Contributors

Director of film promotion company The Creative Partnership, Christopher Fowler is the author of twelve novels, as well as numerous screenplays and collections of short stories. His first novel, the bestseller Roofworld, has been developed as a film. One of his short stories, The Master Builder, became a CBS movie starring Tippi Hedren. Another, Left Hand Drive, won Best British Short Film in 1993. The short story 'American Waitress' in Demonized won the British Fantasy Society's Best Short Fiction Prize 2004.

Tiago Forte has conducted an annual life review every year since 2008. Over nearly two decades, that practice evolved from a simple end-of-year ritual into the ARC Method-a framework for cultivating the one thing modern life seems structurally designed to deny: perspective.

He is the bestselling author of Building a Second Brain and The PARA Method, which together have reached more than half a million readers in over twenty-five languages. Through his company Forte Labs, he has trained over ten thousand students from more than seventy countries in the practice of thinking clearly and living with intention.

His work has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and TIME. He lives in Valle de Bravo, Mexico – a small town on a volcanic lake – with his wife and two children.

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Russell Foster is professor of Biology at Imperial College, London and the world's leading expert on chronobiology.

Alan Foster is a consultant at ghSMART. Alan studied economics at Cambridge University and earned his MBA from INSEAD in France.

Charles Foster is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being a Beast, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wainwright Prize, won the 30 Millions d'Amis prize in France, and is the subject of a forthcoming feature film. A fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, in 2016 he won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology.

Danny Fontaine coaches teams and pitches multi-million-dollar deals to the biggest brands in the world. His unique approach blends creativity, psychology, storytelling and immersive experiences, based on years of research and application.

Danny also hosts the Pitch Masters podcast where he interviews the masters of the advertising, sales and marketing industries to find out how they win business.

He has taught photography, done voice-over work, been the lead singer in a band, earned a Fine Art degree, and done many other seemingly irrelevant things that fuel his creative work in surprising ways. Pitch is his first book. He lives in Colchester with his wife and three sons.

Nancy Foley is a scriptwriter and novelist. Born and raised in New Mexico, she now divides her time between Santa Fe and Hood River, Oregon. I Am Agatha is her first novel.

Felix Flicker is a lecturer at the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. Formerly the Astor Junior Research Fellow of Physics at New College Oxford and a Lindemann Trust Fellow at U.C. Berkeley, he holds a masters in Theoretical Physics from the Perimeter Institute — which he attended during Stephen Hawking's tenure — and a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Bristol. He is the author of scienti?c papers in both Nature and Science as well as popular science articles. While he cannot claim credentials as a wizard, he has a black belt in Kung Fu and is also the former British Champion of Shuai Jiao (Chinese Wrestling).

John-Paul Flintoff is a feature writer for the Sunday Times, and author of Comp: a Survivor's Tale. As well as writing, he has worked as a bin man, executive PA, scuba diver, taxi driver, undertaker, amateur boxer and rat catcher. He lives in London with his wife, Harriet, and daughter, Nancy, whom he torments by making and wearing his own clothes.

Peter Florence is the director of the Hay Festivals and co-editor of OxCrimes.

Sam Florman is a writer as well as a practicing engineer and vice-president of Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Company. Florman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, he is also a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the New York Academy of Sciences.