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Alison Frazee is the Director of Advocacy and an Outreach Coordinator at the Boston Preservation Alliance.

Author of "The Gardener and the Carpenter."

Alison Kuznitz is a reporter for State House News Service, a Massachusetts wire service that’s offered accounts on the activities of state government since 1894.

Alison Weir is a British historian and *New York Times* bestselling author. Her works include the novels *Innocent Traitor*, *The Lady Elizabeth*, and and several historical biographies, including *Mistress of the Monarchy*, *Queen Isabella*, *Henry VIII*, *Eleanor of Aquitaine*, *The Life of Elizabeth I*, and *The Six Wives of Henry VIII*.

A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod taught English for three years at the University of Indiana before accepting a post in 1969 at the University of Windsor where he remains a professor of English and Creative Writing to this day. What is most amazing about the career of Alistair MacLeod is that his great critical reputation stems from a mere 14 short stories, collected in *The Lost Salt Gift of Blood* (1976) and A*s Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories* (1986). In 1999, he published his first novel, *No Great Mischief*, which follows the lives of several generations of a family that emigrates from Scotland to Cape Breton. Written over the course of 13 years, *No Great Mischief* was published to great critical acclaim and is already in the process of being translated into a number of different languages. Nominated for all of Canada's major literary awards, the novel was awarded the Trillium Prize. The success of *No Great Mischief* was followed in 2000 by *Island*.

Dr. Goroll, a general internist, is professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and physician of Medical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University and cum laude from Harvard Medical School. He is one of the modern pioneers in primary care, having initiated the nations first residency track in primary care internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (where he served his residency), and lead-authored the first textbook of primary care internal medicine (*Primary Care Medicine*, now in its 6th edition). In his role as a clinician educator, he chaired Harvards Core Medicine Clerkship and led a national initiative to reform the curriculum of the Core Medicine Clerkship, emphasizing generalist competencies and outpatient training. In 2000, he received the National Award for Career Achievement in Medical Education from the Society for General Internal Medicine, and in 2003, the Gold Foundation Award for Medical Humanism from the HMS graduating class. He has also served as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society and as Massachusetts Governor of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Goroll continues to practice and teach primary care internal medicine at the MGH while actively working on health care reform, serving as chair emeritus of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and as chair of the Massachusetts Coalition for Primary Care Reform. He enjoys sailing and travel.

Allan is former Chief Executive Officer of the London Climate Change Agency (LCCA), a company owned by the London Development Agency and led by the Mayor as Chairman. Allan is also an Executive Director of the London ESCO and Chief Technologist of the London Development Agency. Prior to his appointment, Allan was Woking Borough Council's Director of Thameswey Ltd., developing and implementing projects through its public/private joint venture Energy Services Company Thameswey Energy Ltd., the first companies of their type in the UK. He has over 30 years experience in the housing, property, building services, energy, water, waste, transport and climate change sectors. During his time at Woking, Allan reduced CO2 emissions by 77.5% from 1990 levels and undertook groundbreaking work on energy and water efficiency, private wire CHP cogeneration and trigeneration decentralised energy systems, environmentally friendly waste recycling/recovery and energy from waste technologies, alternative fuels for transport, renewable energy and fuel cells. Allan was appointed a Member of the British Empire in 1999 for services to energy and water efficiency and was instrumental in Woking gaining the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development 2001, the only local authority ever to receive a Queen's Award for Enterprise.

Allegra Goodman’s novels include *Intuition* and *Kaaterskill Falls*. Her fiction has appeared in T*he New Yorker* and *Best American Short Stories*. She is a winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, Allegra Goodman published her first short story, *Variant Text* in *Commentary Magazine* when she was seventeen and her first book the day she graduated from Harvard University in 1989. While attending graduate school at Stanford, she published her second book, *The Family Markowitz*, which was a 1996 New York Times Notable Book. In 1997 she earned her PhD in English literature, and currently teaches a writing workshop in the graduate program in creative writing at Boston University. Her novels *Kaaterskill Falls*, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, *Paradise Park*, *Intuition*, *The Other Side of the Island*, and her most recent, *The Cookbook Collector* have all been published to widespread acclaim. Her short fiction has appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Good Housekeeping*, *Slate*, and *The American Scholar*. Named by *The New Yorker* as one of the twenty best writers under forty, she is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and the Salon magazine award for fiction. *Publisher’s Weekly* notes in its starred review of *The Cookbook Collector*, “If any contemporary author deserves to wear the mantle of Jane Austen, it’s [Allegra] Goodman, whose subtle, astute social comedies perfectly capture the quirks of human nature. This dazzling novel . . . is Goodman’s most robust, fully realized and trenchantly meaningful work yet.”

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. No one has contributed more to our nuanced understanding of Lincoln's mind and ideas than Professor Guelzo. *Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President* (1999), his landmark work, won both the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize in 2000. His article, "Defending Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter, August, 1863," won Civil War History's John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article of that year. He has continued to produce influential and award-winning scholarship on Lincoln: *Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America* (2004), the winner of a second Lincoln Prize; *Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America* (2008); the essay collection, *Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas* (2009); and *Lincoln* for the Oxford University Press "Very Short Introductions" series (2009).