, as well as a poet, translator, and film director. His many critically acclaimed novels include The Book of Illusions and Oracle Night.

Ian Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management and the author of the bestselling SuperCrunchers.

Richard Baer is the medical director of Medicare in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.

Nicholson Baker has published seven novels and three works of nonfiction, including Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.

Scott Baldyga has written screenplays for hire and has worked as a writer, script supervisor, editor, and composer for film and television.

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French journalist and writer and is considered one of the creators of realism in literature. Balzac's huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comédie Humaine.

Susan Shapiro Barash is the author of nine books, including A Passion for More: Wives Reveal the Affairs That Make or Break Their Marriages and Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law: Love, Hate, Rivalry and Reconciliation.

Steven Barnes has been a novelist and television writer for the last twenty-five years.

Kim Barnouin is a former model.

Michael Barone is a senior writer at U.S. News and World Report.

Allen Barra is the bestselling author of The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant.

Jennifer Barrett has written about financial issues for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Newsweek.

J. M. Barrie (1860–1928) was a playwright and novelist who is best known for his Peter Pan stories.

Max Barry is the author of Syrup and the bestselling novel Jennifer Government, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book.

Allison Hoover Bartlett works as a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, the San Francisco Magazine, and other publications.

Susan Wise Bauer is the bestselling author of the Story of the World series for elementary students, The Well-Educated Mind, and The History of the Ancient World.

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American journalist and writer whose best-known book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is one of fourteen books in the author's acclaimed Oz series.

Richard Bausch is the award-winning author of eleven novels and seven volumes of short stories. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and other publications.

Pierre Bayard is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII and the author of many books, including How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read.

Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Melody Beattie, one of the seminal figures in the recovery movement, is the author of the international bestseller Codependent No More.

Mario Beauregard is an associate professor in the Departments of Radiology and Psychology at the Université de Montréal (Canada).

Laurie Becklund is a writer and editor whose books include Swoosh: The Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There, coauthored with J. B. Strasser.

Professor of history Richard Beeman, a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for thirty-six years, is the author of six books and several dozen articles on aspects of America's political and constitutional history, including The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth Century America.

Joy Behar, currently a cohost of ABC's The View, is among today's leading comic talents.

Michael J. Behe is a professor of biological sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and the author of Darwin's Black Box, which was named by the National Review and World magazine as one of the 100 most important books of the twentieth century.

Jennifer Belle is the author of two critically acclaimed, widely translated novels: Going Down and High Maintenance.

Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Willful Creatures, which was nominated by the Believer as one of the best books of the year.

Vanora Bennett is an award-winning journalist who writes a weekly column for The Times (London) Web site, TimesOnline.

E. C. Bentley was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century whose books include Trent's Own Case and Biography for Beginners.

Ronen Bergman is one of Israel's leading investigative reporters, and he writes a regular column in Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yedioth Arhonoth.

Mischa Berlinski studied classics at the University of California at Berkeley and at Columbia University and has worked as a journalist in Thailand.

The Reverend A. R. Bernard is the founder and CEO of the Christian Cultural Center and founder of the Brooklyn Preparatory School in New York City.

David Bernstein is executive creative director at The Gate Worldwide, the second-oldest ad agency in the United States.

Josh Bernstein is president and CEO of the Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS), an active member of the Explorers Club, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a patron of the American Museum of Natural History.

Margaret Bernstein is an award-winning journalist at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.

William J. Bernstein, an American financial theorist, is the author of The Intelligent Asset Allocator and The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio.

Stephen Berry is an assistant professor of history at the University of Georgia and the author of All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South.

Stephen Betchen maintains a full-time private practice in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, specializing in couples therapy and teaches couples therapy in the clinical doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.

Damon Beyer is a partner at Katzenbach Partners LLC, consulting with senior managers on issues of business strategy, operations effectiveness, leadership, and organizational performance.

David Bianculli has been a television critic for more than thirty years and is the author of Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously and Dictionary of Teleliteracy: Television's 500 Biggest Hits, Misses, and Events.

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) was one of nineteenth-century America's most renowned satirists, a journalist for forty years, and the author of the Devil's Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.

Mark Billingham is the author of the bestsellers The Burning Girl, Sleepyhead, and Scaredy Cat.

Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and the bestselling author of Sun Tzu Was a Sissy.

Christina Binkley is a senior special writer with the Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles.

Martin Binks, Ph.D., is the director of behavioral health and the research director at the Duke Diet & Fitness Center.

Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of fifteen, is his first wife and the mother to seven of his sons and four of his daughters.

Omar bin Laden, the fourth son of Osama bin Laden, has publicly called for his father to "change his ways" and has not been in contact with Osama bin Laden since before 9/11.

Matt Birkbeck is an award-winning journalist and the author of A Beautiful Child and A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst.

