Our authors have won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award, Financial Times Book of the Year Award, and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, PEN/Hemingway, Pushcart Prize, Whiting Writer’s Award, Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Academy awards.
Todd Boss is an author, installation artist, inventor, librettist, podcaster, and film producer in Minneapolis. His fourth poetry collection from W. W. Norton & Co. is SOMEDAY THE PLAN OF A TOWN. His lyrics have been performed at Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. His work has been recognized with Grammy nominations, Emmy awards, and by the National Book Foundation. Todd is the founding Artistic Director of Motionpoems, a production company that has turned more than 150 contemporary poems into short films. His podcast, There’s a Poem in That, launched in 2023.
In 2018, Todd sold all his possessions and circled the globe in a series of 30+ house-sits. He is the author of THE BOY WHO SAID WOW.
Zoë Bossiere is a genderfluid writer from Tucson, Arizona. She is the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction and the co-editor of two anthologies: The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction and The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins. Their writing has been published in The Sun, Guernica, The Rumpus, The Believer, The Washington Post, among other venues. Follow her at zoebossiere.com or on Twitter @zoebossiere.
Protest Song: Paul Robeson, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Ongoing Fight for Black Liberation
Patricia Bosworth is the New York Times-bestselling author of four biographies and two memoirs: Montgomery Clift (Harcourt Brace, 1978); Diane Arbus (Knopf, 1984); Marlon Brando (Viking, 2001); Jane Fonda (HMH, 2011); Anything Your Little Heart Desires (S&S, 1997); and The Men in My Life (HarperCollins, 2017). As a journalist, she has contributed regularly to Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications.
I Dare You Not to Yawn (Candlewick,2013)
The Real Mermaids Series (Jabberwocky, 2010-2013)
· Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings
· Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath
· Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels
· Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells
Dan Bouk is an award winning historian who is Associate Professor of History and University Studies at Colgate University, a core member of the Max Planck Institute of Science’s working group on “Histories of Data”, and currently serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Date & Research Institute. His first book, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, was awarded prizes from the History of Science Society and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History.
Cyril Bouquet is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) where he works with companies trying to re-invent themselves, orchestrating their innovation journeys to help executives create the future and not just hold on to the formulas that have worked well in the past.
Innes Bowen was editor of the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Analysis’ and a senior journalist at the BBC TV programme ‘Newsnight’. She is now an independent podcast producer.
A bartender to the Hollywood elite, for whom he set up intimate social liaisons, Bowers was the author of Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywoodand The Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Full Service, co-authored with Lionel Friedberg, was a New York Times Bestseller and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller.
Even at a young age, NYT best-selling Tim Bowers' artwork reflected a strong sense of humor and an interest in animals. Prior to illustrating children's books, Tim worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards, where he helped launch the popular Shoebox Greetings card line. Bowers has garnered various awards including the Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best" list and several Junior Library Guild selections. Tim's artwork has been included in the Society of Illustrators Annual Art Exhibition and the S.I. Humor Exhibition, as well as featured in children's magazines, used on a wide variety of products, and appeared on hundreds of greeting cards. Bowers is the creator of Uke-n-Draw, a new program that introduces storytelling to children through music and art. Tim and his wife live in central Ohio.
Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
Nikolas Bowie is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a historian who teaches courses in federal constitutional law, state constitutional law, and local government law. His research focuses on critical legal histories of democracy in the United States. He is writing a book with Daphna Renan currently titled Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People for Liveright
Born in 1988, Will’s passion for food started when he was 10 years old after being inspired by Jamie Oliver. When he was just 16, he set up his own private catering company called will2cook which he kept going throughout school and beyond, and it helped him fund his year abroad after college and most of his university education.
After university, Will worked in the kitchen at Le Café Anglais under the guidance of Rowley Leigh for two years. He gained experience in all aspects of the kitchen before he moved to Cheval in Mumbai as Head Chef for two years. Within a year the restaurant won 'Best New European Restaurant' in South Mumbai. Will also spent some time consulting on the menus at Khyber, the oldest and most established restaurant in Mumbai. He then travelled around India on a food tour for six months before returning to the UK in 2014. When Will returned to London he worked at The Cinnamon Kitchen under the guidance of Vivek Singh for eight months.
