Contributors

Michel Syrett has combined a career as a journalist and writer on business and management in publications such as The Times, The Sunday Times, Management Today, Director, Asian Business and the South China Morning Post with academic research on management topics for business schools in Britain and Asia. He has authored twenty books and reports, including three Economist titles Successful Innovation, Successful Strategy Execution and Managing Uncertainty.

Frank Taylor, OBE, was a legendary British sports journalist who wrote for the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, and the Sun. He was the first Briton to serve as president of the International Sports Press Association in 1973 and was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his services to sport and journalism.

Charlie Taverner is a writer, historian and farming policy advisor, who has taught at Birkbeck and Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked as a business and agricultural journalist, and is the author of Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London.

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin to the West.

Bokyeong Sunim was ordained at Songgwangsa, one of South Korea's most prestigious and ancient temples. He has spent over a decade at Beopryeonsa Temple in Seoul. He is also the author of Time Spent Reading a Cat and The Happiness Cats Bring.

Rachel Syme has covered fashion, style, and other cultural subjects for The New Yorker since 2012, where she is now a staff writer. Her cultural criticism and reported features focus primarily on the intersections of women's lives, artistic production, history, and fame. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and now resides in Brooklyn.

Chris Stewart shot to fame with Driving Over Lemons in 1999. Funny, insightful and real, the book tells the story of how he bought a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river, with its previous owner still resident. It became an international bestseller, along with its sequels – A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society and The Last Days of the Bus Club.

In an earlier life, Chris was the original drummer in Genesis (he played on the first album), then joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, went to China to write the Rough Guide, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cooking. His sort of prequel, Three Ways to Capsize a Boat, fills in his lost years as a yacht skipper in the Greek islands.

Whitley Strieber was a successful horror writer before publishing Communion in 1987. The book became a major international bestseller. Strieber is the host of the online radio show 'Dreamland', which covers paranormal phenomena.

Paul Strohm is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Columbia University, and has previously been J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

The Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the year that made The Canterbury Tale sexplores a single year that made Chaucer into a poet, and sparked the creation of The Canterbury Tales.

Noah Keefer Strycker (born February 9, 1986) is an American birdwatcher. In 2015, he set a record for a worldwide Big Year of Birding, seeing 6,042 of the world's estimated 10,400 bird species in a continuous journey spanning all seven continents from January 1 to December 31, 2015.