Linda Fairstein

Linda Fairstein - lawyer, former prosecutor, and internationally best-selling crime novelist - is one of America’s foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children. For three decades, from 1972 until 2002, Fairstein served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was chief of the country’s pioneering Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for twenty-six years.  Fairstein is an honors graduate of Vassar College (1969) and the University of Virginia School of Law (1972).  In 1998, her law school classmates established a scholarship fund in her honor at their alma mater, supporting law school students interested in pursuing careers in the public sector.

Ms. Fairstein’s 18th novel – KILLER LOOK – was published in August, 2016, and was her 15th consecutive New York Times bestseller. The 19th book in the series – DEADFALL – will be published in July, 2017.   She is also the author of a non-fiction work, SEXUAL VIOLENCE: OUR WAR AGAINST RAPE (1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.   Fairstein’s first novel in a series for young readers – entitled INTO THE LION’S DEN – debuted in November, 2016.  The second one – DIGGING FOR TROUBLE – will be published in November, 2017, and will be her 22nd published book.

Fairstein is a Trustee of Vassar College, and a member of the board of SAFE HORIZON  and GOD’S LOVE WE DELIVER.

She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Michael Goldberg.

"YOU SHUT UP"

Deirdre Imus and Tony Powell face off in "YOU SHUT UP!"

Christopher Knowlton

Christopher Knowlton is a former staff writer and London bureau chief for Fortune magazine. He spent fifteen years on Wall Street, most of them as president of Knowlton Brothers, Inc., an investment management firm. He is a trustee of the Teton Raptor Center and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. He and his wife, Pippa, live in Jackson, Wyoming.

Cattle Kingdom reveals the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We venture from the Texas Panhandle to the Dakota Badlands to the Chicago stockyards. We meet a diverse array of players—from the expert cowboy Teddy Blue to the failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. Knowlton shows us how they and others like them could achieve so many outsized feats: killing millions of bison in a decade, building the first opera house on the open range, driving cattle by the thousand, and much more. Cattle Kingdom is a revelatory new view of the Old West.

Jonathan Hock

Jonathan Hock is an 11-time Emmy Award winning producer, director, writer and editor. His first documentary feature "Through the Fire" had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005, and became the first documentary acquired by ESPN Films.

Hock is executive producer of “Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies,” working alongside director Jim Podhoretz.

"One and Not Done," which aired on ESPN in April, was the sixth film Hock has directed or produced for ESPN's Emmy and Peabody Award winning "30 For 30" series, including "Unguarded," which was named Best Documentary of the year by Sports Illustrated and Best of iTunes 2012; "The Best That Never Was" (2010); "Survive and Advance" (2013); "The Gospel According to Mac" (2015) and "Of Miracles and Men" (2015), which won the Emmy for Best Sports Documentary.

Hock on his connection to the story:

Director Jim Podhoretz and I started our careers in the same day in 1985, as production assistants at NBA Entertainment. Our first "big" assignment was on the '87 Finals, when Jim was embedded with the Celtics and I was with the Lakers.

To return to that formative time for us as storytellers, to chronicle that very story with three decades of experience, has been deeply fulfilling experience for me. The greatest surprise has been that the players themselves on the Celtics and Lakers are having the same experience reliving their greatest highs and lowest lows. The passion, the animosity, the competitive fires are all still burning in them, and their interviews for this project are the greatest I've seen. It turns out that these were not just the formative years for me and Jim, but for the NBA itself.

"Bernie & Sid"

Bernard J. McGuirk is the executive producer of the Imus in the Morning radio program. He was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York, where he worked in his younger years as a taxi driver.

Sid Rosenberg is a radio personality and the former morning host of WMEN-640 AM.  Rosenberg is known for his controversial and sarcastic humor as a host on many radio stations including, WAXY "790 The Ticket" in Miami, where he hosted his own morning show.  He originally was paired with O.J. McDuffie, formerly a wide receiver with the Miami Dolphins; McDuffie resigned his position with the station in the summer of 2006.

Rosenberg's self-given jokingly middle name "Arthur" is a reference to former baseball player Dave Kingman. When Hall of Fame sportscaster Bob Murphy gave the lineups for the New York Mets, he would always give Kingman's name as "David Arthur Kingman"; Rosenberg continues this running gag on the Sports Guys by using Arthur as everybody's middle name.

His radio career started in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he hosted the syndicated sports radio program The Drive on Sports Fan Radio Network in the late 1990s, after starting as an Internet broadcast. In 2000, he moved to New York City to co-host WNEW-FM's turbulent morning show, the Sports Guys. A year later, he joined the Imus in the Morning program. He shared the sports broadcasting duties with Warner Wolf before becoming the full-time sports reporter. He engaged in heated half-mock, half-serious disputes with the other members of the Imus cast, leading for example to an actual boxing bout with producer Bernard McGuirk.  Several months after joining the Imus show, he became the co-host of the midday show on Imus' flagship station, WFAN. Here, his strong knowledge of sports and distinctive, high-pitched Brooklyn accent served him well. He would hold both broadcasting positions until 2005. For several years, he also hosted the radio pre-game shows for New York Giants home games.