Adult-book Authors (alphabetically)
Sheila Buff has been writing and editing about health, nutrition, wellness, and consumer-oriented medicine since 1990. Her recent projects include EverydayHealth.com
Calorie Counter (ghost author, Sterling 2011; Barnes &
Noble bestseller), Crazy Sexy Diet (ghost author with Kris Carr, Globe Pequot, 2011; national bestseller), Cleveland
Clinic Guide to Lung Cancer (ghost author with Dr. Peter Mazzone, Kaplan, 2010), Health Care Providers (Facts on File, 2010), Why Dirt Is Good: 5 Ways to Make Germs Your
Friends (ghost author with Mary Ruebush, Ph.D.; Kaplan 2009), Regaining Your Self: Breaking Free from the Eating Disorder Identity (coauthor with Dr. Ira Sacker; Hyperion, 2007); The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, third edition (coauthor with Dr. Alan Pressman;
Alpha/Penguin, 2007), The Shangri-La Diet (ghost author; Putnam 2006; national bestseller); Atkins Diabetes
Revolution (ghost author; Avon Books, 2004; national bestseller); The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Guide to Asthma (coauthor; Wiley, 2004); The Arthritis Cure (revised edition of national bestseller; coauthor with Dr. Jason Theodosakis; St. Martin’s Press, 2004); Atkins for Life (ghost author; St. Martin's Press, 2003; national bestseller).
In all, Sheila Buff is the writer behind six national bestsellers and more than a dozen other highly successful trade titles. Sheila Buff is also an active health journalist and has written or ghostwritten numerous articles on dietary supplements, nutrition, weight loss, diabetes, fitness, and many other topics. She is a regular contributor to health-related websites such as dLife.com and HealthyWoman.com. In addition, she is a contributing writer to Sharecare.com, a major new health website created by Dr. Mehmet Oz and Discovery Health.
Her other writing and personal interests include birding, natural history, gardening, and the outdoors. She is also the author of Insider’s Guide to the Hudson Valley (Globe Pequot Press, 2009) and Birding for Beginners, second edition (Falcon Guides, 2010).
Karan Davis Cutler has received eight writing awards from the Garden Writers of America Association. She has written and edited six Brooklyn Botanic Garden handbooks, including the prize-winning Salad Gardens, and is the author of Burpee: The Complete Flower Gardener (2007); Burpee: The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener: A Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically (1997); Herb Gardening for Dummies (2000); The New England Gardener's Book of Lists (2000), and a nearly completed manuscript, available for publication, called Landscaping to Attract Birds. Karan his also published many articles in Horticulture, The American Gardener, Organic Gardening, Harrowsmith Country Life, and others.
Dr. Thomas S. Elias is a botanist, author, and popular lecturer. He served as Director of the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington for 16 years before deciding to devote full time to writing. Earlier, he was Director of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California, and Chairman of the Graduate Program in Botany at Claremont Graduate School. He has also held positions at the New York Botanical Garden and the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of 135 scientific or popular-science papers and seven books. His books include Chrysanthemum Flowers: The Story of Stone Flowers (2010), The Complete Trees of North America, Second Edition (1988), Conservation and Management of Rare and Endangered Plants (1987), Experience in Introduction and Conservation in the USSR and the USA (1986), The Biology of Nectaries (1983), Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants (1982), and Extinction is Forever (1976). The American Library Association selected three of his books as among the 100 Best Books in Science and Technology in the years they were published. Tom has made more than 275 presentations at professional societies and conferences, nationally and internationally (China, England, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, and South Africa). He is skilled with Powerpoint presentations and enjoys media interviews, whether print, radio, or TV.
