A well-known illustrator and storyteller, Deepa Balsavar has created more than thirty award-winning children's books. Balsavar is an adjunct professor at IDC, the Design School, IIT Bombay. Visit them online at himalayanclub.org.

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Brandon Baltzley is a Louisiana-born, low-country raised, nomadic chef, musician, and writer who has been steadily making long-lasting impressions everywhere he decides to plate a dish.

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Brad Balukjian is director of the Natural History and Sustainability Program and teaches biology at Merritt College in Oakland, California. He is also a freelance writer and has published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic.

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Dan Balz, chief correspondent at the Washington Post, is coauthor of Storming the Gates and the New York Times bestseller The Battle for America 2008.

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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French journalist and writer and is considered one of the creators of realism in literature. Balzac's huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comédie Humaine.

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Marco Balzano was born in 1978 in Milan, where he lives and works as a high school teacher. In addition to essays and poetry collections, he has written several award-winning novels, including I'm Staying Here.

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Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) is the award-winning author of the short story collections Gorilla My Love and Seabirds Are Still Alive, and the novel The Salt Eaters, which won the American Book Award. Her works also include Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions and Those Bones Are Not My Child, both published posthumously.

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Alan Bamberger is a San Fransisco-based, self-taught art appraiser and former rare book dealer specializing in fine and decorative arts books, who consults with artists and collectors from all over the world through his much-loved website at artbusiness.com, which has been online since 1998.

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Michael Bamberger was born in Patchogue, New York. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he worked as a newspaper reporter, first for the Vineyard Gazette and later for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since 1995 he has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Christine.

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James Bamford, the author of the bestsellers Body of Secrets, The Puzzle Palace, and The Shadow Factory, has written extensively on national security issues. His writing on the war in Iraq for Rolling Stone magazine won the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the highest honor in the magazine industry.

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Tyler R. Bamford is a historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command.

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Charles Bamforth is Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences at the University of California, Davis. His many books on beer and brewing include Standards of Brewing, Beer Is Proof God Loves Us, Brewing Materials and Processes, and Grape vs. Grain.

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