Erich von Däniken is arguably the most widely read and most-copied nonfiction author in the world. He published his first (and best-known) book, Chariots of the Gods, in 1968. The worldwide bestseller was followed by forty more books. He lives in Switzerland.

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Erich von Däniken is arguably the most widely read and most-copied nonfiction author in the world. He published his first (and best-known) book, Chariots of the Gods, in 1968. The worldwide bestseller was followed by forty more books. He lives in Switzerland.

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From concert stages to college campuses and churches, and from radio to television and webcasts, Dr. Craig von Buseck has been in the public eye for more than thirty-five years. He is a multi-published author and serves as the managing editor for InspirationToday.com.

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Benjamin von Brackel graduated from the German School for Journalism in Munich and studied politics in Erlangen and Berlin. Today, he is one of the most renowned environmental journalists in Germany, where his reporting on climate change has appeared in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, and Natur.

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Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, a commanding lieutenant in the German army, joined the German Resistance in 1941 and lived to be the last surviving member of Valkyrie, the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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Francois Marie Arouet (1694–1778)—pen name Voltaire—was one of France's greatest writers and philosophers. His best-known works include Zadig, Candide, and the Dictionnaire Philosophique.

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John Della Volpe is the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, where he has led the institute's polling initiatives on understanding American youth since 2000. The Washington Post referred to John as one of the world's leading authorities on global sentiment, opinion, and influence.

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Tristan A. Volpe is assistant professor in the Defense Analysis Department of the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also a nonresident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Whores for Gloria, The Royal Family, and Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories (including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction), a memoir, and eight works of nonfiction.

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Polina Pankova is the author of the Into the Deep Wood series.

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Josh Volk is the author of Compact Farms. He is the proprietor of Slow Hand Farm in Portland, Oregon, and has been working on and managing small farms around the country for the last twenty years, studying the systems that make them efficient.

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