William K. Klingaman holds a PhD in American history from the University of Virginia and has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He is the author of six previous books, including histories of the years 1918, 1929, and 1941.

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Eric Klinenberg is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. The recipient of an Individual Projects Fellowship from the Open Society Institute in 2000, he is coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness and a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique.

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Kate Klimo is the author of many books for young readers, including the Dragon Keepers series and all the books in the Dog Diaries series. She lives in New Paltz with her husband and two horses, Harry and Fancy. To learn more about her and her work, visit kateklimoauthor.com.

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Jared Klickstein was born in Boston in 1989 to heroin-addicted parents. He attended UC Santa Cruz where he got addicted to heroin himself and dropped out. After a run on Skid Row and a jail sentence, he sobered up in 2018, wrote Crooked Smile, and resides in Oakland, California. He works as an independent journalist.

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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas graduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. She's a RITA Award–winning author of both historical romance and contemporary women's fiction. She lives in Washington State with her husband, Gregory, and their two children.

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Kirill Klevanski is the author of the Dragon Heart series and Dark Wizard's Case.

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Jennifer Klepper is the USA Today bestselling author of The Last Road Trip and Unbroken Threads. Born and raised in Iowa and Nebraska, she attended college in Dallas, law school in Charlottesville, and worked in Texas and Massachusetts before settling for good in Maryland.

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Brian A. Klems is a writer, husband, perennial fantasy sports underachiever, and father of three lovely little girls. He's the online editor of Writer's Digest magazine and is also a proud graduate of the E. W. Scripps journalism school at Ohio University.

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Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD, is professor in the Faculty of Medicine and director of sex and couples therapy at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She has edited four books, including New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives, winner of the AASECT 2013 Book Award.

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Leon Kleiner is a retired commercial and residential real estate developer from New Jersey. He was born in the city of Tarnopol, Poland just a little over a decade before the beginning World War II. Leon's early life before and during the war is documented in his memoir, Save My Children.

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Halina Goldberg Kleiner was born in Czestochowa, Poland, in 1929. She was one of the few who survived the infamous Volary Death March. Halina was one of the very first Jews to be allowed to immigrate to the United States, and in the summer of 1946, she settled in Buffalo, New York. She died on April 9, 2022.

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Art Kleiner is the editor in chief of strategy+business, the management magazine published by PwC. His books include Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success and The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management.

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