Adele Crockett Robertson was born in 1901 at her family's farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts. After the orchard years, she was a writer with the WPA and worked in a shipyard and in a factory. A beloved local figure, Ms. Robertson served as Ipswich selectwoman, and her commentary on current events and politics was widely read.

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Seth Roberts, Ph.D., is a tenured professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. He serves on the editorial advisory board of the scientific journal Nutrition, and has published dozens of scientific articles on topics that include health, nutrition, and weight control.

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Adam Roberts is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Andrew Roberts is the author of books including Masters and Commanders, Napoleon and Wellington, and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize.

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Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil, which was a 2005 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award Finalist, and a regular contributor to Harper's.

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Victoria Roberts writes Scottish historical romances about kilted heroes and warriors from the past. Named by RT Book Reviews as "one of the most promising debut authors across the genres," her second novel, X Marks the Scot, won the RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Medieval Historical Romance.

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Randy Roberts is a distinguished professor of history at Purdue University. An award-winning author, he has written biographies of iconic athletes and celebrities, including Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Bear Bryant, and John Wayne. He lives in Lafayette, Indiana.

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Fantasy writer Richard Roberts finds his inspiration in folk tales, fairy tales, and mythology. He is the author of Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon, Wild Children, and Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth, among other novels.

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Jennifer T. Roberts is professor of classics and history at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her many books include The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece, Herodotus, and Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought.

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Margaret Roberts is a prize-winning investigative journalist and television producer. In Washington, DC, Roberts was a top editor at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly before moving into television as news director of America's Most Wanted.

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Terry Roberts's debut novel, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and his second novel, That Bright Land, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award as well as the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South.

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Lisa Brown Roberts is the award-winning author of several YA books, including The Replacement Crush, Resisting the Rebel, and Playing the Player. She lives in Colorado with her family.

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