Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy is a director, an award winning travel writer, and—of course—an actor. He made his professional début at 19 in Class, and has appeared in dozens of films, including such iconic movies as Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, Less Then Zero, and cult favorites Weekend At Bernie’s and Mannequin.
He has starred on Broadway and on television, most recently appearing in The Family, on ABC. McCarthy is also a highly regarded television director; having helmed Orange is the New Black, The Blacklist, Grace and Frankie, and many others.
Simultaneously, McCarthy is an award winning travel writer. He is an editor-at-large at National Geographic Traveler, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, T
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Emma McLaughlin
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Luke Russert
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Joan Wester Anderson
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Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson is a bestselling American-British author known for his witty and accessible nonfiction books spanning travel, science, and language. He rose to prominence with Notes from a Small Island (1995), an affectionate portrait of Britain, and solidified his global reputation with A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), a popular science book that won the Aventis and Descartes Prizes. Raised in Iowa, Bryson lived most of his adult life in the UK, working as a journalist before turning to writing full-time. His other notable works include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and The Mother Tongue. Bryson served as Chancellor of Durham University (2005–2011) and received numerous honorary degrees and awards,
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Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi is an American television host, producer, author, model, and activist whose multifaceted career has spanned fashion, food, literature, and social justice. Born Padma Parvati Lakshmi in Chennai, India, she immigrated to the United States as a child, where she was raised by her mother, a single parent and oncology nurse. Overcoming significant personal hardships, including bullying, health issues, and sexual trauma, Lakshmi has used her platform to advocate for marginalized voices and promote cultural understanding.
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Karen Hawkins
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Hawkins writes novels that have been praised as touching, witty, charming, and heartwarming. A native Southerner who grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee where storytelling is a way of life, Karen recently moved to frosty New England with her beloved husband and multiple foster dogs. The Dove Pond books are a nod to the thousands of books that opened doors to more adventures, places, and discoveries than she ever imagined possible. To find out more about Karen, follow her at:
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Jason Wilson
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Sir Michael Edward Palin, KCMG, CBE, FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
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Fuchsia Dunlop
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Larry Watson
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Anya von Bremzen
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Cheryl Strayed
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Rob Lowe
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Demi Moore
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Randall Munroe
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J. Kenji López-Alt
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Siân O'Gorman
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In the bustling world of Dublin's advertising scene, Kitty O’Sullivan, a copywriter, feels an unexplainable void in her life that she can't quite pinpoint. Her five-year relationship with Dave is stagnant, her creative juices have dried up and she’s even entertaining thoughts of marriage as a cure-all! Something’s missing from her life but she can’t work out exactly what it is…
When Dave decides to take time out from ‘them’, Kitty finds herself momentarily liberated to explore life and have some fun. She and best friend Shazza are corralled into joining a five-aside football team where she meets the intriguing Sweetman brothers, Tom and Rory.
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Russ Eanes
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He grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Hartford and Chicago, where he spent most of his time in the outdoors. From an early age he had ambitions to become a writer and to travel the world.
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Matthew S. Wilson
Matthew is an independent writer from Melbourne, Australia. His first book, The Devil’s in the Detail, was released in October 2012.
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Terence Callery
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Taya Kyle
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Bill Buford
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Jerry Hopkins
Jerry Hopkins was an American journalist and author best known for writing the first biographies of Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison of The Doors, as well as serving for 20 years as a correspondent and contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine.
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Kevin Smokler
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Amy Dickinson
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Val Kilmer
Val Edward Kilmer was an American actor. Initially a stage actor, he found fame after appearances in comedy films Top Secret! (1984) and Real Genius (1985), and later in the military action film Top Gun (1986) and the fantasy film Willow (1988). Kilmer gained acclaim for his portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991).
