John B. Buescher is chief of the Tibetan Broadcast Service of the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., and author of The Other Side of Salvation: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth Century Religious Experience (Skinner House Books, 2004).

Derek Wilson, an author who specializes in history, wrote The People’s Bible: The Remarkable History of the King James Version. He is a frequent speaker and media commentator.

William Ellis is professor emeritus of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton. He is the author of Aliens, Ghosts and Cults: Legends We Live.

David Norton is a professor of English at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and author of The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today.

Adam Nicolson is the author of God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. Nicolson was featured in a 2011 BBC documentary on the Bible. Read a 2003 PBS NewsHour interview with him.

Paul Eno is an author and speaker on the subject of the supernatural and paranormal. He says belief in the supernatural and paranormal rises when the economy is struggling, and Hollywood is quick to pick up on the trend. Additionally, he believes human beings are wired to believe in the unexplainable. He is based in Woonsocket, […]

David Crystal is the author of Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language. Listen to a Dec. 22, 2010, NPR interview with him about English idioms derived from the KJV. Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University in Wales.

Gordon Campbell is the author of Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011 and editor of a 400th anniversary edition of the Bible that preserves the original printer’s errors, both for Oxford University Press, one of the original publishers of the Bible. Campbell summarizes his work in a blog post.

Donald Brake co-authored A Visual History of the King James Bible. Brake is dean emeritus of Multnomah Biblical Seminary in Portland, Ore.