Steven Thomas Barry is a career army officer who has served in Germany, Macedonia, Kuwait, and Iraq and was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has taught military history at West Point and is the editor of History of the Military Art since 1914.

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James Barry is the pseudonym of a New York Times bestselling novelist writing with a bold new voice, but with the same breathtaking plotting and relentless suspense that made his previous books global hits and acclaimed Hollywood movies.

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Max Barry, a former sales representative for Hewlett-Packard, now writes full-time. He is the author of Syrup and the bestselling novel Jennifer Government, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. Max lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than five hundred newspapers, and he has also won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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Joanna Barsh, coauthor of How Remarkable Women Lead, is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and leader of the McKinsey Centered Leadership Project.

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Yaroslav Barsukov, an author with a unique background in physics and software engineering, has emerged as a distinctive voice in the realm of speculative fiction. His acclaimed novella Tower of Mud and Straw was shortlisted for the Nebula Award and received a Kirkus star.

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Nick Barter is professor of strategy and sustainability at Griffith Business School. Completing his doctorate at the University of St Andrews, his career has spanned industry and academia, from strategy consulting with EY to advising executives on escaping myopic strategic thinking, to leading the Griffith MBA.

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Born in 1972 in Saarbrücken, Rüdiger Barth studied contemporary history and general rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. After fifteen years as a journalist for the German weekly Stern, he now works as a freelance author. He lives in Germany.

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USA Today bestselling author Christi Barth writes award-winning contemporary romance, including the Aisle Bound series. She lives in Maryland with the best husband in the world.

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Roland Barthes (1915–1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic whose best-known works include Writing Degree Zero and The Pleasure of the Text.

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Jonathan Bartho is the author of Whistling Dixie: Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party.

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Kati Bartkowski is the coauthor of the Mystic Cooking Chronicles and Whispering Pines. If she's not reading, writing, or drawing, she's probably chasing after her high energy little girl. Visit her at heidiandkatiwrite.com.

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