Will was inspired to set up his own Indian restaurant and in 2015 the opportunity arose. Joining forces with Rik Campbell, his best friend from university, together the pair opened Kricket at POP Brixton, a 20-cover restaurant set inside a shipping container. Only a year into trading, the small, neighbourhood restaurant picked up a string of accolades, with chef Will Bowlby nominated for Chef of the year at the 2016 YBF’s and labeled as a ‘chef to watch’. The Brixton site - a firm favourite amongst celebrity chefs, including Pierre Koffmann and Michel Roux Jr - was nominated for the ‘Worth the Queue’ category in the Evening Standard restaurant awards. In 2017 the team closed their temporary Brixton location, and opened Kricket Soho, a two-level, intimate restaurant on Denman Street, and already confirmed plans to open another Kricket at the Television Centre this summer.
Will’s unique approach in marrying seasonal British ingredients with authentic Indian flavours continues to be revered within the industry. The accolades continue with Will most recently winning “Asian Chef of The Year”, at the 2017 Asian Curry Awards – where he was shortlisted against several top Indian chefs nationwide. Simultaneously, Kricket Soho won the “Best Newcomer” award, and has also received a Bib Gourmand 2018, from The Michelin Guide.
This spring Will launches his debut cookbook, Kricket: An Indian inspired cookbook, published by Hardie Grant Books on 3rd May.
With a steadfast eagerness to explore Indian food and flavours, Will returns to India as much as he can, bringing back his findings to the kitchen at Kricket.
The Glass of Fashion
Untitled Visual Book of Bowles’ Couture Collection
Vogue’s International Editor-at-Large, Bowles was previously Vogue’s European Editor-at-Large and a creative consultant for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Akemi Dawn Bowman is the author of critically acclaimed YA contemporary titles such as Starfish, Summer Bird Blue, and the forthcoming Harley in the Sky. The Infinity Courts is her YA sci-fi debut.
Sam Bowman is a founding editor of Works in Progress. He has been director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, a principal at Fingleton, and executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, where he is currently a Senior Fellow.
Luc de Brabandère is a fellow and senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group, teacher at The Louvain School of Management and at the École Centrale Paris, former general manager of the Brussels Stock Exchange, and author or co-author of 12 books, most recently Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity (Random House), written with Alan Iny.
The Soul Survivor
The Soul Prophecy
The Soul Hunters
Young Samurai: The Return of the Warrior
Bodyguard: Fugitive
Bodyguard: Assassin
Chris Bradford is a multi-million copy bestselling author who is renowned for his live events and for practising 'method writing'.
For his award-winning Young Samurai series, he trained in samurai swordsmanship, karate, ninjutsu and earned his black belt in Zen Kyu Shin Taijutsu.
For his Bodyguard series, he embarked on an intensive close-protection course to become a qualified professional bodyguard.
And for the Soul trilogy, Chris travelled extensively to experience first-hand the cultures featured in the story-from living with the Shona people in Zimbabwe, to trekking the Inca trail, to meditating in a Buddhist temple amid the mountains of Japan.
His 3 + million selling books are published in over twenty-five languages and have garnered more than thirty-five children's book awards and nominations. Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior was deemed one of Puffin's 70 Best Ever Books, alongside Treasure Island and Robin Hood.
Mark A. Bradley is an award-winning author and national security expert who served for years at the CIA and Department of Justice and, later, was appointed by President Obama to the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office at the National Archives.
When the World Went South: The Rise of the Global South and the Making of Our Times
Bradley is a Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College, University of Chicago and is writing a book currently titled When the World Went South: The Rise of the Global South and the Making of Our Times for Yale.
Karen Brailsford has served as a writer and editor at Newsweek, Elle, People, In Touch, and E! Entertainment and has contributed articles on a freelance basis to Interview and The New York Times Book Review. The proud devoted mother (and former manager) of award-winning, wildly popular actress and activist Amandla Stenberg, Karen is trained as a spiritual practitioner by Agape, the fabled Los Angeles-based spiritual center led by Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith, whose work on the “Law of Attraction” was featured in The Secret.
