Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the cofounder and publisher of Restless Books, and the academic director of the Great Books Summer Program. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, his work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, theater, television, and radio.

Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of three graphic novels featuring Rabbi Harvey, a fictional rabbi who also functions as an Old West sheriff. His nonfiction books include Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon and The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, which were both National Book Award finalists.