Nathan Abrams is a professor in film at Bangor University in Wales. He is founding coeditor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, as well as author of The New Jew in Film, and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, and coauthor of Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film.

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Seth Abrutyn is associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Abrutyn specializes in youth suicide and is also a general sociologist whose research rests at the intersection of mental health, emotions, social psychology, and culture, and which has won several national awards.

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Amy Absher holds a PhD in history from the University of Washington. She is the author of The Black Musicians and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900–1967.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books, Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

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Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, is a Palestinian physician and infertility expert who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and who now serves as an associate professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

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Jeffrey Abugel has been an editor and writer for more than thirty years, researching depersonalization and its relationship to philosophy and literature since experiencing it firsthand for more than a decade.

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David Abulafia is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University. He is the author of many books, including The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean.

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Jus Accardo is the bestselling author of the popular Denazen series, as well as the Darker Agency series, and the new adult series, the Eternal Balance. A native New Yorker, she lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and sometimes guard bear, Oswald.

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Sylvia Acevedo has been CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., an engineer, rocket scientist, award-winning entrepreneur, businesswoman, and commissioner on the White House Initiative for Education Excellence for Hispanics. Raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico, she divides her time between New York City and California.

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Carlos Acevedo, author of Sporting Blood: Tales From the Dark Side of Boxing and The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison, was the founder of The Cruelest Sport and is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Acevedo is also a member of the International Boxing Research Organization.

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Grant Achatz is an award-winning chef and the owner of the restaurant Alinea in Chicago. He was named Best Chef in the United States in 2008 by the James Beard Foundation, and he is a columnist for the Atlantic's Food Channel.

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Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) was a prominent Nigerian writer whose satire and keen ear for spoken language made him one of the most highly esteemed African writers in English. He is the author of Things Fall Apart and a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

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