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I was born in Chicago, IL on April 18, 1928. Went to the Robert Emmet grammar school in Austin (a neighborhood of Chicago, and to two years of high school at Austin High School before starting, in 1943, as a freshman in the University of Chicago College, which I graduated from in 1946. I got a master's degree in sociology from Chicago in 1949 and a Ph. D, in 1951. I kicked around as what was then called a "research bum" for 14 years, doing research on marijuana use, medical students and college students, until I became Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University in 1965. I left there in 1991 to join the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle, and retired from Washington in 1999. SInce then I've lived in San Francisco and now spend about three months a year in Paris as well.I've received a number of honorary degrees (from the Université de Paris 8, Université Pierre-Mendes France (Grenoble, France), Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands), and École Normal Superiure (Lyon, France).

As many people know, I was a professional piano player-in bars, strip joints, etc.--for some years before becoming an academic, and I continued to play for many years. That has showed up in my research and writing in a number of ways, most recently in the book I co-authored with Robert R. Faulkner called "Do You Know . . . ? The Jazz Repertoire in Action."

You can get more information and access to many of my articles on my web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/

In 1993, I invited Alan Gross, professor of communication studies at the University of Minnesota and author of "The Rhetoric of Science" (Harvard University Press, 1990), to give a talk at Argonne National Laboratory. The lunch that followed that talk was the beginning of a long scholarly collaboration whose mission is to better understand the nature and history of scientific communication, beginning with that watershed event, the nearly simultaneous invention of the scientific periodical in Paris and London in the middle of the seventeenth century. We estimated a book on the subject should take us two years, three max...Nine years later, "Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present" (Oxford University Press, 2002) hit the streets. Now, over two decades after that lunchtime discussion, our fifth book together, "The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities," has been published. More details can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/jharmonink.

In 1990 Harvard published Rhetoric of Science, a book that was noticed, nationally and internationally. It created a productive controversy over the limits of classical rhetoric, one that issued, eventually, in my SUNY collection, Rhetorical Hermeneutics. Since that time, Oxford has published Communicating Science, written with Argonne National Laboratory's Joseph Harmon. It is now the standard work in its field. With Joe Harmon, I have since written two other books generated by the same research program, both published by Chicago: The Scientific Literature, for general audiences, and The Craft of Scientific Communication, for scientists who want to write and to speak more effectively. Chicago just published Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning. It addresses a problem virtually unremarked and certainly under-researched: science communication is not just about words; it is about words and pictures. The partnership has just completed a Prospectus for their next book, "The Internet Revolution and the Two Cultures:Science and Scholarship Reconsidered," a study of the effect of the internet on scientific and scholarly communication.

Over the years, by myself and in productive partnership with others, I have produced a coherent body of work, anchored in classical and modern rhetoric--witness my co-edited collection Rereading Aristotle, and my co-authored Chaim Perelman. At the same time, I recognize the necessity of incorporating into my theoretical point of view such additional components as the hermeneutics of Heidegger, Habermas and Ricoeur and the findings of cognitive psychology.

Robert M. Emerson is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is associate editor of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Qualitative Sociology, and Ethnography. He is author of many books and articles and his studies focus on domestic violence, stalking and neighbor disputes and formal, institutional responses to troubles, mainly by criminal justice and mental health systems.

Wayne C. Booth is the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

PETER CHILSON teaches writing and literature at Washington State University. He is the author of the travelogue Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa (University of Georgia Press, 1999), which won the Associated Writing Programs Award in nonfiction, and the story collection Disturbance-Loving Species: A Novella and Stories (Mariner Books, 2007), winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize and the Maria Thomas Fiction Prize. His essays, journalism, and short stories have appeared in Foreign Policy, the American Scholar, Gulf Coast, High Country News, Audubon, and Ascent, among other publications, as well as twice in the Best American Travel Writing anthology. Chilson first traveled to West Africa in 1985 as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, teaching junior high school English in the village of Bouza, Niger, near the border with Ni- geria. Chilson has been a regular visitor to West Africa ever since, working as a journalist and travel writer. He returned to Mali in 2012 for the Foreign Policy magazine-Pulitzer Center Borderlands project. He witnessed one of the tumultuous year's attempted coups in the capital of Bamako and was one of the first Western journalists to visit the country's troubled northern half and travel the border of Mali's short-lived jihadist state in the north.