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Kilmer starred in a variety of films, including the western Tombstone (1993) and the crime dramas True Romance (1993) and Heat (1995). He portrayed Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever (1995). He also co-starred opposite Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) and went on to appear in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), The Saint (1997), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Alexander (2004), Kiss Kiss -
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Carl Reiner
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Karen Flaherty
Born on her father’s 30th birthday during the “Blizzard of ‘56”, the apple never fell far from the tree. Karen admired her father’s adventurous ways from an early age and followed him fearlessly on rivers, ski slopes, hiking trails, up trees and on motorcycles. He always told her she could do anything and she believed him. As the oldest of six children, that usually meant cleaning the house or taking care of the younger kids first, and then going on adventures! The values of working hard to get the reward were instilled early.
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As an author, speaker, and consultant, Karen Flaherty brings many years of corporate business and life experience to her Human Design coaching practice. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Ka -
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Demi Moore
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Rita Rae Roxx
A friend wrote in Rita’s 1982 high school yearbook: “I hope that someday you will meet your true David Lee Roth … and become a rock and roll queen.”
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After leaving Omaha and moving to LA, Rita continued her pursuit of heavy metal bands throughout the 1980s. She eventually traded rock stars for movie stars and did a stint as a stand-up comic at the Improv, The Comedy Store, and the Rose Tattoo. She worked at the exclusive Tramps of London club where she met many more movie stars and the glitterati of Hollywood—who are in the stories for Rita’s next book continuing her adventures in California in the 1990s.
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Joel A. Miller is a British-American writer and filmmaker. He is the writer and director of the film The Still Life and wrote the autobiography Memoir of a Roadie.
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Stephen Drew
Stephen Drew lives in the town of Morris, Connecticut. He recently published a memoir, Into the Thin, A Pilgrimage Walk Across Northern Spain, and is currently preparing his next book, a creative non-fiction titled, Around the Forever Bend, Remembrances of Wondering What Lies Beyond Death expected 5/23/23 from Homebound Publications.
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Anne Born
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Anne Born, the Tumbleweed Pilgrim, is an award-winning, New York-based writer and the publisher of The Backpack Press. Her writing focuses on family and life in a big city after growing up in a small one. She is the author of "A Marshmallow on the Bus," "Prayer Beads on the Train," "Waiting on a Platform," "Turnstiles," and a contributor to the 2015 anthology, "Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox," edited by Joanne Bamberger. Anne’s essay on her cousin’s collection of Nancy Drew novels was published in the Silver Birch Press "Nancy Drew Anthology" (2016). She is also curator of the Late Orphan Project. Her work has been published in the Newtown L -
Barry Williams
actor (of "The Brady Bunch" fame)
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David Downie
Bestselling author of novels (crime, thrillers) and over a dozen nonfiction books, has divided his time between France, Italy and California since 1986. A former journalist and guide. Creator of the Commissioner Daria Vinci series; the first Daria Vinci Investigation is Red Riviera (June 2021), the second Daria Vinci Investigation is Roman Roulette (summer 2022). www. davidddownie.com
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Louie Kemp
About Louis Kemp
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Louie Kemp was born in Duluth, Minnesota. Shortly before graduating college, he left school to take over his father’s Lake Superior fish business, expanding it into Alaska and making it one of the most successful seafood operations in the country.
His 350-foot mothership, the M/V Bering Trader, was the largest-capacity seafood processor in Alaskan waters in its day. An ancillary enterprise, the Louis Kemp Seafood Company, helped create the thriving market for imitation King Crab in the United States.
Louie produced Bob Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tours and traveled with him all over the world as a trusted ally and friend. As a respected and devout member of the Jewish community, Louie is the “father” of Aish Ha T -
Jack Hitt
Hitt was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, where he attended the Porter-Gaud School. He got his start in journalism as editor of the "Paper Clip," the literary magazine of Porter-Gaud's first through fifth grades. According to his biography, he published "some of the finest haiku penned by well-off pre-teens in all of South Carolina's lowcountry".
