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.
Bartsch is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies, University of Chicago. She recently translated The Aeneid published by Random House.
Artist and writer Mira Bartók is the author of The Memory Palace (Free Press), winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in The Best American Essays 1999 and other anthologies. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants for her art and for her writing.
Patricia Romanowski Bashe, MSEd., BCBA, is a certified special education teacher, early intervention provider, and Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Currently BCBA supervisor at a special-needs preschool, Romanowski worked for many years as senior education specialist at the Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook University. She is also the coauthor of twenty-three books and four national bestsellers. Her works range in topic from popular culture and celebrity autobiography to children’s issues, parapsychology/bereavement, psychology, and self-help. Before becoming a writer, she worked as an editor at Rolling Stone Press. She lives in Baldwin, NY.
Lucía Baskaran (Zarautz, Basque Country, 1988) is a writer and a translator. She is the author of the novels Partir (Leaving) and Cuerpos malditos (Cursed Bodies). She also writes pieces for different outlets, such as El Salto Diario and Playground Magazine.
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Christian Bason, Ph.D., is CEO of the Danish Design Centre, a foundation working to advance the value of design for business and society. A political scientist and design thinker, he is the former Director of MindLab, the Danish governments innovation team, and the author of seven books on leadership, innovation and design.
Ann Bauer is a novelist and nonfiction writer. Her books include A Wild Ride Up The Cupboards (Scribner), The Forever Marriage (Overlook Press), and Forgiveness 4 You (Overlook Press).
South to Freedom
Alice Baumgartner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses on 19th century North America. She received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University and an M.Phil in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford. Her first book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War, published in 2020, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Permission to Speak
Samara Bay coaches people to use their voice to communicate their thoughts in public, authentically and with great joy. She has coached clients for United Nations addresses, stump speeches on the campaign trail, award show telecasts, academic keynotes, product and creative pitches, all-hands, and media interviews. In Hollywood, she is an established speech coach for television and film, and she hosts a podcast, Permission to Speak, that is produced and distributed on the iHeartRadio network.
Meaghan Beatley is an award-winning French & US journalist specialized in gender violence and feminism. She has worked from the US, France, Spain, Senegal, Mexico, Argentina and Chile, breaking stories for outlets including TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and Bloomberg Tax on subjects including politics, feminism, migration and fiscal policy. In June 2022, her narrative longread for The Guardian “Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective” won a One World Media award for best feature article of the year. You can check out some of her stories here.
A Substantial Obstacle: Persevering in Post-Roe America
Amanda Becker is the Washington correspondent for The 19th and has previously worked at Reuters and CQ Roll Call. Her work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the New Republic, and Glamour, and her political coverage has been broadcast on NPR.
Kristen Beddard is the author of Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love and Recipes and a contributing author to We Love Kale. She was the founder of The Kale Project, a blog and successful initiative that reintroduced kale to France and was featured in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Self Magazine and more. She has a certificate in Culinary Nutrition from the Natural Gourmet Institute and is currently working on a new book Roots, Shoots and Stalks about food waste and cooking with the whole vegetable. She resides in New York City with her husband and daughter. Follow her @thekaleproject and at www.kristenbeddard.com.
Ping Meets Pang
Mary Jane Begin is an award-winning illustrator for several children's picture books including The Wind in the Willows, A Mouse Told His Mother, and Little Mouse's Painting. She is also a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Success and Failure (S&S)
How the Body Knows Its Mind (S&S)
Beilock is president of Barnard College and president elect of Dartmouth. A cognitive scientist by training, Beilock is one of the world’s leading experts on the brain science behind “choking under pressure” and the brain and body factors influencing all types of performance: from test-taking to public speaking to your golf swing. She has authored two critically acclaimed books published in more than a dozen languages—Choke (2010) and How the Body Knows Its Mind (2015)—as well as over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Her 2017 TED talk has been viewed over 2.5 million times.
The Roaring Girl: The Untold Story of Carolyn Bessette
Elizabeth Beller is a writer and editor who has worked at Sotheby’s and Miramax, and whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, and Travel + Leisure.
Lucía Benavides is an Argentine-American writer and journalist based in Barcelona, Spain. Born in Buenos Aires, she was raised in Austin, TX from a young age and is bilingual in English and Spanish. From 2017 to 2021, she served as the Spain correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) and from 2021 to 2022, she was the Southern European correspondent for the public radio program The World. Her personal essays have been published in Literary Hub, LA Review of Books and The Washington Post's The Lily.
Ruha Benjamin is a Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab, editor of Captivating Technology (Duke), and author of People’s Science (Stanford) and the award-winning Race After Technology (Polity). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine, and the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.
