Patricia Barry is a recognized authority on Medicare who has written extensively about the program for consumers. For eighteen years, as a senior editor of AARP's publications, she wrote hundreds of articles on Medicare and served as its online "Ask Ms. Medicare" columnist.

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Steven Thomas Barry is a career army officer who has served in Germany, Macedonia, Kuwait, and Iraq and was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has taught military history at West Point and is the editor of History of the Military Art since 1914.

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Max Barry, a former sales representative for Hewlett-Packard, now writes full-time. He is the author of Syrup and the bestselling novel Jennifer Government, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. Max lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than five hundred newspapers, and he has also won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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Joanna Barsh, coauthor of How Remarkable Women Lead, is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and leader of the McKinsey Centered Leadership Project.

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USA Today bestselling author Christi Barth writes award-winning contemporary romance, including the Aisle Bound series. She lives in Maryland with the best husband in the world.

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Born in 1972 in Saarbrücken, Rüdiger Barth studied contemporary history and general rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. After fifteen years as a journalist for the German weekly Stern, he now works as a freelance author. He lives in Germany.

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Roland Barthes (1915–1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic whose best-known works include Writing Degree Zero and The Pleasure of the Text.

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Jonathan Bartho is the author of Whistling Dixie: Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party.

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Kati Bartkowski is the coauthor of the Mystic Cooking Chronicles and Whispering Pines. If she's not reading, writing, or drawing, she's probably chasing after her high energy little girl. Visit her at heidiandkatiwrite.com.

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Robert Bartlett is professor emeritus at the University of St Andrews. His books include The Making of Europe, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History in 1994, and Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? He has written and presented several BBC documentary series, including Inside the Medieval Mind and The Normans.

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Promoted to 1st Lieutenant after only one year, Robin Bartlett, at twenty-two, assumed the leadership of the 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Over the next seven months, he led a platoon on more than sixty helicopter combat assaults and search and destroy missions.

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