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Christos Papadimitriou is C. Lester Hogan professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was won numerous international awards for his pioneering work in computational complexity and algorithmic game theory. He has written the novel *Turing: A Novel about Computation*.

The author of several acclaimed novels, including *The Standoff* and *Prince of Thieves*, which won the 2005 Hammett Award and was called one of the 10 best novels of the year by Stephen King. *Prince of Thieves* was the basis for the new motion picture *The Town*, directed by Ben Affleck.

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of six nonfiction books - most notably \_Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs\_ (2003) and \_I Wear the Black Hat\_ (2013) - and two novels, \_Downtown Owl\_ (2008) and \_The Visible Man\_ (2011). He has written for \_The New York Times\_, \_The Washington Post\_, \_GQ\_, \_Esquire\_, \_Spin\_, \_The Guardian\_, \_The Believer\_, \_Billboard\_, \_The A.V. Club\_, and ESPN. Klosterman served as "The Ethicist" for \_The New York Times Magazine\_ for three years; appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary \_Shut Up and Play the Hits\_ (2012); and co-created \_Grantland\_ with Bill Simmons. He is a native of North Dakota and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, \_Entertainment Weekly\_ TV critic Melissa Maerz.

Chuck Palahniuk's previous novels include the bestselling* Fight Club*, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, *Choke*, which was made into a film by director Clark Gregg; *Lullaby*, *Haunted*, *Rant*, and *Pygmy*. He is also the author of *Fugitives* and *Refugees*, a nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection *Stranger Than Fiction*. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.