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.
Jaideep Prabhu is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He works with executives from ABN Amro, Bertelsmann, BP, BT, IBM, ING Bank, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone, and Xerox on breakthrough growth strategies and is the co-author of several books about frugal innovation, including Jugaad Innovation (Wiley) and Frugal Innovation (Profile Books/Economist Books).
Maya Prasad is the YA author of Fall Winter Spring Summer (Disney, 2022) & a story in the anthology Foreshadow (Algonquin YR, 2020)
Elvis Presley is one of the most influential pop culture figures of the 20th century. Often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", Elvis’ commanding voice and charismatic stage presence unleashed a musical and cultural revolution that changed the world forever. Over the course of his career, Elvis was nominated for 14 Grammy Awards (3 wins), sold over 1 billion records world-wide, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and was named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation by the United States Jaycees. In addition to his musical accolades, Elvis starred in 33 films and made numerous television appearances. Today Elvis continues to inspire musicians, fashion designers, and social influencers and captivate audiences around the world.
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day and their teams operate in 250 locations worldwide.
Why Didn't I Think of That?: Thirty Years At, In, and Around Barneys and New York
Gene Pressman was co-CEO, creative director, and head of merchandising and marketing for Barneys New York, and a veteran of the store for more than 25 years. Under his leadership, Barneys New York emerged as the defining force in retailing for upscale men’s and women’s ready-to-wear, accessories, and home furnishings. He is the author, with Noah Kerner, of Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today’s Cluttered Marketplace.
Greg Presto has been covering health, fitness and sports for the past 14 years for Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Shape, Livestrong.com, USA Today, Prevention and many other fitness publications.
The Creatures' Guide to Caring
Elizabeth Preston is a science journalist who contributes regularly to the New York Times and the Boston Globe, and outlets like McSweeney’s, Science, The Atlantic, Orion, Slate, Audubon, Quanta, STAT, Discover, National Geographic, Parents, Real Simple, among many others. She holds a BA in Biology and English from Williams College, and lives in the Boston area with her husband and their two creatures.
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew
A Bomber Crew Mystery: The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group
David Price's early interest in aviation and military history were fuelled by days exploring deserted RAF airfields in his native Cumbria, leading to a lifelong interest in aviation history. He has been involved in aircraft preservation for over twenty-five years at the Solway Aviation Museum, serving two terms as Chairman. He writes and lectures on aviation and the First World War and is a frequent guide to battlefields.
His first book, A Bomber Crew Mystery, followed the story of two American B-17 crews based in Suffolk in the Second World War.
His highly praised and bestselling The Crew - The Story of a Lancaster Crew was published by Head of Zeus in 2020.
Head of Zeus published his Mosquito Men in 2022.
Head of Zeus / Bloomsbury will publish David Price’s The Greatest Day hour-by-hour account of 15th September 1940 - ‘Battle of Britain Day’ - in 2025.
Founder of the private security firm Blackwater, Prince served as the company’s CEO and Chairman of the Board. He is a former Navy SEAL and worked closely with the US government in its anti-terrorism efforts.
Paul Pringle is an investigative journalist with the Los Angeles Times and a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize—most recently in 2019—and the George Polk Award, among other honors. In Sunlight and Shadow is his first book.
With Josh, Williams, Eric Prum is the founder of W&P Design, an innovative food and beverage company based in Brooklyn, NY, composed of a growing group of individuals passionate about the intersection of food and design.
Carolyn Prusa has been published in the Charlotte Observer, Greensboro News and Record, Savannah Magazine, and South Magazine, and her taste in literature is as varied as the small objects you might find beneath the seats of her minivan. Surrounded by dudes, she lives in Savannah with her husband, two sons, and giant rescue wookie dog, Dale.
Vicky Pryce is an economist, author and broadcaster and a Board member of the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service.
She holds a number of academic posts and is a Fellow of the UK Academy for Social Sciences and of the Society of Business Economists. She also sits on the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, on the cross-party/cross-House Design Commission, on the Advisory Board of the central banking think-tank OMFIF and on the Economic Advisory Group of the British Chambers of Commerce and is a Patron of the charities Pro-Bono Economics and Working Chance. She was instrumental in the setting up and was previously chair of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibility. She is a Freeman and Liveryman of the City of London.
