Robert Farris Thompson is the author of, among other works, Black Gods and Kings and African Art in Motion. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and has mounted major exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He is Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where he is also Master of Timothy Dwight College. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. From the Hardcover edition.Veteran Civil War author Thomas Goodrich and his wife, Debra, a freelance journalist, divide their time between their native states of Kansas and Virginia, and speak throughout the country while researching new projects.Jason Hiner is an Indiana University graduate,… journalist and sportswriter, IU basketball columnist for Inside Indiana, and author of The Indiana University Basketball Encyclopedia. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Indiana Historical Society, and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He lives in Huntington, Indiana.