Daniel Ellsberg

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Daniel Ellsberg was born in Detroit in 1931. After graduating  from Harvard in 1952 with a B.A. Summa cum Laude in Economics, he  studied at Cambridge University, spent three years…

Janis Cooke Newman

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Janis Cooke Newman is a writer whose essays and travel stories  have appeared on Salon.com, in several Travelers’ Tales editions,  and in various magazines and newspapers across the country. She …

Alison Biggar

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After 10 years of varied employment as a bike messenger, waitress, typesetter, Alaskan cook and bike shop manager, Alison read one of those annoying career help books, Jobs for English…

Tamim Ansary

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The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, TAMIM ANSARY sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. The message…

Bruce Anderson

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BRUCE ANDERSON is the editor of VIA, a travel magazine (with a  circulation of three million readers) for AAA members in five  western states. He has been the editor of…

Isabel Allende

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Born in Peru, Isabel Allende was the daughter of diplomats and raised in Chile. She is the author of the novels Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, The Infinite Plan,…

Alice Acheson

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A former publicity director for Simon and Schuster, Alice comes equipped with 30 years experience in publishing. She is now an independent publicist and publishing consultant whose successes include four…

James Dalessandro

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JAMES DALESSANDO, was the co-founder of the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival, the nation’s largest literary event for four years and which brought together Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Allen…

John Flinn

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With articles ranging from experiencing the culture shock of Japan and chronicling the lives of survivors of Hiroshima, to choosing the world’s worst airport, finding solitude in Tahoe’s Emerald Bay,…