Benjamin Blech is an internationally recognized educator, religious leader, author, and lecturer. A recipient of the American Educator of the Year Award, he has been a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966. He is the author of over ten books and has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, and Newsday.

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Andrew D. Blechman is an award-winning journalist who has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the Des Moines Register. His work has also appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune, among other publications.

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Alex Bleeker is the bassist and cofounder of beloved indie rock band Real Estate and ascendant jam band Taper's Choice. During his decade-and-a-half career as a musician, he has released more than ten full-length albums and toured extensively on five continents.

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Tonya Jewel Blessing and her husband currently live in South Africa. They are the directors of Strong Cross Ministries, a nonprofit organization that assists local churches in providing humanitarian relief and spiritual reconciliation. The Whispering of the Willows is Tonya's first novel.

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Blake Blessing is just a working mom that loves art in all forms, and all genres of romance. Although she enjoys writing romance of the steamier variety.

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Alexander Blevens is an Air Force veteran and a retired orthopaedic surgeon who lives and writes in Mississippi. Originally from California, he married a "New Orleans belle" and developed a keen eye for all things Southern.

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Cameron Blevins is associate professor, Clinical Teaching Track, in the History Department at the University of Colorado Denver, and is a respected leader in the field of digital history.

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Having achieved his dream of learning to fly, Wayne K. Blickenstaff set aside his wings and had a successful career as an advertising, editorial, and book illustrator. He later became a teacher and art director. During retirement he pursued his interest in writing and his book Ace in a Day was his passion project.

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William Bligh (1754–1817) was a British naval officer and colonial governor who is best remembered for the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.

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David W. Blight is class of 1954 professor of history at Yale University.

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Caroline Bliss lives in Brussels, Belgium with her wife and photogenic cat, Dolly Purrton.

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Alison Bliss is the author of the Tangled in Texas series. Her writing career may have started out as a dare by one of her sisters, but she hasn't put her pen down since. Although she'll always be a Texan at heart, Alison resides in the Midwest with her Iowa farm-boy husband and their two sons.

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