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.
Catherine Kim is at work on a collection of short stories based on the history of treatment for diseases developed by physicians over two centuries, told from the perspective of the women, children, and families who, knowingly or not, served as experimental subjects for the cures. She is also writing a historical novel based on the 1865 trial of Mary Harris, the nineteen-year daughter of poor Irish immigrants, who shot her lover. In a trial that was a national sensation, her attorneys argued her innocence with a novel defense, Paroxysmal Moral Insanity: that is, she was menstruating.
Catherine is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, where she specializes in obstetrics and gynecoloy. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the NYT Bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals.
She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
Erin Kimmerle currently teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. Erin is also the Executive Director for the Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science.
All Things Great and Small
Neil King Jr. served as chief diplomatic correspondent, senior political reporter and global economics editor over 20 years at The Wall Street Journal. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic and other publications. A native of Colorado, he lives now in Washington DC.
A former director of production for presidential events during the Clinton Administration, King was formerly the host of the Sirius/XM radio show PoliOptics. He’s contributed to The Washington Post, Men’s Vogue, Brill’s Content, and Politico and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, NPR, and elsewhere.
Eliza Kingsford is a psychologist and weight loss expert who is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. She is a sought-after speaker who regularly presents to groups across the country and appears in the national media, including national television shows such as on Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.
David Kirby is a writer, activist, and longtime journalist. He is a contributor to The New York Times and author of the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and The Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, as well as Animal Factory and Death at SeaWorld (St. Martin’s).
Satoyama: Ecological Wisdom from Japan's Half-Wild Landscapes
Hannah Kirshner is author and illustrator of Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town. Her reporting appears in publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic, and on The World radio program and podcast. She's currently working on an illustrated book about cooperative relationships with nature in Japan's satoyama landscapes, where the lines between cultivated and wild blur.
Kate Kitagawa is a leading expert on the history of mathematics, and is Senior Counselor for International Relations (Advisor to Senior Vice President) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). She earned a PhD from Princeton University, taught history at Harvard University, and has worked for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations. Her first book was a national bestseller in Japan, and she has been named one of the 100 most influential people in Japan by Nikkei Business.
Saltcrop
Space Whale
Yume Kitasei is the speculative fiction author of the award-winning The Deep Sky listed as one of the 10 best SFF novels of 2023 by The Washington Post. She is half-Japanese and half-American and grew up in a space between two cultures -- the same space where her stories reside, find out more at yumekitasei.com.
Paul Kix is the author of The Saboteur (Harper, 2017) and is an editor and writer in the features unit of ESPN. He is a contributor to the New Yorker, GQ and other national publications.
Linda Kay Klein has an interdisciplinary Masters degree in American evangelical gender messaging for girls and has spent the last decade working and writing at the cross section of faith, gender, and social change. She has been featured by NPR, PRI and the American Prospect and is a frequent speaker on college campuses and at conferences, among them TEDx and the SHE Summit.
A comedy writer and stand-up comic, Klein was the head writer and executive producer of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, and also worked as a writer on Amazon's Transparent. She’s received two Emmy nominations, one for her season writing for Saturday Night Live and one for Inside Amy Schumer.
Kim Kleman is the former editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer and Consumer Reports and is currently on the faculty of Columbia Journalism School.
Dana Kletter is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a was Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won Hopwood prizes in both Short Fiction and Novel. Her work has appeared in The Sun, Michigan Quarterly Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere. She is also a musician, with releases on Mammoth, Hannibal, Interscope, and Rykodisc records. She is at work on a memoir, Dear Enemy.
Rebecca Kling is an educator, transgender rights advocate, and co-founder of the equity consulting firm Better Worlds Collaborative.
John Kenneth Knaus was a CIA operations officer for 44 years, involved in covert efforts to support Tibetan resistance against Chinese occupation. He is the author of Orphans Of The Cold War: The United States, China, And The Tragedy Of Modern Tibet (ForeignAffairs).
