Jonathan Escoffery

Jonathan Escoffery is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction and Electric Literature, and has been anthologized in The Best American

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish satirist, poet and clergyman who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is best known for his celebrated works A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal. He is widely regarded as the greatest prose satirist in the history of

Joseph A. Maciariello

Joseph A. Maciariello is Horton Professor of Management at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. He collaborated with Drucker on many publications, including The Effective Executive in Action, Management: Revised Edition, and The Daily Drucker.

Joseph Campana

Joseph Campana lived in Mumbai from 2007 to 2011. He taught feature writing and literary journalism at the Xavier Institute of Communications and literature at the American School of Bombay. His writing has appeared in the Indian Express and Time Out Mumbai. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana, with his

Joseph Lelyveld

JOSEPH LELYVELD'S interest in Gandhi dates back to tours in India and South Africa as a correspondent for The New York Times, where he worked for nearly four decades, ending up as executive editor from 1994 to 2001. His book on apartheid, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White,

Joseph Murphy

Dr Joseph Murphy is a well-known figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and Norman Vincent Peale, and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. His book, The

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Josh Bernoff

Josh Bernoff has been a professional writer since 1982. He’s coauthored three books on business strategy, including Groundswell, which was a bestseller. He is also the CEO of wellnesscampaign.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to the pursuit of wellness through changing habits. He lives with his family in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Josh Malerman

Josh Malerman is the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band The High Strung. He lives in Ferndale, Michigan.

Joshua Levine

Joshua Levine has written seven bestselling history books including several titles in the Forgotten Voices series. Beauty and Atrocity, his account of the Irish Troubles, was nominated for the Writers’ Guild Book of the Year Award. On a Wing and a Prayer, his history of the pilots of the First

Joss Wood

Joss Wood's passion for putting black letters on a white screen is only matched by her love of books and traveling (especially to the wild places of southern Africa) and, possibly, by her hatred of ironing and making school lunches.Joss has written over sixteen books for the Harlequin KISS, Harlequin

Josy Joseph

Josy Joseph is an award-winning investigative journalist. His stories have fostered public debate, and continue to contribute to significant policy and systemic changes in India. Among the investigative stories he has published are the Adarsh Apartment scam, Naval War Room Leak case, several aspects of the Commonwealth Games scandal, the

Joy Alukkas

Joy Alukkas is the founder and chairman of the eponymous global retail brand Joyalukkas Jewellery. Originally from Thrissur in Kerala, he is credited with modernizing the Indian jewellery retail business globally. Branching out on his own from a family-run business, he disrupted the traditional model of standalone jewellery stores and created

Joy Bhattacharjya

Joy Bhattacharjya is a cricket analyst with Cricbuzz, the world’s largest online cricket platform, and also runs a professional volleyball league. He was the project director for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, which in October 2017 became the most attended junior tournament in the history of FIFA. His previous engagements

Joy Goswami

Joy Goswami is one of Bengal's foremost poets, with more than thirty published books. His many awards include the Ananda Puroshkar and the Sahitya Akademi Award. Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator. Of her ten books, the most recent are her short stories about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love (Penguin,

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN / Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, and, most recently, A Book of American Martyrs.

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Judy Balan

Judy Balan is the overthinking parent of an overthinking child. Reality overwhelms her at times, which is why she enjoys making stuff up. She loves reading, watching and writing comedy. How to Stop Your Grownup from Making Bad Decisions was her first attempt at writing for non-grownups. She enjoyed it

Jugal Hansraj

Jugal Hansraj is a film actor, writer and National Award-winning filmdirector, originally from Mumbai, India. He began working in filmsfirst as a child actor – Masoom (1983) being the most notable. He thenwent on to become a lead actor in films like Papa Kahte Hain (1996) andMohabbattein (2000) among others.

Jugal Mody

Jugal Mody has worked with storytelling, design and digitalmedia across sectors from journalism to gaming. His firstnovel, Toke (HarperCollins India, 2012), was about stonerssaving the world from zombies. He has also written Indianactor and star Alia Bhatt's official mobile game, Alia Bhatt:Star Life (Moonfrog Labs, 2017), a narrative adventure setin

Jules Bennett

Award-winning author Jules Bennett is no stranger to romance-she met her husband when she was only fourteen. After dating through high school, the two married. He encouraged her to chase her dream of becoming an author. Jules has now published nearly thirty novels. She and her husband are living their

Jules Verne

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His classics such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days cemented him as one of the most prominent figures of French literature.

Julia Hauser

Julia Hauser is a senior lecturer in Modern History at the University of Kassel, Germany, and an alumnus of the Arab–German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). Hauser was a fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut, Rice University, Houston/Texas, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, and ICAS:MP, Delhi. Among her publications

Julia James

Julia James lives in England, and adores the peaceful verdant countryside and the wild shores of Cornwall. She also loves the Mediterranean-so rich in myth and history-with its sunbaked landscapes and olive groves, ancient ruins and azure seas. 'The perfect setting for romance!' she says. 'Rivalled only by the lush

Julia Keay

JULIA KEAY was the author of several acclaimed biographies including The Spy Who Never Was, With Passport and Parasol and Alexander the Corrector. She also wrote numerous BBC radio documentaries, including two plays, and, with her husband John Keay, co-edited two editions of the Encyclopedia of Scotland and the third

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Julie Miller

Julie Miller is an award-winning USA TODAY bestselling author of breath-taking romantic suspense-with a National Readers' Choice Award and a Daphne du Maurier Award among other prizes. She has also earned an RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. For a complete list of her books, monthly newsletter and more, go

Julie Murphy

JULIE MURPHY lives in North Texas with her husband, who loves her;her dog, who adores her;and her cats, who tolerate her. After several wonderful years in the library world, Julie now writes full-time. When she’s not writing, she can be found watching made-for-TV movies, hunting for the perfect slice of cheese