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Beatrice Sparks

American youth counselor and writer (died 2012) behind Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal and Annie's Baby, books presented as the real diaries of troubled teenagers. Copyright records list her as their author.

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Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, researcher and nonfiction author whose work examines traumatic stress, memory, the body and approaches to recovery.

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Beth O’Leary

British novelist Beth O’Leary writes warm contemporary romantic comedies built around ingenious situations, complicated relationships and characters finding their way forward.

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Blake Ferris

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Brad Stone

Brad Stone is an American technology journalist and author who writes deeply reported narratives about Amazon, Silicon Valley and the people shaping the digital economy.

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Brian Aldiss

English novelist, critic and anthologist (1925-2017) who wrote science fiction from Non-Stop to the Helliconia trilogy. He also wrote war-based mainstream fiction and introduced the Penguin Classics edition of The War of the Worlds.

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Brian Christian

Brian Christian is an author and researcher who writes about artificial intelligence, cognitive science and the human consequences of computing.

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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

American political scientist and nonfiction author known for using game theory to explain political survival, conflict and the incentives that shape governments.

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Bruce Chatwin

British novelist, journalist and travel writer whose spare, episodic books blur reportage and fiction while exploring journeys, restlessness, collecting and the human urge to move.

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Carol Tavris

Carol Tavris is a social psychologist and science writer whose nonfiction examines self-justification, anger, gender, and the divide between psychological evidence and popular belief.

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Caroline Criado Perez

British writer and feminist campaigner whose nonfiction examines gender inequality, missing data and the consequences of treating men as the human default.

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Casey McQuiston

Casey McQuiston is an American author of queer romantic comedies, including the political romance Red, White & Royal Blue and the time-bending love story One Last Stop.

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