William Zinsser, a writer, editor, and teacher, is the author of seventeen books, including Writing to Learn, Spring Training, American Places, and Writing About Your Life.

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Dr. Katherine Zinsser is an associate professor of community & prevention research in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studies classroom interactions, supports, and policies that impact young children's emotional well-being and the well-being of the professionals who care for them.

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Jon Ziomek is a former Chicago newspaper reporter and retired Northwestern University journalism teacher and assistant dean. He has been a freelance writer for more than forty years.

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Dave Zirin is the sports editor for the Nation and the author of several books, most recently Brazil's Dance with the Devil. Named one of UTNE Reader's "Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World," Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN, and Democracy Now!

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Lewis H. Ziska is associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. He served for nearly twenty-five years as a scientist at the US Department of Agriculture, resigning in 2019 to protest interference by the Trump administration with his research.

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Ian Ziskin, president, EXec EXcel Group LLC, has forty years of experience as a business leader, board advisor and member, coach, consultant, entrepreneur, teacher, speaker, and author. Ian has written articles, blogs, and chapters on the future of work, HR, leadership, coaching, and HR's role with the board of directors.

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Rainer Zitelmann (1957) studied history and political science and graduated with distinction. Zitelmann has written and edited a total of twenty-eight books, which have achieved substantial success in more than thirty languages around the world.

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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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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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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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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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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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