The Business Of Big Data: How to Create Lasting Value in the Age of AI
Thinking Musically
The Game Theory
Uri Bram is CEO and Editor-at-Large at The Browser. He has written about science and business for Nautilus, Motherboard, Quartz and more and is regularly featured on i24 News as an economics analyst. He is Head of Communications at GiveWell, a research and grantmaking organization focusing on global health.
Uri graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and has worked as a researcher at the foremost universities on four continents: on Fragile States and European Immigration at Princeton University; at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University; at the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in Beijing; and at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
Lisa Brateman, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, relationship specialist, and media commentator. In her midtown Manhattan private practice, she offers individual and couples therapy. Her areas of expertise include anxiety and depression, couples therapy - marital and premarital, conflict resolution; and emotional eating.
As an internationally recognized expert in her field, Lisa is a frequent commentator for TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines and has appeared on CBS Evening News, WPIX-TV Evening News, NBC Evening News, Arise America-TV News, CCTV, Asia America Television, CTV. She has contributed to articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, GQ, U.S. News & World Report, MSNBC, WSJ Market Watch, Vogue, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Harper's Bazaar, CBS News MoneyWatch, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Independent, Today, the Daily Mail, New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, PBS, Teen Vogue, Bravo TV, New York Daily News, Brides Magazine and the New York Post. Analyzing the psychological impact of current events, Lisa demystifies human behavior and relationships.
Susan Bratton is the founder and CEO of Savor Health, which provides home delivery of fresh, nutritious meals designed specially for cancer patients. She is actively involved in a number of industry associations, including Women Business Leaders in Healthcare. She also serves on the Advisory Board of HCap, the national leading venue for healthcare providers and capital to meet, and is the Secretary for Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee.
LETTERS FROM PARIS ON FIRE: An American Journalist and a German Killer on the Eve of WWII
Critically acclaimed author Mark Braude is a former postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where he was also a lecturer in the departments of Art History, History, and French. He
will be the Spring 2020 Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris and was named a 2017-2018 Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Los
Angeles Times, and The New Republic.
Girl on Fire
Gary Braver is the bestselling and award-winning author of nine critically acclaimed mysteries and medical thrillers including Elixir, Gray Matter, Choose Me (with Tess Gerritsen) and Flashback, which is the only thriller to have won a prestigious Massachusetts Book Award. He has taught literature and fiction writing at Northeastern University, as well as at workshops and conferences around the world.
Marcus Bridgewater is a creator, educator, motivational speaker, and social media influencer. He is the co-founder of Choice Forward, a company that offers life coaching, seminars, and workshops, and a content contributor to Sanvello, a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app from Fortune 10 company UnitedHealth Group.
Seasoned journalist Keith O’Brien is author of Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County’s Quest for Basketball Greatness (St. Martin’s Press), praised by the New York Times Book Review as “a reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account,” and co-author of Winter X Games Gold Medalist Colten Moore’s Catching the Sky (37 Ink). He has written for The Boston Globe, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Runner’s World, USA Today, and others, has been a regular correspondent on several National Public Radio shows, and is a recipient of the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
This Dark World
Author and screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs is the author of the memoir This Dark World (Bloomsbury), which was adapted for film and released in 2011 as Higher Ground, directed by and starring Oscar-nominated actor Vera Farmiga.
A journalist and entrepreneur, Brill is the creator of the widely acclaimed magazine Brill’s Content. He’s written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, and TIME and his March 2013 TIME cover story, "Bitter Pill," marked the first time That the magazine dedicated an entire issue to a single article.
The co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking and exploitation, Jared Brock speaks regularly at universities and churches throughout the United States and Canada. He is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully and his writing has also appeared in Esquire, the Huffington Post, TODAY.com, and Writer’s Digest.
David Brock is the bestselling author of BLINDED BY THE RIGHT and KILLING THE MESSENGER, and is the founder of Media Matters for America and American Bridge.
Cambria Brockman grew up in Houston, London, and Scotland, and graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine with a degree in English Literature and Art History. Her award-winning wedding and portrait photography company, Cambria Grace, is followed by 60k Instagram users including Martha Stewart and Grace Bonney of Design Sponge. Brockman lives in Boston with her husband, son, and dog. Tell Me Everything is her first novel.