The Lord of Worlds
The Golden Cage
The Devil's Library: A Renaissance Thriller
Tom Pugh has a First in Art history and works as a copywriter and speechwriter for a London-based public affairs firm, an international auction house and a Japanese publisher. He lives in Berlin.
While researching his first novel he followed the route taken by Matthew Longstaff, the book's main protagonist, from Moscow to western Europe. The first volume of the acclaimed Longstaff Trilogy, The Devil's Library was published by Crux in 2016 and the second volume, The Golden Cage was published in 2019. The concluding volume The Lord of Worlds was published in 2021.
The Devil's Library and The Golden Cage have been published by Alma dos Livros in Portuguese.
Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY (Cortland), Sebastian Purcell studied Aristotle and the French philosophical tradition before concentrating on the philosophy of pre-Columbian civilizations. Winner of the the American Philosophical Association’s prize in Latin American Thought, he is one of the leading experts in the world on the philosophy of the Aztecs.
Owner of Regalis Foods, a Brooklyn-based purveyor of exotic foods with an extensive client list of Michelin star restaurants, Purkayastha founded his first truffle company in his home state of Arkansas when he was 15 years old.
Nick Pyenson is a paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution where he studies the evolution and ecology of whales. Along with his scientific collaborators, he has named over a dozen new fossil species, discovered the richest fossil whale graveyard on the planet, and described an entirely new sensory organ in living whales. He has received the highest research awards from the Smithsonian for his work, including the Secretary’s Research Prize and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama’s Administration. Pyenson is also a member of the Young Scientists community at the World Economic Forum, and the father of two young kids.
Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novels We Sinners and The End of Drum-Time, a finalist for the National Book Award. Set in 1851 in a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, The End of Drum-Time it is the story of an ill-fated love affair between a renegade preacher’s daughter and a young reindeer herder. Bestselling author Anthony Marra hails it for “some of the most gorgeous prose imaginable and an extraordinary feat of imagination.” Yiyun Lee says of Plyväinen, she is “one of the most unique voices in American literature.”
Plyväinen’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition. She is the winner of a Whiting award and received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Princeton University, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writing. Plyväinen received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dawn Quigley, Ph.D. and citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, ND, writes picture books, chapter books and middle grade stories centering Native American characters. In addition to her debut coming-of-age young adult novel, Apple in the Middle (NDSU Press), “Joey Reads the Sky” in Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, the chapter book series Jo Jo Makoons: The Used to Be Best Friend (book #1); Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants (#2), Red Bird Danced (forthcoming novel-in-verse), and Native American Heroes (Scholastic Books), Dawn has over 30 published articles, essays and poems. She lives in Minnesota with her family.
Both Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants and Jo Jo Makoons: Snow Day were named 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award Best Middle Grade Honor Books. She lives in Minnesota with her family.
Alice Quinn has been teaching at Columbia University’s School of the Arts since 1990. She was executive director of the Poetry Society of America from 2001-2018 and poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007. Earlier in her career she was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, where she established The Knopf Poetry Series. She is the editor of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box, Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop and The Best of Poetry in Motion: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years on Subways and Buses, with a foreword by Billy Collins.
Nathan Raab, recognized as one of the world’s most knowledgeable and respected experts in historical documents, is the President of the Raab Collection, the sole high-end, old-fashioned, person-to-person dealer in historical documents still in existence in the United States. His column, Historically Speaking, appears frequently on Forbes.com and his articles and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer among other publications.
Ari Rabin-Havt served as Deputy Campaign Manager of Bernie Sanders's 2020 Presidential Campaign and Deputy Chief of Staff in his Senate Office. Previously he served as an advisor to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and former Vice President Al Gore. He is the author of Lies Incorporated: The World of Post Truth Politics and The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Jacobin, The Nation and The American Prospect.
Jenny Radcliffe is an expert social engineer using the ‘human element’ to manipulate, persuade and influence people to gain access to buildings, data and information. She is a burglar for hire, con-artist and an expert in non-verbal communications, deception and physical infiltration, hired by companies to test their security measures.
A documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, Rader wrote the screenplay for Waterworld.
Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley and a World Economic Forum faculty member. He advises C-level executives worldwide on breakthrough growth strategies and is the co-author of several books about frugal innovation, including Jugaad Innovation (Wiley) and Frugal Innovation (Profile Books/Economist Books).
Anne Raeff is the author of the novels Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, Winter Kept Us Warm, and Only the River and the short story collection The Jungle Around Us, which won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have been published in journals such as The New England Review, Zyzzyva, and Oa.
Bryan Rafanelli is the founder, president, and creative director of Rafanelli Events, a full-service event design, strategy, planning, and production company with more than 100 events annually in venues around the world, and has planned 13 events under the Obama administration at The White House along with numerous charity events and weddings. Headquartered in Boston, Rafanelli Events also has offices in New York City, Washington, DC and Palm Beach.
Zara Raheem received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach. She is the recipient of the James I. Murashige Jr. Memorial award in fiction and was selected as one of 2019's Harriet Williams Emerging Writers. Her debut novel The Marriage Clock was named a "must-read book of the summer” by Cosmopolitan, POPSUGAR, Bustle, BookRiot, among others; and it has already been translated into Italian and Portuguese. Her second novel The Retreat will be forthcoming in 2023, and she is currently working on a short story collection that centers around the South Asian diaspora, the Muslim-American experience, and the struggles and hardships faced by first and second-generation immigrants. She resides in Southern California where she teaches English and creative writing.
The Bicycle Girl
You Can Go Far!
Suhasini Raj is an award winning journalist, who has worked for over a decade as an investigative journalist with Indian and international news outlets. She joined The New York Times in 2014 and has reported extensively on stories ranging from the rise of Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to how the country has reeled under the effects of Covid 19 to climate change, amongst others. Prior to her time at The New York Times, Ms. Raj worked undercover on a story that exposed a bribe-taking scheme involving eleven members of India’s Parliament. As a result of her reporting, the politicians were expelled from their positions. Ms. Raj is originally from Lucknow, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where she also attended university. She is married with one son, and enjoys classical music — and a good story!
Project Total Recall
Steve Ramirez is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Professor in psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, where he’s also the principal investigator of the Ramirez Group. His work in artificially manipulating memories was recognized in Science magazine's Top 10 discoveries of 2023, and has been covered by Nature, The NYT, NPR, TIME, The Boston Globe, and beyond. Steve is the recipient of numerous awards like a National Institutes of Health DP5 Award, a National Institutes of Health Transformative Award, the Smithsonian's American Ingenuity Award, a Forbes “30 under 30”, a Pew Foundation award, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute award, and a Chan-Zuckerberg Diversity Leadership award.
www.theramirezgroup.org
https://twitter.com/okaysteve
Queuing for the Queen
Swéta Rana is a 31 year old website manager. After graduating from Oxford, she worked briefly in editorial at Hachette before moving into designing and managing websites. Her debut novel Queuing for the Queen will be published by Head Of Zeus in 2023. She lives in North London.
Ladette Randolph is the author of the novels A Sandhills Ballad, Haven's Wake, and the forthcoming Private Way; the debut short story collection This Is Not the Tropics; and the memoir Leaving the Pink House. A Sandhills Ballad was selected as a New York Times Editors Choice, and her work has won the highest praise. The reviewer of Haven’s Wake in Booklist wrote, “Randolph thoughtfully contemplates truth in a world of evasiveness.” Her debut short story collection, This Is Not the Tropics, was hailed by the reviewer for Publishers Weekly as “utterly remarkable…Quite honestly, this is the finest collection I’ve seen in years.”
A long-time Nebraskan, Randolph spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She is the recipient of four Nebraska Book Awards, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Virginia Faulkner Award, and a citation from Best New American Voices. Recently retired, she was the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College for fifteen years. She lives in the Boston area.
Dr. Anthony Rao holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. For more than 20 years, he worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital and served as Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rao has been a featured expert on documentaries for MTV and the A&E Network, and has been interviewed for articles in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Parents Magazine, among several others. His editorial letters and opinions have appeared in a wide range of publications including Newsweek, Scientific American, The New York Times, and New York Magazine.Dr. Rao has lectured extensively at universities, including Tufts University, Emerson College, and Boston University. He regularly presents at conferences, parenting groups, and conducts workshops for professionals around the country who work with children and young adults.
