Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist, personal essayist, and adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  He is author of five books: Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy…

John Ninnemann is Professor Emeritus of Biology and former Dean of Arts and Sciences at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He has spent the last decade studying the Anasazi…

Maggie Galehouse regularly interviews authors and writes about all things literary as the books editor for the Houston Chronicle. She grew up in New England and earned a PhD in…

Houstonian Katherine Center is the author of four bittersweet novels about love and family--The Bright Side of Disaster, Everyone is Beautiful, Get Lucky, and The Lost Husband---and she has just…

Christoph Wolff is a professor emeritus at Harvard University.  He is director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, the world’s preeminent center of Bach scholarship.  Born and educated in Germany,…

Anne Chao is adjunct lecturer in the humanities at Rice University, and program manager of the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA), which focuses on the immigration experience of Asian Americans…

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the author of fifteen books, including two prize-winning story collections, Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, four volumes of poetry, and the bestselling…

Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts,…

David George Haskell is an American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. In addition to scientific papers, he has written…

Joe Novak received his B.S. summa cum laude with special honors in botany from Ohio University in 1965. He received his Ph.D. in vegetable crops with minors in plant pathology…