Michael Brodeur is classical music editor at The Washington Post, and is a former cultural critic at the Boston Globe. Michael’s written on the gym and the body for Thrillist, the Boston Globe Magazine, and Medium; Swole is his first book.
Dr Paul Broks is a neuropsychologist and revered science writer. He earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford and has conducted research at Oxford and in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to building a clinical practice, he has held senior clinical lectureships at the universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, and Plymouth. His books, Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology and The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey interweave neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative, and his scientific research has appeared in academic journals including Brain, Neuropsychologia, and Neuroimage.
Into the Silent Land inspired the play On Ego (Oberon Modern Plays, 2005), which Paul co-wrote and which was commissioned by Soho Theatre. It has since been staged in New York, off-Broadway, in several other US cities, and in Australia and Europe.
Paul writes regularly across genres, including for film and radio. He wrote and co-presented several episodes of Melvyn Bragg’s BBC Radio 4 series, ‘A History of Ideas’, and ‘Dr. Broks’s Casebook’ (BBC Radio 4), and contributed to several editions of WNYC’s Radiolab. He has also written regular columns for Prospect magazine and for The Times (Times 2 health section), as well as numerous book reviews and other articles for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times (London), Sunday Telegraph, and Literary Review, among others.
He served as writer, presenter, and associate producer for the feature-length documentary film Martino Unstrung (Sixteen Films, Dir. Ian Knox, 2008), and wrote the script for Rupture – A Matter of Life or Death (Hudson Films, Dir. Hugh Hudson, 2011).
COLD: Lessons of Place, Presence and Practice
Anna Brones is a writer and artist whose work has been featured in outlets like Outside Magazine, Bust Magazine, Adventure Journal, Guernica, and re-published and featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, and Saveur, among others. Her artwork appears in the most recent edition of Joy of Cooking.
Will Brooker was born in Coventry in 1970 and grew up in South-East London. His first professional work, an article in Crash computer games magazine, was published in 1988 when he was at Kidbrooke Comprehensive school. His first major book was Batman Unmasked, a cultural history of the iconic character, published in 1999, which he followed with studies of Star Wars and its fans, the changing meanings of Alice in Wonderland, Blade Runner and its sequels, 1980s computer games, and the films of Christopher Nolan.
In 2015, his year-long immersion into the life and career of David Bowie attracted global media attention and resulted in two books, the more scholarly Forever Stardust and Why Bowie Matters, for a popular readership. His subsequent book, The Truth About Lisa Jewell, followed another year-long project, shadowing the best-selling author as she completed her 20th novel. Will has written for a wide number of publications and made multiple media appearances. He has worked at Kingston University since 2005 and became Professor of Film and Cultural Studies in 2012. He now lives in Surrey with his family.
More about Will Brooker here
Amanda Brooks is the author of I Love Your Style, Always Pack a Party Dress, and Farm From Home. She was a contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveler and Architectural Digest and has written for the New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal,Vogue, and Men’s Vogue, where she wrote the popular online column “In Her Eyes.” The former fashion director of Barneys New York and creative director of Tuleh, she has appeared on Today, The Early Show, and National Public Radio. She lives with her husband and two children in Oxfordshire, England.
Elizabeth Brooks grew up in Chester, England. She graduated from Cambridge University with a first class degree in Classics, and lives on the Isle of Man with her husband and two children.
Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of the memoir Motorcycles I’ve Loved (Riverhead) and the debut novel Good Morning, Midnight (Random House).
Marcus Brotherton is a New York Times bestselling author and collaborative writer known for his books with high-profile public figures, humanitarians, inspirational leaders, and military personnel.
Bill Brewster is a freelance writer, music consultant and DJ, specializing in dance music and football. He has worked for the British publications When Saturday Comes and Mixmag Update. His work has appeared in The Face, Mixmag, Muzik, Mail on Sunday, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and The Big Issue.Frank Broughton is a freelance writer and editor, and author of the “Time Out New York Guide.” He has worked as an editor at iD,Mixmag US, and Blah Blah Blah, and his writing has also appeared in Details, HipHop Connection, Mixmag, NME, Rolling Stone, The Big Issue, and Time Out New York, where he was the founding Clubs Editor.Together they run DJhistory.com the world’s leading expert forum on back-catalogue dance music and through DJhistory.com have published a series of books: The Disco Files, The Complete Boys Own, Raving ’89 and Catch The Beat. They also co-authored The Manual for the Ministry of Sound Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton are based in London. They are represented in association with Lucas Alexander Whitley in the UK.
