Christopher David Castellani (born 1972, Wilmington, Delaware, USA) is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, "A Kiss from Maddalena" (2003) and "The Saint of Lost Things" (2005). "A Kiss from Maddalena" won the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award and was published in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia and Thailand; "The Saint of Lost Things" was also published in The Netherlands and Germany.

Dr. Bertice Berry (b. 1960) is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator. Berry grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville University in Florida, and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Kent State University in Ohio, at the age of 26. She later worked as an entertainer, lecturer, and comedian. She was the host co-executive producer of her own nationally syndicated talk show, "The Bertice Berry Show", from 1993 to 1994.

Frank Legato is an American author born in 1956 in Pittsburgh, PA. He is best known for his book "How to Win Millions Playing Slot Machines...or Lose Trying". He is also well known for founding and editing "Casino Gaming" magazine and writing a weekly humorous column about slot machines for "Strictly Slots" magazine. Legato has a bachelors in journalism and a masters in communication from Duquesne University.

Lawrence A. Cunningham (born July 10, 1962) is an author of several investing books and is a professor, currently at Boston College. His books include "The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America" and "Outsmarting the Smart Money". They have been translated into many languages, including Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.

Ed Dee is an author, born in Yonkers, New York on February 3, 1940. He graduated from Sacred Heart High School, then served two years in the United States Army. In 1962 in joined the New York City Police Department (NYPD). He earned a BA from Fordham University. He retired from the NYPD as a lieutenant and then he began to write. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University.

Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration (later called the Brandywine School). Some of his more famous students were Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, …

Mark E. Rogers (born 1952) is an American author-illustrator. He was named "Class Artist" in 1970. While a student at Pt. Pleasant Beach High School, he wrote a short novel, "The Runestone", which has since been adapted into a 1990 film starring Peter Riegert and Joan Severance. He was a three year Varsity Football player and four year Varsity Track weight man. At the University of Delaware he continued his interest in writing, …

Gibbons Ruark (born 1941) is a contemporary American Poet. Known for his deeply personal often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark has had poetry in such publications as "The New Yorker", "The New Republic", and "Poetry." His collections include "Rescue the Perishing", "Small Rain", "Keeping Company", "Reeds", "A Program for Survival", and, most recently, …

The Reverend James Dillet Freeman (1912 in Wilmington, Delaware) was an American-Indian poet and a minister of the Unity School of Christianity. Freeman was sometimes referred to as the "poet laureate to the moon" because his poems were twice brought to the moon, "a distinction he shares with no other author." His 1941 "Prayer for Protection" was taken aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969 by Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin, …

Thomas Poeller Mandel (born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a contemporary American poet.

Robert Gover (born November 1929) grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard College in Philadelphia), received a BA in economics from the University of Pittsburgh, worked as a journalist, became a best-selling novelist at age 30, lived most of his life in California, and now lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. "On the Run with Dick and Jane" is his ninth novel. His previous book, "Time and Money", explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations.

Colleen Faulkner (also known as Hunter Morgan) is an American author of romance novels. In 1999 she was presented with the "Diamond Award" for literary excellence in the state of Delaware.

Aleksandra Ziółkowska also known as Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm, and Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm) was born in Łódź, Poland on 15 April 1949. As a student, she worked as the private assistant to the well-known Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz from 1972-1974. For her help and research with his latest book, Wankowicz dedicated that book to her, and in his last will and testament, he officially gave her all his archives.