Alyssa Knickerbocker is the author of the novella Your Rightful Home. Her short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Meridian, and The Best of the West 2011. She held the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville. Knickerbocker earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received the David and Jean Milofsky Prize in fiction.
A Fertile Future
Jaime M. Knopman, MD, FACOG is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist who serves as the Director of Oocyte Cryopreservation (aka egg freezing) for CCRM Fertility, a global pioneer in fertility science, research and treatment with 34 locations across the United States and Canada. Dr. Knopman, who has published several sentinel papers, has been named to the Super Doctors Rising Stars list, to New York magazine’s Top Doctors list in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, as a Castle Connolly Exceptional Woman in Medicine in 2020, and as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
A former editor at The New Yorker, Vogue, and Radar, Knutsen is the executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Magazine.
Atul Kochhar’s unique talent as a twice Michelin starred chef has changed the way people perceive and experience Indian cuisine. Taking inspiration from his native India, while continuously researching regional dishes, Atul has managed to combine his heritage with his love of British ingredients to create a unique and innovative modern Indian cuisine.
Since 1994 he has been at the forefront of Indian cuisine, achieving his first Michelin Star in 2001 and a second in 2007. Since then he has opened numerous successful, award-winning restaurants across the world from UK to Spain and India. Atul’s portfolio currently includes: Sindhu and Vaasu in Marlow; Hawkyns in Amersham; Kanishka in Mayfair; Indian Essence in Petts Wood and Saga, India. Most recently Atul has also opened Masachi in Wembley Park; Riwaz in Beaconsfield and Mathura in Westminster.
Having recipes featured in international publications and regular appearances on television, Atul has also written a number of successful cookbooks; Simple Indian; Fish, Indian Style; Curries of the World; 30 Minute Curries and now his new book Curry Everyday.
A contributing editor at Marie Claire, Kohen has written for New York, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New York Daily News, and The New York Sun.
William J. Kole is a veteran reporter, foreign correspondent, and former New England editor at The Associated Press. His storied career has included covering Dr. Kevorkian’s suicide machine, acting as AP’s lead writer in Paris following Princess Diana’s death, and winning a Society of American Business Editors & Writers award for his investigation into the exploitation of illegal immigrants by Walmart.
Erica Komisar is the author of the award-winning Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters. A psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert, her work has been featured in Parents Magazine, on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and she frequently writes for the Wall Street Journal.
David Komlos is Chief Executive Officer of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which has a unique platform, combining scientific methodologies and proprietary technologies, that helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges and clear the way for execution.
Alison Kosik has been a Business Correspondent and Anchor at CNN for more than a decade, recognized around the globe as the face of the network from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and has received a nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, Alison writes for CNN.com, which regularly registers more than 200 million unique visitors globally each month, and hosts a weekly business streaming show called CNN Markets Now.
FROM COAST AND COVE
FROM FIELD AND FOREST
Anna Koska is a published freelance illustrator of some 25 years, specialising in fruit, vegetables and the natural world, and to date has illustrated in excess of 100 books. As well as book illustration, Anna regularly receives commissions from chefs, authors and restauranteurs for food and botanical art. Anna works in watercolour, pen & ink, oils and, most recently, egg tempera. Her methods may vary but the joy of her artwork is constant; each piece she creates is a celebration of the fruit, vegetable, animal or plant she has captured with her inimitable flare, which has secured her place as one of the UK’s leading natural history illustrators.
A University of Michigan graduate, Koslowski holds an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Fiction from the University of South Carolina. His fiction has been published in Blue Mesa Review, Front Porch Journal, and Amazon’s Day One. Koslowski lives with his wife in Columbia, South Carolina.
Michael Kovrig is a Senior Adviser to the International Crisis group, having previously served for more than a decade as a diplomat in China and at the United Nations for the Canadian foreign service. He has worked in 20 countries, including as a strategic communications specialist for the UN Development Group and a journalist and foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe.
In December 2018, he was arrested in China alongside Michael Spavor. They were charged with espionage and held for 1019 days in apparent retaliation for the arrest, on a US warrant, of the senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. He was released in September 2021.