Catherine Birndorf, M.D., is founding director of the Payne Whitney Women's Program at the New York–Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, where she continues to work as a senior consultant.

George Bishop holds an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he won the department’s Award of Excellence for a collection of stories.

Peter Biskind, a journalist and a former executive editor of Premiere magazine, is the author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood and Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film.

Simon Blackburn is a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the author of Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy.

Pete Blackshaw is executive vice president of strategic services at Nielsen Online and the author of ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com, which has been named one of the top 100 marketing blogs by Advertising Age magazine.

Edwin Black is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust, The Transfer Agreement, and War Against the Weak.

Matthew Blakeslee is a freelance science writer based in Los Angeles.

Sandra Blakeslee is a science correspondent at the New York Times who specializes in the brain sciences.

Chris Blatchford is an investigative reporter and the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Three Dog Nightmare.

William Bligh (1754–1817) was a British naval officer and colonial governor who is best remembered for the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.

R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French and director of the Division of the Humanities at Yale University and the author of God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Jacques-Paul Migne.

Stefan Merrill Block graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. The Story of Forgetting is his first novel.

Lary Bloom’s writing spans an array of genres---nonfiction and fiction, plays, magazine pieces, and columns for the New York Times.

Deborah Blum worked as a newspaper science writer for twenty years, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her writing about primate research, and is the author of Ghost Hunters.

Benson Bobrick is the author of several critically acclaimed works, including Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired and Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War.

Peter Bognanni, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, and his short story "The Body Eternal" was chosen by Stephen King as one of the 100 Most Distinguished Stories of 2006.

Dave Boling is a veteran columnist for the Tacoma News Tribune and the author of Tales from the Gonzaga Hardwood.

William Bonner is the founder, president, and CEO of AGORA Inc. and coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt.

Mark Booth has worked in publishing for over twenty years and is currently in charge of Century, an imprint of Random House UK.

Journalist Fergus M. Bordewich has written on American history as well as human rights and other issues, and he is the author of Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement.

Marcus J. Borg is the Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, Emeritus, at Oregon State University and the author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and The Heart of Christianity.

Gabor Boritt is director of the Civil War Institute and the Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Finney Boylan is a professor of English at Colby College and the author of the bestseller She’s Not There.

Travis Bradberry, Ph.D., is president and cofounder of TalentSmart, a think tank and consultancy, and coauthor of The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book.

Ray Bradbury is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Among his best-known works are The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451.

Bill Bradley served three terms as the U.S. senator from New Jersey, and he is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Time Present, Time Past and Values of the Game.

James Brady (1928–2009), creator of the "Page Six" gossip column in the New York Post and long-time writer of the "In Step With" column in Parade magazine, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Warning of Warand the highly praised memoir The Coldest War, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Rodric Braithwaite, a former diplomat and writer, is the author of a number of books on Russia, including Across the Moscow River, Russia in Europe, and Engaging Russia: A Report to the Trilateral Commission.

Marlon Brando, widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, appeared in more than forty films and won Academy Awards for his performances in On the Waterfront and The Godfather.

Michael Braungart is a chemist and the founder of the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg, Germany.

Tom Breitling, cofounder of Travelscape.com, runs an independent film production company in Las Vegas.

Kate Brian is the pen name of Kieran Scott, an American author whose best-known books are The Princess and the Pauper, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys, Fake Boyfriend, and the bestselling Private series.

Andrew Bridge is a dedicated and vocal advocate for children in foster care.

Master historian Terry Brighton is curator of the Queen's Royal Lancers Museum and the author of Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Pope Brock is the author of Indiana Gothic and a former staff writer at GQ.

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an acclaimed English novelist and poet. She is best know for her masterpiece Jane Eyre, but she is also the author of Shirley and The Professor.

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) authored the eighteenth-century romance Wuthering Heights, her only novel, as well as a volume of poetry together with her sisters Charlotte and Anne.

Richard Brookhiser is the author of What Would the Founders Do? and the writer and host of the critically acclaimed PBS documentary Rediscovering George Washington.

Marcus Brotherton, a former newspaper reporter and a professional writer, is the author or coauthor of seventeen books.

Philip Delves Broughton served as the New York and Paris bureau chief for the Daily Telegraph of London from 1998 to 2004, and his work has also appeared in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Janet Browne is the author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, a landmark two-volume biography of Charles Darwin.

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Rubyfruit Jungle, The Hounds and the Fury, and the Sneaky Pie Brown mystery series.

Zbigniew Brzezinski served as national security adviser to President Carter from 1977 to 1981.

Cathy Marie Buchanan's fiction has appeared in some of Canada's premier journals, including the Antigonish Review, the Dalhousie Review, Descant, and the New Quarterly.

