WILLARD WYMAN did not begin writing fiction until retiring from a long academic career, teaching literature and serving as dean of students ...

TOBIAS WOLFF’S books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War;  the short novel The ...

TINA SEELIG is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. She teaches ...

BARRY C. SCHECK is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where he ...

ANDY RASKIN is the author of The Ramen King and I (Gotham Books, 2009). His radio stories have been broadcast on public ...

RAJ PATEL is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics ...

DAVID MAS MASUMOTO is an organic peach and grape farmer and the author of five books including: Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Heirlooms, ...

PATRICK HUNT (Ph.D. Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London, 1991) has been teaching humanities, the arts, and archaeology at Stanford University ...

SCOTT JAMES writes a weekly column for The New York Times about the San Francisco Bay Area. In the world of fiction, ...

ERIC SCHLOSSER graduated from Princeton with a degree in American History, and tried his hand at several professions (playwright, novelist, script writer) ...

DAVID BROOKS, author of two books of what he calls “comic sociology” – descriptions of how we live and “the water we ...

DR. REZA ASLAN is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. Aslan holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University ...

MICHAEL KRASNY is host of KQED's award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business ...

GREG MORTENSON, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Stones Into Schools, is also co-founder of the non-profit Central ...