Wendy is the Co-founder and Director of the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR), a charity organization founded by Wendy and her donor-conceived son Ryan to assist individuals conceived as a result of sperm, egg, or embryo donation that are seeking to make contact with others with whom they share first-degree genetic ties. Wendy has co-authored 25 papers on donor-conception and she and Ryan have appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah, GMA, The Today Show, CNN, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, and many other news shows and publications around the world. She is a producer of “Generation Cryo,” a 6-part Docu-series for MTV and for “Sperm Donor: A Documentary” for the Style Channel.
Do You Believe in Magic? (A Wild Thing Book)
Laura Krantz is a founding partner of Foxtopus Ink, where she runs the audio division and oversees the creation and development of shows such as Wild Thing and The Syndicate. Laura has been in audio for well over a decade—she recently served as the interim science editor for PRX, which included editing work on the Smithsonian’s Sidedoor and Air/Space podcasts, and her writing has appeared in Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside, High Country News and Newsweek.
Ivan Krastev is a Bulgarian political scientist and has been a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM). He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. In 2012 Foreign Policy and Prospect named Ivan Krastev among the 100 most influential intellectuals in the world.
After Europe, winner of the 2017 Central Europe Foundation Elemer Hantos Prize and finalist for the European Book Prize, was published in 18 countries.
Rabbi Jennifer E. Krause’s writing and commentaries have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine and Time.com among others. She serves on the Council on Foreign Relations Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.
Richard Kreitner is an editor at The Nation and has written for publications like TheBoston Globe, TheBaffler, In These Times, Raritan, and Tablet.
Nancy Kress is the bestselling author of more than thirty science-fiction and fantasy novels and novellas. Kress is a six-time Nebula Award winner, including two consecutive awards for her novellas After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall and Yesterday’s Kin. She is also the recipient of the Sturgeon and Campbell awards, as well as two Hugo awards. Her fiction has been translated into nearly two dozen languages, including Klingon. Kress teaches writing at workshops, including Clarion West and Taos Toolbox, as well as at the University of Leipzig in Germany, as a guest professor. Kress lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, the author Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.
An Emmy-winning television star, celebrity stylist, and fashion designer, Kressley is also the author of YOU’RE DIFFERENT AND THAT’S SUPER and OFF THE CUFF, which was a New York Times bestseller.
As the guitarist for the Doors, Robby Krieger is one of the most influential musicians in rock and roll history. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors’ greatest hits, including “Light My Fire,” “Love Me Two Times,” and “Love Her Madly”; he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was listed by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Ali Kriegsman is the co-founder and COO of Bulletin, a company that’s revolutionizing brick-and-mortar retail. For women, by women, Bulletin is not only a store, but a community, holding social impact events and donating 10% of all proceeds to Planned Parenthood. Ali has been named a Forbes 30 under 30 and one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People.”
Sam Kriss is a writer living in London. He writes for the Spectator, and writes a popular blog, ‘Numb at the Lodge'.
Snorri Kristjansson is an Icelander living in Edinburgh. He is a writer of books, films and plays, as well as a drama teacher for a secondary school. Among his many odd "achievements" in life, he's variously: Taught Icelandic to the British Ambassador; Appeared on Sky News to explain the banking crash; Performed stand-up comedy in various venues across the UK and other countries, including (but not limited to) a boxing ring, a barn and a warship; Written a BA thesis on himself; and taught roughly 9000 people to pronounce Eyafjallajökull and various other things of a similar nature. He is the author of five novels.
Education’s End (Yale)
The Assault on American Excellence (S&S)
After Disbelief (Yale)
Former dean of the Yale Law School and Sterling Professor of Law, Kronman has been profiled in the New Yorker and is author of many books on education, the law, and faith.
A former professor of history at Carthage College, Kuhn has written extensively about the British monarchy and Victorian high politics.
