Vladislav M. Zubok is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of A Failed Empire, Zhivago's Children, and The Idea of Russia.

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M. Suhail Zubairy is a University Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics at Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America.

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Dwight Zscheile is vice president of innovation and professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. An Episcopal priest, his books include Participating in God's Mission (with Craig Van Gelder), The Agile Church, and People of the Way.

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Robert Zorn, a graduate of Duke University and the Wharton School of Business, is the author of Cemetery John. His unique qualification to tell this story is his relationship to his father, the late Eugene C. Zorn, Jr., the only person who ever witnessed the conspiracy behind the Lindbergh kidnapping.

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Carol Zoref is a fiction writer and essayist. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. She lives in New York City.

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Dave Zook owns Horizon Structures, which makes custom chicken coops.

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Nicole Zoltack is a USA Today bestselling author who loves to write romances. Of course. She did marry her first kiss, after all! Visit her at nicolezoltack.com to learn more.

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Albert Zoller was a French liaison officer who interviewed Adolf Hitler's private secretary Christa Schroeder while she was in detention in the Augsburg camp, Germany, in 1945.

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Émile Zola (1840–1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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John Zogby is president and CEO of Zogby International and one of the foremost pollsters in America today. His clients include Reuters News Agency, NBC News, and the New York Post, and his opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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Tom Zoellner is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books, the politics editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, an associate professor of English at Chapman University, and a visiting professor of English at Dartmouth College. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, the New York Times, and elsewhere.

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Slavoj Žižek is one of the most prolific and well-known philosophers and cultural theorists in the world today. His inventive, provocative body of work mixes Hegelian metaphysics, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist dialectic in order to challenge conventional wisdom and accepted verities on both the left and the right.

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