Rachelle Bergstein, the author of Women from the Ankle Down, works at a literary agency in New York. She lives with her husband and their son in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Jesse Bering is the author of Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, and The Belief Instinct. He is the director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago in New Zealand.

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Adam J. Berinsky is the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab. A specialist in the fields of political behavior and public opinion, he is the author of Silent Voices and In Time of War.

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By the age of twenty, Carrie Berk already had a life's worth of accomplishments under her belt. She is a bestselling children's book author with twenty-one books to her credit, including the Cupcake Club series, the Fashion Academy series, and the Ask Emma series.

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Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD, is a distinguished university professor at the University of Rochester and the founder of the University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute. He has published more than 300 articles, chapters, and books.

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George Berkeley (1685–1753) was one of the three great British empiricist philosophers; his best known works include An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision and A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.

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Drema Hall Berkheimer's tales of hobnobbing with gypsies, moonshiners, snake handlers, hobos, and faith healers are published in numerous online and print journals. She is a member of West Virginia Writers, Salon Quatre, and The Writer's Garret.

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Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire is the author of The Board Game: How Smart Women Become Corporate Directors.

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Carol Berkin is the Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College. She is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Wondrous Beauty, The History Handbook, and Civil War Wives, and has worked as a consultant on several PBS and History Channel documentaries.

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Lisa F. Berkman is director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist.

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Ira Berkow is both a Pulitzer-prize winner for national reporting and a Pulitzer-prize finalist for distinguished commentary, and the author of twenty-six books, including bestsellers Red: A Biography of Red Smith, Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar, and Rockin' Steady: A Guide to Basketball and Cool (with Walt Frazier).

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Bernard Berkowitz received an MS from Columbia University and his PhD from New York University. Dr. Berkowitz has been affiliated with City College and with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and has had numerous articles and reviews published in various journals.

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