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Debra Hamel

Debra studied classics as an undergraduate at The Johns Hopkins University and again as a graduate student at Yale, where she specialized in ancient history. Since receiving her Ph.D. in 1996 she has published two books and a number of scholarly articles and reviews as well as publications for a general audience, inclu....[more]

William Hoffer

William Hoffer has been spinning out international bestsellers for more than 20 years. He collaborated with Billy Hayes to chronicle the exciting escape from a Turkish prison in Midnight Express, which was later produced into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Brad Davis, John Hurt and Randy Quaid....[more]

Gary C. King

I am a freelance author and occasional lecturer, and over the last 28 years I have published more than 400 articles in true crime magazines and other publications in the United States, Canada, and England. My stories regularly appeared in True Detective, Official Detective, Inside Detective, Front Page Detective, an....[more]

Alfred H. Knight

Anna Mancini

Leigh Somerville McMillan

Simone Payment

John Perkins

John Perkins has lived four lives: as an economic hit man (EHM); as the CEO of a successful alternative energy company, who was rewarded for not disclosing his EHM past; as an expert on indigenous cultures and shamanism, a teacher and writer who used this expertise to promote ecology and sustainability while continuing....[more]

Mark Shaw

A reformed lawyer turned author of nearly twenty published books, Mark Shaw's latest is Beneath the Mask of Holiness: Thomas Merton and the Forbidden Love Affair that Set Him Free. An avid Chicago Cubs fan whose favorite author is Ernest Hemingway, Mark lives in East Lansing, Michigan with his wife Wen-ying Lu, and the....[more]

Christopher L. Tomlins

Christopher Tomlins' newest book is Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865, forthcoming in September 2010 from Cambridge University Press. "Freedom Bound is a truly magisterial work by one of the finest minds currently working in the field of legal history ..." ....[more]

Henry Adams

Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918) was an American, novelist, journalist and historian Adams is best known for his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams. Adams was born on February 16, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts into the politically prominent Adams family. Adams was the fourth of seven children. His father....[more]

Aesop

For many, an illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables is ubiquitous with childhood. Born a slave, Aesop and his fables have become a staple of popular culture for generations. While his birthplace is a matter of much scholarly debate with Egypt, Ethiopia and Athens being presented as possibilities, some facts about his li....[more]

Francis Bacon

A knight, a lawyer and philosopher among other titles, Sir Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in London, England, where he was tutored at home due to his poor health. Eventually, at age 12, he was deemed well enough to attend Trinity College where he excelled and soon caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth, who took to calling ....[more]