David Vine is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia and an associate professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Mother Jones, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. He lives in Washington, DC.
Simon Winchester is the New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Men Who United the States. He has been awarded an Order of the British Empire for his services to literature and journalism.