See more at Peter Chilson's web site: www.peterchilson.com

Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches creative nonfiction at the NW Writing Institute of Lewis and Clark College. Her essays have appeared in journals and anthologies including The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West and These United States. Her awards include the New Letters nonfiction prize, and fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts, The British Council, the Alaska Humanities Forum, Oregon Council for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Commission. She is the author of Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island; Remedios: The Healing Life of Eva Castellanoz; and Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers (with Peter Chilson). Mulcahy writes often about women's lives in different cultures. She is currently working on a biography of twentieth-century artist Marion Greenwood.

For more about Mulcahy's life and to see selected essays, please visit her website:joannemulcahy.com

WENDY LAURA BELCHER is professor of African literature in Princeton University's Department of Comparative Literature and Department of African American Studies. Her scholarly interests emerge from her life experiences growing up in East and West Africa, where she became fascinated with the richness of Ghanaian and Ethiopian intellectual traditions. Her research books in progress are *Ladder of Heaven: The Miracles of the Virgin Mary in Ethiopian Literature and Art* and *The Black Queen of Sheba: A Global History of an African Idea.* She has published a cotranslation with Michael Kleiner of *The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman.* She has received many awards for her research and writing, including the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women award for the best Scholarly Edition in Translation of 2015, the African Studies Association Paul Hair Award for the Best Critical Edition or Translation of Primary Source Materials on Africa in 2015-2017, the Washington State Governors Writers Award, and the PEN Society Martha Albrand Award Finalist. Her book *Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success* (2019) is a best-seller and has helped tens of thousands publish their work.

Bryan A. Garner (born Nov. 17, 1958) is an American lawyer, grammarian, and lexicographer. He also writes on jurisprudence (and occasionally golf). He is the author of over 25 books, the best-known of which are Garner’s Modern English Usage (4th ed. 2016) and Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012—coauthored with Justice Antonin Scalia), as well as four unabridged editions of Black’s Law Dictionary. He serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University. He also teaches from time to time at the University of Texas School of Law, Texas A&M School of Law, and Texas Tech School of Law.

In 2009, he was named Legal-Writing and Reference-Book Author of the Decade at a Burton Awards ceremony at the Library of Congress. He has received many other awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Book Award, the Scribes Book Award, the Bernie Siegan Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Plain Language.

His work has played a central role in our understanding of modern judging, advocacy, grammar, English usage, legal lexicography, and the common-law system of precedent. His books are frequently cited by American courts of all levels, including the United States Supreme Court.

His friendship with the novelist David Foster Wallace is memorialized in Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing (2013). His friendship and writing partnership with Justice Antonin Scalia is depicted in the memoir Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia (2018).

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Jack Hart, a former managing editor at The Oregonian, is an independent author, editor, and writing coach. He holds a University of Wisconsin doctorate in mass communication has taught at six universities, including the University of Oregon, where he was also acting dean at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and interim director of the school’s Turnbull Center. He has edited all or part of four Pulitzer winners and winners of every other major national feature-writing award. His books include The Information Empire, A Writer’s Coach, Storycraft, and the novel Skookum Summer.

Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is faculty member in the Department of Sociology with a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education. Lareau is the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education (1989; second edition, 2000), and coeditor of Social Class: How Does it Work? (2009); and Education Research on Trial: Policy Reform and the Call for Scientific Rigor (2009); and Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork(1996).

William Germano is professor of English literature at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where he has also served as dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences. Previously, he was vice-president and publishing director at Routledge and editor-in-chief at Columbia University Press.

Thomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress.

He is the author or lead editor of 7 books, including Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You (and the World), The Chinese Deathscape, The Chinese Typewriter (winner of the Fairbank prize), Your Computer is on Fire, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing.

His writings have appeared in dozens of outlets, including MIT Technology Review, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, South China Morning Post, the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, among others, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more.

He holds a PhD from Columbia University.

Jane Friedman has spent nearly 25 years working in the book publishing industry, with a focus on author education and trend reporting. She is the editor of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors, and was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World in 2023. Her latest book is THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press), which received a starred review from Library Journal. In addition to serving on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Creative Work Fund, she works with organizations such as The Authors Guild to bring transparency to the business of publishing. Learn more at JaneFriedman.com.

CAROL FISHER SALLER is the author of MADDIE'S GHOST, EDDIE'S WAR, and THE BRIDGE DANCERS. Honors for her children’s books include Bank Street Best Book of the Year, Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, Horn Book Recommended Verse, the Midland Authors Award for Children’s Fiction, the Carl Sandburg Award for Children’s Literature, and Chicago Public Library’s Best Teen Fiction.

As a professional manuscript editor, Carol is the author of the book and blog THE SUBVERSIVE COPY EDITOR and contributing editor to THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE. She lives in Chicago.

