Hailing from the South Tyrolean village of Sterzing, Sepp de Giampietro joined the Wehrmacht in 1938 before moving into the Brandenburg Division. He served in the Balkans, the Eastern Front, then the Kuban before returning to his home village at the end of the war.

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Primavera De Filippi is research director at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris and faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. She is coauthor of Blockchain and the Law.

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Helen De Cruz is the Danforth Chair in the Humanities and professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is the author of Religious Disagreement and (with Johan De Smedt) A Natural History of Natural Theology and the editor and illustrator of Philosophy Illustrated.

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Sebastien de Castell's acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series, The Greatcoats, has been shortlisted for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy, the Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut, and the French Prix Imaginales for Best Foreign Work. Visit Sebastien at decastell.com.

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Andrea De Carlo was born in 1952 in Milan, Italy, where he grew up. His novels have sold millions of copies and have been translated into twenty-six languages.

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Marshall De Bruhl was for many years an executive and editor with several major American publishing houses, specializing in history and biography, most notably as editor of, and contributor to, the "Dictionary of American History" and the "Dictionary of American Biography."

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Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Xuya universe series, as well as numerous short stories which have garnered her three Nebula Awards, a Locus Award, and five British Science Fiction Association Awards.

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Celeste De Blasis (1946–2001) was a successful American author of historical romance novels, including the Wild Swan Trilogy.

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Marlena de Blasi has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine consultant, and a restaurant critic. She is the author of A Thousand Days in Venice, Regional Foods of Northern Italy, and Regional Foods of Southern Italy.

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Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) was a twentieth-century Japanese novelist. His many published works include The Setting Sun, Self Portraits, Schoolgirl, and Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp.

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Cameron Dayton is a bestselling author, screenwriter, and developer. He wrote the script to Advent Rising with bestselling novelist Orson Scott Card, and he cofounded the story-centered game development studio Chair Entertainment. Cameron's short stories have been featured in several anthologies.

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Tian Dayton, PhD, has an MA in educational psychology, a PhD in clinical psychology, and is a board-certified trainer in psychodrama. She is the author of fifteen books, including Neuropsychodrama, The ACoA Trauma Syndrome, Emotional Sobriety, Trauma and Addiction, Forgiving and Moving On, and The Living Stage.

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