June Diane Raphael is a actress, screenwriter, producer, comedian, and podcaster known for her reoccurring role of Brianna on the TV show Grace and Frankie and her podcast, How Did This Get Made?
Tanjil Rashid is a freelance journalist and producer based in London, regularly contributing to the BBC, the Financial Times, The Times (London), the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Spectator, and working on documentaries for BBC and ITN. He was a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2023.
Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, entrepreneur, activist, and writer. She has been photographed for the covers of magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Vogue Italia, Vogue Australia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Germany, and GQ, and has worked with brands including Versace, Marc Jacobs, and Dolce & Gabbana. She has translated her audience of nearly 27 million Instagram followers into a direct-to-consumer clothing business, Inamorata, and as an actress has appeared in films including I Feel Pretty, We Are Your Friends, and Gone Girl. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, and her essay “Buying Myself Back” for New York magazine went viral in September 2020.
Co-founder of The Atavist, a boutique digital publisher of nonfiction, and a co-writer of Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World, Ratliff has written for Wired, The New Yorker, the New York TimesMagazine, and ReadyMade, among other publications.
After graduating from The Juilliard School with a Bachelor degree and Master of Music, Arianna performed as a professional violinist at top venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Boston Symphony Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Blue Note jazz club, and so on. Her writing on music and culture has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, Slate, and Bustle.
Anjli Raval has been at the Financial Times since 2009, and has reported from London, New Delhi, and New York. Currently, she is Management Editor, reporting on corporate governance and the future of work. Previously, she was Senior Energy Correspondent, and covered oil and gas companies, Opec energy policy, and the global clean energy transition.
Assaad W. Razzouk is a Lebanese-British clean energy entrepreneur, climate activist and podcaster based in Singapore. With more than 400,000 social media followers, he is a high-profile thought leader on climate change and clean energy. He is a vocal advocate for raising awareness and dispelling the myths and misconceptions that have arisen around clean and renewable energy.
Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold (Rowman & Littlefield,2023)
Erik Rebain is an archivist who works for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago History Museum.
Nancy Reddy is the author of the poetry collections Pocket Universe and Double Jinx and co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Her essays have appeared in Slate, Poets & Writers, Romper, The Millions, and elsewhere. The recipient of grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, she teaches writing at Stockton University. She writes the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful.
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was appointed the fifteenth Astronomer Royal in 1995. From 2004 to 2012, he was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. He is co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University (CSER), where he is based as a Fellow at Trinity College.
Gather
Ashanté Reese is a writer, anthropologist, and assistant professor of African and African Diaspora at The University of Texas at Austin. Her first book, Black Food Geographies (2020) won the Best Monograph Prize from the Association for the Study of Food and Society & the Margaret Mead Award jointly awarded by the Association of American Anthropologists and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Her work work has been supported by the National Science Foundations, The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), UNCF-Mellon, The American Council for Learned Society, among others.
Richard V. Reeves is President of the American Institute for Boys and Men, and Non Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and family change. He is also a contributor to the Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
His previous roles include director of strategy to the British Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank, Director of Futures at the Work Foundation, principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, and researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year.
He earned a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.
The Global Elite
Benjamin Reeves is a contributing editor at Worth magazine and a freelance journalist and documentary director and producer. His work has appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, Miami Herald, Vice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McClatchyDC, USAToday, PRI’s The World and GlobalPost, among others.
Devika Rege was born and raised in Pune. Her first novel will be published in 2023 by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.
A writer-at-large for Vanity Fair, Reginato has written for Architectural Digest, Harper’s Bazaar, and Sotheby’s, among other publications. He also worked as Features Director at W Magazine.
A longtime conservationist and an economist at Nia Tero, John Reid has had his writing published in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, and elsewhere.
