Biography Authors
Amy Karl
Amy's memoir of her Hollywood decade, He Put My Buddha in the Freezer, is a #1 NEW RELEASE in its category on Amazon. After completing an acting program at the American Conservatory Theatre, Amy moved to L.A. and studied at the famed Playhouse West. She booked a small role in…
Andrew Milburn
Andrew Milburn was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the United Kingdom where he attended St Paul’s School and University College London. After graduating from law school, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps as a private. He was commissioned from the ranks, and as a Marine infantry…
Angela K. Durden/Durden Kell
Angela K. Durden won national attention in 2000 for her first published book, Nine Stupid Things People Do To Mess Up Their Resumes. On her first in-studio radio interview, she advised syndicated host G. Gordon Liddy about how to best deal with the long gap in his resume. Angela served…
Anita Speake
Anita Swanson Speake was born and raised in Minnesota. She completed her nurse’s training and began her nursing career in Minneapolis before moving to Los Angeles. She spent thirty one years working as a registered nurse in emergency rooms and intensive care units. As she finished her career in nursing…
Anne Goodwin
ANNE GOODWIN, award-winning author of Stay for Lunch and Come to the Lake, spends her summers in a 1920s cottage on Pleasant Lake in southeastern Wisconsin. Her passions include feeding large groups of family and friends, swimming from shore-to-shore, paddling any non-motorized craft available, observing nature’s glories and taking notes…
Author John Cammidge
John survived a demanding childhood in Yorkshire, England, and went on to become a very successful Human Resources executive. At the age of 35 he was relocated to the United States by his employer (Bank of America) and subsequently became a U.S. citizen. He worked for Stanford University and the…
Charita Cole Brown
Charita Cole Brown was diagnosed with a severe form of bipolar disorder while finishing her final semester as an English major at Wesleyan University in 1982. Doctors predicted she would never lead a “normal “ life. Despite that prognosis and because she sought treatment, Charita went on to marry, raise…
Claudia Keenan
Claudia Keenan is a historian of American education (PhD, New York University). She has taught at Emory, Henry College and the University of Virginia extension and has published on such varied topics as the image of the First Lady, the history of the suburban P.T.A., and the philosopher George S.…
David P. Wichman
David Wichman is an author, speaker, sexual healer and entrepreneur who is respected and well-known all over the world to those who seek to live free of stigma, shame, and fear around sex, love and intimacy. Raised in Fremont, California, David survived a childhood marked by severe neglect and abuse,…
Diane Pomerantz
Dr. Diane Pomerantz is a Baltimore area psychologist who has been in practice for the past 39 years. She is a blogger for Psychology Today and has published articles and poetry in Motherwell Magazine, Adoption Today, Story Circle Journal and other literary magazines. Lost in the Reflecting Pool, published by…
Dr Edward Hallowell
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL, M.D., is the bestselling author of Driven to Distraction and more than 20 books on attention deficit disorder and emotional well-being. In his celebrated new memoir, Because I Come From a Crazy Family, he turns an eye inward to his own life. He is a leading authority…
Dr. Ghoulem Berrah
His Excellency Dr. Ghoulem Berrah was a freedom fighter for the Independence of Algeria, an American man of Science, lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine, Ambassador and Emissary of President Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d’Ivoire. He was a tireless proponent of world peace. In 1976 he initiated the first secret…
Jack Hersch
Jack J. Hersch, raised on Long Island, NY, earned both a BS (computer science) and an MBA from Columbia University. An expert in the field of troubled and distressed companies he works as a strategic advisor to corporate managements and investment institutions. Jack has served as a public corporation board member,…
Jamil Hasan
Jamil Hasan is an American author and former technology, operations, finance and database manager at American International Group, Inc. His expertise in creating operational efficiencies, building data intelligence engines and departments, and being a prolific project closer brought him face to face with some of what he defines as unfair…
Jane Pollak
Jane Pollak was born in the heart of the Midwest, but she inherited the city gene from her New York City-native parents. When Pollak’s marriage ended in 2011, she moved back to Manhattan, where she currently resides contentedly single. She has three grown children and three grandchildren. Her first book,…
Jeffrey Michelson
Two geniuses shaped Jeffrey Michelson’s life. In 1967, Norman Mailer hired him as houseboy and sparring partner and they became lifelong friends. In 1970, John Lennon chose Jeffrey to create the advertising campaign for his album “Imagine.” Apple then asked Jeffrey to form an advertising agency to oversee all their…
