Mark Harris is the author of Pictures at a Revolution- Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, which was a New York Times notable book of the year, and Five Came Back- A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. A graduate of Yale University, Harris lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.

Mark Barrett OSB, is a monk of Worth Abbey, Sussex, UK. His previous book was entitled Crossing: Reclaiming the Landscape of our Lives and was published by Darton, Longman and Todd.