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You could just read the books or look at the art.
But aren't you curious what they were thinking as they created?
We were.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


A

Maya Angelou, poet: singing, swaying & shouting


B

Robert Bakker, paleontologist: to be a dinosaur hunter

Robert Ballard, discoverer of Titanic: nerdless science

Glenn Banner, historian: bridging a historical gap

Julie Bell & Boris Vallejo, fantasy artists: two of a kind

Odds Bodkin, children's entertainer: an alternative to The Tick

Wanda E. Brunstetter, author: Plain writing

Octavia E. Butler, author: parable of the typewriter


C

Bernard Cornwell, author: making histories


D

Paula Danziger, author: sdrawkcab gnitirw

Monalisa DeGross, author: collecting words

Charles de Lint, author: issues, inspirations & stories to tell

Rita Dove, poet: breathing poetry

Richard Dreyfuss, actor: a civil discourse


E

T. Obinkaram Echewa, author: telling stories

Wesley Eure, author/actor: dinosaurs & broken toys


F

Carolyn Forche, poet: facing up to atrocities

Betty Friedan, women's rights activist/author: issues without gender

Brian Froud, Wendy Froud & Terri Windling, authors/artists: making faeries


G

Kenneth Good, anthropologist: love among the Yanomama

Jonathan Groff, actor: from wishing well to Woodstock

Kevin Guilfoile, author: casting shadows


J

Jamie Jensen, author: on the road


K

Joel Allen Kabik, actor: the tell-tale heart

Guy Gavriel Kay, author: devising worlds

Maxine Kumin, poet: the poetry of a New England landscape


L

Mercedes Lackey, author: obeying the rules

Nelson Lauver, writer/speaker: the American Story-Teller

David Levy, astronomer: falling star

Beverly Lewis, author: Plain writing

Thomas Lux, poet: poetry for the people


M

Ralphie May, comic: comedy & a need to change the world

Frank McCourt, author: living his story

David McCullough, author/historian: a little touch of Harry

Craig Moodie, author: pulled by the sea


O

Robert Olmstead, author: milking his memories


P

Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist: success in the cards

Janice Ward Parrish, author: recalling integration

Katy Payne, whale biologist: elephant songs

Penn & Teller, comedians: the science of magic & laughter

Stuart Pimm, ecologist: the balance of nature?


S

Bobby Seale, activist: proud Panther

Smothers Brothers, performers: the power of Yo!

Norman Spinrad, author: revisiting the Druid King

Amanda Sprecher, actor: saving Broadway

Nancy Springer, author: writing what she wants to read

William Styron, author: a dose of his war


T

Theodore Taylor, author: living on The Cay


U

John Updike, author: shared recollections


V

Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, fantasy artists: two of a kind


W

Cornel West, social scientist: ordinary people

Chet Williamson, author
a devout skeptic
 Psycho writer

Terri Windling, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud, authors/artists: making faeries

Victoria Wyeth: Andy's girl