David Benjamin is Chief Technology Officer/Chief Architect 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.
Spoken Word: A Cultural History
The Study of Human Life
THE ORBIT OF OUR DREAMING
THE WORLD IS FULL OF BEAUTIFUL QUIET THINGS
Joshua Bennett is a poet, spoken word performer, and Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth. His first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School (Penguin Books, 2016), was the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series; his second collection, Owed (Penguin), and book of essays of literary criticism, Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press), were published in 2020.
A veteran journalist and author, Bennetts has been a reporter for Vanity Fair, the New York Times and Newsweek/Daily Beast. She is the author of the bestselling book The Feminine Mistake.
Nanocosmos: Visions of Inner Space
Michael Benson is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and exhibitions producer. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, ArtForum, and other publications. In the last decade he staged a series of increasingly large-scale shows of planetary landscape photography in the US and internationally, appearing in museums from London, to Brisbane, to Barcelona and beyond. In 2008-10, Benson worked with director Terrence Malick to help produce space and cosmology sequences for Malick’s film Tree of Life, which drew in part from Benson’s book and exhibition projects; the film won the Palm d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Marrying Myself
A licensed attorney, Christine Melanie Benson has published her fiction and satire online and in print. Since 2011, Chrissy has worked as a regular freelance legal writer for Baltimore’s The Daily Record.
Janet Benton work has appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Glimmer Train and other publications. She has co-written and edited historical documentaries for television including the award-winning FEVER: 1793. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and for decades has taught writing and helped individuals and organizations craft their stories.
Megan Benton received her PhD from the University of California School of Library and Information Studies and her M.A. from the College of William and Mary Institute of Early American History and Culture. Her book Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America was published by Yale University Press. She is at work on her first novel, Tiny Lives All Ablaze.
Sheryl Berk most recently collaborated with Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn DiScala on her memoir, Wise Girl, and with Britney Spears on her autobiography, Stages. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Peter, and their own little miracle, daughter Carrie.
Carolyn Bernstein, M.D., is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a staff neurologist at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A board-certified neurologist, Dr. Bernstein belongs to the American Academy of Neurology.
Jedediah Berry was raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. His first novel, The Manual of Detection, won the IAFA Crawford Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and was adapted for broadcast by BBC Radio. The book was named a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and a Locus Award finalist.
Mark T. Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company with over $60 billion in 2015 revenue. Aetna serves an estimated 46.5 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and has operations in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
A former reporter for WWD, Vogue editor, and editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, Betts is a contributor to Time and The Daily Beast.
Rahul Bhatia is an investigative journalist whose work on technology and culture has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, NYT, GQ, and several other publications. He was a part of the investigations team at Reuters, and a staff writer for the Caravan and ESPNcricinfo. He has also co-founded the environmental journalism startup peepli.org. His narrative reportage on sport and politics has won the Red Ink Award and the Ramnath Goenka Prize in India.
Arindam Bhattacharya is a managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group. He is a cofounder and the former director of the BCG Henderson Institute. He is a current member of the global leadership team of the firm’s Global Advantage practice and a former member of the global leadership team of the Industrial Goods, Operations, and Public Sector practices. He previously led BCG India for six years.As a BCG Fellow, he has focused his research on new globalization over the past four years, leading the firm’s work in this area. His research has uncovered the radical shift of globalization and its implications for global firms across sectors.His first book, Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything, was included in the Economist’s Books of the Year list in 2008.
On the Brink: A History of Europe Since 1989
Dr Chris Bickerton is Reader in Politics at Cambridge University and fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Born in Glasgow to a French mother and an English father, he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Somerville College, Oxford. He did his Masters in International Relations at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, returning to St Johns’ College, Oxford, for his D.Phil. He taught at the Universities of Oxford, Amsterdam and Sciences Po in Paris, before moving to Cambridge in 2013.Chris writes regularly on European politics for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Guardian, and also for Prospect, the Big Issue and other magazines. He is also a panelist on the hugely popular and insightful podcast Talking Politics.
Hunter Biden is a lawyer and an artist. A graduate of Georgetown University and Yale Law School, Hunter has worked as an advocate on behalf of Jesuit universities, and served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, including as vice chairman of Amtrak and chairman of the board of World Food Program USA. The son of Joe and Jill Biden, Hunter is the father of three daughters: Naomi, Finnegan, and Maisy. He lives with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, and their son, Beau, in California.
Dan Bilefsky is a journalist for The New York Times who has reported from cities around the world, including London, Paris, Brussels, Prague, and Istanbul. He is currently based in Montreal as a Canada correspondent for the paper.
