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Donna Gaines has written for Rolling Stone, MS, the Village Voice, Spin, Newsday and Salon. Her work has been published in underground fanzines, numerous trade and scholarly collections, professional journals and textbooks. Subjects have included music, tattoos, youth, guns, pornography, TV talk shows, suburbia, spirituality, gender culture, technology and intergenerational love. Her photographs, paintings, liner notes, lyrics and poetry have been published or shown as well. A sociologist, journalist and New York State Master Licensed Social Worker, Dr. Gaines grew up in Rockaway Beach, Queens, a surf town made famous by the Ramones.

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Michael Gannon (1927-2017) was Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Florida. Dr. Gannon had a long interest in the Spanish colonial history of Florida, about which he wrote extensively. Dr. Gannon's 1990 book, Operation Drumbeat, a history of Germany's first U-boat operations along the American coast in World War II, became a national best seller and the subject of a National Geographic Explorer program which won an Emmy as the Best Historical Program of 1992. He also wrote Secret Missions, a Florida-based historical novel set in World War II, which was chosen by Readers Digest Condensed Books and Black May, about the Allies' defeat of the German U-boat fleet in May 1943, which became a Main Selection of the History Book Club and an Alternate Selection of the Book of the Month Club. Gannon was featured as a commentator in the three-hour television documentary, "The U-Boat War," produced by ITN in London and shown in the US on the Discovery Channel, and conducted a weekly half hour PBS program called “Conversation” from 1975 to 1987. In June 1990 the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, conferred on him the highest academic award of that country, Knight Commander of the Order of Isabel la Catolica. Gannon was the recipient of numerous other awards including first Arthur W. Thompson Prize in Florida History from The Florida Historical Society, the Order of La Florida from the City of St. Augustine, and the first Florida Literary Lifetime Achievement Award from Governor Charles Crist.   

William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was a critically acclaimed pulp novelist. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he took seven years to graduate from high school. Though he was part of a juvenile gang, he wrote poetry in his spare time, signing it with a girl’s name lest one of his friends find it. He sold his first story in 1936, and built a great career writing for pulps like Paris Nights, Scarlet Adventures, and the infamous Black Mask. In 1939, Gault quit his job and started writing fulltime. When the success of his pulps began to fade in the 1950s, Gault turned to longer fiction, winning an Edgar Award for his first mystery, Don’t Cry for Me (1952), which he wrote in twenty-eight days. He created private detectives Brock Callahan and Joe Puma, and also wrote juvenile sports books like Cut-Rate Quarterback (1977) and Wild Willie, Wide Receiver (1974). His final novel was Dead Pigeon (1992), a Brock Callahan mystery.  

W. Doyle Gentry, PhD, (1943-2013) was a clinical psychologist and Director of the Institute for Anger-Free Living in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine. In Dr. Gentry's four-decade career as a scientist-practitioner, he authored over 100 publications, including eight books, and is a pioneer in the fields of health psychology, behavioral medicine, and anger management. He served on the faculty of Duke University Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. Gentry conducted training seminars for lay and professional audiences throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He also served as a consultant to major industry, where he specialized in conflict management, team building, and health promotion. Articles referring to Dr. Gentry's work on anger regularly appeared in a variety of contemporary magazines, and he was frequently interviewed on radio and television for insights into how to create and maintain an anger-free life. He was the author of two earlier self-help books on anger: ANGER-FREE: Ten Basic Steps to Managing Your Anger (Quill, 2000) and When Someone You Love Is Angry (Berkley, 2004). 

Winner of the National Book Award for her 1984 story collection Victory Over Japan, Ellen Gilchrist (1935-2024) was the author of over two dozen books including novels, short stories, poetry and memoir. Through wry and poignant prose, Gilchrist pointed a sharp eye on the people and places, foibles and eccentricities, of the American South upper class. Her  fiction is populated with interconnected characters and tales of love, sex, family and friendship. Ms. Gilchrist lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. 

Colleen Gleason (also writing as C.M. Gleason and Colette Gale) is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles. She has more than twenty books in print and has written for New American Library, MIRA Books, Chronicle Books, and HarperCollins (as Joss Ware). Her books have been translated into more than seven languages. Colleen lives in the Midwest with her family and two dogs, and is currently working on her next novel.   

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Michele Grant is a writer, lover of all things purple, and speaker of mind. Her popular blog, Black ’n Bougie, is an irreverent look at pop culture, people, politics & personal stuff...with a bougie twist, and attracts over 40,000 visits a week. The blog won the 2010 Black Weblog Award for Best Series and was named a finalist in 2011 for the categories Best Writing in a Blog, Best Series, and Blog of the Year. She was a finalist two years in a row for RT's Best Multicultural Romance award. Her articles have been posted on Essence.com, UptownMagazine.com, Blackenterprise.com, and ForHarriet.com. 

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