John Howard Griffin is best known as the author of the classic "Black Like Me," first published in 1961, an account of his experiences traveling through the American deep South disguised as a black man. He was also an accomplished photographer and the author of several other books, including "A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton "and" Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision,"
Bestselling O'Reilly authors Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman have been building software and writing about software engineering together since they first met in 1998. Their first book, Applied Software Project Management, was published by O'Reilly in 2005. Other Stellman and Greene books for O'Reilly include Beautiful Teams (2009), and their first book in the Head First series, Head First PMP (2007). They founded Stellman & Greene Consulting in 2003 to build a really neat software project for scientists studying herbicide exposure in Vietnam vets. In addition to building software and writing books, they've provided training and consulted for companies and spoken at conferences and… meetings of software engineers, architects and project managers. Jenny studied philosophy in college but, like everyone else in the field, couldn't find a job doing it. Luckily, she's a great software engineer, so she started out working at an online service, and that's the first time she really got a good sense of what good software development looked like. She moved to New York in 1998 to work on software quality at a financial software company. She's managed a teams of developers, testers and PMs on software projects in media and finance since then. She's traveled all over the world to work with different software teams and build all kinds of cool projects.New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Barbara Dunlop has written more than forty novels for Harlequin Books, including the acclaimed COLORADO CATTLE BARONS series for Harlequin Desire. Her sexy, light-hearted stories regularly hit bestsellers lists. Barbara is a three time finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA award.Robert Bonazzi is a columnist for the "San Antonio-Express News." He is the author of "Fictive Music," "Living the Borrowed Life," and the critically acclaimed biography of author John Howard Griffin, "Man in the Mirror," He lives in San Antonio, Texas.