John Buchan (1875–1940) was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet, and novelist who is best known for his thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle.

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza has interned in the office of former Clinton adviser James Carville, worked as a polling and targeting analyst for the 2008 presidential election at Campaign to Defend America, and served as deputy press secretary for the Democratic National Committee.

Mary Buffett's own business acumen can be measured by her success as CEO of Superior Assembly, a very successful commercial and motion picture editing company, with clients including Madonna and Coca-Cola. She lives in Southern California.

Wendy Burden, the great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is a former illustrator, zookeeper, taxidermist, and owner and chef of the bistro Chez Wendy.

R. V. Burgin served as a sergeant in the First Marine Division in World War II and was awarded a Bronze Star for his actions in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

English-born novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett was best known for her children's stories, particularly Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess.

David D. Burns, M.D., is an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the bestselling Feeling Good.

James MacGregor Burns is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and the author or coauthor of more than two dozen books, including Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and Leadership, which is considered the seminal work in the field of leadership studies.

American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) is best-known for creating the world-famous characters Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and the invincible John Carter of the Mars series.

Edwin G. Burrows is a distinguished professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and coauthor, with Mike Wallace, of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Chandler Burr is the New York Times perfume critic and the author of The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses.

David M. Buss, one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books, including The Evolution of Desire and The Dangerous Passion.

Journalist Paula Butturini has worked in overseas bureaus in London, Madrid, Rome, and Warsaw for United Press International and the Chicago Tribune.

Trevor Byrne attended Trinity College and the University of Glamorgan, where he is currently a tutor of creative writing.

John T. Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

Jack Cafferty is a CNN host and commentator who appears regularly on the network's popular news program The Situation Room, as well as the author of the New York Times bestseller It's Getting Ugly Out There.

Andrea Cagan is a freelance writer who has worked with many bestselling authors.

Rachel Caine is the author of the popular Weather Warden series, the Morganville Vampires series, and the Outcast Season series, as well as many other books.

Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic for the Boston Globe, where she has been a staff writer and critic since 1985, and the author of A Strong West Wind.

Colin G. Calloway is Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. His most recent work, One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark, received the Ray Allen Billington Prize, the Merle Curti Award, and many other prizes, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year.

W. Bruce Cameron is the New York Times bestselling author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, which became a hit television series, and his nationally syndicated column is read by over three million readers every week.

Donald Cammell (1934–1996) was best known for his films Performance, Demon Seed, and Wild Side.

U.S. Marine captain Donovan Campbell finished first in his class at the Marines' Basic Officer Course, served two combat deployments in Iraq, and is now on his third combat deployment to Afghanistan.

James Campbell is the author of The Final Frontiersman and has written for Outside magazine, as well as many other publications.

Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Caputo is the author of eight works of fiction---including Exiles, The Voyage, and Acts of Faith---two memoirs, and four works of nonfiction.

Jacqueline Carey is the author of Godslayer, Banewreaker, and the nationally bestselling Kushiel's Legacy series.

Mike Carey is the acclaimed writer of Lucifer and Hellblazer (now filmed as Constantine).

Peter Carey is the author of nine novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang.

Peter Ames Carlin has been a columnist for the Oregonian newspaper since 2000, and he is the author of Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.

Philip Carlo grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, amidst the world's highest concentration of Mafia members. His intimate knowledge of their walk and their talk helped him become a successful crime writer. His breakthrough, the critically acclaimed The Night Stalker, chronicles the brutal career of serial killer Richard Ramirez. Carlo lives in New York.

Kristine Carlson is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Women.

Novella Carpenter attended Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied under Michael Pollan for two years, and her writing has appeared in Salon.com, Saveur.com, and Mother Jones.

Andrew Carroll is the founder of the Legacy Project (www.WarLetters.com)...

English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was especially known for his children’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Sean B. Carroll is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sean Carroll, Ph.D., is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology and the author of the graduate-level textbook Spacetime and Geometry.

Howie Carr is a popular radio talk show host who is syndicated across New England. Known for his scathing exposes of local politicians, he has raised lots of eyebrows and voices over the years. He's famous for pushing the envelope and not regretting that he went too far. He has also been featured regularly on NBC, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Court TV, CNN, and the Fox News Network.

Zoe FitzGerald Carter is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and has written for numerous publications, including New York magazine, the New York Observer, Premiere, and various national magazines.

Evan Carton is professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

James Carville is one of the best-known and most-loved political consultants in American history and the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including We’re Right, They’re Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives.

June Casagrande writes a popular and very humorous "A Word, Please" grammar column for five Los Angeles Times Community News papers.

Richard Castle, played by actor Nathan Fillion, is the author of numerous bestsellers, including the critically acclaimed Derrick Storm series. His first novel, In a Hail of Bullets received the Nom DePlume Society's prestigious Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature.