Helen Sword is a scholar, award-winning teacher, and poet who has published books and articles on modernist literature, higher education pedagogy, digital poetics, and academic writing. Born and raised in Southern California, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and is now Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her popular academic writing workshops for faculty and doctoral students have taken her to universities in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.

Visit Helen Sword's Writer's Diet website at www.writersdiet.com.

Will Dunne is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists where he is now developing plays and teaching workshops. He also runs weekend seminars in San Francisco through his own program Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops. For more information about Chicago workshops, visit www.chicagodramatists.org. For more information about San Francisco workshops and individual script consultations, visit www.willdunne.com.

Through his association with Chicago Dramatists, Mr. Dunne's short comedy DEEP GARDENS was presented at Chicago's Second City in the summer of 2006. More recent Chicago area productions include THE ASCENSION OF CARLOTTA at the 16th Street Theatre (2008), HOW I BECAME AN INTERESTING PERSON at Chicago Dramatists (2009), TWO MEN ON A TRAIN PLATFORM JUST BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE at Artistic Home (2012), IN THE DARK at Intuit (2012), LOVE AND DROWNING at the 16th Street Theatre (2012), and THE ROPER at The Den Theatre (2014) which was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work.

In the 35-year history of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center under the Artistic Direction of Lloyd Richards, Mr. Dunne is one of only five playwrights to be selected three consecutive times for the U.S. National Playwrights Conference. HOW I BECAME AN INTERESTING PERSON, LOVE AND DROWNING, and HOTEL DESPERADO were each one of ten plays chosen annually from about 1,500 submissions nationwide for presentation at the O'Neill Center.

HOW I BECAME AN INTERESTING PERSON received a Charles MacArthur Fellowship awarded by the O'Neill and founded by Helen Hayes for outstanding comedy that "exemplifies the comic irreverent spirit of Charles MacArthur." The play also was presented as an international selection at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in Canberra, New South Wales, and in a Croatian translation at the National Theatre of Istria in Pula, Croatia. HOTEL DESPERADO was translated into Russian by the Moscow Theatre Union and presented as the international selection at its 10th annual festival of new plays in Schelykovo, Russia.

Mr. Dunne has twice been a finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors Theatre of Louisville for his short plays MOONRISE and GOOD MORNING, ROMEO. U.S. productions of his work -- such as ELEVENTH HOUR, I MARRIED A WEREWOLF, BETWEEN QUAKES, and THE BRIDGE -- have received four Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, two DramaLogue Playwriting Awards, and a Best-of-Year mention from the San Francisco Examiner. His toll-taker play THE BRIDGE also was selected as a project of the 50-Year Celebration of the Golden Gate Bridge.

His playwriting background is supplemented by years of acting, directing, producing, and teaching. Since 1988, Mr. Dunne has led more than two thousand dramatic writing workshops through his independent program (Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshops) which continues to meet monthly in the San Francisco Bay Area and through Chicago Dramatists. He has attended the U.S. National Playwrights Conference as a dramaturg and the Australian National Playwrights Conference as a guest playwriting instructor. In addition, Mr. Dunne has served as a juror for Marin Arts Council playwriting grants in the Bay Area.

Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of twelve books and a professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have been translated into over twenty-five languages and have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, The New Republic, Quartz, NBC Think, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Die Tageszeitung. She’s appeared on the PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on dozens of podcasts, including NPR’s Throughline, WIRED’s Have a Nice Future, Vox’s The Gray Area, and The Ezra Klein Show. Her critically acclaimed 2018 book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, has appeared in 15 languages.

"I believe in the writer as a witness to evil, as a reporter of injustice, as a chronicler of human compassion, even on occasion of greatness, as one whose skills illuminate the Truth with a capital T, without irony. I believe it is the job of the writer to put into words what is worst - and also what is best - about us. To light up our possibilities, discover the finest lives to which we can aspire, and to inspire our readers to greatness of soul and heart."

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Philip Gerard was born in 1955 and grew up in Newark, Delaware. He attended St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware. At the University of Delaware, he earned a B.A. in English and Anthropology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. After college he lived in Burlington, Vermont, writing freelance articles, before returning to newspaper work in Delaware and then going west to study fiction writing at the University of Arizona writers workshop. He earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 1981 and almost immediately joined the faculty at Arizona State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor and later as Writer in Residence. He remained at ASU until 1986, then taught for a brief time at Lake Forest College in Illinois before migrating to coastal North Carolina.

