Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz
Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz holds a master's degree from Stanford University and is an executive coach and a practicing psychotherapist. She is also the chair of the National Advisory Panel for Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. ... [... more]
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Robert X. Cringely
For eight years, Robert X. Cringely's "Notes from the Field" column appeared weekly in Info World. Currently he can be seen in the public television series Triumph of the Nerds, based on this book. A former Stanford professor and foreign ... [... more]
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Neil McMahon
Neil McMahon studied premed at Stanford and was later a Stegner Fellow there. He is the author of three previous Carroll Monks thrillers and a new stand-alone novel set in Montana -- where he lives with his wife -- to be published in 2006. [... more]
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Irvin Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of Lying on the Couch, When Nietzsche Wept, Every Day Gets a Little Closer, and Love's Executioner, as well as several classic psychotherapy texts. He is professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University, ... [... more]
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Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University. Author of the recent novel Old School, he has received the Rea Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. ... [... more]
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Michele Martinez
A graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School, Michelle Martinez worked at a prestigious Manhattan law firm before spending eight years fighting crime as a federal prosecutor in New York City. [... more]
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David D. Burns, M.D.
David D. Burns, M.D. is an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has served as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School. His bestselling book, Feeling Good: The New ... [... more]
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Andrew Feld
Andrew Feld holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston and has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His other honors include a Michener Foundation grant and a "Discovery" / The Nation award. A widely ... [... more]
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Michael Burleigh
Michael Burleigh is the author of The Third Reich, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize. He has taught history at Oxford, Stanford, Rutgers, and Washington and Lee universities. Burleigh is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a frequent ... [... more]
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Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson is the founder of Positive Coaching Alliance, a national nonprofit organization based at the Stanford University Department of Athletics. He is the author of Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports and ... [... more]
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Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has been a professor of economics at leading American colleges and universities, and has lectured in Singapore, Israel, Switzerland, and Germany, as well as ... [... more]
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, the son of an American-born father whose Greek parents emigrated from Asia Minor and an American mother of Anglo-Irish descent. After graduating from Brown University and Stanford ... [... more]
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