The Lazy Day
Wild Grief: How to Mourn, Heal, and Find Hope in a World of Hidden Loss,
Elliot Kukla (he/they) is a rabbi, author, and activist. He is a regular guest contributor to the New York Times and his activism has been featured by National Geographic, Now This News, Them, NBC, Reuters, and many other publications. In 2006 he was the first openly transgender rabbi to be ordained by a movement in Judaism. In 2019 he was named one of the 50 most influential Jews of the year by The Forward. You can find Elliot at www.elliotkukla.com
Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family Story of Love, Loss & Obsession
Serena Kutchinsky is an Assistant Editor at Sky News. She formerly worked as Director of Editorial at JOE Media, Assistant Editor at BBC News/ Radio 1 & 1Xtra, and as a Senior Journalist at BBC Three.
Gene Kwak is the author of two chapbooks: Orphans Burning Orphans available from Greying Ghost Press and a self-titled collection available from Awst Press. He has published fiction and nonfiction both in print and online in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Wigleaf, Paper Darts, Redivider, Hobart, Electric Literature. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and his debut novel, Go Home, Ricky! is forthcoming from The Overlook Press in 2021.
Chaney Kwak is a travel and food writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, Food and Wine, Travel and Leisure, Real Simple, and elsewhere. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Passenger, recounting his experience being on the Viking cruise that nearly ran aground in 2019. He is currently at work on a memoir.
Laetitia Ky is an activist, artist, and model from the Ivory Coast, who creates sculptures with her hair.
Col. Ray “Frenchy” L’Heureux served as a pilot for four U.S. Presidents—George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama—and the author, with Lee Kelley, of Inside Marine One: Four U.S. Presidents, One Proud Marine, and the World’s Most Amazing Helicopter (St. Martin’s Press).
Melanie LaBarge has a B.A. in Women’s Studies and an M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research includes performance art and queering memoir by contemporary female/femme/non-binary writers. Her first children’s book, Women Artists A-Z, was published by Dial Books for Young Readers in February 2020.
Dana LaRue is the founder of the award-winning blog The Broke-Ass Bride. Her wedding expertise has appeared in Brides, The Bridal Guide, Southern Weddings, OneWed and others, as well as on several television networks. Dana regularly speaks about weddings, entrepreneurship and blogging at conferences both in the US and internationally. She is the author of The Broke-Ass Bride Wedding Guide (Random House).
La Prophétie des sœurs-serpent
Isis Labeau-Caberia is a French-speaking Caribbean novelist and essayist. She is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris. Her eclectic work focuses on women's history in a (post)colonial context, memory and ancestrality, ecofeminism, the decolonisation of knowledge, decolonial futurisms and commited spirituality. Her first young adult novel, La prophétie des Sœurs-Serpent, was published in 2023 by Éditions Slalom.
Eugenia Ladra (1992, Uruguay) holds a Master's degree in degree in Literary Creation from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and is the author of the short story plaquettes La naturaleza de la muerte (2019) and El espacio podría sonar así (2020). She is part of the anthology Nuevasemergencias (Candaya, 2023). Her first novel, Carnada, will be published in 2024 by Criatura in Uruguay and Tránsito in Spain.
Dr. Leah Lagos’s 10-week heart-rate variability program has been embraced by some of the world’s top Olympic athletes, CEOs and international hedge-fund executives Dr. Lagos is a Licensed Psychologist in the State of New York and Board Certified in Biofeedback.
An Academy Award-winning actress and film director, Lahti is known for her work on the TV series Chicago Hope, The Blacklist, and Hawaii Five-O. She has been nominated for eight Golden Globes and six Emmys.
Tiger Slayer
A Lost Classic
Ruby Lal is an award-winning historian of India and professor of South Asian history at Emory University. Her works restore erased female figures and their histories, particularly from the Mughal Empire. She is the author of four critically acclaimed books and numerous essays and literary pieces in the USA and India. Her most recent book, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan, has been lauded by the BBC, The Hindu, Vogue India, The Wall Street Journal, and American Kahani, among others. Her previous book Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2019. In Spring 2025, she will publish Tiger-Slayer, an illustrated remix of Empress for young adults. Lal is the recipient of numerous fellowships, among them from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden, and as Public Humanities Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Learn more at www.rubylal.com
Andrew Lam is the web editor of New America Media, a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and NPR’s All Things Considered, and author of the essay collection East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres (Heyday) and the short story collections Birds of Paradise Lost (Red Hen Press) and PEN Open Book Award–winner Perfume Dreams (Heyday).
