Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than five hundred newspapers, and he has also won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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Susan R. Barry is Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Mount Holyoke College. She had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy but learned to see in three dimensions at age forty-eight by retraining her visual system with optometric vision therapy.

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James Barry is the pseudonym of a New York Times bestselling novelist writing with a bold new voice, but with the same breathtaking plotting and relentless suspense that made his previous books global hits and acclaimed Hollywood movies.

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Francis S. Barry is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board covering national affairs. He served as chief speechwriter to Mayor Michael Bloomberg during the 2020 presidential campaign and in New York's City Hall, where he also helped lead a variety of government and election reform initiatives.

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Joanna Barsh, coauthor of How Remarkable Women Lead, is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and leader of the McKinsey Centered Leadership Project.

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Nick Barter is professor of strategy and sustainability at Griffith Business School. Completing his doctorate at the University of St Andrews, his career has spanned industry and academia, from strategy consulting with EY to advising executives on escaping myopic strategic thinking, to leading the Griffith MBA.

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USA Today bestselling author Christi Barth writes award-winning contemporary romance, including the Aisle Bound series. She lives in Maryland with the best husband in the world.

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Born in 1972 in Saarbrücken, Rüdiger Barth studied contemporary history and general rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. After fifteen years as a journalist for the German weekly Stern, he now works as a freelance author. He lives in Germany.

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Roland Barthes (1915–1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic whose best-known works include Writing Degree Zero and The Pleasure of the Text.

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Jonathan Bartho is the author of Whistling Dixie: Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party.

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Kati Bartkowski is the coauthor of the Mystic Cooking Chronicles and Whispering Pines. If she's not reading, writing, or drawing, she's probably chasing after her high energy little girl. Visit her at heidiandkatiwrite.com.

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Viva Ona Bartkus is Paul E. Purcell Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. She is a former partner at McKinsey & Company and the founder of the revolutionary course Business on the Frontlines.

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