Aimee Reid is an author with a background in education and editing. She taught high school English, Music, and Special Education before she began to work full-time as a writer. As a child, Aimee was a voracious reader and could often be found—curled in a corner, tucked in the crook of a tree limb, or crouched by a book rack in the grocery store aisle—carried away to the world of a book. Now Aimee sends her own stories out into the world. It brings her great joy to think of other children nestled on a lap or cuddled on a couch reading good books to share.
Jean Reidy’s bestselling and award-winning picture books have earned their spots as favorites among readers and listeners of all ages and from all over the world. She is honored to be a three-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, a Parent’s Choice Gold Award Winner, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor winner and recognized on “Best of” lists by School Library Journal, the New York Times, NPR and Amazon. Jean writes from her home in Chicago where she lives just a short walk from her neighborhood library … which she visits nearly every day.
Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World, Basic
Reiss chairs the English Department at Emory University.
Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
Daphna Renan is the Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on the U.S. presidency and the design of American democracy from the perspective of administrative and structural constitutional law. She is writing a book with Nikolas Bowie currently titled Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People for Liveright.
Rob Renzetti is a veteran of TV animation, whose work on Cartoon Network earned him an Emmy. He created the Nickelodeon show MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT, acted as the supervising producer for Disney’s GRAVITY FALLS, and served as executive producer on the first two seasons of Disney’s BIG CITY GREENS, as well as many other credits. He has also published four books for Disney Publishing, including the New York Times #1 Best Seller GRAVITY FALLS: JOURNAL THREE.
When he’s not writing, Rob likes to play boardgames, watch horror movies, and chase after his very naughty rabbit, Zigzag.
L. Renée is a poet, nonfiction writer, independent researcher, and story collector. Nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net and two Pushcart Prizes, her work has been published in Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Tin House Online, Poetry Northwest, Minnesota Review, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She won the National Association of Black Storytellers’ 2023 Black Appalachian Storyteller Fellowship, representing the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Library of Congress 2024 Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award for Ethnology. Her honors also include The Arkansas International 2023 Editor’s Choice Poetry Prize, the international 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize, and Appalachian Review’s 2020 Denny C. Plattner Award. She is working on a book exploring Black Appalachian communities and traditions.
A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Watering Hole, L. Renée holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where she was Nonfiction Editor of Indiana Review and Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers’ Conference. She holds and M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Moore Fellow. She is a 2024-2025 Poetry Coalition Fellow at Mass Poetry, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, and a 2024-2025 Public Humanities Fellow, awarded by Virginia Humanities.
Under the Big Top: A Short Story Collection
Adam Resnick is the author of Will Not Attend, a pseudo-memoir, and is a television and movie writer who has written for The Larry Sanders Show, Late Night with David Letterman and has authored numerous movies, including the classic Death to Smoochy, directed by Danny DeVito.
Impermissible Punishments: Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights and Changing Prisons in America
Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, is a renowned authority on courts, procedures, prisons, and rights. She is completing a book, Impermissible Punishments: Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights and Changing Prisons in America for the University of Chicago Press.
Andrea Reusing is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, and leader in the sustainable agriculture movement. She is the 2011 winner of the James Beard award for Best Chef: Southeast and serves on the boards of the Center of Environmental Farming Systems and Chefs Collaborative. She has written for Saveur, Domino, Fine Cooking, Gourmet.com and the News & Observer. Reusing's book, Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes, was named one of 2011’s most notable cookbooks by the New York Times.
Man vs Maths: Understanding the Curious Mathematics that Power our World
Timothy Revell is an award-winning technology, maths and physics journalist. He is Executive Editor at the New Scientist, co-hosting their weekly flagship podcast ‘New Scientist Weekly’. He has a PhD in computer science.
Vulgaire, qui décide?
Valérie Rey-Robert is a French essayist and host of the blog 'Crêpe Georgette'. Her first two essays, Une culture du viol à la française and Le sexisme, une affaire d'hommes, were published by Éditions Libertalia, and her latest works, Télé-réalité, la fabrique du sexisme and Vulgaire, qui décide? (a collective work she directed) were published by Éditions Les insolent·e·s in 2022 and 2024.
Rhodeen is a practicing lawyer in New Haven, a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center, and a former counsel to the New Haven Police Department. Before becoming an attorney, Rhodeen worked as a newspaper reporter and a teacher.
