John Vorhaus is best known as the author of The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even if You're Not. He is also the author of the six-volume Killer Poker series, plus miscellaneous other books on the subject, including the novel Under the Gun.

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Norb Vonnegut spent over two years at a money management firm in New York City, where he was a managing director responsible for equity and fixed income portfolios.

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Franz Xaver von Schonwerth (1810–1886) had a successful career in law and the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself full-time to cataloging the customs and folktales of his homeland.

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Richard Freiherr von Rosen served as a gunlayer on a Panzer tank during Operation Barbarossa; led a company of Tigers at Kursk; led a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy; and in late 1944 commanded a battle group against the Russians in Hungary.

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Heidi von Palleske is a writer, actor, and activist. She has written poetry, articles, and fiction, and won the H. R. Percy Novel Prize for They Don't Run Red Trains Anymore. Heidi spends time on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, but calls Toronto home.

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Kristin von Kreisler writes articles and bestselling books about animals. After writing three acclaimed nonfiction books, Kreisler made a smashing fiction debut with the bestselling novel An Unexpected Grace and followed up with Earnest. Visit her at kristinvonkreisler.com.

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Kristin von Kreisler is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction books Beauty in the Beasts, The Compassion of Animals, and For Bea, as well as the bestselling novel An Unexpected Grace. Kristin lives on an island in Washington with her husband and their rescued German shepherd, Bridget. Visit her at kristinvonkreisler.com.

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As a psychologist, Diana von Kopp has taught leadership competence, such as decision making and stress management, to airline pilots for more than ten years. Fascinated by the fact that food has an immense impact on our brain, performance, and well-being, she dove into research and has been writing for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's blog Food Affair ever since.

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Alice Von Kannon has been an advertising executive, a teacher, and an author. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and the Order of the Grail, the fraternal body of the International College of Esoteric Studies.

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Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) was a vocal opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, fleeing from Germany to Vienna, Austria, in 1933 upon Hitler's rise to power. He is the author of dozens of books, in both German and English.

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Nicole von Germeten is an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. She has written extensively on the history of crime, violence, gender, and sexuality in Latin America.

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Penny M. Von Eschen is Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan.

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