Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including Zeitoun and A Hologram for the King. He is the founder and editor of Mc Sweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal (Timothy Mc Sweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine (The Believer). In 2002, he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth. In 2004, Eggers co-founded the Voice of Witness book series with Dr. Lola Vollen.
Lola Vollen is a scholar, human rights activist, and co-founder of Voice of Witness. In addition to editing Surviving Justice, she also edited Voice of Witness title Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath.
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of ten best-selling works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent, Innocent, and Identical. His works of non-fiction include One L, and Ultimate Punishment, a reflection on the death penalty. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic. His books have won a number of literary awards, including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment and Time Magazine’s Best Work of Fiction, 1999 for Personal Injuries.