Will Birch is a former drummer and songwriter with the Kursaal Flyers (1976 UK hit ‘Little Does She Know’) and The Records (1979 US hit ‘Starry Eyes’). During the 1980s he moved into record production, working with artists such as Any Trouble, Dr Feelgood, Billy Bremner, and the Long Ryders. Throughout the 1990s he wrote many articles for Mojo and other music magazines and in 2000 published his first book, No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution (Virgin Books). His Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography was published in 2010 (Pan MacMillan). He is currently writing a biography of musician Nick Lowe. He lives near London, UK.
Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet
Matthew H. Birkhold is an associate professor of law and German at the Ohio State University whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Foreign Affairs, and The Washington Post. He is the author of Characters before Copyright and is currently at work on a book about the ownership of icebergs.
An Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn at New York Presbyterian-Cornell, Dr. Birndorf has contributed to SELF magazine’s happiness column for nearly a decade. She is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Nine Rooms of Happiness. She is the co-author, with Dr. Alexandra Sacks, of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood, from Simon & Schuster.
A Killing in Costumes
Zac Bissonnette has written for The Boston Globe Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He’s appeared on CNN, The Today Show, and MSNBC, among others. His book How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents was a New York Times bestseller.
Kate Black is the Chief of Staff at EMILY's List, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Democratic pro-choice women run for office.
Bringing Home the White House: Five Remarkable Women at the Center of Presidential Politics from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Melissa Estes Blair is a historian of women and politics in the 20th-century United States, and an associate professor of history at Auburn University. Her first book was Revolutionizing Expectations: Women’s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics 1965-1980.
Jenny Blake is an author, career and business strategist and international speaker. She has been featured on Forbes.com, US News & World Report, Real Simple magazine, and has spoken at major universities and top companies such as Columbia, TEDxCMU, Yale, Parsons, UCLA, Google, Intuit, KPMG and Best Buy. She worked at Google for over five years on the Training and Career Development teams, and since then has been running her own business for over three years. Jenny created her first website, Life After College in 2005 and released a book of the same name in 2011 that was featured in Target’s 2012 graduation display. Jenny is also the co-founder of an app called Lucent (@LucentApp) for people who are “meditation-curious.” She is based in New York City.
Heidi Blake is an award-winning investigative reporter for BuzzFeed UK, who has also written for The Sunday Times, and has won 18 national and international media awards including Scoop of the Year, Investigation of the Year and the Paul Foot Award for Campaigning and Investigative Journalism. She was named Digital Journalist of 2016 by the London Press Club and ranked on last year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list of the most influential young media professionals in Europe.
No Family is Perfect
Lucy Blake is a developmental psychologist who conducts research on family relationships. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral research at the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge before moving to Edge Hill University in the North-West of England to take up a Lectureship in Children, Young People and Families.
Dr. Jill Blakeway is the founder and director of the YinOva Center in New York City, the largest acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice in the U.S. She is the author of the bestselling "Making Babies," the founder of the acupuncture program at NYC Lutheran Medical Center, and the popular host of the popular CBS podcast "Grow, Cook, Heal."
Arthur Blank is the co-founder of the Home Depot. He is the owner of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United of Major League Soccer, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the PGA Tour Superstores retail chain and is one of America’s most effective philanthropists.
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Blight is director of the Gilder Lehrman Institute on American History of professor of American History at Yale. He has also won the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Lincoln Prize. His biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Lukas Prize, Plutarch Biography Prize, the Parkman Prize, and it was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times and also appeared on Barack Obama’s list of favorites for 2018. A documentary film based on the book was nominated for an Emmy Award, and feature length film about Douglass is under option to Higher Ground. He’s writing a biography of James WeldonJ ohnson for Simon & Schuster.
The Nature of Intelligence
Dr. Catherine "Rina" Bliss is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her research explores the personal and societal significance of emerging genetic sciences.
Laura Bliss is a reporter at Bloomberg CityLab, where she advances the national conversation on the politics and policies that shape cities. Her writing and reporting have appeared in places like the New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Pacific Standard, Los Angeles Review of Books,Sierra, and beyond.
Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
Stephen Bloom is a veteran reporter and journalist whose essays have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Esquire, Time, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, London Guardian, DoubleTake, CJR, Salon, and Narratively. He has worked as a reporter for the Latin America Daily Post, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Sacramento Bee and teaches narrative writing at the University of Iowa, where he is a professor of journalism. He is the author of five books: Postville, Inside the Writer’s Mind, The Oxford Project, Tears of Mermaids, and The Audacity of Inez Burns.