A keen outdoorsman, David Ricciardi is an avid sailor and has received extensive training from law enforcement and US special operations. These experiences inform his thriller writing, which began with the first book in his Jake Keller series, Warning Light, published by Berkley in 2018.
Lynette Rice has been a senior writer and editor-at-large for Entertainment Weekly since 1999, where she writes about all things pop culture related. She currently hosts “Outlander Live!” on“The Awardist” for Sirius XM. She has 26k Twitter followers and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Future, Chicago
Richard, an anthropologist and conservationist, is the former provost of Yale University and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University (UK)
Ex-graphic designer, Laurier The Fox is a trans activist, illustrator, and graphic novel writer. He draws and addresses mainly social and political subjects close to feminism, LGBTQIAP+ issues, anti-racism, ableism, etc. His first graphic novel ReconnaiTrans was published by Éditions Lapin in 2021. He also illustrated and did the sensitivity reading for the children’s book Je m’appelle Julie (On ne compte pas pour du beurre, 2022)
Taking Command
David Richards served in the Far East, Germany and Northern Ireland before commanding deployments in East Timor and Sierra Leone, where his intervention in the civil war, without official sanction from London, proving decisive in ending years of factional fighting. He later served with NATO and led ISAF forces in Afghanistan, becoming the first British general to command US forces in a theatre of war since World War II.
He became Commander-in-Chief Land Forces of the British Army in 2008 and held that role until 2009, when he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.
In 2010 he was appointed as Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces, and served in that position until 2013.
General Lord Richards was made a Life Peer in 2014.
His acclaimed autobiography, Taking Command, was published by Headline in 2014.
Dan Richards is a graduate of the University of Washington Writing for Children program and best known for his humorous picture books and middle grade novels. His books have been named Junior Library Guild Selections, Amazon Best of the Month Books, Indie Next Selections, and Washington Children’s Choice Awards Finalists, among other honors.
His most recent picture book NUBBY was chosen for the 2024-2025 Dolly Parton Imagination Library and is being enjoyed in over a million homes worldwide. Dan lives in Bothell, WA with his wife and mischievous doodle Arthur.
These Parasites Have it Coming
Anthony Riches is the bestselling author of the Roman epic Empire series and has recently launched a new action/adventure thriller series. He has a degree in Military Studies and a life-long curiosity in all things defence, security and policing related. He lives in rural Suffolk with his life partner and an irritable cat.
Jennifer’s endless curiosity has taken her from Philadelphia to Frankfurt and has led to careers in the U.S. Foreign Service, secondary education, finance, editing, audio description for television, and copywriting. Throughout all the changes in locales and jobs, writing was one constant. The other was her husband, whom she met in Germany while on her first tour as a foreign service officer.
Jennifer’s poetry, short stories, and novels draw heavily from her many interests and hobbies—with a particular focus on birding and astronomy. She’s passionate about expanding young people’s horizons and imaginations as well as promoting racial harmony over division. Now a resident of Maryland, Jennifer writes in a small upper-floor room overlooking her bird feeders. She also enjoys hiking, crocheting, and following the latest news from NASA.
Lord Peter Ricketts joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1974 and was at the heart of British foreign policy for 40 years. He was the Permanent Under Secretary at the FCO from 2006–10, the UK’s first National Security Adviser 2010–12 and Ambassador to France 2012–16. In all these roles, he was a close adviser to Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries. He has written for the Financial Times, The Times (London), the New Statesman and Prospect, and appears regularly on Sky News, the BBC, LBC and Times Radio. He is Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the House of Lords.
The New York Post’s eminent theatre critic since 1998, Riedel co-hosts the weekly talk show Theatre Talk on PBS. He also played himself on the TV show Smash.
A bioethicist on the faculty of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, Travis Rieder's essays and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, The New Republic, and The Guardian among others. He is a leading voice on the prescription opioid crisis and how to solve it while also caring for those who need relief from acute and chronic pain.
Phone Rules: 5 Simple Steps to Save Yourself, Your Kids, and the Planet
Luc Rinaldi is an award-winning journalist and author based in Toronto. He specializes in longform investigative narratives. His work has been published in Maclean's, The Walrus and Toronto Life, among other publications. His first book, Phone Rules, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Canada.
