Contributors

Elsa Richardson is an academic at the University of Strathclyde. She holds a Chancellor's Fellowship in the History of Health and Wellbeing at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH). In addition to lecturing in the history of medicine and her own research, she also curates arts and science events for public institutions, including the Wellcome Collection. In 2018/19 she was named one of the BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinkers.

Simon Rich has written for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, and he worked on Inside Out for Pixar. He is the creator and showrunner of TV series Man Seeking Woman (based on THE LAST GIRLFRIEND ON EARTH) and the forthcoming Miracle Workers, starring Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe, which is based on his novel WHAT IN GOD'S NAME. His other collections include Spoiled Brats and The World of Simon Rich. He is a contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4.

Ren Richards is the pen name for New York Times and USA Today Bestselling YA author Lauren DeStefano. DeStefano has published seven YA novels, four middle-grade novels and the psychological thriller, The Broken Ones.

Ruth Rendell was one of the great crime writers. Her books – notable for their careful psychological observation, as well as their gripping plots – have sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and she won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.

Richard Restak (born 1942) is an American neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, author and professor.

Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, an award-winning author and a community arts activist. In 2018, Rendon was recognised as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by Minneapolis AARP and Pollen. She was awarded the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award in 2020. Rendon's debut novel and the first instalment in the Cash Blackbear series, Murder on the Red River, won the Pinckley Prize for Best Debut Novel. She lives in Minneapolis.

Jasper Rees is an arts journalist, and the author of Wenger and I Found My Horn.

Wilhelm Reich was one of the great psychoanalysts of the twentieth-century. He worked as a psychoanalyst in Vienna and became deputy director of Freud's Psychoanalytic Polyclinic. He moved to Berlin in 1930 but left Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power and in 1939 he moved to the USA. Wilhelm Reich died in 1957.

Mark Reiter is the co-author, with Marshall Goldsmith, of Triggers.

Dr Harold Reitman is an orthopaedic surgeon and former professional boxer. He is the writer and producer of The Square Root of 2, a film also inspired by his daughter, and the founder of the neurodiversity community site, DifferentBrains.com.

Rebecca Reitman works with learning-challenged students.