Fidel Castro is the current president of Cuba, though his duties have been transferred to the first vice president due to his failing health.

One of the great American writers of the twentieth century, Willa Cather is the author of such classics as O Pioneers! My Ántonia, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning One of Ours.

Douglas Century is the author of Barney Ross and Street Kingdom, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Takedown.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) was a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, best known as the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature.

Jonathan Chait is the senior editor at the New Republic and writes the magazine’s signature TRB column.

Karen Chance, the author of the Cassandra Palmer series, lives and writes in Tampa, Florida.

Leslie T. Chang, a graduate of Harvard University, lived in Beijing for a decade, where she worked as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

Ji Chaozhu has held posts in China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, from 1991 to 1996, served as the under-secretary-general of the United Nations.

Duane "Dog" Chapman is the famed bounty hunter featured on A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter and the author of You Can Run, but You Can't Hide.

Ram Charan is the go-to adviser for corporate directors and CEOs and coauthor of the bestsellers Execution and Confronting Reality

Father Eduardo Chávez is one of the most renowned experts on the Guadalupe apparitions and the first dean of the Catholic University Lumen Gentium of the Archdiocese of Mexico.

From 1997 to 2002, Sarah Chayes served as an overseas correspondent for NPR, reporting from Paris and the Balkans, as well as covering conflicts in Algeria.

Susan Cheever is the author of both nonfiction and fiction works, including My Name is Bill, Note Found in a Bottle, As Good As I Could Be, Home Before Dark, and Treetops. .

Renee Chiang is a publisher and the English editor of New Century Press in Hong Kong.

American author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote two novels, including the widely condemned The Awakening, and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976), one of the most popular authors of all time and known the Queen of Crime, is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, including The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and The Mirror Crack'd.

Pushcart Prize nominee Sonya Chung's short fiction and essays have appeared in the Threepenny Review, BOMB Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, and Sonora Review, among others.

Breena Clarke's novel River, Cross My Heart was an Oprah's Book Club selection and an international bestseller.

David Clark is a portfolio manager and a leading authority on Warren Buffett's investment methods.

Tom Clavin, a contributing writer for the New York Times for fifteen years, is the author of seven books, including Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican and Raising the Rainbow Generation.

Chris Cleave is a columnist for the Guardian newspaper in London and the author of the prize-winning novel Incendiary.

Rory Clements, a former features editor and associate editor of Today, now writes full-time in an idyllic corner of Norfolk, England.

George Cloutier is cochairman of Partner America, a partnership between Cloutier's company and the nation's mayors, andthe CEO of American Management Services, a consulting firm that specializes in small and midsize businesses.

John R. Coats, a former parish priest, was a principal speaker and seminar leader for the More to Life training program and an independent management consultant.

Harlan Coben, winner of the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and the Anthony Award, is the international bestselling author of Just One Look, No Second Chance, Tell No One, and many more.

Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for the Independent and the author of The Broken Boy.

William D. Cohan, an investment banker on Wall Street for seventeen years, is the bestselling author of The Last Tycoons, winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

Aaron Cohen is a passionate founder of the modern-day Jubilee peace movement.

Adam Cohen is assistant editorial page editor of the New York Times and the author of The Perfect Store: Inside eBay.

Kerry Cohen is a practicing psychotherapist and the author of the young-adult novel Easy.

Richard M. Cohen is a former senior producer for CBS News and CNN, a three-time Emmy Award winner, and the recipient of numerous honors in journalism.

Graham Coleman is president of the Orient Foundation (UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization, and editor of the foundation's A Handbook of Tibetan Culture.

Victoria Colligan is cofounder of Ladies Who Launch, a company created as a blend of online social networking and offline support system.

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist who critics often credit with the invention of the English detective novel.

Carlo Collodi (1826–1890), the author of Pinocchio, was a journalist who also wrote comedies and edited newspapers and reviews.

Geoff Colvin, Fortune's senior editor at large, is one of America's most respected business journalists.

Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton has been a collegiate sports star, esteemed war veteran, detective, attorney, and judge. As a second lieutenant during World War II, Compton commanded the second platoon of Easy Company in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division.

Ryan A. Conklin is an Iraq War veteran and one of the costars of the twenty-first season of MTV's The Real World.

A former Los Angeles Times crime reporter, Michael Connelly is the author of over twenty novels and nonfiction books, including the bestselling series of mysteries featuring dark detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch.

Roger Connors is a principal and cofounder, with Tom Smith, of Partners in Leadership, Inc., and coauthor of the bestsellers The Oz Principle and Journey to the Emerald City.

Novelist Joseph Conrad, one of the first English "modernists," was considered by critics to be the single most important innovator of twentieth-century literature. Among his most famous works are Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim.

