Authors
Margaret Ajemian Ahnert
Margaret Ajemian Ahnert was born in New York City. Growing up, she listened to her mother’s stories about her own childhood during the Armenian genocide in Turkey. She has an MFA from Goucher College and a BA from Goddard College, and is a graduate of the Barnes Foundation. She has pursued a variety of careers: producing television documentaries, [...]
Janet Alling
Forty-six years ago, after graduating from Yale University Art School in 1964 (MFA), Janet Alling had a revelation that she would devote her career to expressing aesthetic statements through flowers. Her mission was to redefine flower painting as an important subject matter essential in the history of painting and in contemporary art. Painting first in [...]
Tom Anthony
Tom Anthony graduated from West Point and spent six years as an Army officer. Following his discharge, he earned an MBA in International Business and lived all over Europe and Asia working for a large U.S. multinational as well as smaller, new technology companies. Tom lived in Mindanao for three years, where he had close [...]
Thomas A. Bass
Thomas Bass is the author of The Predictors; Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home; Reinventing the Future; Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa; and The Eudaemonic Pie. Film rights to Bass’s books have been sold to Columbia Pictures, Focus Features, the BBC, Channel 4, and other companies. His books have been [...]
Debra Beck
For 15 years, Debra Beck has been a devoted mentor for teenage girls. She done workshops with Girl Power, a program that is devoted to helping “encourage and motivate 11 to 16 year-old girls to make the most of their lives.” She has also created and facilitated her own workshops and girls’ groups through Spirited [...]
E. F. Benson
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and biographer. His first novel Dodo did extremely well and helped establish him as a writer. He wrote biographies of Sir Francis Drake, Alcibiades, Ferdinand Magellan, Queen Victoria, and Charlotte Bronte, and a curious instruction manual on figure skating. His devoted [...]
Dr. Susan Biali, M.D.
Dr. Susan Biali is an internationally recognized medical doctor, wellness expert, life coach, and flamenco dancer. Today, Dr. Biali helps free others to live a happier, healthier life by unveiling the blueprint that they already carry inside. She has performed for and taught celebrities, and speaks and dances across North America. Dr. Biali blogs for [...]
Bud Bradshaw
William B. Bradshaw, a graduate of both the University of Missouri and Yale Divinity School, earned a PhD from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Bradshaw has served as a minister, a college English instructor, and a college president. The author of Fundraising: the System that Works and Sinister Among Us, Bradshaw resides with his [...]
Mark Braverman
Mark Braverman is the executive director of the Holy Land Education and Peace building Project, a grassroots organization that promotes interfaith dialogue, peace-building, and conflict resolution in the Middle East. Braverman currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Susan.
Michael Brown
Until 1989, South African-born Michael Brown was living what he had called a blissfully unconscious life as a music journalist. He then developed an acutely painful neurological condition for which conventional medicine had neither cure nor relief. This caused him to set out on what became an odyssey of self-healing. His exploration took him into [...]
