Richard C. Morais is an award-winning American novelist and

journalist. Mr. Morais is the author of The New York Times and

international bestseller The Hundred-Foot Journey, a novel that follows

the life of an Indian chef as he conquers the rarified world of French

haute cuisine. The novel sold in 35 territories across the globe. In 2014,

Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Juliet Blake released The Hundred-

Foot Journey as a much-loved film directed by Lasse Halström and

starring Dame Helen Mirren and Om Puri.

His novel, The Man With No Borders, was published by Little A, the

literary imprint of Amazon Publishing, in 2019; and he is the author of

Buddhaland Brookland, published in 2012, in addition to the nonfiction

and critically acclaimed business biography, Pierre Cardin: The Man Who

Became a Label.

He was previously both the editor of Barron's Penta magazine and acted

as Forbes's European Bureau Chief, the magazine's longest-serving

foreign correspondent, stationed in London for 18 years. His unique brief

at Forbes allowed him to travel anywhere in the world and to write on

any subject that interested him. His unusual business stories - from a

controversial interview with Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing

Street, to his profile of the low-key Indian billionaire Adi Godrej - have

led to multiple journalism awards.

Mr. Morais has uniquely won three awards and six nominations at the

Business Journalist of The Year Awards. His literary works, meanwhile,

were semifinalists in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition

and short-listed for Britain's Ian St. James Award. In 2015 he was named

the 2015 Citizen Diplomat of the Year, the highest honor granted by

Global Ties U.S., a private-public partnership sponsored by the U.S. State

Department - "for promoting cross-cultural understanding in all of his

literary work." He lives in Milford, PA and NYC, NY.

Sean Strub is currently the Mayor of Milford, Pa. and has been since 2016

He is a long-time activist and writer who is the founder of POZ Magazine, the

leading independent global source of information about HIV, is a popular

speaker, and is frequently cited in the media as an HIV expert on prevention

and treatment policy.

He has also been active in environmental protection, historic preservation

and community redevelopment efforts in Rural Pike County, PA, and in 2007

produced "Nature's Keepers" a documentary about the conservation and land

stewardship history of the region.

His book, Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, sEx, AIDS and Survival was

published by Scribner in 2014. A native of Iowa, Strub attended Georgetown

and Columbia Universities.