Shirley Linde is a well-known author whose books have been translated into a dozen languages around the world. She has written for major magazines, made many appearances on radio and television, and is author of 37 books, including best-sellers No More Sleepless Nights, Dr. Atkins' Superenergy Diet, and The Charleston Program.

Linde has written in many areas, but is especially known for her medical writing. She contributed much to the knowledge and understanding of the public about science and was a pioneer in the concept of self-help and the power of patients, particularly shown in her popular book The Whole Health Catalogue. Her medical articles have appeared in many magazines, including Readers Digest, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and Family Circle. Her books have had such publishers as Crown, Bantam, Harper and Row, John Wiley & Sons, and Simon & Schuster. She is editor of MedicalInformationCenter.org. Many of her articles and books have been used in schools and for adult literacy classes.

Linde is also known for her travel writing and is an author of, or contributor to, The Insiders Guide to World's Most Exciting Cruises, The World's Most Intimate Cruises and Great Voyages of the World; and she is currently editor and owner of SmallShipCruises.com, a website with information on small ships around the world, and the website cruiserecipes.net.

Linde has been a significant influence within both the journalism and the medical professions in her years as a writer, having been on the executive boards of the National Association of Science Writers and the American Medical Writers Association and an originator of seminars to improve communication between scientists and writers, such as the National Science Foundation "When Scientists Meet the Press" held in Chicago. She also is a member or past member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, Authors Guild, International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association, Society of Professional Journalists, and the North American Travel Journalists Association. She was director of public relations at Northwestern University Medical and Dental Schools in Chicago, and served as public relations consultant to hospitals, universities, medical associations, government agencies and corporations.

She has received several outstanding service awards in communications, and is listed in Who's Who in America, the World Who's Who of Woman, Who's Who of Contemporary Authors, and Foremost Women of the 20th Century. She has lived in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York and on an outisland in the Bahamas, and now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Visit Shirley's websites:

www.smallshipcruises.com

www.cruiserecipes.net

www.medicalinformationcenter.org

www.shirleylinde.net

Curriculum Vitae (see www.shirleyLinde.net)

Peter Hauri, Ph.D., is the former Director of the Mayo Clinic Insomnia Program and Codirector of the Sleep Disorders Center at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Hauri is considered by many as the world's leading authority on insomnia. A pioneer in sleep research, he is the founder of the American Sleep Disorders Association. He lives in Rochester, Minnesota.