Gerard has published fiction and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, Hawai'i Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Letters, Arts & Letters, Fourth Genre, and The World & I. He is the author of three novels: Hatteras Light (Scribners 1986; Blair/ Salem paper 1997, nominated for the Ernest Hemingway Prize), Cape Fear Rising (Blair 1994), Desert Kill (William Morrow 1994; Piatkus in U.K. 1994); and four books of nonfiction, including Brilliant Passage. . . a schooning memoir (Mystic 1989) and Creative Nonfiction-- Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life (Story Press 1996), which was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month and Quality Paperback Book Clubs. Maryanne Culpepper, director of story development for National Geographic Television, writes, "It is the manual for nonfiction storytellers. . . Creative Nonfiction is on every bookcase at National Geographic Television."

He has written nine half-hour shows for Globe Watch, an international affairs program, for PBS-affiliate WUNC-TV, Chapel Hill, N.C. , and international broadcast, and scripted two hour-long environmental documentaries, one of which, "RiverRun- down the Cape Fear to the Sea," won a Silver Reel of Merit from the International Television Association in 1994. Two of his weekly radio essays have been broadcast on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

Gerard's Writing a Book that Makes a Difference (Story Press, 2000), combines his dual passions of writing and teaching. His latest book of nonfiction Secret Soldiers (Dutton 2002; Plume softcover 2004) tells the story of an unlikely band of heroes in World War II: artists who fought the Nazis by creating elaborate scenarios of deception, conjuring phantom armored divisions out of sound effects, radio scripts, pyrotechnics, and inflatable tanks. River Run: Adventuring Through History,Nature, and Politics Down the Cape Fear to the Sea is forthcoming from UNC Press.

He teaches in the BFA and MFA Programs of the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, which he chairs. He has won the Faculty Scholarship Award, the College of Arts & Science Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Teaching, the Graduate Mentor Award, the Board of Trustees Teaching Award, and a Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and the Faculty Excellence Award given by the MFA students. The Philip Gerard Fellowship, endowed by benefactor Charles F. Green III to honor Gerard's work in establishing and directing the MFA program, is awarded annually to an MFA student on the basis of literary merit. Gerard has also been writer in residence at Bradford (MA) College and Old Dominion University (VA), has taught at the Sand Hills and Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, and has conducted workshops at the Chautauqua Institution , the Wildacres Summer Writers Retreat, and the Goucher College summer residency MFA program in Creative Nonfiction.

In keeping with his conviction that writers should give something back to their profession, he has served on the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Writers Network and from 1995-98 on the Board of Directors of the Associated Writing Programs, for two of those years as President. He has been appointed by Governor Bev Perdue to a second three-year term on the North Carolina Arts Council.

Look for his new book of narrative essays, The Patron Saint of Dreams, from Hub City Press in Spring 2012.

Arlene Stein is a sociologist and author, and a professor at Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Forward, and Jacobin, among other publications.

Jessie Daniels,PhD is (she/her) is the author Nice White Ladies (Seal Press, 2021), which looks at the “Karen” phenomenon, and so much more about white women’s role in the current political landscape. The book is a crossover between self-help, memoir and a feminist/critical race theory book. Blending a compelling voice with a powerful argument, it manages to be both edgy and transformative.

Daniels is a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center, a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a (Full) Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, and affiliate faculty in Africana Studies, Critical Social Psychology and Sociology at The Graduate Center-CUNY. She is an internationally recognized expert on Internet manifestations of racism, and in that capacity presented her work to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books.

She is on Twitter as @JessieNYC.

Scott L. Montgomery is an author, geologist, and affiliate faculty member in the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He writes, teaches, and lectures on a wide variety of topics related to energy (geopolitics, resources, nuclear power, climate change), American politics, intellectual history, language and communication, and the history of science. He is a contributor to online journals such as The Conversation, Forbes, and Fortune, and his articles and op-eds have been featured in many outlets, including Newsweek, Marketwatch, The Huffington Post, and UPI. He also gives public talks and serves on panels related to issues in global energy and their relation to political and economic trends and ideas of sustainability.

For more than 20 years, Montgomery worked as a geoscientist in the energy industry while developing a career as an independent scholar in interdisciplinary subjects that cross the boundary between the sciences and humanities. His books, essays, and other publications have contributed to a number of fields, including the history of science, translation studies, language studies, and scientific communication. He has lectured at many universities in the U.S. and internationally and received several awards for his writing and his teaching. His work, Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Built the Modern World, with co-author Daniel Chirot, was selected by the New York Times for its list of the Best Books for 2015.

Ted Conover is the author of several books including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper's and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. He lives in New York City.