Andrew Goldenkranz is a nationally recognized teacher and staff development leader. From 1998 until 2002 he directed the annual summer residential biology institute for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, which brings some of the best teachers in the country together for a month-long think tank. Mr. Goldenkranz has lectured widely on classroom applications of bioethics and biotechnology topics, and he wrote a study guide for Jurassic Park in 1994. Before becoming a teacher, he worked at the Linus Pauling Institute for Science and Medicine and, as an undergraduate, sat on the first institutional biohazard review committee at Stanford University, which evaluated safety procedures related to the early days of recombinant DNA research. He is currently developing two curriculum projects on the evolution of life on Earth, in addition to his full time duties as a teacher and administrator at Aptos High School, in Aptos, California. He lives in Aptos with his wife and two children.
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Richard Preston is regarded as one of the leading authors writing about science in our time. The Hot Zone was a New York Times bestseller for 42 weeks, has been translated into more than 30 languages, and is now widely used as a teaching text in biology, English, and humanities courses at both high school and college levels. Preston’s two other books about viruses are The Cobra Event and The Demon in the Freezer. Together with The Hot Zone, the three books are Preston’s Dark Biology Triad. Preston has also written First Light (about astronomy), American Steel (about the building of a steel mill) and The Boat of Dreams. He lives outside New York City with his wife and three children.