Elena Brower is an internationally recognized yoga and meditation teacher based in New York and the co-author with Gabrielle Hartley, Esq of the forthcoming Better Apart.
Waka lives in Portland, OR and works remotely for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), a non-profit group. While I Was Away is her MG debut.
Emma Brown is a reporter on the Washington Post’s investigative team. In the summer of 2018 Brown broke the story of Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She has appeared on a number of national radio and television shows, including NPR’s All Things Considered and Weekend All Things Considered; CNN’s New Day and Live with Poppy Harlow; MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show and Morning Joe and Kasie DC; PBS NewsHour; NBC’s Today Show and before becoming a journalist, worked as a wilderness ranger and as a middle-school math teacher.
A contributor to the London Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, the New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere, Brown was recently a visiting writer at Wesleyan University. Brown specializes in writing about forgotten historical figures.
Kate Brown is the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several prize-winning histories, including Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford 2013). Her latest book, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (Norton 2019), translated into six languages, won the Marshall Shulman and Reginald Zelnik Prizes for the best book in East European History, plus the Silver Medal for Laura Shannon Book Prize. Manual for Survival was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pushkin House Award and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage. She is working on a history of urban self-provisioning called “Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A Kaleidoscopic History of the Food Sovereignty Frontier.”
Tanaquil: Le Clercq, Balanchine, and a Life at the Forefront of the 20th Century
Holly Brubach is a writer on culture specializing in dance and fashion. She has worked as a staff writer and editor at The New Yorker, the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, where she won a National Magazine Award in Essays & Criticism, and her freelance work has appeared in W Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Gentlewoman, Travel & Leisure, Departures, Mirabella, O, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, and others.
Michael Brumm is a writer/producer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He’s also been a Consulting Producer for At Home with Amy Sedaris and a 4-time Emmy-winning writer for The Colbert Report. He is the co-author of the children’s book HIS ROYAL DOGNESS, and has written for various magazines and video games. Michael currently lives in New York City with his wife, Camille, and their two little cryptids, Henry and Bea. THE CRYPTID CLUB, a 4-book graphic series is published by Harper Alley.
Debra Bruno is a long time journalist who has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Politico, and the Atlantic. Her 2020 article on her enslaving ancestors in the Washington Post Magazine led to interviews with Eleanor Mire on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Here and Now.” Her forthcoming book, A Hudson Valley Reckoning, will expand on her groundbreaking work.
Douglas Brunt is the author of the novels Ghosts of Manhattan and The Means (Touchstone). He has just completed his third novel, Rye City.
Anne Brusatte completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol and earned a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education from The City College of the City University of New York. She has taught elementary school for more than a decade in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She lives in Scotland, the setting of her first book for children, Dugie the Dinosaur.
Birds Take Flight
A paleontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburg in Scotland, Stephen Brusatte is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. He has discovered and named 10 new species of dinosaurs and led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs went extinct. A frequent speaker, he and his work have been featured on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Science Friday and 1A on NPR, CBS Radio, the BBC, CBS This Morning, the CBS Evening News, CNN and National Geographic Channel’s T.Rex Autopsy.
Roman Britain and Where to Find It
Mike Bryan has been visiting Romano British sites since youth. Following a long career in publishing with Penguin Books where he was CEO of a number of Penguin’s international publishing companies, he is at present studying Roman Archaeology at Oxford University and evangelising to one and all on his favourite subject.
Co-authored with Denise Allen, their Roman Britain and Where to Find It was published by Amberley in 2020.
Mad Max Fury Road Oral History
Kyle Buchanan is the Pop Culture reporter for the New York Times.
Tobias Buck is the managing editor of the Financial Times. He was previously the Berlin and Madrid correspondent.
TELL ME ONE TRUE THING
Libby Buck is a writer and former teacher based in Chapel Hill, NC.
