Elyssa Friedland attended Yale University, where she served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News. After graduating from Columbia Law School, she worked as an associate at a major firm. Elyssa has written for several publications, including Modern Bride and New York magazine. She lives in New York City.

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Reinhard Friedl is an eminent surgeon who has held thousands of hearts in his hands. He has operated on premature babies and repaired the heart valves of patients well advanced in years. He has implanted artificial heart turbines and stitched knife wounds to the heart. He lives in Germany.

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Born in 1980 in Hamburg, Hauke Friederichs studied social and economic history and wrote his PhD thesis on piracy in the Mediterranean. He has worked for publications including Die Zeit, Stern, Geo, Epoche and P.M. History. He lives in Germany.

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Ahron Friedberg, MD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and editor for the Academy Forum of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. His recent books include Psychotherapy and Personal Change and Through a Screen Darkly.

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Aaron L. Friedberg is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. Over the past two decades he has written numerous books and articles warning of the dangers of an intensifying economic, military, and ideological rivalry between China and the West.

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Lionel Friedberg is an award-winning documentary film director who has written or produced films for Animal Planet, CBS, PBS, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

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Robert Fried, PhD, is a cardiovascular physiologist and New York state licensed clinical psychologist. He is Emeritus Professor, doctoral faculty in behavioral neurosciences, City University of New York (CUNY). He has published more than a dozen academic and trade books.

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Johannes Fried is a German historian and medievalist. Fried studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1970. He was a professor at the University of Cologne from 1980 to 1983 and currently holds the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

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Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, and others. He is the recipient of a 1993 National Magazine Award, the Distinguished Service Award for Magazine Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Clarion Award from Women in Communications.

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Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir currently works at the National Library of Norway in Oslo. Her research focuses on Vikings, Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry, late medieval Iceland, medieval manuscripts, and gender.

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Peggy Frezon is a contributing editor of All Creatures magazine and the author of five books about the human-animal bond. Peggy and her husband rescue senior golden retrievers and work together on therapy dog teams. Learn more at peggyfrezon.com.

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Kate Freuler is the author of Magic at the Crossroads: The Devil in Modern Witchcraft.

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