Regina Rini holds the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition at York University in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Aeon, and numerous academic journals.
His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche brings more than 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom and teachings to the modern spiritual seeker by connecting ancient worlds with new people, cultures, attitudes, and lifestyles. He was born in Taiwan, grew up in America, and joined Gaden Monastery, India in 1988. He now resides in Malaysia as spiritual advisor to Kechara.
Amanda Ripley is a contributing writer at the Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective and the author of The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary.
Jessica Riskin is a historian of science, and Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University in the United States. She is also the Jean-Paul Gimon Director of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford. She was educated at Harvard and UC Berkeley, and has taught at Iowa State, MIT and Sciences Po, Paris. She is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
Dr Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global Development at the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at the online publication ‘Our World in Data’, which brings together the latest data and research on the world’s largest problems – from climate change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution to global poverty, health, and education – and makes it accessible to a general audience.
Her research appears regularly in global media including the BBC, WIRED, the New York Times, New Scientist, the Economist, the Financial Times, and Vox, among others. She regularly writes scripts and provides research for ‘Kurzgesagt’, the science communication YouTube channel, and has published widely in academic journals including Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Scientific Data, Global Environmental Change and Climate Policy. She was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh.
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet was a Sunday Times bestseller.
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Florence Rivières is an author, script and gamewriter. They navigate within various forms and genres in literature, and wrote the script for Tu n’auras pas mon silence, a graphic novel published by Marabulles in 2024.
Charlotte Rixon studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain an MA in Screenwriting. She has worked as a journalist, and more recently as a content marketing specialist working on luxury brands.
Food writer Sara Roahen is the author of Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Norton).
Alice Robb is the author of Why We Dream (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) and has written for The New Republic, New York, The New Statesman, The Atlantic, Elle, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Vice, The BBC and British Vogue. Her work has been republished by Slate, CNN, The Week, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country. She graduated from Oxford with a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology.
A former fashion editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, Roberts is an artist, illustrator, photographer, and stylist whose work also appears in Tatler, Italian Vogue, and other international publications.
Dr. Barbara Roberts was the first female adult cardiologist to practice in the state of Rhode Island, and she became director of the Women’s Cardiac Center at the Miriam Hospital. She was featured on the popular podcast “Crimetown” because of her heart patient Raymond Patriarca, Sr., the notorious boss of the Patriarca crime family.
Victoria L. Roberts is president at Verus Global, responsible for the execution and scaling of growth strategy.
Mother of bestselling authors John Elder Robison and Augusten Burroughs, Robison has published six volumes of poetry.
Geena Rocero is a model, writer, producer, transgender advocate, and public speaker, born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Geena is the founder of Gender Proud, a media production company that tells stories on what it means to be trans and gender non-conforming. She is the first trans woman ambassador for Miss Universe Nepal; the first trans Asian Playboy Playmate; and the first trans woman to be named a Playboy Playmate of the Year. Geena is also a board member of the NY LGBT Center and the 2020 National Chair for Stonewall Day in June. On March 31, 2014, in honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, Geena came out as transgender in an instantly viral TEDTalk. Her speech has since been viewed close to five million times, and has been translated into thirty-two languages.
Rockman, a professor of history at Brown University, is working on a book on capitalism and slavery for Penguin called History of US: Volume2: Capitalism and Slavery 1760-1840.
A multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning music producer, songwriter, and member of Chic, Rodgers has written and produced for Madonna, David Bowie, Diana Ross, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Gabriel, Sheena Easton, Jeff Beck, and Mick Jagger, among many others and is a 2014 Grammy Award winner for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Get Lucky."
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Jodi Rodgers is a qualified sexologist, counsellor, and special-education teacher with 30 years’ experience working within the education, disability, and sexuality fields. She is featured as the relationship specialist on Love on the Spectrum, Netflix’s hit docuseries that follows autistic people on their search for love. With her unique combination of qualifications and experience, Jodi has developed counseling and training programs for neurologically diverse individuals and their support networks. Her private practice, Birds and Bees, helps neurodivergent people learn about the complex areas of sexuality and relationships and, even more fundamentally, how to create love and connection.