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Charles Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The t...

Ed Lynskey is the author of Pelham Fell Here , The Dirt-Brown Derby , The Dirt-Brown Derby , Out of Town a Few Days , and A Clear Path ...

Iain Gately's books include Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization . Raised in Hong Kong, he studied la...

John Darnton has worked for forty years as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The New York Times . He was awarded two Ge...

Pat Willard 's books about food include: Pie Every Day , sited by Atlantic Monthly , Bon Appetit , and Amazon.com , as among the top te...

Howard Jones is University Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama. His books include Mutiny on the Amistad and Deat...

Stephen V. Ash is a professor of history at the University of Tennessee and the author of several books on the Civil War, including A Year ...

Lisa Chamberlain is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the executive director of the Forum for Urban Design . Her writing has...

Michael S. Gazzaniga is the director of the University of California–Santa Barbara's SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind , as well as...

Thomas B. Cavanagh is author of the novel Murderland as well as the first Mike Garrity novel, Head Games , which won the Florida Book Awa...