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Since 1996, Hitt has also been a contributing editor to This American Life. He contributed a story about a production of Peter Pan in an episode entitled “Fiasco”. Other pieces include his life growing up with one of the earliest transgendered women (“Dawn”), an hour long program on a group of prisoners in a maximum security prison putting on a production of Hamlet (“Act V”, #218), a s -
Beth Jusino
Beth Jusino is an award-winning writer, developmental editor, teacher, and publishing consultant with twenty years of experience helping people share better stories. She's also an unlikely pilgrim and thru-hiker who has spent more than 100 days walking Europe's Way of Saint James, better known as the Camino de Santiago. Her thousand-mile trek across France and Spain is the subject of her latest book, Walking to the End of the World.
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Beth's books have won the Barbara Savage Miles from Nowhere Award for narrative travel writing and the Independent Publisher Book Award for publishing titles, and have been nominated for the Banff Mountain Book Competition. She's a member of The Authors Guild and the Northwest Editors Guild.
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Lee Israel
Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel was an American author, now better known for her literary forgeries than for her two very popular biographies.
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She began a career as a freelance writer in the 1960s. Her profile of Katharine Hepburn ran in the November 1967 issue of Esquire. In the 1970s and 1980s she wrote biographies of actress Tallulah Bankhead, journalist and game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen and cosmetics tycoon Estée Lauder. The biography of Kilgallen appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers List but the Estée Lauder bio was far less successful when it was published in the fall of 1985, in direct competition with Estée Lauder's own memoir.
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Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle is a Grammy Award–nominated American singer. After beginning her career as a drummer or backup singer for some Los Angeles music groups, she achieved international recognition in the early 80s as lead singer of the new wave group The Go-Go's. The Go-Go's made history as the first all-woman band that both entirely wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.
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In 1985 the group disbanded and Carlisle started a successful solo career. Her first solo single, "Mad About You" (1986), reached the top three in the U.S. and topped the Canadian chart. In 1987 Carlisle started working with producer and songwriter Rick Nowels and changed her music and public image to a more mature style. He -
Isabeau Maxwell
Isabeau “Beau” Maxwell is one of the leading spiritual coaches in intuitive development today. Isabeau brings deep channeled knowledge and personal understanding to the field of spirituality. She has helped people connect to their authentic, natural intuitive abilities for over 15 years.
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Isabeau is an internationally known medium, author and teacher, touching the lives of people across the world. Known for her compassion and accuracy, Isabeau brings peace and comfort to many through her energy work, transformative sessions and teachings.
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Jessica Ortner
Jessica Ortner is a producer of The Tapping Solution, the breakthrough documentary film on EFT/meridian Tapping (www.TheTappingSolution.com). She is the author of The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss and Body Confidence—a book based on her revolutionary online program, which has helped more than 3,000 women tackle the stress that lead to weight gain. She is also the host of The Tapping World Summit, an annual online event that has attracted more than 500,000 attendees from around the world. She has been interviewing experts in the personal development field since 2007, having conducted over more than 200 broadcast interviews to date. Follow Jessica on Twitter @JessicaOrtner and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/followingJessicaOrtner.
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Alyssa Milano
Actress and activist Alyssa Milano has spent almost her entire life in the public eye. A famous child actor, she has continued to work throughout her adulthood in both television and film, most notably starring in the wildly popular television series Who's the Boss? and Charmed.
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Alyssa is also a lifelong activist and is passionate about fighting for human rights around the world. In 2003, UNICEF invited Alyssa to become a National Ambassador in recognition of her charitable work on behalf of children. Ever since then, Alyssa has been a champion of children's rights, working closely with UNICEF to raise money and awareness and provide aid to the children who need it most all over the world.
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Gregory A. Kompes
Gregory A. Kompes (MFA, MS Ed.) has authored 19 books (fiction, poetry, nonfiction), contributed to over a dozen anthologies (including 4 Chicken Soup for the Soul volumes), and written hundreds of published articles and essays on a wide range of topics.
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Gregory is the founder and facilitator of The Writer Workshop and teaches for Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA program.
Gregory holds a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, New York, a Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning and an MS Ed. from California State University, East Bay, and an MFA in Creative Writing from National University.
