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After receiving her Masters degree in journalism, Angie Cannon started her career as a staff writer at the Miami Herald. She then moved to the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered education, and The Detroit News, where she reported on city government. Following these newspaper jobs, Cannon covered the White House and then the Justice Department for the Knight-Ridder Washington bureau. In 1998 Cannon became a senior writer for U.S. News and World Report, where she covered national legal, political, criminal, and social issues. In 2003. with help from fellow writers at U.S. News, Cannon co-wrote 23 Days of Terror, a reflection on the Washington, D.C. sniper shootings.

After receiving a BA from Connecticut College in 1989, Warren Cohen joined the research staff of Common Cause magazine. He became a researcher for U.S. News and World Report in 1990 and later reported on regional issues for that publication. Cohen worked for U.S News until 2000, when he became a senior news producer for the VH1 cable network. He co-wrote 23 Days of Terror, which depicts the Washington, D.C. sniper shootings, with fellow U.S. News writer Angie Cannon.

In a writing career spanning over twenty years, Wim Coleman has written novels, plays, works of nonfiction, and many stories for children. He often writes with his wife, Pat Perrin, Their newest novel, The Maya Gateway, investigates mythology, technology, and risk. Coleman’s Stages of History is a collection of royalty-free one-act plays about exciting events in American history, and his Nine Muses is a collection of original plays based on classic myths. Both are available from Perfection Learning.

Although there was no official documentation, Countee Cullen was effectively adopted by Reverend Fred A. and Carolyn Cullen. Fred Cullen was a pioneer black activist minister whose views had a strong impression on his son. However, Countee Cullen’s poetry often reflects unease towards this strong and conservative Christian training. Cullen won his first writing contest while in high school, with the poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Life." While attending New York University, Cullen wrote most of the poems for his first three volumes, Color, Copper Sun, and The Ballad of the Brown Girl. After graduating from NYU, Cullen earned his Masters degree from Harvard University in English and French. He won more prizes than any other black writer of the I 920s and was among the first African Americans to be recognized as a serious poet. Cullen wrote less after the 1930s, partly due to his position as French teacher at Frederick Douglass Junior High School.