Matthew Restall teaches at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, Anthropology, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and director of Latin American studies. A recipient of Guggenheim, NEH, and other fellowships, he has published books in seven languages.

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Richard Restak, M.D., is a neuroscientist, neuropsychiatrist, and clinical professor of neurology, as well as the author of the bestseller The Brain, a companion to the PBS series of the same name.

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Robert K. Ressler (1937–2013) was an expert in the area of violent criminal offenders and a twenty-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He innovated many of the programs which led to the formulation of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.

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Mae Respicio's debut novel, The House That Lou Built, received the Asian/Pacific American Library Association Honor Award in Children's Literature and was an NPR Best Book of the Year. Mae lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two sons. Visit her at maerespicio.com.

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Mitchel Resnick, an expert in educational technologies, is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab. His research group develops the Scratch programming software and online community, the world's largest coding platform for kids.

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Laura Resau is the award-winning author of nine highly acclaimed young adult and middle grade novels, including The Lightning Queen, Tree of Dreams, What the Moon Saw, Red Glass, Star in the Forest, The Queen of Water (with María Virginia Farinango), and the Notebook series.

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Mark Reps has been a writer and storyteller his whole life. Born in small-town southeastern Minnesota, he trained as a mathematician and chiropractor but never lost his love of telling or writing a good story.

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Thomas Reppetto, a former commander of detectives in the Chicago Police Department, received his doctorate from Harvard and was a professor, dean, and vice president at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

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Elizabeth Renzetti is a bestselling Canadian author and journalist. She has worked for the Globe and Mail as a reporter, editor, and columnist. She is the author of the essay collection Shrewed and the novels Based on a True Story and What She Said: Conversations about Equality. She lives in Toronto with her family.

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Though Anne Renwick holds a PhD in biology and greatly enjoyed tormenting the overburdened undergraduates who were her students, fiction has always been her first love. Today, she writes steampunk romance, placing a new kind of biotech in the hands of mad scientists, proper young ladies, and determined villains.

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Kimmo Rentola is professor emeritus of political history at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on the history of the Cold War, Soviet-Finnish relations, and Finnish and Nordic communism. How Finland Survived Stalin is his first book translated into English.

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Christopher Renstrom is the creator of Rulingplanets.com, an online astrology site based on his bestselling book Ruling Planets. He currently writes the daily horoscopes for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com. Renstrom runs Ruling Planet workshops around the country.

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