Barbara W. Ellis is the author of seven gardening books: Covering Ground (Storey, 2007), Shady Retreats (Storey, 2003), Deckscaping (Storey, 2002), and the rights-reverted Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants as well as Taylor guides on annuals, perennials, and bulbs. Barbara coauthored Burpee: The Complete Flower Gardener (Wiley, 2007). She has edited many gardening books, including Burpee: The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener, Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials and Rodale's All-New Enc
yclopedia of Organic Gardening. Barbara is a former Publications Director for the American Horticultural Society and editor of its American Horticulturist, now The American Gardener. She lectures widely, including at the Philadelphia Flower Show, and has a special interest in native plants. Barbara’s website is easternshoregarder.com
Victor Englebert is the author/photographer of Wind, Sand & Silence: Travels with Africa’s Last Nomads (Chronicle) and nine assigned National Geographic articles, among countless articles for adults and children. Specializing in vanishing tribes of the world, Victor is sole photographer of 17 books including Aborigines of the Rain Forest: The Yanomami (Time-Life). Traveling b
y camel and donkey in extreme climates, such as that of the Sahara and elsewhere, Victor often needed to escape bandits and packs of wild dogs. When traveling by motor scooter the length of Africa, he often slept in trees to be safe from lions and hyenas. He has begun a compelling memoir, Adventures and Misadventures of a Would-be Explorer, from which samples appear on his website blog at victorenglebert.com
Gwendolyn Evans Caldwell, author of Bodacious Breakfasts and More, an upscale cookbook, is completing the final
chapter of her beautifully written memoir, Beyond My
Father’s House: A Woman’s Journey. Here Gwendolyn describes the often difficult journey of an artist whose search for truth, self, and home begins during a shy and imaginative childhood dominated by a family's legacy of religious healing. Her journey includes the emotional roller-coaster effects of
33 household moves, financial challenges, marriage, miscarriages, motherhood, divorce, depression, a fulfilling
re-marriage, a near-fatal car accident, death of family and friends, and ultimate triumphs. Her questing s
pirituality, awakening intellect, and discovery of women’s studies help her find courage to follow her own creative path, which leads
to increased self-confidence, exuberant expression, and contentment rooted in hireath—an ancient Welsh word meaning the longing for home. 200,000 words.
Dan Fox has probably written and sold more popular music books than any other author in recent times––more than 20 million copies. His bestsellers include 17 songbooks for Reader’s Digest Books, The John Denver Songbook, and The Complete Beatles, as well as songbooks for Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers; Peter, Paul & Mary; and dozens of other stars of rock, folk, and country music, as well as the "World's Greatest..." series for Alfred Publishing. Dan has also written instruction books for guitar and mandolin; Write It Right, a guide for arrangers and copyists; The Rhythm Bible; The Great Family Songbook (with Dick Weissman); and songbooks for children, including In and Out the Window for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the classical field, he has published arranged 
works for world-class musicians Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) and Sir James Galway (flute) as well
as a vocal arrangement for legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Dan recently completed a three-act opera based on the life of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and is working on a book of chord progressions. His Great Family Songbook, second edition, appreared in 2010. Author photo by Gen Haley, Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center
Lew Freedman is the author of more than 50 books. Also a long-time journalist, Freedman has worked on the staffs of
The Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News, Florida Times-Union and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Lew has won nearly 300 journalism awards in all sorts sports. As a freelancer, he has written for many newspapers including The New York Times, magazines such as Basketball Times, and websites ranging from Basketball Times Online to Sports Memorabilia.org.
Suggesting Lew’s range, here is a sampling of his books: The Chicago Bears: The Complete Illustrated History; Dynasty: The Rise of the Boston Celtics (on the team’s 11 titles in 13 years); Cubs Essential (the Chicago Cubs); LeBron James:
A Biography; Fishing for a Laugh (a coll
ection); and Thunder on the Tundra
(how the native community of Barrow, Alaska, established a football program that kept kids in school). Besides his tremendous knowledge of sports and his working relationships with many coaches and stars, Lew has a passion for nature, the outdoors (with roots in Alaska), history, presidential politics, and movies. He enjoys TV and radio book promotion.