The Smart Cookies are five women who created a money club to manage their finances and, through it, became close, committed friends and business partners, as well as the hosts of the W Network's Smart Cookies.

Thomas H. Cook is the author of nineteen novels and two works of nonfiction.

Courtney Riley Cooper (1886–1940) worked as a press agent for Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody and wrote The Cross-Cut, The Pioneers, and The Golden Bubble.

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) was America's first successful popular novelist, his most lasting contributions to American literature being his five books about Natty Bumppo, including The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans.

Gregory R. Copley is an award-winning historian and global strategist...

David Cordingly was Keeper of Pictures and Head of Exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum for twelve years.

Ronald Cotton has spoken on the topic of criminal justice and its flaws at various schools and conferences, including Washington and Lee University and Georgetown Law School.

Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997) was world renowned as an ocean explorer, filmmaker, educator, and environmental activist.

Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

Michael Cox is the author of The Meaning of Night, which was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa First Novel Award.

Patsi Bale Cox is a music journalist who has collaborated on such bestselling memoirs as Loretta Lynn's Still Woman Enough and Ralph Emery's The View from Nashville.

Harold Coyle is the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand and More Than Courage. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900) won international fame with The Red Badge of Courage, which was acclaimed as the first modern war novel.

Alan Pell Crawford is the author of Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America and a regular book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal.

Greg Critser is an award-winning writer about medicine, science, food, and health. He is the author of the national bestseller Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World and the award-winning Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Minds, Lives and Bodies.

David Crockett (1786–1836), a frontiersman and U.S. representative, was famously killed while defending the Alamo.

John Dominic Crossan is an emeritus professor of religious studies at DePaul University in Chicago andthe author of God and Empire and The Birth of Christianity.

Roger Crowley taught English in Istanbul, where he developed a strong interest in the history of Turkey, and is the author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West.

Charles Cumming, a former Secret Intelligence Service agent, is a contributing editor of the Week magazine.

James Oliver Curwood (1878–1927) was a prolific early-twentieth-century American author whose works include The Grizzly King, The Wolf Hunters, and Son of the Forests.

Jackie Gingrich Cushman writes a weekly human-interest column for Townhall.com and is president of the Learning Makes a Difference Foundation, which she founded in 2006.

Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo is a naturopathic physician, educator, and researcher with a wide international following. His first book, Eat Right 4 Your Type is a New York Times bestseller that has been translated into over fifty languages.

Ryan D’Agostino is an editor at Esquire magazine.

Gordon Dahlquist is a playwright and director whose first novel is the bestselling The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.

Janet Dailey has written more than one hundred novels, with 300 million copies of her books sold in nineteen languages in ninety-eight countries.

James Dale is former president and CEO of advertising agency W. B. Doner & Co.

David G. Dalin, Ph.D., an ordained rabbi, is a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University.

Professional golfer John Daly has won the PGA's Driving Distance Crown a record-setting eleven times.

Brian D'Amato, an artist whose sculptures and installations have been shown in galleries and museums all over the world, is the author of the international bestseller Beauty.

Michael D'Antonio is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

Lucy Danziger has been editor in chief of Self magazine for more than eight years.

Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, geologist, biologist, and author, revolutionized the science of biology by developing the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Mike Dash is a historian with a PhD from the University of London and the author of seven books, including Satan's Circus, Thug, Batavia's Graveyard, and Tulipomania.

Sara Davidson is the author of bestsellers Loose Change, Real Property, and Cowboy.

Norman Davies is a professor emeritus of the University of London.

Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University and the author of more than twenty books, including The Mind of God, About Time, and The Goldilocks Enigma.

Kathryn Davis has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Thin Place is her sixth novel.

Sampson Davis is a board-certified emergency medicine physician at St. Michael's Medical Center and assistant medical director of the Emergency Department at Raritan Bay Medical Center.

Tom Davis won four Emmy Awards during his twelve seasons as a writer at Saturday Night Live, which included the first five years of the show.

Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential scientists of our time. The New York Times Book Review has hailed him as a writer who "'understands the issues so clearly that he forces his reader to understand them too."

Leanda de Lisle is the author of After Elizabeth and has written columns for such publications as the Daily Express, the Spectator, the Guardian, and the New Statesman.

John Dean, the White House legal counsel to President Nixon, is the New York Times bestselling author of Worse Than Watergate.

Marlena de Blasi has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine consultant, and a restaurant critic. She is the author of A Thousand Days in Venice, Regional Foods of Northern Italy, and Regional Foods of Southern Italy.

Ariane de Bonvoisin is the founder of First30days.com, a Web site that helps people transition through dozens of changes, whether the change involves a health diagnosis, going green, moving to a new city, or getting married.

