Adapted from Wikipedia: William Green (1927 – 2 January 2010) was an aviation and military author, following service with Britain's Royal Air Force, where he wrote for the Air Training Corps Gazette (later to be become the Air Pictorial). Green was Technical Director to the RAF Flying Review, and then Editorial Director when it became Flying Review International. In 1971 he and Gordon Swanborough jointly created the monthly Air International, of which he remained Managing Editor until late 1990. Green edited numerous editions of Observers book of Aircraft and spent most of his adult life doing research and writing on aircraft and aviation. His work Warplanes of the Third Reich is seen as a classic aviation publication. Along with Gordon Swanborough, he also wrote several books for Salamander Books including The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Worlds Commercial Aircraft, Illustrated Anatomy of the World's Fighters and Flying Colours.

Pauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Pauline is probably best known for her illustrations in The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. She was also J.R.R. Tolkien's chosen illustrator: her drawings appear in Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major, Tree and Leaf, and after Tolkien's death the poem Bilbo's Last Song. Pauline Baynes began her career with little formal training. After spending her early years in India, where her father was commissioner in Agra, she and her elder sister came to England for their schooling. When their father retired, their parents settled near Farnham in Surrey and Pauline, as the unmarried daughter, found herself looking after them during the day and trying to illustrate at night. Pauline attended the Slade School of Fine Art, where her sister was completing a diploma course, but after only a year she volunteered to work for the Ministry of Defence, painting camouflage. However, since her kind of attention to detail and accuracy were skills essential for map-making, she was soon transferred to another department to draw maps. This experience was very helpful when she later drew maps of Narnia for Jack, and of Middle-earth for his friend J.R.R. Tolkien. Over the years Pauline Baynes created many new illustrations for use on book jackets, as well as colouring the original illustrations. In 1989, she made a series of full-page colour paintings for two books, one called The Land of Narnia, and the other a beautiful, deluxe version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. She was awarded the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 1968 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to children's illustration.

Francis Rose was, until his retirement in 1981, Reader in Biogeography at King's college, University of London. He is a lifelong botanist whose specialist studies have included the history and distribution of the British and adjacent continental flora, mosses, the effects of air pollution on vegetation and the ecology and distribution of epiphytic lichens. He is author of many scientific papers, and of several books, with D. L. Hawksworth. In 2000 Dr Rose was awarded the MBE for services to botany and in 2001 the Cadbury Medal for conservation.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name. Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, CBE, Hon FRS, FRAS, known as Patrick Moore, was an English amateur astronomer, who is the most well known English promoter of astronomy. Moore wrote numerous books on the subject, as well as make public, television and radio appearances, over the course of his long life. He is credited as having done more than any other to raise the profile of astronomy among the British general public.

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A self-confessed aviation obsessive, Hugh Cowin failed to be deterred from his aeronautical interests despite living through the 15-month Luftwaffe blitz on Liverpool during 1940 and '41. Cowin's first historical feature on an obscure US Navy racing aircraft of the mid-1920s was published while he was still in the RAF (1951 to 1963). In the more technical sphere, Cowin launched and exclusively produced Flight International's monthly Systems feature during the first half of the 1970s, along with many of their weekly Avionics pieces. While his day-job involved in aerospace/defence programme analysis and forecasting, Cowin still managed to produce a number of books, including the pocket-sized Observers Warship, produced essentially as a readily portable aid for his own use. Cowin remained an active pilot until late 1979, after which his non-passenger flying has been confined largely to photographic sorties. Regarded for their insight and veracity, Cowin's books and features have always shunned the use of 'jargonese', preferring plain English and simple explanations where required. Thanks to his late-1942 decision to star gathering photographs of aircraft and the people behind them, he also now has an enviable image archive from which to illustrate his works. Of late, Cowin has embarked on an illustrated Directory of Jet & Rocket Aircraft. Covering well over 600 manned machines and streching back to June 1928, this a task guaranteed to keep him occupied for a while yet.