Laurie Drinkwater at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York, was an author of the report.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Baily is an author and former adviser in the Clinton administration, says after the failure of Lehman Brothers towards the end of 2008, many of the world's largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky subprime loans.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Elizabeth Klein,an assistant professor at the College of Public Health at Ohio State University,was the lead author.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The author,Aife Murray, writes that over the years, Dickinson employed an ethnically diverse group of servants.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Kristen Iversen is an English professor and author of "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth."

VOA: special.2010.03.08

"Man With a Pan" also includes an essay by the author Stephen King.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

Sidney Poitier,the first black actor to win an Academy Award, was honored by the president, as was world renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Michael Kusugak is an award-winning children's author living in Rankin Inlet,Nunavut.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19