Anne Halpin is the author of 17 books, recent
examples including Homescaping: Designing Your
Landscape to Match Your Home (Rodale Press),
Seascape Gardening, awarded the Garden Writers
Association of America Silver Award of Merit (Storey Publishing), The National Wildlife Federation Backyard
Birder’s Box Set (Fireside), The Horticulture Gardener’s
Desk Reference (Macmillan), and For the Birds (Henry
Holt). She is an expert book editor (formerly a senior
editor with Rodale Press) and ghostwriter, and has
written bylined articles for VOX, Horticulture, Country Gardens, and Country Home magazines, and others. Anne currently writes regular features for The Southampton Press and The East Hampton Press newspapers. She also writes a monthly column for hamptons
.com, alternating between gardening and green living subjects. Anne belongs to a facebook horticulture community, Horticulture ~ For the Love of the Garden, and is preparing a website to launch. In addition to her publishing activities, Anne is a professional gardener, caring for private gardens in the Hamptons. Photo by Lynn Tolsdorf
J.D. Hunley is researching a book about the nature of truth in fiction and history. A PhD in history, he is the author of five books:
•Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology: Goddard Rockets to Minuteman III and U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle (University Press of Florida Press, 2008). For this set (two separate books) he won the 2010 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award.
•The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991 (Texas A&M University Press, 2007).
•The Life and Thought of Friedrich Engels: A Reinterpretation (Yale University Press, 1991).
•Boom and Bust: Society and Electoral Politics in the Düsseldorf Area, 1867-1878 (Garland, 1987).
Also auth
or or editor of a large number of articles, chapters, and books about various aspects of aerospace history, Hunley is a retired Chief Historian for the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. He has, in addition, been a NASA Headquarters historian, a historian for the U.S. Air Force, and, following retirement from Dryden, a Ramsey Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Leonard Lee Rue III (Lennie) is one of the the most
widely published wildlife photographers in the world. Lennie
is author/photographer of 30 highly acclaimed books on wildlife photography and on wildlife, for which the University
of Colorado awarded Lennie an honorary doctorate. Lennie pioneered 35mm wildlife photography and was the first to capture tack-sha
rp photos of airborne flying squirrels. It was my privilege to serve as Lennie’s editor on some of those books and now represent his completed manuscript on whitetails and his entertaining memoir,
nearly completed. Lennie, wife Uschi, and
Lennie’s son Len Jr. offer an incomparable
photo library at ruewildlifephotos.com
Miranda Smith (1944–2011), fondly remembered, was the author of 10 books and coauthor of five. As Author: Plant Propagator’s Bible (Rodale Press); Complete Home Gardening, Second Edition (Creative Homeowner); The On-Farm Mentor’s Guide (The New England Small Farm Institute); The Gardener’s Problem Solver (Reader’s Digest/Chrysalis Books); Your Backyard Herb Ga
rden (Rodale Press); Backyard Fruits and Berries (Rodale Press). Other sole-author books include Greenhouse Gardening and Tips for Growing Flowers and Vegetables in the Northeast.
As Co-author: The Container Gardener’s Bible (Rodale); Rodale's Pest and Disease Problem Solver; Rodale's Garden Insect, Disease, & Weed Identification Guide [weed & disease sections]. Miranda is also a book editor. Photo by Mariana Beckman
Neil Soderstrom represents all authors on this website, serving as concept collaborator, contract facilitator (agent), and (if publisher desires) supplemental photographer and
book producer. He has edited more than 100 books on gardening, wildlife, and home do-it-yourself and produced about 20. He is al
so author and photographer
of three books for adults and countless magazine articles, as well as a widely
published photographer. Neil’s photos have appeared in all major gardening magazines,
as well as Consumer’s Research, Family Circle, Mother Earth News; National Geographic Kids, National Geographic Traveler, Orion, and Ranger Rick.
Dick Weissman has written 18 books on music and the music industry, including The Great Family Songbook with Dan Fox. As a musician, Dick was a member of the folk trio, The Journeymen, with John Phillips and Scott Mckenzie. Dick is also a solo live performer and an accompanist. He has played in hundreds of recording sessions, produced numerous albums, and written numerous 
recorded songs and instrumental pieces, as well as two feature-film scores. Dick teaches at various universities. He has won the Deems Taylor ASCAP Music Critics Award, and was a finalist for the Oregon book award in nonfiction writing. He’s at dickweissman.com