The New York Times’s Visual Op-Ed Columnist, Blow was previously the paper’s Graphics Director and Design Director for News. In those roles he led the Times to numerous design awards. His Op-Ed column appears twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner and author of the novel Bad Love, which won the 2021 Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize. She is a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, an Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice grant, and is a POCC Artist-in-Residence. In her twenties she trained as a psychotherapist and has over a decade of experience working for community and arts organizations in project management. Her short stories have appeared in multiple anthologies; ‘Prodigal’ for Not Quite Right For Us, ‘Howl’ for New Australian Fiction 2020, and ‘The Way Home’ for 2022 children’s anthology Joyful, Joyful. She previously produced and co-hosted the podcast Headscarves and Carry-ons about Black women living abroad, and her writing has also appeared in numerous publications, including Refinery29, The Independent, and Writers Mosaic. She regularly runs workshops on crafting short stories, writing about desire and creating realistic narratives that feature complicated relationships.
How the Peach State Turned Purple: Inside the Political Swing That Vindicated A New Democratic Formula, Triggered A Republican Reckoning, and Realigned the Electoral Map
Greg Bluestein is a political reporter who covers the governor's office and state politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He joined the newspaper in June 2012 after spending seven years with the Atlanta bureau of The Associated Press, where he covered a range of beats that included politics and legal affairs.
A journalist, screenwriter, and film producer, Boal won two Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, for his film The Hurt Locker. His 2013 film, Zero Dark Thirty, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay.
Brain Inflamed: Understanding the Medical Conditions That Can Masquerade as Your Child’s Anxiety or Mood Disorder
Dr. Kenneth Bock is an internationally known pioneer of integrative medicine, bestelling author, and in-demand international speaker. His patients come from all over the world to seek treatment at his private practice, Bock Integrative Medicine.
The Whale Who Swam Through Time
Alex Boersma is a hugely talented illustrator and artist who did illustrations for Spying on Whales and who works with Stanford University, the American Museum of Natural History, and Duke University Marine Lab, and has done editorial illustrations for Emergence magazine and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
James Boice is the author of four novels, including the critically-acclaimed MVP as well as NoVA and The Good and the Ghastly (all Scribner). His fourth novel, The Shooting, was published by Unnamed Press.
Marc Bojanowski is the author of the novels The Dog Fighter (William Morrow), longlisted for the NYPL Young Lions Award, and Journeyman (Granta; Soft Skull/Counterpoint), a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His writing has appeared in The Literary Review, McSweeney’s, and Granta. He lives in northern California with his wife and their two children.
Giacomo Bono is an Assistant Professor at California State University and an expert on gratitude. He is the co-author of Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character (Templeton Press).
Walther and the Big Problem
Audrey and Gideon Picture Book
A Wand in the Woods
Tom Booth is an author and illustrator of eight children’s books. Most recently he illustrated Malamander with author Thomas Taylor.
Lisa Borders is the author of the novel The Fifty-First State (Engine Books) and a writing professor at Grub Street, where she developed the popular Novel in Progress and Novel Incubator programs.
The Shape of the World
Amy Borg is a thirty-two-year-old Maltese-American who currently works as a bookseller. She studied literature at NYU and holds an MA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Kingston University, London.
Cactus Country
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
Democracy's Data and How to Read It
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.
Alien Thinking
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 is a BBC journalist based in London. She is editor of the BBC Radio 4 series Analysis—a programme which looks at the ideas influencing policy and events.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Sacred Landscapes
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.
Thinking Statistically
Thinking Musically
The Business of Big Data
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.Uri Bram 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. Uri helped found the Streetlight Schools and is fully certified in Thai massage.
Spiritualists: Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Left, Right and Centre
Out of Body, Out of Mind
The Burning Question: The Anti-Nuclear Movement Since 1945
Mind Out
Being Divine: Biography of Sarah Bernhardt
The Gorgon’s Smile
Tickling the Dragon
The Uncertainty Principle
The New Women and the Old Men
Surreal Lives
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini
Automobile: How the Car Changed Life
Ruth Brandon was a trainee producer for the BBC, working in radio and television after reading French and Spanish at Girton College, Cambridge. But she found she preferred writing, and moved to freelance journalism, and eventually to books. Ruth is primarily a non-fiction writer, using biography to look at social and cultural history through individual lives. Ruth lives in London. She is married, with one daughter.
What Are We Really Fighting About? How to Transform Conflicts into Conversations
The Courage to Walk Away: Move On after Infidelity by Mourning What You Lost, Identifying Your Relationship Needs, and Empowering Yourself for the Future
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.
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920a Paris
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.
Stench
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.
Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
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.
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.
The Woman in the Sable Coat
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.
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.
The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura
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.
To Raise a Boy
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.
Twilight Man: The Strange Life and Times of Harrison Post
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.