Nicola Lamb is a pastry chef, consultant and the author of Kitchen Projects, a newsletter and journal that offers readers a look behind the scenes at the highs and lows of recipe development. She has also contributed to the London Evening Standard and Guardian Feast. In 2020, Lamb co-founded Puff the Bakery, heralded by Vogue magazine as a ‘cult bakery pop-up’ that later transformed into a virtual pastry school with over 2,000 students during lockdown. Lamb’s past work includes Dominique Ansel New York, Ottolenghi, and Little Bread Pedlar.
Brad Lamm is a board-certified interventionist and a nationwide expert on complex trauma, addiction and recovery. Following publication of How to Help the One You Love (St. Martin’s), Brad became a regular contributor to The Dr. Oz Show and published a book on the obesity crisis, Just 10 Lbs (Hay House). His latest book, Quit Vaping, is out from Penguin Life.
Natalie Lampert is a Fulbright fellow and independent journalist who has written about egg freezing, abortions, and women’s health for The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Slate.
The Harvard Lampoon is the oldest continually published college humor magazine in the world, and the storied proving ground of many notable writers and comedians. Their previous book parodies include Bored of the Rings, Nightlight, and The Hunger Pains, all New York Times bestsellers.
Deb Miller Landau is a freelance journalist whose investigative reporting has been anthologized in Harper Perennial's Best American Crime Writing. Her work on the 1987 murder of Lita McClinton has been cited by news stories and TV documentaries, including America's Most Wanted, Dateline, Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege & Justice, FBI: Criminal Pursuit and, most recently, Oxygen Network's 2022 Real Murders of Atlanta.
Katherine Sharp Landdeck is Associate Professor of History at Texas Women's University and the author of The Women with Silver Wings (Crown). Landdeck is a pilot and the nation's foremost expert on the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women ever to fly for the US Military.
Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for the New York Times, where he has previously served as the bureau chief in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, a European economic correspondent, a business reporter in New York, and a copy boy. He has appeared frequently on broadcast news shows, radio, and in documentaries, and is the author of Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Twilight Struggle over American Power.
Mary M. Lane (b. 1987) is a nonfiction writer and journalist specializing in Western art, Western European history, and anti-Semitism. Lane received one of five Fulbright Journalism Scholarships at 22 years old, gained international recognition as the chief European art reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and published numerous exclusive Page One articles on the art trove of Hildebrand Gurlitt. Since leaving the Journal, Lane has been a European art contributor for the New York Times. She splits her time between Berlin and Virginia.
Style Your Registry with Neil Lane
Style Your Reception with Neil Lane
Neil Lane’s life journey has always been focused on a deep appreciation of all things beautiful. Creating hand-crafted, treasured jewelry for some of Hollywood’s legendary stars, Neil has become one of the most celebrated jewelry designers in the world appearing, perhaps most notably, in every episode of ABC’s "The Bachelor."
Feed your Family for Under a Fiver: Over 80 Easy, Budget-Friendly Recipes (Thorsons/HarperCollins)
Feed your Family for Under a Fiver in 30 Minutes
Mitch Lane is the self-taught head chef of his home kitchen in Wolverhampton. Known as @mealsbymitch on TikTok and Instagram, and with three kids to please at dinner time, his mission is to bring budget-friendly homemade meals to families everywhere.
Carrie Lane is a professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment, which won the 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2012 Book Prize of the Society for Economic Anthropology.
Michael Lang, 1944-2022, co-created and produced the original 1969 Woodstock. His organization produced shows for hundreds of artists including the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and managed various artists. He was a board member of the Woodstock Film Festival and the Felix Foundation for Adoptees.
