Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC, and founder-director of its Center for Social Media. Her books include Documentary: A Very Short Introduction, The Daily Planet, and Communications Policy in the Public Interest.

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Oliver August was the youngest-ever New York correspondent for the Times of London.

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Mark August's passion for fantasy and science fiction came from late nights of page-turning reading. Mark is a proud USAF veteran, husband to his high school sweetheart who inspires him to write, and father to four amazing kids starting their own lives.

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Sally Augustin, PhD, is a practicing environmental/design psychologist and the principal at Design With Science. She has extensive experience integrating science-based insights to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services that support desired cognitive, emotional, and physical experiences.

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Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was a Romanized Berber philosopher and theologian and one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity.

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Donna Augustine is the USA Today bestselling author of the Wilds, Karma, and Ollie Wit series, among other books.

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Karen Auman is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. She has published her research in Early American Studies. She is also a certified genealogist.

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Marcus Aurelius (April 121–March 180), Roman emperor from 161 until his death, was the last of the "Five Good Emperors," and his Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty.

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Stefan Aust is the former editor-in-chief of Germany's leading news magazine Der Spiegel and the author of numerous bestselling books, including The Baader-Meinhof Complex.

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Steven N. Austad is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the inaugural holder of the UAB Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging. Before becoming an academic, Austad was a Hollywood lion trainer and a naturalist guide for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

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Jane Austen's delightful, carefully wrought novels of manners—Pride and Prejudice and Emma among them—are those rare books that offer us a glimpse at the mores of a specific period while addressing the complexities of love, honor, and responsibility that still intrigue us today.

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