Sydney Bucksbaum is a writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly where she passionately covers all things pop culture — but TV is her one true love. Her work has previously been featured in Teen Vogue, The Hollywood Reporter, DC Comics, Mashable, and more. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill of School of Journalism and immediately traded the freezing temps of Chicago, IL for her current home of sunny Los Angeles, CA. In addition to her writing/editing at EW, she also co-hosts SiriusXM’s "Superhero Insider" radio show and is a member of the Television Critics Association and the Hollywood Critics Association.
Decisive Moments: How We Learn to Be Brave
Mariann Edgar Budde is the Bishop and spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington DC and Washington National Cathedral. Prior to her election in 2011, she was a parish priest in Minneapolis for 18 years.
Maggie Bullock is a journalist and former Condé Nast editor who covers the worlds of fashion, retail, and celebrity for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue among many other national publications.
A pastry chef based in Vermont, Bullock-Prado is a frequent contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and Food and Wine, and appears regularly on NPR’s "All Things Considered."
Will Bunch is national opinion columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer who shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting, and the author of several books on American politics and culture.
Majka Burhardt is the author of Coffee Story: Ethiopia and Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa and Executive Producer of films Waypoint Namibia and Namuli. She is the founder and executive director of Legado, where she works to protect the world’s most threatened mountain ecosystems by empowering the people who call them home. Legado originated during a pioneering climbing and conservation research expedition to Mozambique.
JEAN STEIN: An American Scene
Historian and journalist Kevin Burke is the director of research at the Hutchins Center for African &African American Research at Harvard University, producer for PBS television series Finding Your Roots, The Black Church, and Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, and senior historical advisor for Emmy-nomated PBS docuseries Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise and Africa's Great Civilizations. With Henry Louis Gates Jr., Burke is the co-author of And Still I Rise: Black America since MLK and co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, Twelve Years a Slave.
Over the past 35 years, Robert Burleigh has published more than 50 children’s picture books, collaborating with such prominent illustrators as Wendell Minor, Ed Young, Mike Wimmer, Barry Blitt, Stephen Johnson, Katy Wu, and Sterling Hundley.
His books have won numerous awards. Born and raised in Chicago, Robert Burleigh graduated from DePauw University (Greencastle, Indiana) and later received an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago. In addition to writing, Robert Burleigh paints regularly under the art name Burleigh Kronquist (www.Burleighkronquist.com) and has shown work in one-person and group shows in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere around the country.
David Burtka is a Cordon Bleu-trained chef and caterer as well as well as an award-winning Broadway and TV actor. He is also husband to Neil Patrick Harris and father to twins, Harper and Gideon.
Stephen Bush is is an associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times, and was formerly Political Editor of the New Statesman. He writes the Financial Times’ ‘Inside Politics’ newsletter, and previously wrote the New Statesman’s daily briefing, ‘Morning Call’. He has also written for the Evening Standard, the Guardian, and the i newspaper. In 2017 Stephen was named the Political Studies Association’s 'Journalist of the Year'.
Grace Byers is an actor and activist who stars in Fox’s hit series Empire. As a multiracial young girl and a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Grace was bullied throughout her childhood. This book was born out of her desire to empower young girls against the effects of bullying. In her spare time, she volunteers with the nonprofit antibullying organization Saving Our Daughters. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Trai Byers. I Am Enough is her first book.
Michael Byers is the author of the story collection The Coast of Good Intentions, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His novels Long for This World and Percival’s Planet were both New York Times Notable Books, and his novella, The Broken Man, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Byers’ short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards; his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
A painter, playwright, and television creator of Tutti Frutti, Byrne has designed album covers for The Beatles, Donovan, Gerry Rafferty and Billy Connolly. He has several paintings hanging in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
Jonathan Byrnes is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, where he has supervised research and taught graduate students and executives for thirty years. He is the founding chairman of Profit Isle, a trusted partner whose unique, proprietary profit analytics have produced 10-30% year-on-year profit increases on over $100 billion in client revenues. He holds a doctorate from Harvard Business School. With John Wass, he is the author of Choose Your Customer, from McGraw-Hill.
A law professor at George Washington University Law School, Naomi Cahn writes, lectures, and blogs about families and culture.
Fastest Girl
Mary Cain is one of the fastest middle-distance runners in her generation, and at 17 she became the youngest American track and field athlete to make a world championship. She is also the CEO and founder of Atalanta NYC, a nonprofit that employs professional female runners to mentor young girls in the community.
