Andrew Z. Adkins III spent four years in the U.S. Navy during the 70s, most of which was on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier as a Crash & Salvage firefighter and an aircraft director. After his honorable discharge, he became a firefighter while attending the local community college.

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Andrew Adleman, MA, is a writer and book editor in the greater Los Angeles area.

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Margot Adler (1946–2014) was a radio producer and journalist for many years, pioneering live, free-form talk shows on religion, politics, women's issues, and ecology. She also lectured on the subject of Paganism and Earth-centered traditions and led workshops on the art of ritual, celebration, and song.

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Chloe Adler is a paranormal romance/urban fantasy author living in Northern California. She's the author of the Distant Edge Romance series, the Tales From the Edge series, and more. Visit her at chloeadler.com.

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William M. Adler is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and the Texas Observer. In addition to Land of Opportunity, he has written two other books of narrative nonfiction: Mollie's Job and The Man Who Never Died.

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Steven Adler—along with four uniquely talented but very complicated and demanding musicians—helped form Guns N' Roses. By the late 1980s, GN'R was the biggest rock band in the world, grabbing headlines and awards while selling out huge arenas.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton is an artist and writer, currently completing an MA in CUNY's disability studies program. She is disabled and chronically ill, a subject position which made clear to her how untenable the American left's approach to health care legislation was.

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C. H. Admirand was born in Aiken, South Carolina, but her parents moved back to New Jersey, where she grew up. She believes in fate, destiny, and love at first sight. She lost her heart to the man she fell in love with at first sight when she was seventeen. He took it with him when he lost his battle against cancer.

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Tappan Adney was an artist, writer, and photographer. He recorded the Klondike Gold Rush in his book The Klondike Stampede, which was first published in 1900. He passed away in 1950.

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J. M. Adovasio, PhD, is the founder and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute. He lives near Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Lara Adrian is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and #1 internationally bestselling author with nearly four million books in print and digital worldwide and translations licensed in more than twenty countries.

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C. J. Adrien is a bestselling author of Viking historical fiction novels. His Kindred of the Sea series was inspired by research conducted in preparation for a doctoral program in early medieval history as well as his admiration for historical fiction writers such as Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett.

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