Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010) is acknowledged as one of the greatest British novelists of her time. She was the author of two travel books, five plays, and seventeen novels, five of which were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, including Master Georgie, which went on to win the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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John Bainbridge, Jr., is a freelance writer and former reporter for The Baltimore Sun and legal affairs editor for The Daily Record in Maryland. He practiced law in the private sector, served as a law clerk for judges on Maryland's highest court, and worked as a Maryland Assistant Attorney General.

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Amy Lupold Bair is the owner of Resourceful Mommy Media, LLC, and author of the popular parenting and lifestyle blog, Resourceful Mommy. In 2008, Amy invented the social media marketing tool the Twitter Party, and in early 2009, she created the Global Influence Network for bloggers.

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Sheila Bair, former chairperson of the FDIC, is the recipient of numerous awards, including the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award and the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award.

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ginny Baird has published more than twenty-five novels and novellas. When she's not writing, Ginny enjoys cooking, biking, and taking long walks in the woods with her Labrador retriever.

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Kevin Baird is chairman at the Global Center for College and Career Readiness and a coauthor of the Pathway for College and Career Readiness Standards. For more than twenty years, he has served our nation's schools as an expert in the use of technology to achieve accelerated engaged learning.

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Amee Baird is a clinical neuropsychologist with a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Involved in research and private practice, she has published widely in academic journals and in The Conversation and is a regular media commentator.

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Mike Bais was born and lives in Utrecht in the Netherlands. His esoteric training comes from the western esoteric tradition and the Toledano Kabbalah. He trained in this tradition with Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, also known as Warren Kenton, the UK born author and teacher.

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Andrea Bajani is an Italian novelist, journalist, and poet whose work has been translated into many languages. His novel, Ogni promessa (Every Promise), won the oldest and most prestigious Italian literary award, the Bagutta Prize.

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Hana Bajramovic has an English degree from Harvard University and a JD from Yale Law School. She has worked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and at a New York litigation firm. Bajramovic now works to protect reproductive rights and access to reproductive healthcare. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Michael B. Bakan is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Florida State University. His more than fifty publications include the books World Music: Traditions and Transformations and Music of Death and New Creation, as well as articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics.

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J. I. Baker is the executive editor of Conde Nast Traveler and the author of the novel The Empty Glass.

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