Siobhan Fallon’s debut collection of stories, “You Know When the Men Are Gone” (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam), was listed as a Best Book of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle and Janet Maslin of The New York Times, has been called “the explosive sort of literary triumph that appears only every few years” by New York Journal of Books, “a terrific and terrifically illuminating book” by The Washington Post, and a “searing collection” by Entertainment Weekly. Her stories and essays have appeared in Women’s Day, Good Housekeeping, New Letters, Publishers’ Weekly, among others. She and her family live in Falls Church, Virginia.

Timothy M. Gay is the author of the upcoming, “Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigard, and Hal Boyle” (NAL Hardcover).  He has written two previous books, “Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend” and “Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert:  The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson.” Tim’s essays on politics, public policy, history, and sports history have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, and many other publications.  He is a graduate of GeorgetownUniversity and lives in Vienna,Virginia, with his wife Elizabeth and three children.

Adam Hochschild is an award-winning historian, whose latest book, “To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918″ (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), focuses on the now largely-forgotten opposition to World War 1. The late Christopher Hitchens, reviewing it in the New York Times, called it a “moving and important book,” and that it “is a book to make one feel deeply and painfully, and also to think hard.”  (Update – 1/22/2012: To End All Wars is a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award)

Adam Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and many other magazines, and is the author of seven books. “King Leopold’s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa” was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award; “Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves,” was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Marvin and Deborah Kalb are a father-daughter journalism team who joined forces to write their new book, “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama” (Brookings Institution Press). Marvin Kalb’s journalism career covers 30 years of award-winning reporting and commentary for CBS and NBC News, including a stint as host of Meet the Press. He is a Guest Scholar in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings and the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice (Emeritus) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Deborah Kalb followed in her father’s footsteps as a journalist and has reported for the Gannett News Service, Congressional Quarterly, U.S. News & World Report and The Hill.

Luis Carlos Montalván is the author of the New York Times best-seller, “Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him” (Hyperion).  Montalván served in the U.S. Army for 17 years, earning the Combat Action Badge, two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart. Montalván has a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. His articles have appeared in publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and The Baltimore Sun.  Luis resides in New York City with Tuesday, his faithful service dog.

Robert C. Plumb is the author of “Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier’s Odyssey.”  Plumb served in the Navy as an officer in the Atlantic Fleet, and later commanded a patrol boat in Vietnam.  Following military service, he held marketing executive positions in two Fortune 500 companies working in both U.S. and international markets. His work appeared in the Washington Post Style, Home, Travel and Editorial sections. Plumb is a member of the Civil War Trust and the Society of Civil War Historians. He and his wife Louise live in Potomac, Maryland.

CW Whitehair is the author of “Escape Across the Potomac,” a Civil War story.  A descendant of one of the last nine hostages held by John Brown during the Harpers Ferry raid in October, 1859, Whitehair has spent 18 years in both civilian and military roles in Civil War reenactments.

CW is a contributing writer for the Civil War Courier and the Camp Chase Gazette. He has co-authored two novels with his wife Rhonda-Lee, “Northern Fire,” and “The Bloody Harvest.”  He is a guest speaker at Civil War Round-tables, historical associations, schools, Civil War re-enactments, civic organizations, book festivals, and libraries.

Thomas Young is the author of the suspense novel “Silent Enemy” (Putnam Adult), which follows the characters of his previous novel, “The Mullah’s Storm.” In addition to being the author of three books, Young is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  He serves as a Senior Master Sergeant in the Air National Guard and has been a flight engineer in war zones around the world, earning two Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement Medals and the Air Force Combat Action Medal.  He holds a Master’s degree in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lives in Alexandria, Va.