Alli Vail is a former journalist for national and provincial award-winning community newspapers. She is a content writer and marketer for literary festivals and nonprofits, and has worked in tech, video games, and politics. She studied creative writing at Simon Fraser University.

See Full Bio

José Vadi is the author of Chipped and Inter State: Essays from California. An award-winning essayist, poet, playwright and film producer, his work has been featured by the Paris Review, the Atlantic, the PBS NewsHour, Free Skate magazine, Alta Journal of California, and the Yale Review. He lives in California.

See Full Bio

While researching World War II in his capacity as a UK secondary school teacher, Stephen Uzzell stumbled upon the name Haim Michael Klar, a Jewish man who impersonated a Nazi officer in order to help those trapped in the ghettos and concentration camps. Uzzell's novel I Am Juden is inspired by Haim Michael's story.

See Full Bio

Ruth Uzrad was born in Berlin in 1925, the eldest of three daughters, to a religious Jewish family. During World War II she escaped to Belgium and continued her flight to the south of France, where she spent her teenage years before finally arriving in Israel in 1945. She passed away in 2015.

See Full Bio

Kelly Utt writes emotional, pulse-pounding fiction for readers who enjoy both suspense and sentimentality. Her books include the Past Life series and the Summer Isle series. Kelly lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and sons.

See Full Bio

Stan Utley has been a professional golfer on the PGA Tour for nearly two decades. He has coached many fellow pros, including Peter Jacobsen, Jay Haas, and Darren Clarke. His first book, The Art of Putting, was published by Gotham Books in June 2006 and had a third printing after just two months on sale.

See Full Bio

Robert M. Utley is the award-winning author of more than twenty books on western American history, including Sitting Bull and Lone Star Lawmen. He made his career in the National Park Service, rising to the position of chief historian and assistant director of the service. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

See Full Bio

Simon Usherwood is Reader in politics at the University of Surrey, where he specializes in the study of euroscepticism, and in UK-EU relations. He has been a frequent contributor to public debate, through the media, social media, and public speaking events. He is a Senior Fellow of the "UK in a Changing Europe" program.

See Full Bio

Donna Joy Usher is the multi-award-winning, Amazon bestselling author of the Chanel series, the War Faery Trilogy, and The Seven Steps to Closure.

See Full Bio

Amanda Usen knows two things for sure: chocolate cheesecake is good for breakfast, and a hot chef can steal your heart. Her husband stole hers on the first day of class at the Culinary Institute of America. When she's not writing or decorating cakes, she can be found reading a book and trying to get out of cooking dinner.

See Full Bio

Michael Useem is the William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management and faculty director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management and McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive MBA courses on management and leadership.

See Full Bio

Joseph E. Uscinski is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Miami.

See Full Bio