Marshall De Bruhl was for many years an executive and editor with several major American publishing houses, specializing in history and biography, most notably as editor of, and contributor to, the "Dictionary of American History" and the "Dictionary of American Biography."

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731), English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, is considered the founder of the English novel and is most famous as the author of Robinson Crusoe .

Ted Dekker is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including BoneMan's Daughters, Thr3e, and the Circle series.

Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was an extemely prolific French writer who is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story.

Barbara Demick is a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Beijing and the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood.

David Denby is a film critic and staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World.

Benoit Denizet-Lewis is an award-winning contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a former senior writer at Boston Magazine.

Frans de Waal, Ph.D., is a biologist and ethologist, world-renowned for his work on the social intelligence of primates such as chimpanzees, bonobos, capuchins, and macaques, and the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Ape and the Sushi Master.

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was the widely popular author of such classic novels as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield.

William C. Dietz is the author of more than thirty novels, including Legion of the Damned, Deathday, and Earthrise.

Andrea di Robilant works for the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Jay Dobyns is a highly decorated agent who has worked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) for more than twenty years.

Connecticut’s Christopher J. Dodd is a senior Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate.

Eric Jay Dolin studied environmental policy at Yale University and MIT and is now a full-time writer.

James Donovan is a literary agent and the author of Custer and the Little Bighorn, a main selection of the Military Book Club.

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), one of the most prominent figures in African American and U.S. history, was born into slavery and rose up to become an abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer.

In 2004, Ruth Downie won the Fay Weldon section of BBC3's End of Story competition. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Roman Empire series.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Kimberly Dozier is an award-winning CBS News correspondent who has worked primarily in Baghdad since August 2003. She has covered Iraq and the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, The Early Show, and CBS Radio News.

Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author and an outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's novels, particularly Sister Carrie, were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste.

Dr. Daniel T. Drubin is the president and founder of 4th Dimension Management Corporation...

Bob Drury is a contributing editor and foreign correspondent for Men's Health magazine and the author, coauthor, or editor of seven nonfiction books, including The Rescue Season.

Alex Dryden is a writer and journalist with many years of experience in security matters. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Dryden watched the statues of Lenin fall across the former Soviet Union.

Dinesh D'Souza the Rishwain Research Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is the author of several bestselling books, including Illiberal Education, What's So Great About America, and, most recently, Letters to a Young Conservative.

Allison DuBois is a medium and the author of Don't Kiss Them Goodbye and We Are Their Heaven: Why the Dead Never Leave Us.

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was a writer, civil rights activist, scholar, and editor who brought fundamental changes to American race relations through his writings, speeches, and public debates.

Tananarive Due is a former features writer and columnist for the Miami Herald.

At twelve years old, Howard Dully was one of the youngest patients to receive an “ice pick” lobotomy.

Jessica DuLong, a U.S. Coast Guard–licensed merchant marine officer, is one of the world's only female fireboat engineers as well as a journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek International, Rolling Stone, and other publications.

One of the most prolific and popular French authors of the nineteenth century, Dumas is best known for his classic historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Jane Dunn is the author of a number of historical books, including Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens.

Through his writings, lectures, and media appearances, Michael J. Durant (Chief Warrant Officer 4, Ret.) has become a symbol of the special-ops aviation community.

David Anthony Durham is the award-winning author of the novels Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness, and Pride of Carthage.

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz was personal secretary to Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) in Krakow and in Rome.

Pete Earley, a former reporter for The Washington Post, is the author of eight works of nonfiction, including the bestsellers The Hot House and Family of Spies and the multi-award-winning Circumstantial Evidence.

Henrik Eberle, a freelance journalist and historian, completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the scientific policies of National Socialism in 2002. He currently teaches history at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenburg.

Russ C. Edelman is a cofounder of the consulting firm Nice Guy Strategies, based in Massachusetts.

BOB EDWARDS is the host of The Bob Edwards show on XM Satellite Radio. From 1979 until 2004, he hosted NPR’s Morning Edition.

Timothy Egan is a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of four books and the recipient of several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Seattle.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fourteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch.

Bart Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jonathan Eig is a former writer and editor for the Chicago bureau of the Wall Street Journal and the author of the highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig.

Howard J. Eisenson, M.D., is the program director of the Duke Diet & Fitness Center.

George Eliot is the masculine pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), whose novels include The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch.

Marc Eliot has written widely on the media and popular culture and is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the highly acclaimed biographies Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart.

Sarah Ellison, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, led the paper's coverage of Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones.

Charles D. Ellis is a consultant to large institutional investors and government agencies, as well as the author of twelve books, including Wall Street People: True Stories of Today’s Masters and Moguls.

Warren Ellis is one of the most prolific graphic novelists in the world and the creator of such popular series as Transmetropolitan and The Authority.