Joan Spilman
Joan holds an MFA from Wichita State University, where she was awarded a fellowship. She is the author of This Will Never Stop, narrated by four generations of Appalachian women, of which Kirkus Reviews said, “Spilman’s textured prose masterfully evokes the hard-knock lives and locales of these women. A highly…
Joseph Cicio
JOSEPH CICIO is a uniquely talented and visionary creative leader in the world of retail, Joseph Cicio’s high-profile positions brought him into contact with leading celebrities of the day. He became close friends with figures such as Lady Nancy Slim Keith, Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn, the Kissingers, and Joan Rivers, earning him…
Kathleen Hill
KATHLEEN HILL has lived most of her adult life in New York City. In her twenties she and her husband, Clifford Hill, taught in a secondary school close to Lagos, Nigeria, and then a few years later spent a year in Niger with their three young children. After receiving a…
Keith Craig
Retired Sergeant Major Keith L. Craig, a decorated combat Veteran, entertainment executive, philanthropist and author, found and fulfilled his purpose on the battlefield, on the football field and in the boardroom. He is an established leader, having served 32 years and obtained 51 awards and decorations in the United States…
Kimberly Townsend
Dr. Kimberly Townsend is President and CEO of Loretto Management Corporation in Syracuse, NY. She is an expert in the fields of healthcare management, board governance, and leadership. Kimberly Townsend, MBA, MPA, JD, Ed.D, CPA, GPHR, is a role model for anyone who wants to make positive change in the…
Kristy Sweetland
Kristy Sweetland is a writer, teacher and coach of transpersonal growth and transformation. She holds a master’s degree in psychology and is professionally credentialed as a transformational life coach. Kristy writes exclusively on the subjects of freeing the human spirit and healing and growth through creative expression. She considers Mother…
Larry Daniel
Mr. Daniel received his firefighting credentials from the Fire Academy in Camden, AR and attended paramedic school at Springdale Memorial Hospital, in Springdale, AR, where he also served as an instructor in both advanced cardiac life support and advanced trauma life support. He gained a licensure in invasive cardiology…
Linda A. Broenniman
Linda grew up in Buffalo, New York. She is the middle child of seven, born to Hungarian physicians who survived World War II and started their new life in the US in 1949. Linda graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in psychology and from the Tepper School of Business…
Margo T Krasne
A dyed in the wool New Yorker, MARGO KRASNE has taken many roles simultaneously. Trained as an actress under Sanford Meisner, she later left the theater for the ad world. Margo created the Radio Department at Doyle Dane Bernbach in the 1960’s. She then went to sculpting full time until…
Nadean Stone
Nadean Stone was born in Blind River Ontario, Canada, graduated from Windsor University in 1973 with a BA and McMaster University in 1976 with an MBA. She obtained her Certificate in Journalism in 2002 and her Certificate of Legal Management, CLM in 2011. In 2004, Nadean helped launch a weekday…
Peter Damm
Peter Damm’s life has traveled varied tracks. He was raised in small town rural Michigan and graduated with Honors from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He later studied with National Book Award winner, Wright Morris, and with Guggenheim Fellow and National Jewish Book Award winner Leo Litwak in…
Rita Ali
Dr. Rita (AKA) Faridah Ali was born and reared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She’s had a successful career in public relations as a columnist and media producer. Her unique credentials enabled Dr. Ali to develop professional relationships with, and work on projects featuring, icons in the sports industries like Muhammad Ali…
Ron Coury
Ron Coury is a name well known to longtime residents and members of the business community in Southern Nevada. A U.S. Marine, Coury has seen and done a lot in his 45 years in Las Vegas. Coury is an observational entrepreneur, a “niche finder,” in his words. With nearly every…
Steve Melen
In his late thirties, Steve Melen thought he had it all — a successful career in finance, a house on the hill, a beautiful newborn daughter, and a zest for life and travel. He was unstoppable ... until a diagnosis of Stage IIIB stomach cancer brought it all to a…
Sue Nelson
Sue Nelson is a multi award-winning British science journalist specializing in space. She makes radio documentaries for the BBC, short films for scientific organizations and the European Space Agency, and co-presents the monthly Space Boffins podcast. A former BBC TV News science correspondent, Sue has reported on a number of…
Tom Weidlinger
Tom Weidlinger is an independent filmmaker who has been writing, directing and producing documentary films for thirty-five years. Many of his films have won festival awards, and twenty-one have aired nationally on public television. Concerned with themes of social justice, his work deals with a broad range of topics, from…