Louise Callaghan is the Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times. She was named New Journalist of the Year in 2017, and won the Marie Colvin Award at the British Journalism Awards in 2018. The citation read, in part: 'Louise Callaghan's work fights to get to the truth of what is happening on the ground in rebel-held Syria... She bore witness to crimes governments and armed groups would rather were hidden away.' Forbes Magazine named her as one of their '30 under 30' key people in the media.
A Privilege to Die: Hezbollah, Israel, and the War with No End S&S
Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story S&S
Cambanis is a senior fellow and director of Century International at the Century Foundation. His work focuses on US foreign policy, Arab politics, and social movements in the Middle East.
The Lone Dissenter: John Marshall Harlan, Plessy, and the Power of Conscience (S&S)
Canellos is managing editor for enterprise at Politico and was formerly editorial page editor, Boston Globe
FORKS IN THE ROAD
Nina Caplan is an award-winning journalist, author and speaker who started as a film critic, broadened out into theatre, art, photography and book criticism, worked at the European, the Guardian and Time Out and now focuses on wine, travel, food and France. A drinks columnist for The Times and a travel columnist for Club Oenologique, she is a contributor to Travel+Leisure, Food & Wine, Conde Nast Traveller and various other UK and American magazines.
Nina's first book, The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, came out in 2018. Her second, a cultural history of the Michelin Guide, will be published by Bloomsbury USA and Little, Brown UK in 2026. She lives between London and Burgundy.
Diane Cardwell is an award-winning journalist who edited and wrote features on a broad range of subjects, including popular culture, politics, crime, real estate, the New York hospitality industry and, most recently, energy, with a focus on renewables and clean-tech. A longtime staff member at The New York Times, she has contributed articles to numerous publications, including New York, O, Details, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and Vogue. Rockaway, her memoir about how surfing changed her life, is out now from Houghton Mifflin.
An investigative journalist and anthropologist, Carney blends narrative nonfiction with ethnography in his stories. His first book The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers received critical acclaim from Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times and won the Clarion Award for best work of nonfiction in 2012.
Happy Medium's The Practical Guide to Creativity
Tayler Carraway is a creative entrepreneur, writer, marketer and cofounder of Happy Medium. She graduated from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a degree in economics. After nearly a decade working in fashion for brands like J. Crew, Ralph Lauren, and Victoria’s Secret, Tayler left the corporate world to pursue a lifelong dream of starting a business with her husband Rett. Since its founding in 2019, Happy Medium has grown into a thriving cultural institution in New York City with 2 locations, 50 employees, and over 100,000 customers.
Jim Carrey is an actor, comedian, and visual artist, and has starred in some of the most beloved films of the past two decades (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dumb & Dumber, The Truman Show, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, among others). He is the executive producer and star of the Showtime series Kidding and the author, with Dana Vachon, of the semi-autobiographical novel Memoirs & Misinformation (Knopf, 2020).
David L. Carroll has written nine network TV programs and the EMMY Award winning adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. He is the author of 40 published books, a majority of which deal with health, self-help, and spirituality, including Five Stages of the Soul, Spiritual Parenting, and Living with Dying.
E. Jean Carroll has written the celebrated monthly advice column “Ask E. Jean” for Elle magazine for over 25 years. She has been a contributing editor at Esquire, Outside and Playboy, and has written for Rolling Stone and GQ and other publications. She also received an Emmy nomination for her writing on Saturday NightLive.
Ash Carter is a writer and the articles editor at Air Mail. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Air Mail, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Medium, WIRED, Town & Country, USA Today, and more. He lives in Brooklyn.
Lachlan Cartwright is Special Correspondent at the Hollywood Reporter. He has been a journalist for twenty years, reporting first from Australia, and then London and New York. He started his career in regional television at WIN TV in Ballarat, Victoria before moving to London in 2005 and joining the Sun, where he became the newspaper’s first Online News Editor at the age of 25. In 2009, he moved to the New York Post, for which he traveled across the U.S. and reported from more than 20 States. In 2013, he became a Column Editor and reporter for New York Daily News. In 2014, he was named Executive Editor of the National Enquirer and Radar Online, an experience he survived (barely) to become a senior reporter and eventually Editor at Large at the Daily Beast. He divides his time between New York City and Los Angeles.