Nikolaus Lang is a managing director and senior partner at BCG. He is the global leader of the firm’s Global Advantage practice, supporting clients on an array of globalization-related topics: global trade, localization, international joint ventures, and digital ecosystems.He is a cofounder and the director of BCG’s Center for Mobility Innovation, a team of urban mobility experts and digital business builders. As a global expert in connectivity, autonomous mobility, car-sharing, and fleet management, he and his team advise cities, public transportation operators, and mobility and automotive companies around the globe on innovative and state-of-the-art mobility solutions.He also manages BCG’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), focusing on shaping the mobility of the future and, in particular, on how to advance the implementation of autonomous vehicles in urban settings.
Nico Lang is an award-winning editor and journalist. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Washington Post, Vox, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, The Guardian, Out, The Advocate, and the L.A. Times.
An Academy Awards-winning actress for her roles in Tootsie and Blue Sky, Lange is also the recipient of two Emmys, 5 Golden Globes, and one Sag Award. She currently stars on the hit FX show American Horror Story.
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
The Lost King: The Search for Richard III
With an enduring passion to tell stories that challenge our perception of established truths, Philippa Langley is a screenwriter and producer who inaugurated and led the successful archaeological search to locate King Richard III’s grave in Leicester. Her 90-minute documentary, The King in the Car Park, about the search for King Richard, made with Channel Four and Darlow Smithson Productions, was aired on 4th February 2013 and commanded an audience of six million. Based on her Looking For Richard Project, it became the channel's highest rated specialist factual show in its thirty-year history. It won the 2013 Royal Television Society Award for Best History Programme and was nominated for a 2014 BAFTA in the category of TV: Specialist Factual. Her screenplay on the life of King Richard, the most controversial monarch in British history, is based on contemporary source materials from the king's lifetime. She was made an MBE in 2015.
Co-authored with Michael Jones her The King’s Grave – The Search for Richard III was published in 2013 by John Murray in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the USA, released as major film-tie in The Lost King.
Her revelatory and acclaimed The Princes in the Tower - Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case was published in the UK and USA in November 2023.
Robert Lanza, MD is one of the most respected scientists in the world. Lanza is head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He was recognized by TIME magazine in 2014 on its list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World." Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic-cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning). In 2001 he was also the first to clone an endangered species, and recently published the first-ever report of pluripotent stem cell use in humans. He is the author of three nonfiction books, most recently <i>The Grand Biocentric Design</i>.
Jennifer Lapidus is the founder and principal of Carolina Ground Flour Mill in Hendersonville, NC. She and Carolina Ground have been featured in the New York Times, WSJ, Splendid Table, Food & Wine, Saveur, Bon Appetit and more.
How to be Well
Amy Larocca is an award-winning American journalist. She spent 20 years working at New York Magazine as both Fashion Director and Editor at Large. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Town & Country and the London Review of Books, among others. She lives with her family In New York and North London. How to Be Well will be published by AA Knopf in 2025.
Trials of Allegiance: Treason and the American Revolution (Oxford)
Treason! A Citizen’s Guide (Ecco)
Larson is professor of law at UC Davis.
Adam Lashinsky is a reporter on Silicon Valley and Wall Street for Fortune, co-chair of Fortune’s annual Brainstorm Tech conference, a contributor to the Fox News Channel, and author of the bestseller Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired—and Secretive—Company Really Works (Business Plus).
Francie Latour is a prize-winning writer whose work explores issues of race, culture, and identity. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio, the Today show, The Root, Essence, and the Boston Globe. Her writing was also anthologized in The Butterfly’s Way, edited by Edwidge Danticat. Francie is co-founder and co-director of Wee The People, a social justice project for kids. This is her first picture book.
A mother of three, Francie was born in the US to Haitian parents. Francie and her family live in Boston.
Regents professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, Lauretta is also the principal investigator on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore, Laurison is the co-author of The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged and Social Class in the 21st Century. He is also the Associate Editor of the London School of Economics’ British Journal of Sociology.
Visiting professor at both the University of California and Georgetown University, John Lawrence is the former longtime Chief of Staff of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Politico, among other publications.
