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Arnette Lamb (1947-1998), was the author of thirteen historical romance novels. Her signature style—fast-paced, witty, and deeply sensual—propelled her novels on to countless bestseller lists including USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and The New York Times. With a reputation as a premier author of Scottish romance, Arnette won multiple awards including Romantic Times’  Best New Historical Author.

Maria Laurino is the author of the national bestselling memoir Were You Always an Italian?, an exploration of how stereotypes and class prejudice influenced Italian-American identity; the memoir Old World Daughter, New World Mother, a meditation on contemporary feminism; and The Italian Americans, a companion book to the PBS documentary. A former staff writer for the Village Voice, Laurino’s work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Republic, and Salon; her essays have been widely anthologized including in the Norton Reader. She lives in New York City.  

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Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D., is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Peter F. Drucker/Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. She is an expert on leadership, achieving styles, crisis management, "hot groups" organizational behavior, and gender roles. Lipman-Blumen is director and co-founder of CGU's Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership as well as the president and co-founder, with the late Prof. Harold J. Leavitt, of the Connective Leadership Institute, a leadership development, research, and management consulting firm, in Pasadena, California. She received the International Leadership Association’s (ILA) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, an award that “honors an individual’s accomplishments in the development and enhancement of the field of leadership over her lifetime.” Among her books, The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World (1996, reissued in 2000 as Connective Leadership) was nominated for a Pulitzer; Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization (1999) won "Business Book of the Year" from the American Publishers' Association; and The Allure of Toxic Leadership: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians—and How We Can Survive Them (2004) was named one of the ten best business books of the year by Fast Company.

Peter Lourie is the author of many books for young readers about exploration, adventure and the environment; most recently Locked in Ice: Nansen’s Daring Quest for the North Pole (Christy Ottiavano/

Holt, 2019), and including Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush (Christy Ottiavano/Holt, 2017) and The Polar Bear Scientists (HMH, ‘Scientists in the Field’ series, 2012). He is also the author of two travel memoirs for adults. A true adventurer, Lourie has traveled to remote parts all over the world to research his subjects, from the cloud forest in Ecuador in search of Inca treasure, to Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya on the Ethiopian border, to Terra del Fuego and the jungles of Rondonia, Brazil. Lourie holds a BA in Classics from New York University, an MA in English Literature from University of Maine, and an MFA in Nonfiction Creative Writing from Columbia University. He currently teaches Adventure Writing and Digital Storytelling at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he lives with his family.

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Demitria Lunetta is the author of the YA Sci-fi duology, In the After and In the End. She holds a BA in Human Ecology and has spent countless hours studying the many ways in which people are capable of bringing about their own destruction. In the After is an ABA (American Booksellers Association) 2013 ABC Best Books for Children and has been chosen as an Amazon Top Twenty Teen Book for 2013.

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