Upton Sinclair was born September 20, 1878. He was a bestselling American author and journalist who penned more than one hundred books, plays, and journalistic articles during the course of his career. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1943. Time magazine called him ?a man with every gift except humor and silence.? He died on November 25, 1968.

Gavin de Becker is a bestselling author and security specialist, primarily for governments, large corporations, and public figures. He is the chairman of Gavin de Becker and Associates, which he founded in 1978. He is the bestselling author of The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence.