[  Authors:   A-C    D-F    G-J    K-L    M-N    O-R    S    T-Z  ]    Brian J. Karem, author of Warning Signs, is an award-winning investigative reporter, writer, producer, best-selling author and former correspondent for Fox Television's America's Most Wanted. Karem is the author of four other books on crime and journalism. He lives with his wife and three children in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. John Kelly, author of Warning Signs, is Executive and Clinical Director of ExtraCare Health Services in New Jersey, an outpatient counseling agency for addictive illness, which he founded in 1988. A National Certified Addiction Specialist, Certified Social Worker, Certified Drug Counselor, Certified Forensic Examiner, and Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Examiners, Kelly is well known as a consultant, evaluator, and expert witness in the field of addictive illness. Russell Kirk (1918-1994), historian of ideas, critic, essayist, editor, and author of The Conservative Mind, was the author of thirty books. Among them are The Roots of American Order, America’s British Culture, The Politics of Prudence, Eliot and His Age, Enemies of the Permanent Things, Edmund Burke, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, John Randolph of Roanoke, and five works of fiction. He held the highest earned arts degree of the senior Scottish university doctor of letters of St. Andrews and was the only American ever to have obtained that distinction. He received twelve honorary doctorates from American universities and many awards, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. Wayne LaPierre, author of Shooting Straight, is the executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association of America, author of the bestselling book Guns, Crime, and Freedom, and host of a weekly syndicated radio show focused on defending our Second Amendment rights. Alexander Lebel is a charismatic figure whose dry wit and brusque, hardheaded style sets him apart from the most familiar faces of Moscow’s political elite. One of the most popular politicians in Russia, he has participated in most of the former Soviet Union’s and Russia’s military conflicts over the last fifteen years, including Afghanistan (1981-82), Tbilisi (April 1989), and the occupation of Baku (January 1990). He is also responsible for almost single-handedly brokering the 1996 peace with Chechnya’s secessionist rebels, thereby ending a costly and bloody war. Since his departure from Yeltsin’s cabinet in October 1996, he has formed his own political party to set the stage for his election bid in 2000. Beth Leibson-Hawkins, author of I’m Too Young to Have Breast Cancer!, is a freelance writer, editor, and researcher with extensive experience in magazine journalism and public policy research and analysis. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from Duke University and a master of fine arts in creative writing from Emerson College. She lives in New York with her husband and two children. Sheldon Levine, author of The 7-Minute Miracle: The Breakthrough Program to Banish Spot Fat Forever, is a world-class bench press champion and weight lifter, a practicing internist, and a respected medical authority on fitness and weight control. G. Gordon Liddy, author of When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country, is the host of one of the country’s top-rated radio programs and the author of three bestsellers, including his highly acclaimed autobiography, Will. Described by the Kansas City Star as “incredibly intelligent, verging on genius,” he has over the years been an Army officer, FBI special agent, prosecutor, defense and appellant counsel, Treasury official, White House aide, defendant, convict, prisoner, lecturer, and actor in motion pictures and television. For his role in Watergate, and for refusing to implicate others, Liddy served nearly five years in prison, including 106 days in solitary confinement. David Limbaugh, bestselling author of Persecution, is a lawyer, nationally syndicated columnist with Creator’s Syndicate, political commentator, and author of the New York Times bestseller Absolute Power. The brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, he lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, with his wife and children. David A. Lipschitz, M.D., Ph.D., author of Breaking the Rules of Aging, is chair of the Department of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and director of the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging. His 27-part series for PBS, Aging Successfully with Doctor David, has won Aurora and Telly awards. Dr. Lipschitz is consistently included in “Best Doctors in America," and U.S. News and World Report has named his geriatric program at UAMS among the country’s top ten. Dr. Lipschitz lives in Little Rock. John R. Lott, Jr., author of The Bias Against Guns, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has held positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford University, UCLA, the Wharton Business School, and Rice University, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989. Lott has published more than ninety articles in academic journals, is a frequent contributor to major newspapers, and is the best selling author of More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws. He is a popular guest on radio and television talk shows. Lott lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and five children. Rich Lowry, author of Legacy, is the editor of National Review. He writes a twice-weekly syndicated column for King Features and is a political analyst for FOX News Channel. He has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, andthe Wall Street Journal. Noah Lukeman, coauthor of Inside CentCom, is also the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The First Five Pages and The Plot Thickens, and is president of Lukeman Literary Management Ltd. He lives in New York City Colonel Stanislav Lunev, author of Through the Eyes of the Enemy, is a former Russian spy. He is currently a consultant for the FBI and the CIA and writes a column for NewsMax.com. The highest-ranking military officer ever to defect from Russia to the United States, Lunev defected when Yeltsin came to power in 1992.