Gordon T. Smith is the president of Ambrose University and Seminary in Calgary, Alberta, where he also serves as professor of systematic and spiritual theology. He is also an ordained minister with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and a teaching fellow at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Martin J. Smith, a veteran journalist and former senior editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, is the author of five crime novels and four nonfiction books. He has won more than fifty newspaper and magazine writing awards, and his novels have been nominated for the Edgar Award, the Anthony Award, and the Barry Award.

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Dorothy Evelyn Smith was an English writer. During World War I, Dorothy began to write poetry and short stories, some of which were published. In the early years of the Second World War, she began writing her first novel, O, the Brave Music, the first of eleven novels ultimately published, the last in 1966.

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Paul Blake Smith is the author of several books, including President Eisenhower's Close Encounters and MO-41: The Bombshell Before Roswell. He lives in southern Missouri and enjoys biographies, sports, and history.

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Alvy Ray Smith cofounded Pixar and Altamira Software. He was the first director of computer graphics at Lucasfilm and the first graphics fellow at Microsoft. He has received two technical Academy Awards for his contribution to digital moviemaking technology.

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Richard MacLean Smith, part-Scottish and part-English, is a writer and creator of the podcast Unexplained. Declared Best of iTunes 2016 and acclaimed by the Guardian and Financial Times, Unexplained has been streamed worldwide over 16 million times, reaching #2 in the US, UK, and Canadian iTunes charts.

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Harold Ivan Smith is a bereavement specialist on the teaching faculties of Saint Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, and the Carondolet Medical Institute, Eau Claire, Wyoming.

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Linda J. Smith has been a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, and public speaker for more than forty years. She holds a master's degree in public health, is an adjunct instructor in the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University, and is the author of four textbooks on birth and breastfeeding.

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Judith R. Smith is a leader in gerontological research focusing on women's experiences as they age. She is a senior clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and professor. With a PhD from Colubia University in family policy, she has taught social work at Fordham University for more than twenty-five years.

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Candis Watts Smith is associate professor of political science and African American studies at Penn State University. She received her PhD from Duke University and was awarded the 2013 Best Dissertation Award from the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

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Rebecca Faye Smith Galli is an author and weekly columnist who lives in Baltimore, Maryland and writes about love, loss, and healing. With 400 published columns and a memoir, she launched "Thoughtful Thursdays—Lessons from a Resilient Heart." Join her Thoughtful Thursdays family at beckygalli.com/signup.

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Laura Smith, CNC, BSOM, is a professor of psychology and education in the Counseling Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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