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John Beeson. Principal, Beeson Consulting, a management consulting firm specializing in succession planning; executive assessment, coaching and development; and organization design. Author, THE UNWRITTEN RULES: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level.
Donald L. Miller. John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College, author of national best-seller MASTERS OF THE AIR: AMERICA'S BOMBER BOYS WHO FOUGHT THE AIR WAR AGAINST NAZI GERMANY and prizewinning CITY OF THE CENTURY: THE EPIC OF CHICAGO AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA and six other books. Historical consultant to the HBO series "The Pacific" and forthcoming HBO documentary "He Has Seen War." Lead scholar, writer and host, "A Biography Of America," a 26-part PBS series.
Joi L. Morris and Ora K. Gordon, MD. Authors of the essential BRCA handbook, POSITIVE RESULTS: Making the Best Decisions When You're at High Risk for Breast or Ovarian Cancer, 2011 Honorable Mention AMWA healthcare books for consumers. Morris is an outreach coordinator for FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered) in Los Angeles and an advocate in science for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Dr. Gordon is Director of the GenRISK Adult Genetics Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Assoc. Professor of Medicine at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, and Director of cancer genetics at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center.
Estate of Lewis Mumford. Winner of the National Book Award, recipient of the National Medal of Arts, author of thirty books and a significant body of cultural criticism and commentary on literature, history, philosophy, the urban setting and technology, "the last of the great humanists" (Malcolm Cowley).
FICTION
Linda Barnes. Winner, Anthony and American Mystery Awards; author of the Edgar, Anthony and Shamus award-nominated Carlotta Carlyle series.
Rick Riordan. Author of the Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus award-winning Tres Navarre series.
Lee Goldberg. Veteran tv writer, producer, showrunner, two-time Edgar nominee, author of the popular MONK tie-in novels and co-author of SUCCESSFUL TELEVISION WRITING, winner of the Scribe Award for Best Novel from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
CHILDREN'S
Jean Fritz. Winner, Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for "substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature," leading biographer and author of more than thirty-five award-winning books.
Mary Ann Hoberman. Former Children's Poet Laureate of America, National Book Award Winner, New York Times best-selling author of more than thirty-five books for children including the beloved A HOUSE IS A HOUSE FOR ME.
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock. Author of award-winning first novel THE CANADA GEESE QUILT and AS LONG AS THERE ARE MOUNTAINS, Vermont Reads 2006, A Statewide, One-Book Community Reading Program, and nineteen other picture books and novels
Janet Taylor Lisle. Winner, Newbery Honor Medal and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, author of sixteen acclaimed books for children, tweens and young adults.
Laura Krauss Melmed. Author of NY Times bestselling THE RAINBABIES and I LOVE YOU AS MUCH .... and fifteen other picture books.
Susan Stockdale, author/illustrator of five natural history picture books including CARRY ME! ANIMAL BABIES ON THE MOVE, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and winner, Parent's Choice Award, and FABULOUS FISHES, a National Science Teacher's Association outstanding science trade book for children.