Contributors

Joan Magretta MBA, PhD is an award-winning contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where she was strategy editor during the 1990s. A former partner at Bain & Co., she is now a Senior Institute Associate at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. She is author of Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy.

Richard Mainwaring is a performing musician, composer, TV presenter and educator. He has presented around 50 music films on the BBC's flagship magazine programme The One Show, and is a regular interviewee on musical matters on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 lunchtime show.

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in Mass Observation. They have edited several MO Diaries, including Nella Last's Peace and Nella Last in the 1950s. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.

Roisin Maguire lives in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, where she works as a business manager. In 2019, she completed the Write Here… in Belfast novel-writing course, taught by Jan Carson, which was designed to discover exciting, new Northern Irish voices in fiction.

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in Mass Observation. They have edited several MO Diaries, including Nella Last's Peace and Nella Last in the 1950s. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century who is widely recognized as a founder of social anthropology and principally associated with field studies of the peoples of Oceania.

Benoit Mandelbrot was Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University. He was the inventor of fractal geometry, a leading figure in James Gleick's Chaos and has received the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Japan Prize in science and technology and numerous other awards.

Stuart Maister is a former BBC and ITN national TV and radio reporter who developed the concept of the Strategic Narrative: the core story that clarifies direction and vision in large organisations. His first award-winning business was bought by a NASDAQ firm.

Kevin Vaughan-Smith is a former EY Associate Partner and consultant who has worked with business leaders including IBM, BP, Aviva, Vodafone, O2, and 3 of the Big 4, including 7 years as Managing Director of Franklin Covey UK.

Dr Maxwell Maltz was an internationally renowned plastic surgeon, professor and lecturer, as well as a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, considered one of the most important authors in the field of psychology. In 1960 he published the first edition of Psycho-Cybernetics about self-image and success conditioning techniques, which has sold millions of copies in dozens of languages. He died in 1975.

Matt Furey is president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, a world title-holder in wrestling and martial arts, a bestselling fitness author and entrepreneur. He is committed to preserving and extending the legacy of Maltz's work with sold-out seminars and coaching programmes.

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Stefano Mancuso is a leading authority in plant neurobiology, which explores signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization. He teaches at the University of Florence and has been ranked 'world changer' by the New Yorker. His works, including The Revolutionary Genius of Plants and The Incredible Journey of Plants, are widely translated all over the world.

Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

A. G. Lombardo is a native Angeleno who teaches at a Los Angeles public high school. Graffiti Palace is his debut novel.

Alain Mabanckou's seven previous novels, including African Psycho, are all published by Serpent's Tail. Mabanckou teaches at UCLA, is a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and was awarded the Académie Française's Grand Prix de littérature. Black Moses was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.