Fast and Furious Oral History
Derek Lawrence is an entertainment journalist formerly of Entertainment Weekly, and a current contributor to Vanity Fair, GQ and Vulture
Leading with Love: Overcoming Injustice Through the Power of Nonviolence
Graham Lawton is a staff writer and columnist at New Scientist, where he has worked as Features Editor, Deputy Editor and Magazine Editor. He has a BSc in biochemistry and an MSc in science communication, both from Imperial College, London. He lives in London.
Jen Lazar is at work on a multi-generational family memoir about migration, postage stamps, and alchemy, in which she tracks her great-grandfather's journey from his escape from the Jewish ghetto in Iran to his fabulously successful trading-stamp empire, which was his family legacy. The memoir travels from revolutionary Tehran in the 1910s, to Paris at the rise of WWII, to the New York building boom and the occult in Europe in the 1960s. Along the way, postage stamps are traded in street markets, hidden under floor boards, printed in basements, and exchanged for the family's freedom in America.
Lazar is the winner of the Ploughshares 2023 Emerging Writer's Contest. She received her Masters of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University. She lives in Burington Vermont.
Edging Towards Darkness: The Story of the Last Timeless Test
The Strangers Who Came Home: The First Australian Cricket Tour of England
Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend
John Lazenby is a journalist and author who began his career on local newspapers in Sussex 35 years ago. He joined the Press Association in London in 1989, working as an editor on the news desk before transferring to sport. In his role as a rugby and cricket writer, he travelled the UK and Europe, filing copy for morning and evening newspapers throughout the country. Since 1997, he has worked as a freelance journalist on national newspapers, including the Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent. In addition to his career as a print journalist, he has worked as a freelance sports broadcaster for radio and television.
His first book, Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend was inspired by his grandfather, the Kent and England cricketer, J.R. Mason. John traced his footsteps on England’s 1897-98 tour of Australia, his interest sparked by the discovery of a cache of letters his grandfather had written home. Described by BBC Sport as ‘a great read’ and by the Sydney Morning Herald as a ‘delightful and unusual book’, Test of Time was well received in both the UK and Australia. It was selected as a finalist for the MCC/Cricket Society’s Book of the Year award in 2005, longlisted for the William Hill Prize and chosen as one of The Wisden Cricketer’s Books of the Year for 2005.
His The Strangers Who Came Home - The First Australian Cricket Tour of England was published by Bloomsbury in 2015. Bloomsbury published his Edging Towards Darkness on the last pre-Second World War England v South Africa Test match in 2017.
Biteback will publish his memoir, NHOJ – A Memoir That Started Backwards, in 2025.
John Lazenby lives in North Island, New Zealand.
Charles Leadbeater is the author of several internationally renowned books, among them Living on Thin Air, published in 1998, which explored the rise of the knowledge driven economy, and We-Think: Mass Innovation Not Mass Production, published in 2008, which examined how the web was enabling creative collaboration across a wide range of fields.
He has written extensively on innovation in education and advised governments across the world on new strategies for learning, from Canada to Australia.
His TED talk, ‘Learning from the Extremes’, looking at social innovation in education in the slums of the developing world, has been watched more than 1.5m times.
He was an advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair and his governments, including writing the 1998 White Paper ‘Building the Knowledge Driven Economy’. Between 1997 and 2007 he worked as an advisor at several government departments including the DCMS and the Department of Education. Throughout that period he worked closely with David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, as a strategic advisor.
A past winner of the David Watt Prize for journalism, he had a ten year career at the Financial Times, where he was Labour Editor, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief before becoming Features Editor. He then became assistant editor at the Independent, where amongst other things he helped Helen Fielding devise Bridget Jones’s Diary.
He went to the Vyne comprehensive school in Basingstoke in Hampshire before winning a scholarship to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. After leaving Oxford, he went on to work on London Weekend Television’s current affairs programme Weekend World before joining the Financial Times.
