Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Joseph Lekuton was born in Kenya to a tribe of Maasai nomads. Later, he came to America and eventually got a master’s in educational policy from Harvard.
"The Passage" has been described as "an engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America." The author says the idea came out of a discussion with his nine-year-old daughter.
Michael Doucet is the founder of the pioneering, Grammy Award-winning Cajun band, BeauSoleil. He also has an extensive background in arts education.
Raphael Kadushin is a senior travel writer for Conde Nast magazines, and author of "Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing."
Jaron Lanier popularized "virtual reality" in the 80s; he thinks Web 2.0 technology is erasing our sense of our own identity.
Keith Donohue's novel is "The Stolen Child." He tells Jim Fleming the book's about a boy who's stolen by fairies and the boy who replaces him in the human world.
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