MJ Wayland is a writer, researcher, and historian specializing in ghosts, supernatural belief, and fringe history. He is the author of eight bestselling books, 50 Real Ghost Stories.

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Lucan Way is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Pluralism by Default. He is the coauthor of Competitive Authoritarianism, with Steven Levitsky.

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Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.

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Wendy Wax is the USA Today bestselling author whose contemporary women's fiction includes the highly praised Ten Beach Road, Ocean Beach, The House on Mermaid Point, While We Were Watching Downton Abbey, Magnolia Wednesdays, and The Accidental Bestseller. A former broadcaster, she lives in the Atlanta area with her family.

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Billy Waugh is a retired American Special Forces Sergeant Major and Central Intelligence Agency Paramilitary Operations Officer who served more than fifty years between the U.S. Army's Green Berets and the CIA's Special Activities Division.

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Spiritual philosopher Alan W. Watts, student of Buddhism, Anglican minister, chaplain at Northwestern University, and author of more than twenty books, died in 1973.

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Laura Tamblyn Watts is the CEO of CanAge, Canada's national seniors' advocacy organization. She teaches law and aging at the University of Toronto and has worked as a lawyer defending elders' rights. Watts is also a regular media guest and keynote speaker on aging issues. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Tom Watts writes low-stake fantasy books that offer people a little of that important thing we call escapism. He is the author of the Small-Town Crafter series and Welcome to Blade's Rest.

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Peter Watts is the author of the Rifters Trilogy and lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Edward J. Watts is Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny, The Final Pagan Generation, and Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher.

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Kathryn "Kitsi" Watterson, the award-winning journalist and author of Women in Prison and Not by the Sword, among other books, previously taught at Princeton University. She currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ethan Watters is the author of Urban Tribes, an examination of the mores of affluent "never marrieds," and coauthor of Making Monsters, a groundbreaking indictment of the recovered memory movement. A frequent contributor to several publications, he has appeared on Good Morning America, Talk of the Nation, and CNN.

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