For more than two decades Carolyne Roehm has been viewed as one of this country's trendsetters in fashion, elegance, and tastemaking. After an impressive career as one of the fashion world's reigning designers and recognized in her own right as one of the world's best-dressed women, Roehm has now turned her talents to teaching others about flowers, lifestyle, decorating, and... read full bio

Carrie Fisher, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, became an icon when she starred as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy. Her star-studded career includes roles in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally. She is the author of five bestselling novels, Wishful Drinking, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The... read full bio

Chin-Ning Chu is a Chinese American business consultant, and a bestselling business management author in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Ms. Chin-Ning Chu, internationally renowned speaker and bestselling author of worldwide bestsellers, "The Asian Mind Game," "Thick Face, Black Heart," and "The Art of War for Women" died of cancer on December 10, 2009 in Taiwan.... read full bio

Christina Crawford is best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an exposé of alleged child abuse by her mother, actress Joan Crawford. She played Joan Borman Kane" on the TV soap opera The Secret Storm in New York from 1968 until 1969. When Christina went on sick leave in October 1968, Joan Crawford was the temporary replacement in the... read full bio

Cliff Stoll is an astronomer, computer systems administrator, and author. He received his Ph.D. from University of Arizona in 1980. Stoll has written three books as well as technology articles in the non-specialist press (e.g., in Scientific American on the Curta mechanical calculator). He works as an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Stoll's role in catching hacker Markus Hess... read full bio

Colleen McCullough is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. She was born in Wellington in central west New South Wales.A neuroscientist by training, she worked in various Sydney and United Kingdom hospitals before settling to ten years of research and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. In the late... read full bio