Laura VanArendonk Baugh, CPDT-KA KPACTP, is an award-winning writer of speculative fiction, mystery, and nonfiction. Her works have earned numerous accolades, including the Realm Award for Best Fantasy and a semi-finalist spot in SPFBO's Best Fantasy. Laura is also a professional animal trainer and behavior consultant.

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L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American journalist and writer whose best-known book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is one of fourteen books in the author's acclaimed Oz series.

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Dan Baum is the bestselling author of several works of nonfiction, including Gun Guys, Smoke and Mirrors, and Citizen Coors. A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he has also written for Rolling Stone, Playboy, the New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.

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Margaret Bauman, MD, is an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the Lurie Center LADDERS program, a division of the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital for Children.

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Tamra Baumann is the author of several series, including the Cozy Mystery Bookshop, It Had to Be, and the Rocky Mountain Matchmaker.

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Jeremy J. Baumberg is professor of nanotechnology and photonics in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is coauthor of Microcavities, and his work has been featured in such publications as Nature, New Scientist, and Wired. He lives in Cambridge, England.

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Eberhard Baumgart is the author of The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron.

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Lisa M. Baumgartner is an associate professor of adult education at Texas State University, San Marcos.

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Richard Bausch is the award-winning author of eleven novels and seven volumes of short stories. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and other publications.

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Egyptian-born Robert Bauval began studying ancient Egypt and the Giza Pyramids in 1983. The acclaimed discoverer of the Orion Correlation Theory, he is the author of several books, including Breaking the Mirror of Heaven, The Vatican Heresy, and the bestsellers The Orion Mystery and Message of the Sphinx.

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Kate Baxter is a die-hard romantic with a thing for Shakespeare. She lives in the great northwest and writes about all things fanged, furry, and undead, including the Last True Vampire series.

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John Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of four acclaimed memoirs about his life in France: The Perfect Meal, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, Immoveable Feast, and We'll Always Have Paris.

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