Doreen Carvajal has worked as a journalist for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times and other publications for more than 25 years, covering a myriad of topics. The Forgetting River is her first book.
Doing It All: Stop Over-Functioning and Become the Mom and Person You’re Meant to Be
Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a practicing, board-certified pediatrician, author, speaker. She is a Stanford University-trained private practice pediatrician and CEO and Founder of Modern Mommy Doc and The Modern Mamas Club App. Dr. Casares is a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and medical consultant for large-scale organizations including Good Housekeeping magazine, Gerber, and L’Oreal (CeraVe). Her work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Thrive Global, and TODAY Parenting. She is a regular contributor to Psychology Today.
The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
Described by Rolling Stone as “one of America’s best and most ambitious songwriters,” singer, music producer, visual artist, and writer, Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers and recorded a collaborative album with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs.
Shawn Casemore, author of Operational Empowerment, is a frequent speaker and expert on operations management, team-building, human resources and customer service who works with companies all around the world.
Christopher Castellani is the author of four novels: All This Talk of Love, The Saint of Lost Things, A Kiss from Maddalena, and most recently Leading Men. Based on the life of Tennessee Williams, Leading Men was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a “Best New Book” in People magazine, and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A rave review in The New York Times called Leading Men “blazing,” and an “alert, serious, sweeping novel.” Entertainment Weekly hailed it as “Dazzling... with an evocative precision that historical fiction often merely aspires to.” Castellani is also the author of The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, in the series published by Graywolf Press.
Christopher is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Brandeis University and is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science, and health policy issues has allowed him to publish over 350 academic articles. He has won numerous academic and writing awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Trudeau Foundation, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He contributes frequently for the popular press and is the author of two national bestsellers: The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness, and Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash. Caulfield is the host and co-producer of the documentary TV series, A User's Guide to Cheating Death.
Maureen Cavanagh has worked as a waitress, shot-girl, house cleaner, booking agent for punk rock bands in New York City in the 1980s, babysitter, tutor, bookkeeper, waitress again, owner of a commercial janitorial service, founder of the Utah chapter of a nonprofit called Project Children, fundraiser, domestic-violence advocate, publicist, grant writer, homelessness-prevention advocate, waitress once more, sub-prime auto finance company administrator, ESL tutor, tutor in a correctional facility, reading specialist, Language-based Learning Disability Special Education teacher, and automotive insurance agent. Cavanagh is now a treatment advocate and the founder of Magnolia New Beginnings, a peer-to-peer network and non-profit to assist those or their loved ones affected by substance use disorder.
A behavioral scientist and lawyer, Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio is one of Harvard Law’s rising stars studying issues related to diversity and gender in organizational behavior with the goal of promoting broad-based inclusion of women and minorities in the legal profession and in large organizations.
Nicole Centeno is a French Culinary Institute-trained chef and the founder and CEO of the Brooklyn-based soupery Splendid Spoon. She has taught cooking and nutrition courses at Columbia University and cooked at esteemed New York City restaurants such as EAT Greenpoint and Fatty Cue. Before founding her company, she worked for Wired Magazine, The New Yorker, and Saveur.
Lety Out Loud
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Angela Cervantes is the award-winning author of several popular contemporary middle-grade novels including, Lety Out Loud, which was named a Pura Belpré Honor Book by the American Library Association and selected for the Kids Indie Next List, Me, Frida and the Secret of the Peacock Ring, which was named a Junior Library Guild Selection and included in the prestigious Texas Bluebonnet Master List, Allie, First at Last, which received a starred review from Kirkus, and Gaby, Lost and Found, named Best Youth Chapter book by the International Latino Book Awards and a Bank Street College of Education’s Best Book of the Year. Angela also authored Maritza: Lead with Your Heart, a part of American Girl’s new line of contemporary characters called World by Us, and the junior novelizations for Disney/Pixar’s animated films Coco and Encanto.
Angela is the daughter of a retired middle-school teacher who instilled in her a love of reading and storytelling. When Angela is not writing, she enjoys conducting school visits, traveling and reading. Angela writes, reads and dreams from her home in Kansas City.