Other favorite accomplishments include:
Being a member of the Nevada Arts Council’s Artist in Schools Roster;
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Leif Garrett
Leif Garrett is an American singer, actor, and television personality. He worked as a child actor then in the 1970s became famous as a teen idol.
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Beverly Bell
UPDATE: Beverly Bell's novel, "The Murder of Marion Miley," was a finalist for the 2020 USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, the highest literary honor given by the United States Golf Association.
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Bell’s interest in Marion Miley began with an article she wrote about the golfer for Women’s Sports and Fitness. In other magazine work, she won an award from the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for her piece on an U.S. Air Force fighter jet that crashed into a hotel, killing 10 civilians.
This was followed with another award about a five-year girl who was the victim of a domestic bombing incident in a K-Mart. Bell’s unpublished book was named a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner–William Wisdom competition -
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was an American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite. She was a member of the Vanderbilt family of New York and the mother of CNN television anchor Anderson Cooper. Wikipedia
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Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was the author of four memoirs and two novels. She contributed to various publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Elle, and has received two honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts. She lived in New York City. -
Peter Benjaminson
Born in Washington, D.C., Peter was a reporter and City-County Bureau Chief for the Detroit Free Press from 1970-76.
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While at the Free Press, he wrote the book "Investigative Reporting," with Dave Anderson (Indiana University Press, 1976 and Iowa State University Press, 1990), the first how-to book in that field. It was in print for 20 years.
In 1979 he wrote "The Story of Motown," and from 1979 to 1981 he was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He taught journalism at Binghamton University, New York University, and Columbia University from 1981-91.
In 1984, he wrote "Death in the Afternoon: America's Newspaper Giants Struggle for Survival" (Andrews, McMeel), the first and only book about the death of after -
Gina Schock
Gina Schock is an American musician and songwriter. She has been the drummer of the Go-Go’s for over four decades.
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Arthur Paul Boers
Arthur Paul Boers is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. He is an ordained Mennonite minister and Benedictine oblate. He served for over sixteen years as a pastor in rural, urban, and church-planting settings in the USA and Canada.
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Boers is an author. His newest book is The Way is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago (InterVarsity, 2007). His other books are:
--The Rhythm of Gods Grace (Paraclete, 2003);
--Never Call Them Jerks: Healthy Responses to Difficult Behavior (Alban, 1999);
--Lord, Teach Us to Pray: A New Look at the Lord's Prayer (Herald, 1992);
--Justice that Heals: A Biblical Vision for Victims and Offenders (Faith and Life, 1992);
--On Earth -
Jean Burgess
Jean Burgess is an author of both fiction and nonfiction, a playwright, an editor, a workshop presenter, and a former theatre educator.
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Her debut fiction, That Summer She Found Her Voice: A Retro Novel, about a young woman’s journey of self-discovery as she tours the US with a swing band in the late 1970s, is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and is scheduled to be published by Apprentice House Press on April 9th, 2024.
Her nonfiction, Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment, was published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in 2019.
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Michael Burnett
Michael Burnett is an avid hiker, minimalist, adventurer, and writer. He’s logged over 2500 miles walking across Europe. He’s a firm believer that traveling by foot is the ultimate form of travel and never misses an opportunity to explore.
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Born and raised outside of Chicago. He spent most of his life in the Midwest, before a move later in life to Portland, Oregon, where his love for the outdoors and hiking in the mountains grew. His evolution to a writer was slow. It wasn’t until he escaped a nine-to-five life and started living a life filled with adventure that he put pen to paper.
Michael is a father of two grown children, and back living in the Chicago area where he enjoys spending time with his three grandkids. When he’s not traveling, M -
Victor Prince
Victor Prince is a leadership author, trainer, and speaker. His books include The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership from a Walk Across Spain (AMACOM, 2017), Executive Farm: A Leadership Fable (DiscoveredLOGIC, 2016), and Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results (Career Press, 2015). He trains and speaks to clients around the world on leadership and strategy. He previously served as COO of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and strategy consultant with Bain & Company. He holds an MBA in Finance from Wharton. Learn more at victorprince.com.
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