Cory Leadbeater received his MFA in fiction from Columbia in 2014, where he was the recipient of the Jacob P. Waletzky Fellowship. Before that, he attended Trinity College, where he was the recipient of the Fred Pfeil Memorial Prize in Creative Writing, the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, andthe Ruel Compton Tuttle Prize in Scholarship. His memoir, KISSING THE 6 is forthcoming from Ecco. He lives in New Jersey with his family.
Samuel Leader holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Philosophy and Modern Languages from Oxford. He was a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and writer-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He is working on a novel entitled The Trial of Monsieur Pascal.
The Permission Switch
Clifton Leaf is a Global Fellow at the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously (until June 2021) he was the 19th Editor-in-Chief of FORTUNE, where he shepherded this venerable publication through its 90th anniversary and beyond. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer—and How to Win It, which was named by Newsweek as one of “The Best Books About Cancer,” and which earned Cliff a Lifetime Achievement Award in cancer reporting in addition to many other honors.
Lyla Lee is the author of the Mindy Kim series as well as the YA novel, I’ll Be The One (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins).
Be Water My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Guardian Of The Scroll Series, Books 1 and 2
As the steward of her father’s legacy, Shannon Lee serves as the CEO of the Bruce Lee Family Company and the chairperson of the Bruce Lee Foundation. Her mission is to provide access to her father’s philosophy and life through education and entertainment. She is the author of Be Water My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee (Flatiron Books). An in-demand speaker, she has spoken at TED, TEDx, Creative Mornings, among others. Shannon is the co-creator and host of the Bruce Lee Podcast, the executive producer of Cinemax’s Warrior series also based off of a treatment written by Bruce Lee, and is now working on GUARDIAN OF THE SCROLL, aYA duology, with award winning fantasy and science fiction author, Fonda Lee.
Hali Lee co-founded the Donors of Color Network, was on the co-design team for Philanthropy Together, and is the founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle. Hali was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Kansas City. She graduated from Princeton University, studied Buddhism at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and received a master’s in social work from New York University. Currently, Hali builds out of Radiant Strategies and lives in Brooklyn, NY, along with her husband, young adult children, two old cats, a big love of a dog, and rooftop honeybees.
Eliza Park’s Recipe for Love and Success
Sophia Lee is a Korean American writer and is currently a medical student in Dallas, Texas. Sophia deeply cares about the intersection of storytelling and representation. ELIZA PARK’S RECIPE FOR LOVE AND SUCCESS is her debut YA novel.
Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. A highly inventive and original singer, folk song interpreter, a passionate conservationist, committed song collector and a successful creator of live events.
Alongside his organisation The Nest Collective and fellow collaborators Sam has shaken up the live music scene breaking the boundaries between folk and contemporary music and the assumed place and way folksong is heard.
He’s injected a renewed passion into this old material, helping to develop its ecosystem by not only inviting in a new listenership but also interrogating what the messages in these old songs hold for us today.
Derek Leebaert won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957; his previous books include Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan and To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, both Washington Post Best Books of the Year. He was a founding editor of the Harvard/MIT journal International Security and is a cofounder of the National Museum of the United States Army.
Frances Leech is a baker and writer, living in Paris. Her essay, ‘Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie’, was runner-up in the 2012 Financial Times/Bodley Head essay prize. She co-authored and illustrated the Paris food guide, A Pocket Feast, in 2014, which won the UK category for French Cuisine in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She is the author of a regular food blog, ‘Tangerine Drawings’.
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Maurice Leitch is author of The Liberty Lad, Poor Lazarus, Silver's City and many other works. In 1969, he moved to London from his native Northern Ireland to become a producer in the BBC's radio drama department. In 1977 he became editor of A Book at Bedtime on Radio Four until leaving in 1989 to write full-time.
He was awarded the 1969 Guardian Fiction Prize for Liberty Lad. Silver's City won the Whitbread Prize in 1981. In addition, he has written over twenty television and radio plays and is a winner of the Golden Harp Award. In 1999 he was awarded an MBE for services to literature. Maurice Leitch died in 2023.
‘Perhaps the finest Irish novelist of his generation’ - Robert McLiam Wilson