Name: Alexandre Dumas

Birth/Death: Jul 24, 1802 - Dec 05, 1870

Intro: Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure. One of the most widely read French authors in the world, many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask were serialized. Dumas' writing also included plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.

Name: Anthony Burgess

Birth/Death: Feb 25, 1917 - Nov 22, 1993

Intro: Anthony Burgess (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, musician, linguist, translator and critic.

Name: Anthony Horowitz

Birth/Death: Apr 05, 1956 - death

Intro: Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1956) is an English author and screenwriter. He has written many children's and young adult novels, including the Alex Rider and Diamond Brothers series. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels for ITV series. He is the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War.

Name: Barbara Ehrenreich

Birth/Death: Aug 26, 1941 - death

Intro: Barbara Ehrenreich is a political essayist and social critic; one of the most recognized and prolific commentators of the prominent and often difficult social issues of the world today. Considered a 'radical socialist', who tackles a diverse range of issues in both books and magazine articles, Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine.

Name: C. S. Lewis

Birth/Death: Nov 29, 1898 - Nov 22, 1963

Intro: C. S. Lewis, known to his friends as Jack, was a Northern Irish academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.

Name: Carlo Collodi

Birth/Death: Nov 24, 1896 - Oct 26, 1890

Intro: Carlo Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini) was a Florentine children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Name: Charles Dickens

Birth/Death: Feb 07, 1812 - Jun 09, 1870

Intro: Pen-name Boz, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.

Name: Charlotte Bronte

Birth/Death: Apr 21, 1816 - Mar 31, 1855

Intro: She was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature.

Name: Chip Heath

Birth/Death: birth - death

Intro: Chip Heath is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His research examines why certain ideas—ranging from urban legends to folk medical cures, from ''Chicken Soup for the Soul'' stories to business strategy myths—survive and prosper in the social marketplace of ideas.

Name: Clayton Christensen

Birth/Death: Apr 06, 1952 - death

Intro: Professor Clayton M. Christensen graduated from Brigham Young University with highest honors and a BA in Economics. In 1977, he received a M.Phil. in Applied Econometrics and the Economics of Less-Developed Countries from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar and was awarded his DBA from Harvard Business School in 1992.