Chester Elton is Vice President of Performance at O.C. Tanner, and a popular public speaker. He is the coauthor (with Adrian Gostick) of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller A Carrot a Day and The 24-Carrot Manager, called a "must read" by Larry King.

T. J. English is a journalist, a screenwriter, and the author of Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster.

Charles Esdaile is a senior lecturer in history and the author of several books on history, including The Peninsular Warand Spain in the Liberal Age.

Loren D. Estleman, an award-winning author, has written more than sixty novels, including American Detective and Nicotine Kiss.

Chris Evans is a historian as well as an editor of military history and current affairs books.

David Faber, a historian and writer, served as a conservative member of Parliament from 1992 until 2001 and is the author of Speaking for England.

Brian Fagan is the author of Fish on Friday, The Little Ice Age, The Long Summer, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming.

Steve Fainaru, an award-winning correspondent for the Washington Post, is coauthor of The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream.

Douglas Fairbanks (1883–1939) was a very successful actor, director, screenwriter, and author. He is best known for his early social comedies and popular swashbucklers, such as The Mark of Zorro and The Iron Mask.

Linda Fairstein is the author of many bestselling novels, including Killer Heat, Bad Blood, and Death Dance, and winner of the 2001 Nero Award.

Stephan Faris, a journalist who specializes in writing about the developing world, has written articles for Time, Fortune, the Atlantic Monthly, and other publications.

John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and coauthor of The 9/11 Commission Report, now serves as dean of the Rutgers University Law School in Newark.

Stefan Fatsis is a sports reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times bestselling author of Word Freak.

Florence Fehrenbach is the granddaughter of Karl von Wendt, a co-conspirator and close friend of Philipp von Boeselager.

Jérôme Fehrenbach helped his wife, Florence Fehrenbach, to convince Philipp von Boeselager to recount his experience in the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.

Gregory Feifer, the Moscow correspondent for NPR, has reported and written for several international media outlets and is coauthor of Spy Handler.

John Feinstein, a writer for Inside Sports and Golf, is the bestselling author of Let Me Tell You a Story and Caddy for Life.

Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the bestselling author of Paper and Iron and The House of Rothschild.

John Ferling is a professor emeritus of history at the State University of West Georgia and the author of seven books, including the award-winning A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic.

DAVID FINKEL is one of the nation' s most respected wealth experts. A former Olympic-level athlete, he is a real estate multimillionaire and the co-creator of Maui Mastermind, the world' s most exclusive wealth retreat.

Charles Fishman is a senior editor at Fast Company. Fishman, who started his reporting career at The Washington Post, has also been a senior editor at the Orlando Sentinel and the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Ted C. Fishman is a veteran journalist and former commodities trader who has emerged as a leading expert on the People's Republic of China. His essays and reports have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and Esquire, among others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), the author of The Great Gatsby, is considered one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century.

Martin Fitzpatrick is coauthor, with Paul Colby, of The Bitter End: Hanging Out at America's Nightclub.

Matthew Flaming grew up in Los Angeles and studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.

Tim Flannery is one of the most celebrated scientists of our time and the bestselling author of The Weather Makers, The Eternal Frontier, and Chasing Kangaroos.

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) was a French novelist of the realist school, best known for writing Madame Bovary, a story of adultery and the unhappy love affair of provincial wife Emma Bovary.

Charles Fleming is a former Newsweek correspondent and the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess.

Martin Fletcher, one of the most highly respected foreign correspondents in television news, is currently based in Israel, where he is NBC News bureau chief in Tel Aviv.

Charles Bracelen Flood is the author of twelve books, including Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War and Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times Along the Road to Independence, winner of an American Revolution Round Table Award.

Michael Flynn is a science fiction writer with over a dozen books to his name, including the four-book Firestar series, The Wreck of the River of Stars, and the Hugo Award–nominated Eifelheim.

Stephen Flynn is among the world’s most widely cited experts on homeland security and trade and transportation issues.

Burton Folsom, Jr., is a professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and the author of The Myth of the Robber Barons and Empire Builders: How Michigan Entrepreneurs Helped Make America Great.

Steve Forbes is the chairman and CEO of Forbes Media and editor in chief of Forbes magazine, as well as the author of Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS and A New Birth of Freedom.

Amanda Foreman is a freelance journalist who earned her Ph.D. in history from Oxford University, where she has worked as a researcher.

E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and librettist, whose best known novels include Howard's End, A Room with a View, and A Passage to India.

The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation promotes increased independence for people who are blind by providing them with the highest quality German shepherds possible.

Currently the head of the Purnell School in Pottersville, New Jersey, Jenifer Fox has worked as a teacher and administrator for twenty-five years.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the most important and influential Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat.

