Contributors

Jamel Brinkley's writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Tin House and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University and lives in California. A Lucky Man is his first book.

Vanessa Braganza is a public-facing intellectual and book detective, and a PhD candidate in Renaissance literature at Harvard. She writes for Smithsonian, Lithub, Mental Floss, and the LA Review of Books and her academic work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals and volumes. She is a member of the Foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge, where she earned her MPhil in Renaissance Literature. She is also a JD candidate at Columbia Law School where she specializes in constitutional law. As a curator, her past work includes co-coordinating Harvard's Renaissance Colloquium in 2020-21, programming at the Library of Congress, and curating the Harvard exhibit 500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves. . In 2022, Braganza was named a Harvard Horizons Scholar and a Bowdoin Prize recipient. She is also a JD candidate at Columbia Law School where she specializes in constitutional law.

Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author whose long Foreign Office career took him to Indonesia, Poland, Italy, America and Russia. He was British Ambassador in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union, which he described in Across the Moscow River(2002, Yale). Rodric Braithwaite was subsequently foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister, John Major, and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is author of Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan (Profile Books), Moscow 1941 (Profile Books), a bestseller translated into nineteen languages and Armageddon & Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation (2017).

Adam M Brandenburger graduated from Cambridge and is a professor at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of many of Harvard's bestselling strategy cases. He has worked with Ciba-Geigy, Fidelity Investments, Honeywell, KPMG Peat Marwick, Merck, and Northwestern Life Insurance.

Mark Braude is the author of Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. He has been a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Stanford University and was named a 2017-2018 Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Globe and Mail, and other publications. He lives in Vancouver with his wife.

Eldon M. Braun, a former advertising agent and creative director, is coauthor of The Gift of Dyslexia.

Peter Brears is a food historian and historic house consultant who specialises in recreating how people lived and cooked. He worked on the restoration of Hampton Court Palace kitchens and has organised an annual Christmas feast there.

James Breiding is author of Swiss Made – the untold story behind Switzerland's success. Available in 7 languages, the book has become the most authoritative work on 'Swissness'. His writing on Swiss issues appear in The Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. He was elected a fellow at Harvard's Centre for International Development, and is the founder and owner of Naissance Capital, a Zurich investment firm.

Madeleine Brent won the Romantic Novelist Association's Novelist of the Year award in 1978, and was shortlisted for the award twice. Madeleine Brent was the pseudonym used by Peter O'Donnell, who also created the legendary thriller heroine Modesty Blaise. Madeleine Brent's real identity was one of publishing's best kept secrets.

Tony Brenton was a British diplomat from 1975 to 2009, completing his career as Charge d'Affaires in Washington, and then Ambassador in Moscow. He is now a Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, writing a book on the Russia of Peter the Great, and is a regular commentator on contemporary Russian issues.

Jean Bricmont is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Louvain.

Wallace S. Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. He was awarded the 2006 Crafoord Prize (the 'Nobel for GeoScience').

Hugh Brogan worked for The Economist and was then a Harkness Fellow in the United States. He has held a chair in American history at the University of Essex and now has a research professorship there. His books include the magnificent Penguin History of the United States and biographies of J. F. Kennedy and Arthur Ransome.

A native of Toronto, Timothy Brook has taught Chinese history at the University of British Columbia since 2004. He was appointed Shaw Professor of Chinese at Oxford in 2007, but returned to UBC in 2009, where he holds the Republic of China Chair in UBC's Institute of Asian Research. An honorary professor of East China Normal University in Shanghai, he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick.
Primarily a historian of the 16th and 17th centuries, Brook also works on Japan's wartime occupation of China and human rights in contemporary China. He has written eight books and edited nine, in addition to serving as editor-in-chief of the six-volume History of Imperial China from Harvard University Press.
Profile published his most widely read book, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global Age, in 2008. It was awarded the Mark Lynton Prize from the Columbia School of Journalism and the Prix Auguste Pavie from the Académie des Sciences d'Outre-mer, Paris, and has been translated into a dozen languages.
Brook lives on Salt Spring Island with his wife, Fay Sims. Their four children are spread from Vancouver to New York.