Jon Franklin, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, is a journalism professor at the University of Maryland and the author of The Molecules of the Mind.

Journalist Lucinda Franks won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for her national reporting.

Robert Frank is a senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and a professor of economics at Cornell University and the author of Falling Behind andThe Winner-Take-All Society.

Beau Fraser is managing director of The Gate Worldwide, the second-oldest ad agency in the United States.

David H. Freedman is a business and science journalist and the author of Brainmakers, Corps Business, and At Large.

Rory Freedman is a former agent for Ford Models.

Gregory A. Freeman is an award-winning writer with over twenty-five years in journalism.

Philip Freeman is a professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his Ph.D. in Classical Philology and Celtic Studies from Harvard University.

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan writer whose political journalism and fiction has been published internationally.

An Assistant Attorney General of Minnesota for more than twelve years, Barbara Freese helped enforce her state's air pollution laws and along the way became fascinated by coal and the larger story behind the smoke.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis, isconsidered the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century and the author of The Interpretation of Dreams.

Andrew Friedman is coauthor, with James Blake, of Breaking Back, a New York Times bestseller. He has written for the O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications.

David M. Friedman has written for Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and many other publications.

Paula Froelich is the deputy editor for the New York Post's Page Six column, a regular correspondent on Entertainment Tonight, and the author of It! Nine Secrets of the Rich and Famous that Will Take You to the Top.

David Fromkin, University Professor, is a professor of international relations, of history, and of law at Boston University, as well as the author of The Independence of Nations and A Peace to End All Peace.

Scott Frost is a screenwriter whose credits include the television classics Twin Peaks and Life Goes On.

David Frum is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush.

François Furstenberg, who was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, is an assistant professor of history at the Université de Montréal.

Dalton Fury (a pseudonym) served fifteen years in Special Operations Forces and was the senior ranking military officer at the Battle of Tora Bora.

Cal Fussman is a contributing editor for ESPN The Magazine and Esquire.

David Gaider lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and has worked for video game developer BioWare since 1999. He is the lead writer on the role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins.

James R. Gaines is a longtime journalist, magazine editor, publishing executive, media consultant, and author.

Peter W. Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, is the senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Yasmine Galenorn is the USA Today bestselling author of the urban fantasy Sisters of the Moon Series, the paranormal Chintz 'n China mystery series, and the Bath & Body mystery series, as well as eight nonfiction metaphysical books.

Robert M. Galford is a managing partner at the Center for Executive Development.

Robert C. Gallagher is an alumnus of Syracuse University and a freelance sportswriter.

Danielle Ganek is the author of the critically praised Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him and a former editor at Mademoiselle and Women's Day magazines.

Joaquin "Jack" Garcia spent twenty-six years as a special agent for the FBI.

A professional historian, author, musician, and consultant, Mark Lee Gardner has published with several university presses and periodicals, such as New Mexico Magazine, Journal of the West, and Living History.

Dorothy Garlock is the national bestselling and award-winning author of forty-nine romance novels, including A Place Called Rainwater and The Edge of Town.

John D. Gartner is a psychologist on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in Armerica.

Joshua Gaylord taught high school English at an Upper East Side prep school for almost a decade, as well as literature and cultural studies courses as an adjunct professor at the New School.

Bill Geist is a regular commentator for CBS News Sunday Morning and The CBS Evening News.

Tamar Geller, a former Israeli intelligence officer, owns and operates The Loved Dog, southern California's first cage-free boarding and day care center.

Brent Ghelfi has served as a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals and now owns and operates several businesses.

Ann Gibbons has been the primary writer on human evolution for Science magazine for more than a decade.

Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) was a poet, philosopher, and artist whose most famous work is The Prophet, a book of twenty-six poetic essays that explore some of the mysteries of life.

Tanya Egan Gibson is the author of How to Buy a Love of Reading and an alumni of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

William Gibson is credited with having coined the term "cyberspace," and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed.

Gerd Gigerenzer is the director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill’s official biographer, and a leading historian of the modern world.

Mike Gilbert is a retired and highly successful sports agent.

John Gillespie worked as an investment banker with Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Bear Stearns for eighteen years.

Laura Anne Gilman is the author of the Cosa Nostradamus books (the Retrievers series and the Paranormal Scene Investigations series), the young adult trilogy Grail Quest, and two Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels.

Newt Gingrich was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1999, serving four years as Speaker of the House starting in 1995.

William Gladstone has worked at the highest levels of book publishing, created the Waterside Technical Book Conferences, and has been involved in the creation of several digital publishing enterprises, including the first print-on-demand book publishing company.

Molly Gloss is the award-winning author of The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, and Wild Life.

Lorri Glover is the author of two books on the early South and a professor of early American history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.